Great Women Surfers

In times of Polynesia the early 1600s, men, women and children surf the waves of Hawaii together in harmony. Although there are men who were dominant in sport, many women were also prominent. Hawaiians waiting in the sport in an egalitarian way, with equal opportunities for excellence and skill.

At the time when Europeans settled in Hawaii in late 1700 and early 1800, historians Ben Finney and James Houston takes into account that "a large percentage of Wahine (women) of early Hawaii were skilled navigators, and At times champions. Early engravings of the sport is full of half of the island-dressed girls perched on surfboards at the top of a wave of curling. " These were also the first women surfers undoubtedly attracted by the intimacy allowed men and women who rode the same wave together. There was also the love and courtship competitions carried out by both sexes, while surfing the waves.

The first famous surfer who is known as mammals, a semi-Polynesian god of times. She has a mythology associated with his name and was an excellent navigator, winning praise from their bosses and other chieftesses. Princess Kaneamuna the surfboard, dated in mid-1600, was discovered in 1905 at the funeral of his cave.

Ka'ahumanu late 18th century was a quiet canoe. This feat involved jumping from a canoe on the switch with a surfboard and ride the wave to the shore. She was very skilled in this style of riding, but later came to dissuade others from surfing after she converted to Christianity and traveled with the Calvinists.

During the hiatus of surfing in late 1800, after the attacks of Calvinist Puritanism, there were very few surfers riding the waves. One woman, Princess Ka'iulaini, it was reported that "the last of the old school in Waikiki," according to Surfrider Knut Cottrell. As the surf renaissance began again in the early 20th century, the surf clubs emerged and are formally organized, The Hui NALU (surf club) is one of them. Two female surfers are on record as official members of the club, Mildred "sissy" Turner, and Josephine "Jo" Pratt. The famous surfer and ladykiller, Duke Kahanamoku, is documented to be the first surfer to ride in tandem on a surfboard. Of course, bringing Leslie Limon with him to accomplish this is a fun and sexy way to make history. Duke later spread of surfing to Australia, where he repeated his trick in 1914 with the 15-year-old girl ocean Isabel Letham, who was later admitted to the Sport Australia Hall of Fame to further generations of Australian women to participate in the sport of surfing.

Often, women began their careers in tandem surf trips, due to the fact that their boyfriends were there in the surf and wanted to go into action. Many of these women spunky then train and become as good as men. Mary Ann Hawkins is perhaps the most famous female surfer in the early 20th century. She won countless prizes for the competition of swimming and surfing along in the 30s. In the 1970s, became a double feat in Hollywood films and later moved to Hawaii, where he opened a swimming school for babies.