Roughly 200 athletes are participating this Saturday and Sunday in the world’s largest skateboarding competition at Encinitas Community Park. The event is organized by Exposure Skate, a nonprofit organization founded with the goal of making skateboarding more accessible.
The event attracts athletes from all over the world, including 14-year-old Arisa Trew, an Olympic gold medalist who is visiting from Australia. Trew is the definition of accomplished, with a laundry list of firsts already under her belt before even finishing high school.
“The trick 900, the Switch 540, I’ve won a lot of X-Games gold medals, I’m the Olympic gold medalist for park skateboarding and I’ve just been doing a lot of comps and just skating a lot,” said Trew.
