When Monarch Project announced its arrival just about a year ago, everyone was excited to see Leticia Bufoni and Sky Brown heading up the new brand. Some even thought (including us) that this would be a women’s skateboard brand/skate team. The team does consist of lots of ripping AMs, and for a while, they had 6-year-old Paige Tobin, the AU Instagram sensation on the AM team as well - which made it promising that they’d sign more non-traditional skaters.

But after seeing that Paige left Monarch recently for Ryan Sheckler’s Sandlot Times brand and is promoting his new “Smalls” line, we started wondering what other girls or womxn we’d see on the Monarch Project AM team.

We didn’t have to wait too long - today their new AM video “Hello” dropped, and the only female skateboarders featured in it are, (wait for it) Leticia and Sky. That’s right - the two Monarch Project co-founders. No other non-traditional skaters are featured in the “Hello” video.

We hope that with all the amazing skateboarders (of all ages) out there, we will see more of a balance in their team riders - because if two women with their combined skate power can’t change how skate teams look - we are left shaking our heads.