Spot to Spot: Keet Oldenbeuving’s Path to Globetrotting and Street Skateboarding

Lighthearted, goofy and incredible on a skateboard; two-time Olympian, Keet Oldenbeuving took us Spot to Spot from parks to the streets in California. Keet (pronounced like kAte) talks a bit about her perspective on competitive skateboarding as well as what qualities in skaters inspire her. Spoiler Alert: she appreciates anti-conformity. Hear Keet talk about the route she found from her home in the Netherlands, around Europe and now the rest of the world. According to Keet, she has always viewed contest skateboarding as the ultimate ticket to find freedom down the road to film in coveted streets of California. It seems to have worked out according to plan.

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Highlights: Women’s Street Final | Rockstar Energy Open Portland 2024

After going through the VQS qualifying and a semi-final round, only eight women competing at the Rockstar Energy Open made it to Sunday’s final in Portland. Although it took hard work for the women finalists to get here, everyone’s light-hearted spirits, camaraderie, and cheering from the packed crowd easied the pressure, making for a fun final. Watch all the best moves that went down in the women’s street final highlights video above featuring Mei Ozeki, Keet Oldenbeuving, Secret Lynn, Mariah Duran, Georgia Martin, Pamela Rosa, Miyu Ito, and Aoi Uemura.

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Highlights: Women’s Street Semi-Final | Rockstar Energy Open Portland 2024

A lot of skateboarding took place for the women street skateboarders on the first day of the Rockstar Energy Open. We watched the top four VQS qualifiers that started the day advance into the semi-final, where they met nine more women looking to secure their spot in the top eight to advance into the final. Watch the women’s street semi-final wrap-up in the early evening hours in the highlight video above featuring Secret Lynn, Kylie Frank, Taylor Burnett, Valentina Petric, Shiloh Catori, Mariah Duran, Mei Ozeki, Keet Oldenbeuving, Georgia Martin, Pamela Rosa, and Miyu Ito.

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