For the Love of Skateboarding
During the moment of unbearable pain after impact, Team Toyota athlete Evan Strong fights back with meditation and recites his mantra altering his state of mind. Through this trance, Evan realized it wasn’t a sole matter of surviving but deciding how to live. Evan now devotes intention to every action he takes, allowing his mind and body to reach a peak state changing the world around him.
Follow Evan on his journey in a two-part series presented by Toyota USA.
Team Toyota athlete Jordyn Barratt grew up in Hawaii skating at Banzai Skatepark. There weren’t any other little girls skating at the park when Jordyn first began. At around 14 years old, Jordyn moved to California and realized there were more skaters just like her. But as she started to compete against some of the girls, she looked up to the competition grew fierce. Gnarly. Some of the older girls were pretty mean, an experience that Jordyn vowed to change for the future girls of skating. It’s not like that anymore, according to Jordyn, partially due to the expanded contest circuit, which has allowed a little more room for everyone to grow. She knows what it’s like to get picked on, so she’s made it a point to make any girls who are coming up feel welcome—the more, the merrier, in her opinion.