#304 - Amelia Brodka

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!

Timestamps

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

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