Cata Díaz left Chile at 18 with a three-month visa and never went back. She's been building a life city by city ever since — Barcelona, London, Los Angeles, Miami, and now New York. She talks about finding skateboarding through a skate shop job at 16, surviving cancer at 22, and what it took to get back on a board after chemotherapy.

Plus: astrology and tarot as a practice versus as a superstition, and all the emotions in between.

 

Cata D&iacute;az left Chile at 18 with a three-month visa and never went back. She's been building a life city by city ever since &mdash; Barcelona, London, Los Angeles, Miami, and now New York. She talks about finding skateboarding through a skate shop job at 16, surviving cancer at 22, and what it took to get back on a board after chemotherapy.
Plus: astrology and tarot as a practice versus as a superstition, and all the emotions in between.
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A weekly show centered on women and gender-expansive skateboarding, highlighting past, present, and future stories that rarely get the mic. Part cultural record, part real-time news brief, and part holding space for harder-to-hear truths where context and nuance can live.

A weekly show centered on women and gender-expansive skateboarding, highlighting past, present, and future stories that rarely get the mic. Part cultural record, part real-time news brief, and part holding space for harder-to-hear truths where context and nuance can live.

Good Luck With That: A Podcast About Skateboarding

Cata Díaz

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Maddy Brown, better known as WNBA Data, joins us to talk WNBA playoffs, making statistics interesting, what the numbers can (and can’t) tell us about sports, and the growing role of data in women’s sports.

Then we bring it back to skateboarding: an industry that has historically relied less on data and more on “seems right,” and look at the value women and gender-expansive skaters may be creating that the industry isn’t measuring. What data are we missing, what questions should we be asking, and what could the numbers tell us about the bigger story of skateboarding?

Maddy Brown, better known as WNBA Data, joins us to talk WNBA playoffs, making statistics interesting, what the numbers can (and can&rsquo;t) tell us about sports, and the growing role of data in women&rsquo;s sports.
Then we bring it back to skateboarding: an industry that has historically relied less on data and more on &ldquo;seems right,&rdquo; and look at the value women and gender-expansive skaters may be creating that the industry isn&rsquo;t measuring. What data are we missing, what questions should we be asking, and what could the numbers tell us about the bigger story of skateboarding?

What the Data Says with Maddy Brown

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Rosie Archie joins us to talk about growing up in Canim Lake First Nation, finding skateboarding, building community and starting Nation Skate Youth. Plus, the 11th annual Stop, Drop & Roll goes down in Vancouver this weekend. Thank you Rosie!

Rosie Archie joins us to talk about growing up in Canim Lake First Nation, finding skateboarding, building community and starting Nation Skate Youth. Plus, the 11th annual Stop, Drop &amp; Roll goes down in Vancouver this weekend. Thank you Rosie!

Rosie Archie

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From learning how to kickflip the second time she ever skated in flip-flops, as one does — to representing the Philippines at the Olympics, Margielyn Didal has had an incredibly impressive skateboarding career.



Margie joins us to talk about growing up in Cebu, competing before she owned a skateboard, SLS, X Games, winning the Asian Games, making the Tokyo Olympic final, breaking her ankle, getting engaged, filming a new video part and what’s next. Spoiler: a lot.

From learning how to kickflip the second time she ever skated&nbsp;in flip-flops, as one does&nbsp;&mdash; to&nbsp;representing&nbsp;the Philippines at the Olympics, Margielyn Didal has had an incredibly impressive skateboarding career. 
Margie joins us to talk about growing up in Cebu, competing before she owned a skateboard, SLS, X Games, winning the Asian Games, making the Tokyo Olympic final, breaking her ankle, getting engaged, filming a new video part and what&rsquo;s next. Spoiler: a lot.

Margie Didal

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