{"id":137,"date":"2017-06-16T22:03:29","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T22:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/sports\/q-a-championship-skater-jordyn-barratt-first-woman-to-compete-at-dew-tour\/"},"modified":"2017-06-16T22:03:29","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T22:03:29","slug":"q-a-championship-skater-jordyn-barratt-first-woman-to-compete-at-dew-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/q-a-championship-skater-jordyn-barratt-first-woman-to-compete-at-dew-tour","title":{"rendered":"Q&A: Championship Skater Jordyn Barratt First Woman to Compete at Dew Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Photos by Asia Morris<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Decidedly one of the most significant stories for this year\u2019s Dew Tour is the inclusion of Hawaii-native and Encinitas-based Jordyn Barratt in the bowl competition\u2014the first woman to compete at the Dew Tour ever<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This is her first time in Long Beach and her first time competing in the tour. Barratt submitted herself through the Podium Skate skateboarding app where, through the Dew Tour Am contest, officials chose skaters in an effort to cast as wide a net as possible in the search for new talent and as a way to level the playing field, said tour officials.<\/p>\n

Although Barratt didn\u2019t end up qualifying on Thursday (there were only 12 athletes out of 50 who were able to move on to the semi finals) she\u2019s still without a doubt an up-and-coming skater to watch out for.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m excited that Jordyn qualified for so many reasons,\u201d Dew Tour GM Adam Cozens said on the Dew Tour website<\/a>. \u201cWomens\u2019 skateboarding is something that\u2019s been on our radar, for sure. It\u2019s been a constant conversation. With the rise of skaters like Lizzie [Armanto], Nora [Vasconcellos], and now Jordyn, I think every contest is working towards including womens\u2019 skateboarding as part of their event.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Post<\/em> caught up with Barratt before her qualifier on Thursday, and asked her what it takes to compete with the best of the best. Read on for a bit of insight on how this young talent stays the course of athletic excellence.<\/p>\n

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Post: How do you feel about competing in your first Dew Tour?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jordyn: I\u2019m really excited, I\u2019m skating against 49 other guys and they\u2019re all super, super supportive of me and they\u2019re all my friends, they\u2019re all encouraging me and pushing me to skate better. So it\u2019s really great being here with all of them.<\/p>\n

Are you nervous at all about qualifiers today?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Not really. I\u2019m just happy to be here because I\u2019ve never been at a Dew Tour before and I\u2019m happy to be skating and the course is amazing and all my friends are supportive, so I\u2019m not nervous I\u2019m just excited and stoked to be here.<\/p>\n

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When did you decide to enter the Podium Skate app competition?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I was at the skate park a lot with my friends\u2014that I\u2019m competing against\u2014and helping them film and helping them with all that, and then I figured out what they were filming for and someone suggested, \u2018Hey, you should enter.\u2019 And so I put my entry in onto the app and I got like 29th or something out of 50, so I\u2019m super stoked.<\/p>\n

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Although more and more women are participating in skateboard\/surf competitions, based on your experience why do you think there are still so few women in skating?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I think a lot of people are intimidated, like the first time they go to a skate park, they\u2019re not sure. The first time you go it looks like chaos and so you don\u2019t know what to do, and I feel like a lot of people are scared or nervous and don\u2019t know how to start. But I see new girls at the skatepark nearly once a week, probably. I see a new girl, and I\u2019m like, \u2018Oh hey, what\u2019s up?\u2019 And I see them all the time and all ages, too\u2014it\u2019s really cool\u2014I see 30-year-olds down to like 5-year-olds, so it\u2019s really cool it\u2019s getting all ages, and I just try and be as supportive as I can.<\/p>\n

Were you ever intimidated or scared to start skating?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I grew up in a really small town in Hawaii and they had built a skate park and all my school friends were like\u2014they\u2019re all guys, I was the only girl\u2014 \u2018Hey, we\u2019re going to the skatepark, do you wanna come?\u2019 And I was like, \u2018Sure, why not, I\u2019ll try it,\u2019 and I went there and just loved it immediately and I never ever thought, \u2018Oh, I\u2019m a girl and I\u2019m skating with all boys, like that\u2019s weird,\u2019 I never thought that. I was just like yeah I\u2019m skating with my friends. So I\u2019ve never really been like that and I\u2019ve never been really intimidated as well, so it\u2019s good.<\/p>\n

How do you prepare yourself mentally before competing?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have a line and tricks that I want to do and I have them in different sections and I think about how I\u2019m going to connect the sections and visualize myself landing my tricks and landing my runs and usually that works pretty well for me. And usually if I visualize it right, I\u2019ll land it, but if I visualize it and I\u2019m like, \u2018Oh, I\u2019m kind of scared of that, I might fall on that,\u2019 then I most likely will fall. I\u2019m super mental, skating is super mental, so it just depends on the mindset of my day, really how well I do.<\/p>\n

I do if from different views, I do it from a bird\u2019s eye view, I do it from me skating and I also do it from someone else watching. I just kind of do it all the time and see myself and think about how am I going to connect this trick over to this trick and then I just visualize it and connect them, and once it\u2019s time to go I\u2019ve already visualized it a few times. Right before, like when the other people are skating that I\u2019m in my heat with, I don\u2019t really watch them I just focus on myself and what I need. Like do I need water? Okay then I\u2019m good, then I just need to sit here and visualize myself doing it.<\/p>\n

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One of your goals is to compete in the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, what will it take to be a part of that?<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s the first year that skating is in the Olympics, and so nobody knows how you\u2019re going to get there yet. It\u2019s still up in the air, but it\u2019s coming along and will probably be announced really soon, because it\u2019s only three years out.<\/p>\n

Follow Barratt on Instagram @jordynbarratt<\/a>\u00a0and check out her website here<\/a>.
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The\u00a0Post<\/em>\u00a0caught up with Barratt before her qualifier on Thursday, and asked her what it takes to compete with the best of the best. Read on for a bit of insight on how this young talent stays the course of athletic excellence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":16484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[44],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-dew-tour","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}