Yet in the more complicated arena of backcountry freestyle snowboarding -- a field still dominated by men, where sometimes just getting there is a feat unto itself -- few women have crossed the gender lines as successfully as Annie Boulanger has. But I didn't like the rules. I didn't like being judged on two runs. That took a lot of confidence. Marie-France Roy, or "MFR," is one of the most respected and all-around best snowboarders in the world.
From parks to hairy handrails to massive cliffs and backcountry pillow lines, the French Canadian powerhouse can ride it all and has the video parts, "Rider of the Year," "Video Part of the Year" and "Reader's Choice" awards to prove it.
Though MFR is one of the very few women who has built a career around her movie segments in predominantly male snowboard films, the past two years she has been working on a project of her own. Motocross champion. Television star. World record holder. Those are just some of the words to describe the varied and multitalented Jolene Van Vugt. Once her parents convinced her to take motorcycling seriously at 14 years old, she never looked back.
Throughout her racing career she raced many of the most prestigious events, but it was her work on the MTV show "Nitro Circus" since for which she is best known. In , Guinness Book of World Records certified her as the first woman to backflip a dirtbike and the longest female backflip when she went ramp-to-ramp at a Nitro Circus demo.
Alexis Sablone is not just a decorated X Games medalist two gold, one silver in Women's Skateboard Street -- she's also an Ivy League graduate with an architecture degree from Columbia University. With her skate roots firmly planted on the East Coast, Sablone started skating at an early age and began receiving boards from Element and took to the competition scene, earning a name for herself with consistent placings across the U.
Now a graduate student in architecture at MIT, Sablone credits skateboarding with leading her to her academic pursuits.
Tyler Wright attacks every section of every wave with unbridled aggression. She's the one pumping her fist when she gets chaired up the beach after a big win. And she's the one downplaying any developing rivalries when it's obvious how much a good result means to her.
But to her Spanish fans, it came as no surprise. The year-old trials specialist from Catalonia, Spain, has won 13 trials world championships, 10 European trials titles and has led her Spanish team to five team trials world titles.
Last May, she raced to X Games Women's Enduro X gold in front of her home crowd at X Games Barcelona, then immediately flew to Portugal to capture the women's endurocross world championship the very next day. It's a slow process," says Baker on the growth of women's skateboarding. While not the first female surfer to do an aerial, over the past 24 months Lakey Peterson has made the air game a must for every woman on the ASP World Tour.
Just like on the men's side, if you don't have a few crafty, progressive maneuvers, you're in trouble. Because of where Peterson has taken her performances what the women do above the lip is becoming increasingly more important. As a rally co-driver, Chrissie Beavis has helped some of the best drivers in the world win rally races, including two X Games gold medals as Tanner Foust's co-driver.
In , she became her own driver, and last year Beavis crossed the Sahara Desert with Bethany Hamilton shown here, at right, with Beavis in the famous Gazelle Rally. A former elite ski racer, Angel Collinson gave up gates to start competing on the Freeskiing World Tour, where she won the overall title for two years running in and One of the most dynamic female motocross riders on the planet, Maria Forsberg has won competitions all over the country in several different disciplines since turning pro in No matter who you are, Jaws is a fearsome wave.
Over the past two decades it's challenged the best big-wave surfers in the world, including the break's pioneer Laird Hamilton. But a new generation of surfers has emerged to challenge themselves, and among them is Paige Alms.
An otherwise quiet girl from Maui, she lets her performances in the water speak for her. Carissa Moore has called her aplomb in surf of consequence "inspiring," and last year she was nominated for an XXL Award. An Alaska native who grew up figure skating and ski racing, in , professional big mountain skier Elyse Saugstad won the overall title on the Freeride World Tour, still the only American woman who's done so.
Now, her focus is on filming: In , she was the only female finalist in Teton Gravity Research's Co-Lab contest, where she produced a cliff-dropping segment that earned her Best Female Performance at the Powder Video Awards. In , look out for her in the new all-women's ski film, "Pretty Faces. Nina Buitrago is the first woman to gain attention in the BMX skatepark and street scene, and the most influential and well known female BMX pro on the scene today.
Originally hailing from Long Island, N. Buitrago is the first female to receive signature BMX components, and now lives in Austin, Texas, where she focuses on riding trails and the bigger skateparks in the area.
Hopefully it will be more casually in the near future," says Buitrago. Australian Sally Fitzgibbons has been proving her worth in surfing from a young age: At 14, she became the youngest surfer to win an ASP Pro Junior event. In , she won the Roxy Pro in France, got second to world champ Carissa Moore in Portugal and at the end of the season, she finished third in the world in the ASP rankings, with the highest average heat scores for the year.
