8-year-old skating prodigy can shred with the best of them
 

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 and Instagram by storm with some truly jaw-dropping skating prowess.

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A photo posted by Sky and Ocean (@awsmkids) 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. "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...

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