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09-18-2016, 12:51 AM
8-year-old skating prodigy can shred with the best of them
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Sky Brown is the real deal.
The eight-year-old skater from Miyazaki, Japan, along with her five-year-old brother Ocean, is taking YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/user/stu4real/videos) and Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/awsmkids/) by storm with some truly jaw-dropping skating prowess.
SEE ALSO: Skateboarding at the 2020 Olympics may have one big problem: Weed (http://mashable.com/2016/08/14/skateboarding-olympics-too-cool/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
A photo posted by Sky and Ocean (@awsmkids) (https://www.instagram.com/p/BDGNEE4pLm0/) on Mar 18, 2016 at 7:00am PDT
Most recently, she became the youngest girl to skate in the Vans US Open Pro ******, competing against people more than twice her size.
But her young age and the fact that skating is a male-dominated sport are ** big deal to Brown. "It doesn’t matter that I’m a girl or that I’m small," she told the #ShePlaysWeWin campaign (https://hameed.nwar.uk/vb/It%20doesn%E2%80%99t%20matter%20that%20I%E2%80%99m %20a%20girl%20or%20that%20I%E2%80%99m%20small.%20M y%20heart%20is%20big%20and%20strong%20and%20I%20ca n%20be%20as%20good%20as%20or%20even%20better%20tha n%20the%20boys%20or%20even%20big%20people.). "My heart is big and strong and I can be as good as or even better than the boys or even big people." Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/09/17/sky-brown-skater-girl/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Sky Brown is the real deal.
The eight-year-old skater from Miyazaki, Japan, along with her five-year-old brother Ocean, is taking YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/user/stu4real/videos) and Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/awsmkids/) by storm with some truly jaw-dropping skating prowess.
SEE ALSO: Skateboarding at the 2020 Olympics may have one big problem: Weed (http://mashable.com/2016/08/14/skateboarding-olympics-too-cool/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
A photo posted by Sky and Ocean (@awsmkids) (https://www.instagram.com/p/BDGNEE4pLm0/) on Mar 18, 2016 at 7:00am PDT
Most recently, she became the youngest girl to skate in the Vans US Open Pro ******, competing against people more than twice her size.
But her young age and the fact that skating is a male-dominated sport are ** big deal to Brown. "It doesn’t matter that I’m a girl or that I’m small," she told the #ShePlaysWeWin campaign (https://hameed.nwar.uk/vb/It%20doesn%E2%80%99t%20matter%20that%20I%E2%80%99m %20a%20girl%20or%20that%20I%E2%80%99m%20small.%20M y%20heart%20is%20big%20and%20strong%20and%20I%20ca n%20be%20as%20good%20as%20or%20even%20better%20tha n%20the%20boys%20or%20even%20big%20people.). "My heart is big and strong and I can be as good as or even better than the boys or even big people." Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/09/17/sky-brown-skater-girl/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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