DANIELA: SKATEBOARD CHAMPION I’ve always (10) … an outdoors kind of girl, and (11) … a kid, I’d get up to all sorts of stuff with my friends - climbing trees and messing about in the woods. As we got older, my friends started doing other things (12) … shopping and listening to music, but I still loved being outside and needed a new challenge. (13) … was my brother who first got me (14) … skateboarding. I’d seen him practicing on his board hour after hour, and to (15) … honest, I used to think it was uncool. But when he showed me some amazing tricks he could do one day, I had to give it a go. I’ve got a competitive streak, so I watched loads of skateboarding clips online and got out on my board whenever I could - even (16) … it was dark - in order to compete (17) … my brother. It obviously paid (19) … because I beat him in a competition last month!