Women in Snowboarding – A History is the fifth video segment from a collection cut from the 2009/2010 Swatch TTR TV Show series and is the first part of three that will focus on influential women in snowboarding.
The video explores what it is to be a female snowboarding athlete and the development of the women’s sport.
Early pioneers such as Tara Dakids, Janna Meyeb-Weatherby and Stine Brun-Kjeldaas talk about the early days of snowboarding and how women pushed their way into the spotlight and began to make their mark on the sport.
The girls look at the progress that has been made – how prize money has gone from virtually non-existent to commonplace and the shift away from women having to wear men’s clothing. Talking about the emergence of female snowboard clothing, Brun-Kjeldaas said, “(before) the girls were not allowed to be seen as girls at all.”
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Swatch TTR World Snowboard Tour: Women in Snowboarding - History from ttrworldtour on Vimeo.
Lisa Wiik, Chanelle Sladics, Kjersti Ostgaard-Buaas and Cheryl Mass all look back on the importance of these pioneers of the sport to the current situation on the TTR Tour. Sladics talks about how Dakids, Meyeb-Weatherby and Brun-Kjeldaas paved the way for the current generation of riders who make a career out of snowboarding, saying, “We have such blessed lives, it’s so cool to connect with those girls, because they are the reason why we are getting paid and they’re the ones saying ‘hey, we can do this too.’”
Kirsty Page, Sportsister
The Women’s Sports Magazine
Image Credit: Laemmerhirt (rider - Sarka Pancochova at the Burton European open)
