Pretty Good for a Girl

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When Tina Basich grabbed her rented snowboard and headed to the mountains in Lake Tahoe, snowboarding wasn't even considered a sport ... yet. It was the beginning, and could have easily gone the way of many other sports and become dominated by male-driven competition.

But not with Tina on the scene ...

Comments like "You're pretty good ... for a girl" only pushed her harder to be the best and to prove she was more than just a token player on the slopes. Representing for women everywhere, she became a snowboarding all-star, started her own signature board and clothing lines for women, founded Boarding for Breast Cancer, and followed her heart, which led her on the adventure of a lifetime.

This is her story.

What Customers Say About Pretty Good for a Girl:

I would say book came in great condition but little late. I guess because of X-mas time.

At times the book reads as if the author is talking to you as a personal friend sharing her adventures. I have never been snowboarding and I loved the book. The author is an accomplished snowboarder who tells her personal story in an entertaining, personal, and humorous way. There are some very funny stories in the book. I highly recommend it.

But I read it, it's not just for girls. I read this after reading P3: Pipes, parks, and powder. At first, I thought of it as the girl version of Todd Richard's book (P3) and didn't want to read it. Any boarder will enjoy it. Maybe the pink cover turns off guy readers, ha, ha.

Having graduated college, I think I was too well educated to read this book. Fortunately, you can tell that Tina starts to mature a little bit as a writer near the end of the book. While there are 10x less professional women snowboarders, there are 10x as many male snowboarders, so it all evens out. This book isn't very well written. She does get credit back, though, because of her participation in the Boarding for Breast Cancer program. It jumps around a bit, leaving the reader confused. It was so, like, 7th graderish. The other problem that I had with this book is that she tries to make women seem more disadvantaged than they really are.

For example, Tina talks about how she got a car soon after getting her drivers license, but then mentions that she crashed it a year later. So after reading about how she crashed it, she continues talking about how she drove everywhere. Women have been a big part of snowboarding since it's inception, so I am therefore not convinced of her adversity. Overall, I'd skip this book and read "Hawk: Occupation: Skateboarder" if you are into the "Action" sports books or "Swimming to Antarctica" if you want a women-pushing-the-sport type of book.

Guys seem to have no problem doing it, but she proved that girls can pull it together too. I've seen it happen all too often and has happened to me as well.

I opened it and finished it in its entirety in one sitting. It was such an exciting read.

This book is awesome. She is an inspiration to me because there are so many girls who side-track themselves due to heartbreaking, intellectually debased boys.

I just recently started snowboarding and am totally psyched about it. Tina's changes in life are definitely relatable.

To stay focused on your own goals and not let life get in the way is so difficult. oh yeah, the foo fighters suck.