Lizzie Armanto

Just Women's Sports

News, Sports News, Sports, Soccer

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Skateboarding unicorn Lizzie Armanto joins Kelley to talk about her uncharted path through the world of professional skating. Lizzie discusses the importance of skate park culture to her early education in the sport, why an injury of all things was what convinced her to go pro, the lack of an obvious blueprint and professional role models at the start of her career, how she ended up on Tony Hawk’s Birdhouse team, landing on the cover of Thrasher the same day she got a pro model, why she’s optimistic about the sport’s inclusion in the Olympics, and the story of how she became the first woman to complete the infamous 360 loop. Go deeper. Together With: WISS, your full-service accounting & business growth advisory partner. Get a 30-minute advisory session Ritual, vitamins for skeptics, by skeptics. Get 10% OFF with code: JWS Ohza, mimosas are now #notjustforbrunch. Get 10% OFF with code: JWS Sports Save You Money.

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0:00.0	I feel like skateboarding has given so much to me and like it's my lifestyle at this point and to anyone else in the world if they have access to something like a skateboard and can find meaning in their life
0:14.9	through that. Like that's amazing.
0:16.7	Welcome to the Just Women's Sports Podcast, where we talk to the biggest athletes in the world about
0:24.2	the untold stories behind their success.
0:26.4	I'm Kelly O'Hara, and my guest today is Lizzie Armanto.
0:30.4	In the world of professional skateboarding, Lizzie is something of a unicorn as both the world-class skater and cultural trailblazer.
0:36.5	She's won over 30 awards, including multiple X-game medals and will be competing in Tokyo when skateboarding makes its Olympics debut.
0:44.0	Only the third female skater to ever land on the cover of Thrasher magazine
0:48.0	Lizzy was the first woman ever to complete Tony Hawk's 360 degree loop.
0:53.0	Lizzy, welcome to the show.
0:55.0	Thanks for having me.
0:57.0	Yeah, thanks for coming on.
0:58.0	Where are we finding you today?
1:00.0	I'm at home in Long Beach.
1:02.0	Nice, good weather? Yeah, it's almost too good. Yeah, for sure. I'm really
1:09.6	excited to have you here today and have you on just because I'm interested to see the
1:15.8	similarities and differences that we're going to come up with between you know me
1:19.6	being a soccer player you being a professional skateboarder, and I think one of the most interesting things is how
1:25.8	unscripted the path is to becoming a pro skater, whereas with soccer it's like very scripted.
1:32.2	You're a unicorn in the skating world. You're good at
1:34.6	everything. You win contests. We're going to the Olympics. You have major street
1:40.0	cred for all the videos you've been in in the magazine covers. So to start off, how did you get into skating?
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