was there ever something you'd wish you could do?

- For me,

- [all three] it was skateboarding.

- We might not be cool or athletic,

- but for the next month, we will skateboard every day.

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- I drew blood.

- My leg fucking kills.

- Skateboarding!

- When I was a kid,

anyone I knew that skateboarded was a boy.

- There weren't any girls around me who skated.

So, I was like, hell no.

- I guess I'm worried about not being seen as tough enough.

- I think that it would be

a really great mind exercise

to just try and psych myself into doing things

that I'm afraid of.

- I want to be fearless on a skateboard.

- I'm doing this to fulfill a childhood dream.

- I hope I don't die.

- We're at LA Skate, about to get our boards.

Pretty excited.

- A lot to choose from.

- The type of boards you want,

if you want to learn how to ollie,

probably the best choice for you

is not to go bigger than an eight.

So, we'd go eight, seven, seven five, seven, eight, nine,

and then seven five and seven six.

- [girl] I think I'm into the black and white strips.

- [other girl] I'm gonna go with baby-daddy.

- [third girl] I'm drawn to this paisley.

- We got our boards!

- There's a lot of people skateboarding out there

that are really good,

and we're gonna be better than them.

In just four short weeks.

- We're taking our first skateboarding lesson today

at the skate park.

- Skateboarding's definitely something

that you know you're gonna fall.

So it's all about learning

how to use your pads.

- Everyone else is really good,

and we're getting driven around.

- Cory is embracing us in his arms.

- We haven't had any major falls yet.

Cory walked us through

how to do an ollie and pop our boards

which we're gonna practice after this lesson.

- No, we're not.

I'm not gonna practice that for another couple weeks.

- It was great!

It was scary but it was less scary

than I actually thought it was gonna be.

- We all feel pretty good.

Shantel's bleeding, but that's fine.

- Yeah, I'm hardcore.

- Yeah.

- Don't laugh so hard!

- It's day two skating.

In the parking lot behind Buzzfeed.

I would say that we've gotten a little bit better already.

- Jen is already ollie-ing.

- I'm just learning how to ride a skateboard.

The difficult part is riding a skateboard.

- Shantel's learning how to tic-tac right now.

- Saturday, I'm about to skate.

It'll be a pretty intense skate session today.

- When I first got here today

I definitely felt still really unstable,

but now I'm actually starting

to be able to go at cruising speeds.

- I feel a lot more comfortable popping my board up.

Every time I try to ollie, though,

I just completely fuck it up.

- I'm actually really proud of myself

for being able to improve in a couple days.

- I'm not discouraged.

Again, I just want it so badly. I want it to happen.

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- Today, we just gathered

as many woman skaters as we could

around the office

and we went to an old parking lot

and were just trying to skate together and have fun.

- Even if I haven't gotten astronomically better,

I feel like my confidence has completely

surpassed what I thought it could be.

- Before I was just, every second of it was scary.

But now I'm starting to have fun.

- [Cory] And forward, forward!

Stay low, stay low!

One, two, look the new way!

Yes! Stay low, stay low!

That was awesome!

- Today's our second lesson with Cory.

Our first lesson, we were in the baby pond.

So, maybe try skating something

a little bit more adventurous.

- I'm pretty inconsistent.

There's some days I'll have and just be really comfortable

and really feeling it.

And then the next day I'm falling all over the place.

- Right now, big challenges

is getting more comfortable ollie-ing.

Basically, I've wiped out a million times

in the past two weeks.

I've fallen a shit-ton.

- [Shantel] I'm looking forward to this class

to help me just really feel OK

and feel stable.

- The skate park is full

of really, really experienced guys

that know a lot about skating,

and so there is, for all of us,

a little bit of self-consciousness.

- Stick to it, persevere, skating's a cool thing.

A lot of comradery, everyone's kinda there

to pump each other up.

- [girl] Great!

- What's up! We're starting a shred posse.

- A shrosse.

- Today we are

at the skate park

with some amazing lady skaters.

So empowering, so great. Love them all.

- Hello, my name is Tara Jepsen,

and I've been skating for seven years.

I'm a 43 year old woman.

Live in Los Angeles, California.

And that's my friend Ham.

I love skateboarding because it's outdoors,

it's freedom, it's interpretation.

Everyone belongs here.

Every kind of person. Every ability level.

- [girl] How'd it go?

- [other girl] Not good!

- I've received my first sticker.

Several percent skateboarder!

- There's this tiny little slope

in this new parking lot that we found,

and it's the fastest that I've ever gone

by myself.

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- We did it.

- We did it!

- [all three] Yay!!

- On day one, I was terrified.

I was just so afraid of everything.

- Now, I feel super comfortable

just riding my skateboard anywhere.

I feel really comfortable turning.

I can ollie a little bit.

- It was more than just trying to master tricks.

It was more-so proving to myself

that I could do certain things

and just get over my fears.

- I feel for sure skating is something

that's going to be a part of my life.

- Honestly, I came a lot further

than I ever thought that I would.

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