Exposure 2026, the World's Largest Women's Skateboarding Event, Runs November 6-8 in Encinitas
The 15th annual Exposure skateboarding event runs November 6-8, 2026, at Encinitas Community Park (Poods Encinitas Skate Park, 425 Santa Fe Drive) in Encinitas, San Diego County, California. The main public competition days are November 7-8, admission is free, and organizer Exposure Skate bills it as the world's largest and longest-running women's skateboarding event.
Competition covers Street, Bowl and Vert disciplines across intermediate, advanced and Open/Pro divisions, with Street qualifiers opening the weekend on November 6. The organizer expects nearly 200 women and girls from around the world; confirmed skaters include Japan's Mizuho Hasegawa, who arrives off first-place Vert and Park finishes at the World Skate Games in Paraguay and will contest Open/Pro Bowl and Vert, and Joey Yarbrough, competing for the ninth consecutive year. Open/Pro competition will be livestreamed on the X Games YouTube channel.
Exposure Skate is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded in 2012 by Lesli Cohen and Olympic skateboarder Amelia Brodka. It runs classes, camps, retreats and college scholarships for women, girls and nonbinary skaters, and its events have raised $300,000 for domestic violence support programs.
This year's event also features Women Behind the Lens, a photography exhibition presented with Smithsonian Folklife's Of the People festival celebrating the women photographers who have documented women's skateboarding; it is free and open to the public on November 7-8 at the park, alongside vendor booths and food trucks. (Source: Exposure Skate official website and TheBoardr event schedule)
Source: GSM · USA (original Chinese edition)
Photo: 图:滑板选手在高台场合影(Exposure Skate 官网照片)
