isTia.Tv Video Galore  . |
 . |
 . |
 . |
 . |
 . |
 . |
 . |
 . |
 . |
 . |
 . |
 . |
 . |
 . |
 . |
 . |
 . |
 . |
Other isTia.Tv Featured Post
Poland is the country of Solidarnosc and Lech Walesa, a nation rich in history, art, culture, landscape and has gained a lot of wealth by joining the E.U. Poland is also a country were skateboarding is thriving. A quick search in Google is showing that there are 23 skateparks and 18 local skateboarding manufacturers in Poland. Poland has given to the world a lot of brilliant people: Mikolaj Kopernik, Fryderyk Chopin, Maria Curie, Kazimierz Pulaski, Joseph Conrad and Pope John Paul II. The last of them might be a 22 years old female skater responding to the name of Amelia Brodka. Amelia Brodka is a senior at USC; double-majoring in communication and narrative studies. She is lucky enough that the university is located between two major skateparks: Belvedere and Culver City… She also writes for the Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism’s website. And she has her own website. She is above all an amazing skateboarder. She is dedicated to skateboarding to the core. If you wonder why she is most of the times seen skating with a cast; that’s just because she is so rad that she breaks her bones and go for it nonetheless and thereafter. Really. To name just a few, Lizzie Armanto, Abby Zsarnay, Carabeth Burnside, Mimi Knoop, Jen O’Brien, Allysha Bergado, Julie Kinstrand, Nora Vasconcellos, Jordan Abraham, AmeeJay Papelera and Amelia Brodka are now recognized as the best female bowl skaters. They are actually way better than most guys I know and people start to recognize them and invite them to private sesh. Five years from now, Amelia Brodka might well be the marketing director of a major skateboarding company, managing the image of the company, its websites, social networks, video releases, PR, team and general image. Unless she creates her own skateboarding (marketing) company, of course…. In Underexposed, the documentary that she is working on right now, one of the questions she is asking is : “How can we generate more opportunities for women in skateboarding?” Actually, Since skateboarding is DIY by essence doing it outside of the majors might be the only answer. That would not be the first time that a big chunk of skaters says F.U. to the major players. Amelia really got into skateboarding in 2002, after seeing the women's vert demo at the X-Games in Philadelphia.Enough said: Interview with Amelia Brodka:isTia.Tv: Were you born in New Jersey or Poland? Amelia Brodka : I was born in Poland. My family and I moved in New Jersey when I was 7. Then, I lived in New Jersey for a few years and then, I went to High school in Maine Gould Academy and then I came out to college (USC) in L.A. 
