French skateboarder Shani Bru started skating when a park got built in her hometown. "I was with a lot of boys," she remembered. "I was at the skate park every day with the guys. So I was like, okay, I'm going to try to skate and try to do the same and have fun with them." What she loves about skateboarding is the freedom — a theme we heard from many other skaters. "You can do whatever you want," she explained. "Nobody is telling you what kind of tricks you have to do, where you have to go." Shani's interested in the Olympics, too, but said it's not make or break. "It's not something I have to do. I'm just trying to do my best."
Women's skateboarding, meanwhile, is "getting better and better," she told POPSUGAR. "I think there's a lot of people now who see that girls are skating and that's something normal."
