10 questions with Michaela Davis-Meehan, the Aussie snowboarder who just qualified for the Freeride World Tour! The struggle is real on both the surf and snow qualifying series and coming out on top after a year of endless...
Category - Interviews
Cracking the Ice – An interview with ice climber Beth Goralski
Cracking the Ice – An interview with ice climber Beth Goralski A glimpse into the life of a female ice climbing enthusiast who has built a career around her passion. Ice climber Beth Goralski tells her story in this interview...
Las Sirenitas of Popoyo: Empowering Nicaraguan girls through surfing
Las Sirenitas is Far More Than a Surfing Program for Girls When the healing power of the ocean, 21 Nicaraguan girls and a woman named Bella come together to form Las Sirenitas, magic happens! Isabelle “Bella” Delfosse is a former...
The Resano Sisters Interview: Three Nicaraguan girls under 15 surfing the world’s biggest waves
Three of the worlds most empowered women are children from a fishing village in Nicaragua Surfing Pipeline, Waimea and Mavericks, before they’re old enough to drive, the Resano sisters are doing something the world has...
Raquel Heckert Interview: Top female barrel rider, unsponsored and majorly inspiring
Raquel Heckert on Riding the World’s Heaviest Waves Big wave surfer Raquel Heckert is perhaps best known for being one of the best female barrel riders on the planet. Raquel is on the cutting edge of what women are able to...
The Shannon Reporting Interview: Sexism, surfing Nazaré, and staying vibrant
The Shannon Reporting interview A recognisable face on the production team for WSL Big Wave Tour, Shannon Quirk has long been fighting a battle behind the scenes to help get women’s big wave surfing to where it is now. A...
Debra Searle Interview “Choose your attitude” – Mindset, marriage, & rowing the Atlantic solo
It’s Not Magic, It’s Mindset Those words might sounds cliché, but when you say them after rowing 111 days across an entire ocean, well then those words pack a punch! Debra Searle is a professional adventurer. As a young...
A story as unique as the photos – Meet ocean photographer Shannon Glasson
Shannon Glasson Interview The teenage photographer that learned to swim before she walk, doesn’t feel fear due to not producing cortisol, and subsequently shoots the most exquisite big wave images from deep in the impact...
20 Questions with skier Lena Stoffel: Advice, Sarah Burke & her love of Japan
Lena Stoffel Interview Lena Stoffel is a gem of a human. A softly spoken, humble, creative and gentle ninja. She rips on skis, a snowboard, and a surfboard. Here at Still Stoked, we are fortunate enough to call her a dear...
Bianca Valenti Interview – Charging monster waves and fighting for equality in women’s surfing
Bianca Valenti is a professional big wave surfer, gender equality activist, and the definition of a Badass! The champion of various big wave events such as Big Wave Tour event in Nelscott Reef, Oregon, and most recently...
Erika of Salty Souls surf camps talks surfing, business & empowerment
Still Stoked meets Erika of Salty Souls Dreaming the dream is one thing, actually taking the first step to making it happen is another altogether. The three girls of Salty Souls have built an incredible platform for women, mixing...
Organic Skincare vs. Chemical Nasties – Why you need to switch now!
Organic skincare vs. chemical nasties Why would you put anything else on your skin? We catch up with Made For Life Organics founder Amanda Winwood on what it means to use herbs and flowers over chemicals, and why you should make...
Meet Brighton’s skate sisters, Ruby and Poppy Dolan tearing up the bowl!
UK skate sisters – Two shredders from Brighton Meet skate sisters Ruby (8 years old) and Poppy Dolan (4 years old) – Guest post by Coral Evans @Salt.images I’m capturing the photographic stoke for Brighton’s...
Zealous Clothing – How this German surfer built a clothing empire from Bali
Interview with Zealous Clothing Use code StillstokedxZealous to get 10% off all Zealous Clothing items Zealous \ˈze-ləs\ means to be filled with or to be inspired by intense enthusiasm. That is exactly how I felt after...
Have idea. Quit job. Start SunGod – Founder Zoë Watkiss shares her story
Have idea. Quit job. Start SunGod. That’s what their bad-ass female boss Zoë Watkiss did when she started sunglass and snow goggle company SunGod. Little did she know their idea would become one of the UK’s...
Coalition Snow Interview – Two women tackling the male-dominated snow industry
Coalition Snow : Defying Shrink It and Pink it I knew first-hand that women never had as many choices as men when it came to performance equipment. – Jen Gurecki, CEO of Coalition Snow If you’ve...
Angelika Schriber continues to push women in wakeboarding (video)
Angelika Schriber films with Red Bull Wakeboarder Angelika Schriber got in contact with us as she just made a sweet video with Red Bull. YES ANGE! In this new video, she talks about the progression of wakeboarding, her own...
20 Questions with Isabella Nichols – Surfing is the best job in the world
Isabella Nichols interview A ripper surfer and a one-time body double for Blake Lively, The life of Isabella Nichols could have been very different had she stayed in Denmark, where she was born. Instead her family moved to...
Fran Miller Interview – The unique style behind her surf photography
I don’t like rules and I don’t like boring. -Fran Miller I first met Fran Miller on the slopes of Perisher ski resort a few years back. She had a strong backside 180. Her photography skills were immediately apparent...
