Blue Crushing the man!
Have you ever stopped to consider what our professional surfing world, this professional surfing life, would be without Pipeline? The crown jewel of Oahu’s North Shore gives the professional surf fan our meaning, in many ways. Our raison d’etre and imagine if the World Surf League Championship Tour ended in… Brazil, say. Or Lemoore. Very sad.
Well, as you know, the women do not get to end their season in Pipeline and don’t have any contests there but would like for this harsh Pipe-less reality to be shattered on the shoals of equality. Shall we turn to the sporting website FanSided for more?
Yes?
Ok.
Known as the mecca of surfing, the little stretch on the beach on the North Shore of Oahu aka Pipeline has been the home of the last contest on the men’s championship tour (CT) for years. In 2010 women were barred from competing there, having to finish their seasons in other Hawaiian locations such as Honolulu Bay.
Now the women are no longer willing to stand by while the men get to catch the greatest waves in the world. The Committee for Equity in Women’s Surfing along with representative Heidi Tsuneyoshithe are now lobbying for a resolution that will allow women inclusion in the North Shore contests.
Any women’s surfing fan will probably remember the last scene in Blue Crush where Kate Bosworth’s character goes out and secures a monster ride on the legendary surf. The sight has been the motivation for women and girls since the early 2000s, however, in 2010 the ladies of the CT were sent away in order to make more room for the men’s competition.
Do you have any opinions on this one way or the other? Who would you like to see, most, in those Pipeline barrels? Who least? May I offer a suggestion? Overlapping overlapping mixed heats. Tell me that wouldn’t set your heart on fire.
More as the story develops.
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Idk if you watched Pipe Pro yesterday. Coco said she only got her wave at backdoor because her dad told her to go. She also said she declined to paddle out the next day because she “wasn’t feeling it” aka TOO BIG. Seems to me KK wants a quick cash grab so she can pay her meth bill.
Keala Kennely needs to shut it already. She’s been out of ‘ct contests for a decade. She going to cry about equality to surf pipe as a money grab because she’s a methed out stud who needs a quick annual cash grab? (Which, let’s face it, she probably won’t make the final) It is bad enough the Men’s competition has to subsidize the women’s pay now they have to sit out because of it? Why not just let the women into men’s competition and see how fast they get smoked. Make them earn it, because forcing contest sponsors to pay women more for less of a return in regards to viewership shouldn’t be the equality they are looking for. Let’s say 50k for top competitors. If 100k tune in for the men’s competition and 25k tune in for the women’s, how is that fair for the people putting out the cash?
It’s a cunt to get to.
That alone should be worth 1500
honolua is the only women’s event I’m interested in. it almost always delivers epic waves.
Yeah you’re totally right.
Currently in Japan and everything is better with msg
yes she is good, and those waves of her are probably huge for your Socal standards but for hawaiian standards there is no wave bigger than 6 foot on her insta sorry to tell you some reality
they don’t want to and foremost they don’t have the ability to surf the wave, its hard even for aging men that are good surfers, they will tell you that. Eddie rothman talks about that on an interview about how quick your reflections have to be to perform on that wave and the reason why so many guys quit surfing it after 50, and trust me he knows what he is talking about, not so sure about yourself if you have any ideia what pipe, el gringo, cloudbreak, Grower, el quemao on t canaries or teahupoo is of a wave. By the way i have been to all these spots when was firing pipe in almost every swell since i live on the north shore and i have never seen a women acctualy catching a set wave when is 8ft +.
And Piha hahahahaha
That claim is very sieg heil
“Overlapping overlapping mixed heats.” My heart is set aflame.
I’ve seen a few women paddle out at medium sized Pipe. On the best days, however it was all men.
But seriously…on an A+ day who on the women’s CT is taking off on a second reef roll in?
Are you the original sun bear noodle from NZ or are you the new freeze dried packaged version from Japan?
I hope you caught Jodi Wilmott’s testimony. I applaud her for going against the grain and presenting a reasoned and measured response citing the possible pitfalls and dangers of the resolution. Her testimony mirrored the whole Maverick’s pay equality debacle and the unfair strongarm tactics of CEWS that resulted in WSL pulling out and I believe future negative ramifications. I think that also folds into Betty’s Woman’s Waimea contest having a lukewarm reception. No doubt the City is having nightmares trying to please all the contest organizers while trying to keep the public’s best interests in mind. It’s too bad that there were no waves for their contest window. It’s always a crapshoot and the Shootout was shutout too with no waves this year.
I know you prob read it but I thought Dylan Heyden’s take on it was illuminating from Sept 2018.
https://www.theinertia.com/…
you are wrong, a lot of them surf waimea and himalaias, phamtoms all these are deep water outer reefs and you could take off on the shoulder, have you ever seen off the wall, log cabins, rock piles 8+? let me tell you is nothing like your rincon or el porto these are very technical waves with a very steep drop over shallow reef, nobody is holding them back they dont surf it because they dont want to hurt themselves and put the other surfers in danger
they would say yes, then pipe would go 8 ft+ and none of them will make a wave, is going to be like jaws but worse, the truth is anyday that pipe, backdoor or off the wall is more than 6 foot will be no girls out its just too technical of a wave for them
Not on the CT (which is where the entrants would come from), so a careful choice of wildcard would gaurantee a lesser known winner…
I’m really not in on this whole equality of outcome that’s unfortunately being pushed everywhere.
However I will say this. Anyone that has the balls to take off at maxing pipe should be allowed to. I think that women’s surfing has come a long way in the last five to ten years and I’ve seen women go waves even I wouldn’t take off on. So they are getting equal pay and should surf the same waves.
Yeah, so that means very few of the CT women would even want the comp there in the first place…
Yeah and there is no shame in that. It just means that shouldn’t get the same prize money.
they cannot just like they can’t snowboard, skateboard like men it’s just genetics it does not matter how much the left want to push the envelope.
Yeah. That’s why a mixed comp would never work. The women would be knocked out in the early rounds.
Though that’s why a mixed comp would shut them all (the unequal equality mob) up once and for all, and go back to the actual equitable pay the women received (due to their lesser numbers and abilities) prior to the unfairly skewed (apparent) pay equity brought in by Sophie (under Natasha’s instruction) last year….
The feminists can believe in their own lies, but they can’t force us to drink their kool aid, yes women are less productive than men in every single field and that’s ok its just the way things are for the last 50 thousand years.
No such thing here
another opportunity for the women to pull back and kook it. how many are prepping for chopes ?