@bombette_martin at NYC Pier 62 💥📸 @los4vws Bombette grew up skating at NYC’s Pier 62 Skatepark being mentored by the 62Crew of diehard locals, with a lot of good-natured East Coast heckling, and support and love from her family & friends. As she rolled into competitive skateboarding, some of Bombette’s first podium placings were at the NYC Pool Series at Owls Head Skatepark in Brooklyn, built by NY skateboarding godfather, Andy Kessler. She specializes in transition skateboarding, but Bombette skates everything and she’s dropped in at landmark spots including historic parks like the Ocean City Bowl in MD to Mt. Trashmore in Va Beach, as well as hit up the Venice Skatepark and the Vans Combi in CA, among many others. During the COVID quarantine, she didn’t stop skating & spent hours perfecting her lines at Substance Skatepark and built a mini ramp to skate with her dad & brother, grom ripper @kayo_martin . Bombette’s positive attitude and progression on board has led to her being sponsored by Embassy Skateboards, Rockstar Bearings, Substance Skatepark, Triple 8 NYC, 187 Killer Pads, Trophy Griptape and Uncle Funkys skate shop. After traveling the world, and honing her skills skating with some of the gnarliest skateboarders in NYC, Bombette was invited to the UK to compete and took first place in Great Britain’s Female Park Skateboarding Championships at Graystone Action Sports Academy in Manchester in April 2021. Now Bombette Martin will be competing for TeamGB in the Olympics in Women’s Park Skateboarding in Tokyo, Japan. Fans, family and friends from all over will be cheering her on and the NYC Skate Coalition crew has already maxed out the capacity for the Bombette Martin Olympic Screening party at Substance Skatepark on 8/3/21 at 8pm and had to open a 2nd viewing area at LLoHi Rooftop Bar above Substance, at 314 Scholes St in Brooklyn, just to host everyone. In order to commemorate the occasion, Substance Skatepark founder, Andrew Gelles, interviewed Bombette Martin. Read it at juicemagazine.com 🙏🛹 Go Bombette! #62crew #skate #nyc (at Pier 62 Skatepark) https://www.instagram.com/p/CSFr-s6JAO0/?utm_medium=tumblr
