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Jesse Kamm is a highly successful luxury fashion designer known world-wide for her Sailor Pant. But Jesse is much more than her work; she is a mother, a creative, and a passionate surfer. She builds her life with dedication and intention so that her career in fashion and passion for riding waves can thrive at once.
The story behind the controversial impacts of Paris 2024’s plan for surfing, and what you can do to get involved.
Goodbye Surf Ranch, hello Cloudbreak, and the WSL Finals returns to Trestles for the fourth consecutive year.
Caroline Marks is on top of the world. At just 21 years old, she has fulfilled the goal she has been working towards every single day of her surfing life: winning a surfing world title.
Trouble is more than a surf story. It’s a human story: the story of how a woman who had nothing rose to the top of surfing in a way no other woman had done.
Considering the decades-long disadvantage women’s surfing has experienced, the decision to award women equal prize money and their own division in competition is about investing in the future of the sport.
Winter swells, thundering waves, sharp reefs, paddling larger waves with guns, and the struggle and joy that comes with all of that.
Though longboarders are often thought of as docile, getting in Sophia’s way in a wave battle would be a mistake. Her drive to win the 2023 Longboard Championships this fall makes her one to watch.
The series promises to grapple with the tension of competing against your best friends with life-changing opportunities at stake, explore the pressures of carrying family legacies, and highlight what it means to each of these young women to represent their Native Hawaiian heritage.
Athletes across disciplines have begun to shatter taboos and speak out about the role menstrual cycles play in athletic performance.
Getting to know Japan’s top longboarder at the Vans Duct Tape Invitational Rio de Janeiro.
As a mainstay in elite contests and heavy lineups, Raquel has pushed hard to carve out space for women in big wave surfing. During opening week for the Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational and the Vans Pipe Masters, we spent a sunny layday together on Oahu’s Seven Mile Miracle discussing North Shore contests and how growing up in Brazil shaped her career.
As women prepare to take their rightful place on the competitive stage at the world’s most storied wave, we look back at the trailblazers and ceiling smashers who got us here.
Gender Outlaw is simply about existing in the joyful experience of a surfing life. It’s about resilience, athleticism, patience, persistence, and love. It’s about showing up for your community and for yourself.
Shannon Hughes and Rachael Tilly, longboard legends and co-hosts of The Double-Up Podcast, share their vision for the future of the sport.
We chatted with Jessi Miley-Dyer, head of competition at the WSL, about the importance of female mentorship and increasing diversity in surfing. We also caught up with Kirra Pinkerton, an up-and-coming surfer on the Qualifying Series known for chasing barrels around the world.
SheChange explores in unprecedented depth—the kind only a woman who has been there herself can access—what drives these surfers, the adversity they’ve faced, and the payoff when a wave of consequence is made.
Make or Break offers an intimate look into the lives, emotions, and competitor psyches of world tour surfers as they let their guard down to show us how champions are made.
Beyond spreading stoke and inspiring freesurfers, professional surfing events have greater ripple effects. They have the power to educate, to uplift, to cultivate respect for our precious natural resources and the people who inhabited these sacred spaces first. They have the power to set a global precedent for equity and inclusion by forcefully asserting, in front of the world, that all champions are equal.
It might seem strange to think of surfing as a grief practice. Long celebrated for its “good vibes,” and for the fantasy of the “stoke” and sense of escape, could surfing have as much to do with mourning as it does with pleasure?
Alana Blanchard’s talent for shredding waves has long been overshadowed by the surf industry’s obsession with her body. Let go from her 14-year contract with Ripcurl during her pregnancy, Blanchard is now opening up about the her struggles with eating disorders and diminished self worth as a professional surfer.
“When I went to Mexico and saw tons of Mexican surfers, I realized that it was part of us, part of our culture, part of our people.”
A New South Wales court found Mark Thomson guilty of assaulting Jodie Cooper in the lineup at Lennox Head. “I’m not a wilting flower,” said Cooper. “I was brought up to be a strong person, and I will stand up for myself.”
Led by dynamic duo Delia Bense-Kang and Polly Ralda, Big Wave Babes is all about inspiring women to charge — and expanding the tools, resources, and support to make that possible.