20 Questions with pro kiteboarder Sensi Graves – Bikinis, fitness & business
An interview with kiteboarder and swimwear entrepreneur Sensi Graves 20 questions with the lady of the hour Sensi Graves. Still Stoked is delighted to be part of the Sensi Graves Bikini family – producing our very own surf...
20 questions with Tarnea O’Meara – Surf idols, recipes & rituals
Tarnea O’Meara is a professional surfer from the Sunshine Coast, Australia. She is currently competing on the World Qualifying Series (WQS) for a spot on the Championship Tour (CT). After the WQS event in El...
Felicity Palmateer on art, style and why you should surf a single fin
Felicity Palmateer otherwise known as flick or floss, has been creating art longer than she has been surfing, and she has been surfing since she was five. Some people look at art but Felicity seems to live in it. Many know her as...
20 questions with Codie Klein – Surf spots, morning rituals & travel staples
Codie Klein is a professional surfer from Australia’s Gold Coast, currently competing on the World Qualifying Series (WQS) for a spot on the Championship Tour (CT). We got to travel together and share a few waves in El...
She Shreds – Julie Ann Chapman on women in snowmobiling
My goal for women in snowmobiling is to get more ladies in love with the sport and to create a greater awareness for backcountry safety. Julie-Ann Chapman is a female professional snowmobiler originally from...
Surf fitness and exercises with pro surfer Paige Hareb
Paige Hareb is a professional surfer from New Zealand with an wicked sense of humour and envious, globe trotting lifestyle on all the best waves. We met through the Girl Surf Network and ran a small riot in Manly, during...
Be A Good Human – Silvia Mittermüller on her clean, GMO-free diet
When I was younger, I used to watch these snowboard edits from this European crew called iSenSeven. There was this one chick, Silvia Mittermüller, that got a section in these films. She RIPPED! Over the years, through...
Pro snowboarder Helen Schettini dicusses the link between diet & injury
The relationship between injury and poor nutrition, a healthy diet and athlete staying power; Helen Schettini knows a thing or two about both these things. After breaking her legs three times over three consecutive...
Fulfilling dreams to fly: Australia’s Bella Smart talks skydiving
Skydiving. It’s a crazy concept on first thought: jumping to earth at terminal velocity, learning to fly your body in different positions, making shapes in the sky with your friends. The two major words here are...
Help get surfer Philippa Anderson on The World Tour
Surfer Philippa Anderson needs your help. “It’s a huge cost to compete on the QS, so anything I raise from the campaign is going to be so amazing. Thanks so much in advance to those of you who chose to donate.”...
Wakeboarding’s Golden Girl – Angelika Schriber on competing, diet & new tricks!
Personally, I’m a terrible wake park rider. I always knock myself out on the corners! Angelika Schriber on the other hand has it dialled. She has been killing it on the wake park scene for quite sometime. What she...
What does it take to qualify for the women’s World Tour of Surfing?
There is a lot to be said for charting a life close to your passions, a.k.a. following your dreams. The majority of us will never know what that feels like. Fear, expectation from our peers, society or what we...
Starting A Business: Elsie Nielsen’s incredible journey with Niseko Photography
There are some people you meet in life by chance. A passing moment or shared experience (good or bad), that sticks with you, later to be told at dinner parties over one too many beers. That’s how I met the guys at Niseko...
Indie Surf Fashion: Salt Gypsy brings style to the lineup
Indie surf brand Salt Gypsy Salt Gypsy is a surf lifestyle brand for women who crave style in the lineup Get 10% off all Salt Gypsy products using code StillStoked10! The third article in a series of inspiring ladies...
Career in Action Sports – Meet Sarah O’Brien at Billabong Australia
Meet Sarah O’Brien From Billabong Australia The first in a series of posts on women with a career in action sports, we speak with Sarah O’Brien, the e-commerce co-ordinator for Billabong Australia. A fine surfer...
Elite Skydiver Amy Chmelecki: Inspiring women in skydiving
Amy Chmelecki is the only female skydiver in the universe rocking the Red Bull Air Force helmet! As the first-and-only female member of the Red Bull Air Force team, Amy Chmelecki is leading the charge for women in...
Snowmobile Girls Breaking Trail – Meet Stephanie Sweezey
Deep powder, untracked terrain and a rally truck called “The Pussy Wagon”, it’s all good times for Whistler sledder Stephanie Sweezey. The backcountry is a beautiful place, but it’s not known...
KOKOH Bikini: Meet the girl behind Australia’s hottest bikini brand
KOKOH bikini is in LOVE with the OCEAN Use SOSTOKED for 15% off orders over $100 The iridescent blues, the textures, the dancing light, the calm and the storm. All of these inspirations are captured in KOKOH Bikini’s...
Jo Chastney – From snowboarding to leading tattoo artist
For the love of carving your own shapes How snowboarder Jo Chastney became a leading tattoo artist in the UK Snowboarding is very similar to art. It allows you to paint whatever shape you want on a fresh canvas, every time...
Snowboard Escapism – Art by Stu Leonard
When art imitates snowboarding. Snowboarding has shaped Stu Leonard’s life. Like many of us he found something in snowboarding that he has not been able to let go. That feeling is difficult to put into words...