Skateboarding is often painted with fast, aggressive and daring strokes, but rarely have its players broken the mould since the sport/hobby/culture/art/lifestyle/identity launched into the cultural stratosphere out of the haze of 1970s Southern California. It’s a counter-cultural scene ironically often shaped by tradition and convention, but Shanae “Sheezy” Collins is carving out a new world, tearing through outdated norms with raw determination.
Sheezy doesn’t just skate—they redefine it. A force of grit and raw talent, they’ve been dismantling rigid, gendered expectations of skateboarding since the moment they stepped on a board. Each trick, each fall, each comeback is a declaration that skateboarding belongs to anyone bold enough to claim it.
In the fifth chapter of our Normal People series, we joined Sheezy in Naarm/Melbourne to go through their story, from ditching the waves to skating wobbly flat bars, to competing on the world stage in Olympic and X Games qualifiers. Through broken bones and breaking stereotypes, Sheezy has become an icon for underrepresented skaters—showing the next generation how to take up space and trust in their ability to own it.
We’re thrilled to team up with the crew at Yeah Rad to tell this story the way it deserves to be told, adding a powerful and essential chapter to our Normal People film series.
CREDITS
Directed by
Yeah Rad
Presented by
Heaps Normal
Produced by
Yeah Rad & Heaps Normal
Shot by
Reece Grogan and Joel McDonald
Edited by
Reece Grogan
Photography by
Joel McDonald
Colour by
Reece Grogan
Sound Design by
Reece Grogan
Intro Track
“Shock Treatment” by Research Reactor Corp
Copywriting by
Carolina Pasini
NORMAL PEOPLE, where we tell the stories of people we love and admire, living their own version of Normal.
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