Success for female wakeboarders and wakeskaters!

Success!!!! I am happy to inform you that within the first day of launching the site, www.throwitdown.ca we had over 1, 400 page views, about 500 new visitors and were able to get our first girl a new board sponsorship!!! This was the reason I created the website in the first place, to get girls more exposure, better media coverage and more sponsorship opportunities so I am very excited to be successful with that on the first day! With over 5600 unique hits from 36 different countries in only the first 11 days, the site has been a huge success. It is a stepping stone for future growth in media opportunities and industry support for female wakeboarders.

I would like to thank Nelly at boardforce and Brooke at Alliance Wake for helping to support and promote our girls site :-D

I would also like to thanks all the girls who have contributed profiles so far including: Amber Wing, Nicola Butler, Angelicka Schriber, Maxime Sappulette, Denise Dehann, Steph Caller, Ashley Leugner, Jen GilanFarr, Lacey Menkin, Anna Hajek, Alizee Brion, Steph Caller and many many more!!!

This video features myslef, Ally Boothroyd and 3 of my close friends Erika Langman, Leslie Sparkes and Kayle McMillen. We are all from Ontario but we shot a lot of the footage in Florida, the Philipines and Quebec.

Check out our website!

http://www.throwitdown.ca/

Making Wakeboarding a Little More Ladylike

It’s hard to imagine a time when the freedoms and opportunities we now take for granted were just a dream. These days women can do pretty much anything without much resistance, but without the determination and passion of a few fierce women to break the ice, none of it would be possible.

Although equal participation and opportunity for girls in the sport of wakeboarding may not be as important as something like the right to vote, it’s still an area where old habits die hard. Maybe it’s partly because of a lack of encouragement and opportunity from the industry, and partly because of a lack of confidence and initiative from the girls, but whatever the reason, female wakeboarders are overshadowed by the boys when it comes to sponsorship, participation, competition categories/prizes, exposure, and hype in general. This is why, like those passionate women before us, the ladies behind www.throwitdown.ca are putting their thoughts into action in an attempt to bring women’s wakeboarding in Canada up to speed with the boys.

Wakeboard enthusiast Ally Boothroyd has designed this site to keep females shredders in the loop about wakeboard hype and opportunities going off in the area and create get a larger girls turnout to all the events and clinics happening each season.

This site is your opportunity to meet female wakeboarders of all levels, from the ones making a splash in the pro circles, to the ones making ripples on our local lakes. With writers such as Erika Langman, Leslie Sparkes, Kayle McMillen, Ally Boothroyd, Stephanie Thornton and Emily Tenwestiend sharing their knowledge and experience, www.throwitdown.ca is a well rounded outlook on girls boarding.

Whether it’s reading articles, browsing the photography, or keeping up to date on all things women’s wakeboarding, this site aims to inspire girls to get out on the water and to support those who are already throwing it down all over Ontario and the world.