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Nefarious – An All-Girl Skate Crew from London

Nefarious - An All-Girl Skate Crew from LondonNefarious - An All-Girl Skate Crew from LondonNefarious - An All-Girl Skate Crew from LondonGirls’ skateboarding is not very popular yet, so the main focus of the crew is to get more girls to skate with them. I remember myself when I started skating and I felt lonely in front of all the boys and did not go out to skate alone. Since we have Nefarious it has changed. I am more open, way happier because I found girls like me, with the same humor, similar character and the same interests. They vary from person to person, but we have our main passion in common, which is skating. It binds us together and has made us become really good friends.

We help each other out in skating and every life situation we are in, therefore we progress together and push and motivate each other to do new tricks. During the breaks we hang out as friends, talk about everything that’s happened in our lives, give good advice and believe in each other. We joke around a lot, so sometimes there is no sense in what we are talking, but you need to have that as a balance to all the seriousness of everyday life. We are all from different backgrounds, different countries and cultures, even difficult family situations, or we have other problems. We are all different ages as well; our youngest member is 14 and our oldest 31.

The good thing is since Nefarious exists, we are all way happier and stronger to go through ruff life situations.

And it’s not only because of the crew, it’s because of skateboarding as well. It brings challenges where you need to stop thinking and just risk something. Most of the times you are really proud of yourself that you did, and got a new trick or find yourself in a better position in life. Through the different cultures we get to know how people in other countries live, which is really amazing to get to know. We are all really creative and dream of our own brand with T-shirts, stickers, magazine and loads of films about Nefarious, and it’s already going well. Nefarious wants to motivate girls to come skate with us, to let the girls’ skate scene grow and make it more popular. We are there to help them.

How everything started:

In the summer I met a girl called Celine. She is French, and she was skating while I was taking pictures of the skatepark. I was really fascinated about her skating skills and started talking to her. I only had my longboard, but since I saw how much fun she had, I wanted to start skating. We met up a few times and became friends. I bought a skateboard and then I decided to make a photography project about her. With time we found more and more girls skating and we became a little group, meeting up, having fun and going skating. Somehow more and more girls joined us, and we decided to become a new skate crew. We found a name, created a logo, Facebook page and Instagram. More and more girls are still joining the crew. This moment of transition, finding more and more girls skating and having fun and helping each other out, is what my project became about. Through all the girls I can show that skateboarding can help in different life situations, to overcome fear, to gain more self-confidence and to break out of the everyday life routines.

Another side of the story from Aimee Lee:

Since joining Nefarious my skating and nerve has become better and stronger, I’m learning new tricks (relearning them too), and I can say in all honesty and truth that my life is generally better now that I have them in it. Skateboarding has given me Nefarious and Nefarious has given me skateboarding, and I am forever thankful for the opportunities both continue to afford me. Where we’re going from here I’m not completely sure. People seem to be taking more notice of female skaters now, attitudes are really starting to shift, and the ones who already knew better all along can feel smug for having a lot more sense a lot earlier. As for us, I guess we’ll just carry on doing what we’ve always done: skateboarding and eating pizza.

WORDS AND PHOTOS BY: Carmen Speth.

This season Kangol have announced their very first collaboration with streetwear label Terrible Movement. This fashion skate film features Nefarious, an all-girl skate crew from London & the South East wearing the new season collection.

Special thanks to Michael Brooke of Concrete Wave Magazine.

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