After some consideration, we’ve decided to postpone the Skate & Build Summer Camp.
We’re taking a little more time to further develop the project and create the experience we truly envision. Our goal has always been to offer a welcoming space where participants can build confidence through skateboarding lessons, discover DIY construction, and experience the unique satisfaction of skating an obstacle they’ve built with their own hands.
Thank you to everyone who showed interest and supported the project. We look forward to sharing this experience with you when the time is right. 💜
BX’elles invites you to experience the Hop On Hop Off skate session—a free-flowing, community-driven gathering where you’re in control of your own adventure.
This isn’t your typical organised skate session. We curate three different locations across the city each time—some familiar, some new. The beauty of Hop On Hop Off lies in its flexibility: join us at any spot, ride for as long as you like, and head out when you’re ready. There’s no pressure, no fixed route, just good vibes and shared stoke.
We believe skating should be accessible to everyone. That’s why our sessions welcome all skill levels, all ages, and all genders. Whether you’ve been shredding for years or you’re stepping onto a board for the very first time, you’ll find a supportive, inclusive space here. We’re committed to building community and creating room for everyone to belong.
Hop On Hop Off began in 2020 during the pandemic. While lockdown kept us in our neighbourhoods, the beautiful weather inspired us to explore. Everyone discovered new spots scattered across the city, and we wanted to share those discoveries with each other. More importantly, we wanted to organise sessions by girls, for everyone, with a special focus on welcoming more girls into the skate scene.
In the summer of 2024, we celebrated our 15th edition with a full-blown skate party. The classic Hop On Hop Off formula got an upgrade: a skate contest, barbecue, and piñata to close out the night. Each year, we continue to evolve while staying true to our roots.
Want to join the next session? Check our calendar for upcoming dates, or follow us on Instagram and Facebook for real-time updates, spot reveals, and session highlights.
Come as you are. Don’t be a deck. We’ll be waiting.
We often get approached by gxrls that have been secretly dreaming of learning how to skate, but never felt secure enough to really take the step. We all know the feeling, how scary and intimidating it can be on your first days to enter a skatepark. Feeling overwhelmed by the fast and skilled skaters that move around you like they ówn the space. But letting those feelings stop you from discovering a new passion? Fuck no.
That’s why every Monday evening we offer gxrls skate classes at Byrrrh&Skate. We try to create a safe space where we teach the basics of skateboarding. How to feel comfortable on a board, turning, pumping, dropping in, ollieing over, etc. It should be a little push in the back for any beginner with the goal the feel encouraged to eventually go out on the streets.
When you say music, good weather and amazing people, we hear skateboarding and so did AB – Anciene Belgique – Bar Chaud (https://www.abconcerts.be/fr/) is a free event that happens each year at the end of summer holidays in Warande Park that aims to highlight urban sports. For two summers, we collaborated with AB and Timis, a dance collective.
We put our own miniramp in the park, gave free initiations for everyone and organised a skate jam where you could win some goodies. All this while listening to good music and enjoying the sun.
What if a skateramp becomes a musical instrument? We collaborated with sound artist Anton Lambert, who uses the sounds we make while skating a miniramp and mixes them live with previously made field recordings of Place Bizet. He spins all these sounds through his equipment and creates a flipped sound.
Bizet Bizar is a project within the framework of the Bizet sustainable neighborhood contract. Dear pigs, MUS-E Belgium, and Walter are transforming Bizet into a park-garden. Greenery is replacing asphalt, and the door is opening to partners and residents of the neighborhood.
The project, Skateboarding Initiation at Parc Ouest, is part of an initiative aimed at empowering girls within the skateboarding community in public spaces. It was made possible thanks to the Skate au Féminin program.
These initiation sessions took place in a Brussels park that is frequently visited by many young people. The lessons focused on providing girls with a space for self-expression and encouraging their presence in a predominantly male environment.
At the previous location of the Byrrrh&Skate skatepark (BYRRRH!), we had the chance to take over the skatepark on the first Friday of the month. For five hours straight, the park would be open for only gxrls! And we noticed immediate improvements in gxrls’ mindsets during these sessions.
