Canadian street skater Una Farrar arrived in Australia in December 2020, spent Chrissy in quarantine, and then was finally reunited with her girlfriend Poppy Olsen after 10 and a half long months apart. Now Una has been unleashed on the Sydney streets with her VX, soaking up the Southern Hemisphere sunshine. We caught up for a chat about COVID, gender equity, the Olympics and earning a crust.
Vancouver Island
I’m from Victoria, on Vancouver Island [in Canada]. It was a really good place to grow up. We have beautiful nature, so I was really fortunate as a kid to do lots of outdoor things. The skate community has always been there, but it’s definitely grown a lot in the past few years. I had my own little grom friend-group and all my friends were skating. We got to mess around with cameras and film videos. It was pretty awesome. Then when it got a little