Location
From Erie, Pennsylvania, USA
Amanda Gates
Skate Style
Aggressive Quad Skater
Jam Skater
Community
Amanda is part of the Better Bearings Better Parks Flashship team and is organising skate park clean ups.
She is also a low waste advocate and promotes plant based athleticism.
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Amanda is a park and jam skater from Erie, Pennsylvania. She skated every weekend as a kid, but stopped in her teens and early 20s. In her late 20s, she found roller derby. After playing for a season, she decided it wasn’t for her. After a couple years off skates, Amanda met a boy who loved skateboarding and they were inseparable. Wanting to spend as much time together as possible, she started bringing her old derby skates to the skatepark and the streets. The rest is history. Amanda wasn’t content to just skate on the weekends. Living in one of the snowiest cities in the US and having no indoor skatepark closer than an hour’s drive away, she started skating daily in her local ymca’s gymnasium and weekly at the local rink. Here her love of rhythm/jam/artistic skating was born. She says one of the best things about roller skating is how many different styles there are and how much there is to learn. In the summer she loves going on road trips to different skateparks with her now husband.
Look out for them this summer at a skatepark near you!
Amanda is sponsored by;
- Better Bearings
- Blood & Thunder
- Wicked Skatewear
Amanda is part of the flagship team that is creating the Better Bearings Better Parks Initiative, which identifies skate parks in the local community that need a clean up and helps organise it. Amanda is also leading her own skate park clean up in Erie Pennsylvania.
Connect with Amanda on social media.