For three summers I filmed the women of Legacy Bike and what grew into the She Shreds. Every year I think I know what I'm going to find, and every year something happens that I didn't expect.

Last summer it was the groms.

Four 15-year-olds showed up to She Shreds not knowing each other and rarely having ridden with other women, let alone 40. They might have been a bit shy on the first morning but by that afternoon they walked around like they owned the place which, honestly, they kind of did. Giggly, fearless, unbelievably sendy, and completely unfiltered in the way that only teenage girls who have found their people can be. They shotgunned energy drinks. They yapped at the top of every feature before sending it. They asked me approximately one thousand questions and they sent everything together gassing everyone around them up along the way.

She Shreds is WTFNB event focused on progression, not competition. That distinction sounds small until you see what it actually produces. There's no ranking, there’s no need to prove. There's just a bike park full of learning and growing right alongside you as the cheers echo across the mountains.

From the small stuff to the stuff that makes your stomach drop, there’s always someone willing to tow you in and someone to learn it with you. I've watched women ages 8 to 52 go from nerves on a beginner jump line to clearing road gaps over ATVs in the same afternoon, because someone believed they could, and then someone else believed they could, and then the whole hillside was screaming.

The ripple effect is real. This event created by Heather Hilton and Kaytlyn Laree is, in my opinion, one of the most unique and special events in mountain biking today. I’ve watched these four groms grow up right in front of my eyes over the past few years.

This short film dives a bit deeper with athletes like Mayumi Wakefield, Maddy Anzellotti, Hazel Wright, and Willow Falconer, but it represents so much more. Their experience at She Shreds is absolutely their own, and shared by all the participants.  

Another participant, Erin DeVault said it best: "I feel like I have superpowers, and I try to take that back to my community." She wasn't talking about her riding skills. She was talking about what it feels like to be surrounded by people who want you to succeed. 

Send It Forward started as an extended cut of my Her Stories series for She Shreds but it became something more than that in the edit. It's five minutes of the grom squad, their nonsensical chatter, the carnage questions, the big sends, the chaos, and underneath all of it, the thing that the chaos is actually about. What gets built here. What goes home with these athletes of all ages when they drive away from Legacy. 

The film premiered on August 7th at Momentum 2026 in Seattle and released for the rest of the world on August 20th. I can't wait for people to meet these four.

This film was presented by PNW Components and supported by Curious Creatures. 
Director/Editor: Maddy Reynolds of Mad Max Media @maddy_reynolds_  
Director of Photography: Manhattan Wood 
Additional cinematography: Mitchell Bryan, Anne Cleary, Tommy Penick, Parkin Costain Photography: Hannah Sourbeer