On a chilly, windy morning in March, Nagisa Landfield’s and Leila Noelliste’s skateboard wheels boomed in unison with the clanking of construction work and semi trucks echoing nearby at a skatepark under the Kosciuszko Bridge in Brooklyn.

When an attempt at a trick turned into a fall, they laughed it off alongside their instructor, Liv Collins, and a group of women they were skating with. It was common practice to cheer for one another when they fell just as strongly as when they stuck the landing.

Meet the Brooklyn Skate Moms: a group of women who are learning to skate or are getting back into it. After coming together at the end of a skating boom during a pandemic lockdown, they began practicing the sport and were unified in their desire to build a community.