Video Surfing – The Hurley Pro Preview – Will anyone be able to slow Joel Parkinson this year? Can Kelly continue his Lowers dominance? Will Mick get his groove back? And will the young freaks do some damage? Here’s what to look for.
Thirty-five years ago, Hawaii’s Laura Blears single-handedly took on an all-male field at Sunset Beach in the Smirnoff Pro, firmly planting the flag for women’s professional surfing. Today, another page is added to the colorful history of women’s surfing with the announcement by Gidget Worldwide of their sponsorship of the Gidget Pro Sunset Beach – the second of three stops on the ladies Vans Triple Crown of Surfing presented by Rockstar Energy Drink, and the penultimate event of the 2009 ASP Women’s World Tour.
After Blears’ professional debut at Sunset Beach in 1974, women became a regular feature of pro surfing on the North Shore of Oahu when the first organized world tour culminated here in 1977…Â Details
Paralyzed Surfers Charge Waves at Life Rolls On Foundation’s They Will Surf Again-La Jolla
Surfersvillage Global Surf News, 10 September, 2009 : – – Life Rolls On Foundation will present its West Coast season finale of They Will Surf Again at La Jolla Shores Playa del Oro on Sunday, Sept. 13 at 9 a.m. They Will Surf Again (TWSA) is an award-winning, quality of life program produced by Life Rolls On Foundation (LRO), which empowers quadriplegics and paraplegics with the opportunity to surf by using adaptive equipment. More than 150 volunteers will support nearly 50 adaptive surfers at this event, where they will they push the bounds of possibility despite paralysis.Â
Six-year-old Ian McFarland, paralyzed after a car accident in 2008, which claimed the lives of his parents, will be among the surfers charging waves at They Will Surf Again. McFarland, whose father taught him how to surf, will be cheered on by friends and family as he realizes … Details
Once in awhile, a column seems to want to write itself. Such is the case with this one. Elle Nakaima Cochran, the activist founder of Save Honolua Coalition, only needed prompting with a few questions. The answers tumbled out in short, concise sentences one after another.
Cochran, schooled at King Kamehameha III Elementary and Seabury Hall and married to surf shop entrepreneur Wayno Cochran since 1996, takes up her story in her own words:
