While in Southern California's Ventura County I was able to get this interview with a local ripper. She's been regularly competing with the boys and has some impressive videos up on Youtube!
Name: Abby Zsarnay
Age: 14 years old
Years skating: 7 years and 2 years competitively
Favorite spot to skate: Locally, I love to skate the Oxnard skate park. But farther away, my new favorite skate park is San Jose, CA, Lake Cunningham skate park.
Describe your ideal skate day: I would like to spend a whole day, non-stop skating with my friends and my parents at the Oxnard skate park first. I would work on landing the 360 and the blunts. Then I would like to go to the San Jose skate park and work on my front side airs out of the 15-foot half pipe/ bowl. Lastly I would like to go to Woodward East in Pennsylvania because it’s a lot bigger than Woodward West and a way better set up. I would like to work with the pro vert skaters in the vert half pipe.
Favorite pro skater: Frank Hirata.
Knarliest slam: Probably when I was skating at Oxnard in the 8-foot bowl. I went up to do a Disaster. My foot slipped off my board on the way back in. In result, I did the splits since one foot stayed on top of the ramp and the other went in with my board. After the splits, I fell flat on the floor below on my side. From the wipe out, I pulled a leg muscle, got whiplash from the fall, and a minor concussion from my head hitting the cement ground. But luckily I was wearing a helmet and pads.
How often do you compete? At least once a month.
Advice to other girl skaters? Keep trying even if you fall. Just get back up and try again. Don’t give up just because you get frustrated or mad because you fell or can’t land something. Once you get frustrated, everything is going to become so much harder. Take a break from that trick, try something else and come back to it later.
Anything else? I am currently not sponsored but I do get “flow” from our local skate shop , One Way Board Shop. Which helps with all my gear. I hope to be sponsored in the near future.
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