We often aim to create a space where people can skate in a friendly and supportive vibe, where everyone feels encouraged and safe to be themselves without any judgment. This works like magic. It inspires gxrls to try things without worrying about fear or possible failure, making them increasingly confident with each try.
Still, it is never our aim to exclude male skaters nor divide the scene. On the contrary. By offering sessions for gxrls only, we work towards unity. We not only create a safe space for gxrls to develop and build up confidence, but we also normalise that doubts, failure and getting supported are a vital part of skateboarding. In the end, we all just want to do what we love the most: to enjoy skateboarding.
As part of our activities, we collaborate with TADA (ToekomstATELIERdelAvenir), an organisation that introduces young people to different career paths.
Once a year, we are invited to take part in one of their “career discovery days”, where participants explore various professions. During this event, we represent the field of sport as skateboarders and athletes.
We lead introductory skateboarding workshops, where young participants can discover the basics of skateboarding in a fun, safe, and inclusive environment. Through this experience, they are introduced not only to the practice of skateboarding but also to the idea of pursuing a path connected to sport.
Our role is to share our passion, demonstrate the values of perseverance and creativity, and offer a different perspective on what it means to be an athlete today.
We were contacted by Skateistan (Skateistan | Empowering At-Risk Youth Through Skateboarding & Education) to run a year-long Skate & Create programme at the Fedasil (Molenbeek-Saint-Jean | Fedasil) centre in Molenbeek—and it quickly became one of the most intense and rewarding things we’ve done. Every week, we worked with kids aged 5–17 in a setting full of energy, languages, cultures and constant movement (when BX’elles & friends show up, we can cover 12 languages). Messy, loud, sometimes hectic… exactly where the magic happened.
SKATE Sessions took over a nearby school courtyard: fast-paced, chaotic, full of falls, retries and sudden breakthroughs (followed by the biggest smiles). Kids who had never stepped on a board were rolling within weeks. We played with themed sessions, learned to slow down, take care of each other and celebrate every small win. Skateboarding became a shared language—exploring the boundaries, checking the possible, failing, trying again and pushing through, building confidence in real time.
CREATE We kept skateboarding at the centre and built a full journey around designing and painting their own decks. From sketching ideas and making stickers to designing and painting real boards, everything led to a final exhibition showcasing both their artworks and skate progress. We also made a sick zine—full of drawings, thoughts and snapshots of the process.
We were joined by two teachers who had previously run a Skateistan project in Afghanistan, and received training in trauma-informed skateboarding, cultural awareness and pedagogy. But the biggest learning came from the kids…they learn so fast. By the end, they had all picked up at least one new language, helping each other across barriers, sharing, translating, hyping each other up—shifting from individual bubbles to a real crew.
In the summer of 2022 we organized the biggest event we’ve ever done. Initiated by Byrrrh&Skate, we basically got a “carte blanche” to take over the skatepark for one day. In response to the sexist comments we sometimes receive when entering a skatepark or posting a skateclip, we decided to call the event the BX’elles Bakesale (which very fortunately sounds the same when you say it out loud). Wearing aprons all throughout the event we decided this would be our way to say “if you think we belong in the kitchen, well, this is our kitchen”.
Everyone was welcome, but the main focus was to celebrate gxrls skating. First of all, we turned the average skate contest timeline upside down. Usually they start off with a “gxrls jam” and work their way up to the big contest of the day where only boys skate. Well, we decided to go the other way around. We started our day with the ‘Kids Challenges’, followed up by the ‘Boys Jam’, and then an extensive ‘Gxrls Street’ and ‘Gxrls Miniramp’ contest. To wrap up and bring everybody – all ages and all genders – together, we closed off with a ‘Mixed Jam’ where everyone could skate together.
Thanks to Youssef from Byrrrh&Skate we had the entire skatepark and the outdoor space at our disposal for not only the contests, but also concerts (from the avant-gardistic noise band CasseCouilles and the electro-kraut-psych-punkband from Rotterdam ‘Smudged’), expo, closet sale, tattoo artists, catering,… you name it, we had it! It was really the best ‘gxrls skate’ celebration we’ve ever seen and it will remain a core memory forever.
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