Joanna Discipline is from Pacific Palisades and was a skateboarder who labored at Marina Del Rey skatepark again within the late Nineteen Seventies.
Photograph: James Takakura
Joanna was good associates with all of the regulars, together with Christian Hosoi, Jay Adams, amongst others. She even used her artistic expertise to hand-draw a enjoyable Christmas card (left) for the locals at MDR, which was appreciated and reciprocated.
Fellow skater, Denise Danielson recalled skating and competing with Joanna, recognizing that she was somebody pushing the boundaries for ladies using swimming pools and bowls at the moment.
There’s even footage by Dennis Ogden of the Marina Del Rey skatepark dogbowl contest, and whereas Joanna’s title is included within the acknowledgments, I can’t discover her half amongst all the fellows.
A few of Joanna’s outcomes included:
- 2nd place in novice girls on the Van’s Professional-Am contest, December 1979 behind Gale Springer and forward of Kim Freeman at Marina Del Rey. Her total ends in the Vans/Offshore collection was 4th place, acknowledged within the Could 1980 problem of Skateboarder.
- 1st place at ASPO #5, Escondido skatepark on March 1, 1980 for pool within the Ladies Open shared within the June 1980 problem of Skateboarder.
- fifth place on the 1st Gold Cup occasion in June 1980 at Oasis in San Diego, behind massive names like Pattie Hoffman, Cara-beth Burnside, Leigh Parkin, and Cindy Whitehead.
- Within the newsprint Skat’n Information, Joanna was usually within the combine towards Cara-beth Burnside, Lisa Forman, Shirley McClelland, and Sue Smith. Her official standings within the 1980 Gold Cup was 3rd for Newbie girls behind Burnside and Smith.
- In April 1981, on the Variflex Professional/Am, Joanna was up towards a mixture of professionals and amateurs and place fourth behind Pattie Hoffman, Burnside, Denise Danielson, adopted by Leigh Parkin.
[Joanna on left]
Joanna and Gale Springer have been particularly shut rivals and would be in contact over time. They might even preserve their skateboarding abilities collectively many years later, as famous within the Fb group, “Skateboard Mothers & Sisters of Shred.” In 2015, they rallied as skater mothers of their 50s motivated by one another! Springer and Discipline would hit up their native Santa Clarita skatepark and attend the Mighty Mama Skate-O-Rama (MMSOR) fundraising occasions, organized by Barb Odanaka.
Joanna now lives in Santa Monica, however seems to have fond reminiscences of her skateboarding years and all of the folks she met.
I’m hoping to attach with Joanna through social media to be taught extra about her story first-hand.