Amanda’s Info:
Staff Columnist & Photographer
Hometown: Marshfield, Massachusetts.
Resides: Los Angeles, California.
Sponsors: Riviera Skateboards, Paris Trucks, Divine Wheels, Triple 8, Daddies Board Shop, Holesom Slide Pucks & Wheelbase Magazine.
Websites: http://amandapowell.tumblr.com
Bio:
Amanda, Mander, Commander, Gnarmander… whatever you’d like to call me. I’m an east-coast transplant enjoying life in sunny Southern California. I’m into rollerboarding everything, tasteful beer, Thoreau, getting weird, coffee, feminism, and the ocean. Holler at me if you catch me skating, I’d like to meet you.
Newest Articles by Amanda
I have always loathed this “YOU’RE BLOWING IT!” phrase, and since the skate community recently adopted it, there isn’t a single day that I don’t hear it. It doesn’t matter whose mouth it comes out of or what it’s about, when someone tells me that I’m “blowing it”, it hurts. Full of negativity and belittlement, it’s not …
I’m sorry if you envy my sponsored friends and I for our lifestyle in Southern California: perfect weather, fast mountain runs, fresh gear, waves every day, and heaps of skate events. We have it made, right? Well, the above only paints a partial picture of the actual reality. It may seem like we’re spoiled rotten, but …
I haven’t had a television in my apartment for a couple of years now, I brush up on current events on reliable internet sources here and there instead. When I was in Israel, my family and many of my friends reached out to me asking if I was safe, if I was paying attention to …
I honestly don’t exactly know where it came from. Anyone who knows me would tell you that I am one of the most mellow humans on spaceship earth. It may have been my teenage years as a horseback rider—growing up, I cared for and rode a retired thoroughbred race horse. He loved going fast, I …
Summer is here and travel season is kicking into full gear. I just returned from Maui, and I’m about to jump in the van for Wheelbase’s “Keep On Tuckin’” tour! I’ll definitely be hitting the Maryhill “She-Ride” as well—and I’m still figuring out the details— but I’m headed to the Middle East and Europe for …