lizzie & oki
Lizzie Armanto could have been a girl born in Santa Monica with a dentist’s white, perfect smile. Lizzie Armanto could have been a teenager with a passion for malls and shopping. Lizzie Armanto could have been a girl who smoked in the school toilets with her classmates.
And Lizzie Armanto probably is all of those things. But we know another Lizzie Armanto. She started skating with her brother in 2007. She split her wrists, knees and cheeks on radical bowls and slopes pretty quickly. She can get by any place or obstacle on the street. She looks like a princess who plays with dolls, but, over the past three years, she’s kicked every competitor’s ass.
I only found out recently that there was a girl amongst the mythical Z Boys. In that famous skate group, daring, long pigtailed Peggy Oki’s shown she has the most important characteristic for street sports: there’s no sex segregation when it comes to breaking your wrist in a bowl or burning your skin on the asphalt. These lines and pictures are so that Lizzie Armanto doesn’t have to go through what Peggy Oki has.
And Lizzie Armanto probably is all of those things. But we know another Lizzie Armanto. She started skating with her brother in 2007. She split her wrists, knees and cheeks on radical bowls and slopes pretty quickly. She can get by any place or obstacle on the street. She looks like a princess who plays with dolls, but, over the past three years, she’s kicked every competitor’s ass.
I only found out recently that there was a girl amongst the mythical Z Boys. In that famous skate group, daring, long pigtailed Peggy Oki’s shown she has the most important characteristic for street sports: there’s no sex segregation when it comes to breaking your wrist in a bowl or burning your skin on the asphalt. These lines and pictures are so that Lizzie Armanto doesn’t have to go through what Peggy Oki has.
