WOMEN'S LONGBOARD CAMP 2015

we do what we love and we do it together. 

we howl, we laugh and we boost energy and confidence. on top of that the women's longboard camp integrated two additional sports and placed more emphasis on nutrition this year – means we had an enourmos range of motion with longboarding, skating, cross fit, parkour and yoga and filled our bellies with the most fantastic vegan paleo food one can imagine.

where there are girls, longboards and healthy food there are shiny eyes and memorable times are going to happen. after Slovenija and France girls and women from all over the world gathered for the second time in Stuttgart. within five days loads of new friendships were built and it was beautiful to see how encouraging everybody was. whether it was a hint for kick turns, thank you Viv, you awesome! or a little "you can do it!" love tap before going downhill. it's this kind of energy that keeps the camp going and that makes it special. thank you so much everybody!

this year was also about skating transitions and what luck that our Christine is one of the best female skaters that I've ever seen. she familiarized the girls with bowls and mini ramps and reached out to the excited skate newbies.

  

this is an almost impossible shot. I actually captured Marianna either smiling or laughing. but what's even more impressing is the way this young girl from Switzerland skates the bowl.

Luisa, our little chap, longboard dancing instructor, first aid kid and djane sharing her peter pan with others.

so much love and stoke at the longboard dancing workshop.

Fee and Christine, the pretty and smart heads of women's longboard camp, going downhill.

 an outtake of Luisa's first aid workshop.

Dani Schukalla flying up and down and up ... watching Schuki is like a moving meditation.

sweater weather with ma sweater sisters Suzie Quattro and Viv. miss y'all!

and kiss kiss to EQ love. thank you so much for your support.

at this point it's time for more thank yous going to: flatspot stuttgart for a home away from home, concrete skateshop cologne, EQ love, orangatang wheels, root longboards, madrid skateboards, frontline skateshop, holesome longboards and wulle. 

and to alex, es lebe der sport!

for more photos and information about the camp head to the wlc fb page.

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WOMEN'S LONGBOARD CAMP GOES ALSACE

Women`s Longboard Camp 2013 goes Alsace from women's longboard camp on Vimeo.

the long waiting comes to the end. now!

Maria Wolfsberger and me joined the women's longboard camp as filmers this year. we captured five days of longboarding, campfires, partying and miles of smiles. the girls and the team around fee bücheler, christine maier and camp daddy samy were amazing! come rain, come shine, come snow – they went downhill, slalom, they slided and danced and above all they looked damn good in their bin bags.

do you wanna be part of it next year? 

stay updated on the women's longboard camp fb page.

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SMELLYS WONDERLAND

Smellys Wonderland from Melanie Golz on Vimeo.

while we edit the womens longboard camp video – uff, yes still, summer is a bitch – a really  nice video of melanie golz came out. she was one of the riders at the wlc and just won the european longboard dancing championships. wohooo!

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WOMEN'S LONGBOARD CAMP 2013

as part of the crew and attendant of last year's women's longboard camp I am very excited to tell you that the second edition is coming up this may in France. I wish for many familiar faces and I am looking forward to meet at least as many new ones. Fee Bücheler, busy bee and head of this amazing event has all the infos and candies for you. 

hej Fee, how did the idea for the first women's longboard camp come up?

I don't think there was a special day I woke up and thought "uhhh, let's do a camp for women". it was more something that Christine and I always were thinking about: "how can we motivate more women in longboarding?" the camp seemed to be the perfect answer. there are so many camps for snowboarding and surfing so why shouldn't this work for longboarding as well?

what can we expect from the camp?

it's not just that your level is growing. it's also a place for meeting other great women that are stoked by the same things as you are and it's the start of a lot of friendships. and for sure nobody will be hungry or thursty. you can expect definitely one of the best weeks with muscle soreness for whole 2013.

how were your impressions of last year's camp in slovenia?

uhhhh, I was fucking excited, really. if you've never organized something like that before you want to do it perfect. on the second day I was so stoked to see how fast everybody was learning, how all the women threw their nervous ticking bombs in their head away and started to skate like there is no tomorrow. I always think of the last day of the camp when mostly everybody was crying because it was over ... goosebumbs over and over. 
all of them worked on their skills and I met a lot of the ladies which joined our camp in the last months, they are all so stoked ... mission accomplished.
if you want to know more about last year maybe this report gives you the right feeling.

is there something you'd like to make differently in France?

Yeah, definitely. we have only two options for booking this time. there's a camp option including food and drinking and a camp option that is called „course marshalling option“. this one is cheaper but you have to do the course marshalling instead of freeriding in the afternoon.

we call this camp „back to basic“. there will be only camping (no hotel or hostel) directly on the track with a more relaxed ambience in the evening, a few beers and maybe fire if the weather allows it. I think this time will be more like we really handle skating in our lives.

in one of the weeks we (what means you and maria wolfsberger) will film a bit for an amazing review. and I really hope that there will be more time for the team, for getting more relaxed to be able to put more energy into every woman that joins us.

what can the participants look forward to in particular? 

that we did the first camp already, free drinks, an amazing brand new asphalt on the track, camping directly on the track, yummy food made by the adh-crew, some more crazy stuff we are still working on and some good sponsorships.

do you have any shout outs?
sure! thanks to the crew last year! especially Christine, the longboardmag crew slovenia and all the guys which had so much fun in doing the course marshalling for us. thanks to the crew this year, escpecially the adh-crew. 
to the sponsors last year: Fibretec Longboards, Orangatang Wheels, Sabre Trucks, Concretewave Shop, Longboardshop, Rollladen, LesEttes, Sixxa, Musikshop Barde, LassRollen
to the sponsors this year: Zibeline Beanies,  LushLongboards, Rollladen, Sixxa and hopefully much more in a few weeks...
and not to forget for every women which believed in us last year and took part in the first ever women's longboard camp worldwide! thank you skateboarding to give us so much energy! if you need a hero take skateboarding.

quick facts
12–17 May 2013 & 19–24 May 2013,
Urbeis/Climont, Alsace (France)
for more infos click here

 

if you'd like to know how it was for me last year it's this way to the bear.

 

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GIRLS, BOARDS AND A BEAR.

it's just some days ago the first women's longboard camp came to an end but thinking back and going through the pictures I took it feels like its stories and impressions could fill my whole summer.

amidst a small and sleepy village in slovenia a bunch of lively girls gathered from all over europe to defeat the bear. the bear is a hill. a huge one and quite steep as well. facing the bear's guts for the first time gave me the creeps.

i hardly can't believe how much everybody learned and improved. besides the amazing job our instructors fee, sophie, christine, anni and glori did by responding to everybody's needs i think the bubbling energy between us girls brought ourselves to do things some of us maybe never thought of doing in our lives.

of course there were not just girls. it were the boys who protected the track with 2000! hay bails before. and they were doing great as road marshals. they gave us some important hints for sliding and drove us up the hill and not to forget the campfire they made every night.

at the beginning of the camp all participants got a longboard we set up together at a workshop. distracted by its wonderful shape and sixxa's great pirate ship graphic we screwed around and learned a lot about bushings, kingpins and bearings, yo.

in this idyllic creek that builds the boarder to croatia we found our cooling after skating. and yes, in some of us it awoke the animal.

this is one of the last pictures I took. it's nice to see how close we all got after some days sharing our passion. only crew love is true love.

 

this week teached me a lot. a healthy fear is important but sometimes it's time to switch off your brain and just listen to your heart. whether it's about going downhill as fast as you can or just do another turn while dancing on your board. with every try you grow.

with every try you grow from Daniela Bily on Vimeo.

sonja, i loved to listen to your songs.

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