Although Lizzie Armanto only started skateboarding in , she is at the forefront of progressive women's transition skating, with an X Games gold medal to her name Armanto won the first Women's Skateboard Park comp at X Games Barcelona in , first place finishes at the Vans Combi Classic and much more.
Despite skateboarding competitions having separate women's classes, Armanto is one of the only female skateboarders to forgo the division and compete against male skateboarders. Armanto credits her progression to persistence: "There was a summer when I was trying to learn a trick every day. And then suddenly everything clicked," she says. In the grizzled male-dominated lineup at Mavericks, located in the cold waters of Northern California's Half Moon Bay, Savannah Shaughnessy has carved out a well-deserved spot for herself.
First surfing the infamous break in as a year-old, by the time she graduated high school she was a regular in the water whenever big northwest swells hit the buoy. Her brother is the multiple champion rally driver Patrick Richard, with whom she co-drove at the beginning of her career. Angie Marino is part of the first wave of women to tackle BMX skatepark, trail and street riding.
After exiting the race scene at a younger age, Marino took to skatepark riding and noticed the lack of support among women in the sport of BMX freestyle. These days, Marino holds down a sponsorship with Fit Bike Co.
Jess Kimura is fiery, wild and charges at handrails with the type of reckless abandon that would make any parent cringe. But this Vernon, British Columbia, native's willingness to go for broke is one of the reasons she's one of the most exciting and tech-savvy females snowboarding today.
It's one that she's been pushing higher ever since. Kimura went on to land a part in Capita's predominantly male "Defenders of Awesome" video. She produced her own web series, "Barely," and took silver in the X Games Real Women video contest in Kimura's performance on and off the screen has resulted in more awards than any other woman in snowboarding, including a full sweep at the 13th Annual TransWorld awards, where she won "Readers Choice," "Female Video Part of the Year" and "Female Rider of the Year.
Halfpipe skier Maddie Bowman has been on a roll lately. In and , she earned gold medals in women's Ski SuperPipe at X Games Aspen, solidly blasting onto the top of the podium just after graduating from high school. She then followed that up by winning a little event called the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, in February Amy Purdy lost both of her legs below the knee to meningococcus, a rare form of bacterial meningitis, when she was Now 34, Purdy is largely responsible for bringing adaptive snowboarding to both the X Games and the Winter Olympics through the Adaptive Action Sports organization she founded in with her boyfriend Daniele Gale.
Not only has she made the podium in nearly every International Paralympic Committee Alpine Skiing World Cup event since , in March she won bronze in the Paralympic debut of snowboard cross. Then she boarded a flight to Los Angeles to begin competing in "Dancing with the Stars. Roz Groenewoud hasn't been atop a podium in the last year, but we have no doubt she'll be back. The Canadian halfpipe skier has won five X Games medals over the course of her career, including gold in Aspen in A knee injury set her back during 's Olympic year, but just wait, with her consistency and progression of tricks, she'll be back on top soon enough.
Mariana Pajon started racing BMX bicycles at age 4 and was a world champion in her age class by age 9. It was the first gold for Colombia in the London Olympics. After earning a two-time UCI World Championship by the time she was 16, Crain graduated high school and began focusing on a full-time race career. During her first seeding event, Crain fell and placed 16th overall in seeding.
Hannah Teter, the Olympic halfpipe gold medalist and silver medalist, missed the podium by just one spot in She also has a total of seven X Games medals to her credit.
But she says one of her biggest accomplishments was becoming the first action sports athlete chosen to represent the Special Olympics as a global ambassador. To me, it's being able to be a part of world-changing organizations like the Special Olympics. Off-road racing and trucks don't often attract female competitors, but Heidi Steele is an exception. Steele is currently a member of the Desert Assassins off-road team.
In May , Elena Hight landed a trick in the halfpipe no woman had ever done before, and no woman has done since. It's called a double backside alley-oop rodeo, and to qualify its difficulty, it is the same trick Shaun White had been trying -- and failing -- to add into his competition run. So when Hight dropped in for her first run in the SuperPipe final the following month at X Games Aspen , no one -- no men, and no White -- had ever thrown and landed it in competition.
Hight landed the trick flawlessly on her final jump, breaking a barrier not just for women but men as well. Don't mess with Keala Kennelly. American Kelly Clark led the women in Olympic halfpipe qualifying, with some other gold-medal winners right behind her. X Games Aspen Schedule Announcement. X Games Aspen Returns Jan. X Games Aspen Is Back! Highlight Reel: X Games Aspen Best of Skateboarding: X Games Best of Moto X: X Games Highlight Reel: X Games Real Street Real BMX Real MTB
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