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Female Athletes Are Making Waves
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tion. It was some of, if not the best, Pipe that’s been seen this season. It was huge, thick, A-frame, lip launchers all day long with some of the best Pipe specialists on Earth.
to surf Waimea together in the 1980s. Today, women’s equal status is becoming a full-blown reality: Women in the Eddie at Waimea, women in the Pe‘ahi Challenge and now most of all the Pipe con- tests.
if the left weren’t shallow enough. Backdoor is even more dangerous than the left, which has killed plen- ty of surfers and seriously injured plenty more.
What’s new? The girls get to take part! That’s awesome and gnarly all at the same time. Women are busting down the doors in all surf- ing categories: Performance, big wave surfing and heavy reef barrels like Pipeline, the apex predator.
This now includes the World Tour’s Billabong Pro Pipeline Jan. 29-Feb. 10. This event is historic for many reasons, but the main one is that it’s the first-ever World Surf League Pipe con- test for women and men.
Well, the man of the hour and the day was none other than John John Florence. He’s having a ludicrous- ly successful season in his backyard, winning all of the main contests thus far. No one would be very sur- prised if Florence won this one, too. Watch out 2022.
My friend and Surf News Network reporter for over 35 years, Betty Depolito, has been fighting for women’s surfing for decades. We’ve been supporting her hard ef- forts from the start. We used
Going back to the Da Hui Backdoor Shootout — it features the right or back- door of Pipe because you often come from behind the heaving lip and race a faster peeling wave into ever-shallower water — as
Mahalo for sharing the surf stuff with me here in MidWeek’s East O‘ahu Voice. Stay safe, well and stoked! Mahalo and aloha.
GQ, droppin’ in 4 U!
gary@surfnewsnetwork.com
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