AMELIA BRODKA

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Amelia Brodka discusses coming to the US from Poland when she was 8 years old, started skating at age 12, Jim Gray sponsoring her for Scarecrow Skateboards, turning pro for Arbor, founded Exposure skate in 2012 after making a documentary about women’s skateboarding called “Underexposed”, first place in the 2017 & 2018 European Park Championships, representing Poland in the Olympics for woman’s park, her now husband Alec Beck proposing to her at the Vans Combi pool during live broadcast and much more!

00:00:00 Amelia Brodka
00:02:27 The Exposure skate events
00:05:29 Coming from Poland to the US
00:13:19 Our Supporter: AG1
00:14:54 Finding skateboarding
00:18:30 The exclusivity of skateboarding in the early 2000's
00:21:33 The first skate video Amelia saw
00:23:28 How she got into skating vert
00:32:25 The getting sponsored thing
00:36:04 Making it out to California
00:41:06 Meeting her future husband and being proposed to at the Vans Combi pool
00:45:28 Shout out Amelia's husband Alec Beck
00:47:30 Hiring her husband as her coach so he could go along to the Olympics
00:50:05 Opening the Olympic pandoras box
01:10:28 The women's Exposure skate events
01:43:57 The Exposure x Etnies colorway shoe
01:49:53 How Amelia got on Etnies