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For the past six years, the Supergirl Jam series has been the only large-scale all-girls action sports competition and lifestyle series. Developed as a celebration of female empowerment, the Supergirl Jam features the top female athletes in skateboarding, surfing, and snowboarding competing as well as a variety of girl-power activities at three events.
In 2012, the Supergirl Jam is expanded with the launch of the Paul Mitchell Supergirl Pro, the ONLY 6-Star Prime Women’s Surf Contest in North America. the Paul Mitchell Supergirl Pro will featured the largest field of professional surfing talent of any event in the world with 80 top pros competing.
California’s celebrated beach culture was dealt a blow Wednesday with the passing of Terry “Tubesteak” Tracy, the man best known as the original Big Kahuna of Malibu. Tracy, the archetypical beach bum, lived on the Malibu shoreline for years, but his biggest contribution to American pop culture came when he gave a young surfer named Kathy Kohner her nickname, “Gidget.”
Tracy was born in 1935, and raised by his grandparents in the Wilshire District of Los Angeles after his parents split up in 1941. By 1950, at the age of 15, he had … More