With plenty of skills and a penchant for perfectly distressed denim, ’70s striped tube socks, and bucket hats, the female skateboarders of the coastal Israeli city are defying gender expectations and the wishes of cautious parents as they whip around Tel Aviv’s skate parks—making quite the style statement as they go. Having picked up the sport in their early teens after reading skater magazines like Thrasher and watching skateboarding film classics Fully Flared and Baker Has a Deathwish, local skaters like Maayan Levi and Anna Katova have become fixtures on the fledgling scene. They kick and push about Golda street park in a uniform made up of Vans shoes, vintage jeans, and any number of tees from local skate retailer Gili’s Skateshop. Maayan Levi, the cofounder of Jerusalem Skater Girls (JSG), explained that the world is their oyster: “We skate everywhere! On the streets, at the skate park, in a parking lot . . . essentially, anything that’s made of concrete.”