(WECT) - Katelyn Sewell made Eastern Surfing Association (ESA) history last weekend by becoming the first female to win the Menehune Longboard Championship at the competition. The 13-year-old began ...
A local surf group, Mondos Mary Surf Sisters, is hosting its first-ever paddle-out in Ventura on Sunday to honor Mary Monks, who rode local swells while wearing wool sweaters in the 1950s. From left, ...
For the past few days there has been a longboard surfing event going on at my local surf break and I have had the chance to observe some of the top men and women longboarders competing. One thing that ...
After initially ruling that transgender females would not be allowed to participate in the women's division of a surfing competition in California, the American Longboard Association reversed its ...
LONG BEACH, Long Island -- From Montauk to Japan, some of the world's top surfers are in our own backyard as part of the World Surf League. The 2019 Longboard Classic New York is wrapping up this week ...
Underrepresented, underpaid, and over-sexualized. For much of surfing’s modern history, that’s been the reality for women waveriders. But the female surfing experience cuts deeper than the inequality ...
It’s a battle female surfers have waged since the start of professional surfing — to be taken seriously for their skills on the waves, not for their sex appeal. The sexualizing of female athletes ...
In her beautiful, meditative new film, “Sliding into the Light,” which screens July 16 at the Honolulu Surf Film Festival at the Doris Duke Theatre, director and surfer Crystal Thornburg-Homcy says ...
It’s a battle female surfers have waged since the start of professional surfing — to be taken seriously for their skills on the waves, not for their sex appeal. The sexualizing of female athletes ...