When I first started surfing, as a teenager in Honolulu in 1966, my uncle would clear a way for me through the big, intimidating men on long, heavy surfboards—men who vastly outnumbered women in ...

In a conservative Muslim country where it is taboo for most women to even swim in public, Nasima Akter came to prominence a ...

Nearly 9,800 miles from Paris, the proud past, the sparkling present and the bright future of women’s surfing will convene under one roof. The logistics of these Summer Games can be curious ...

When Red Bull spoke to Marks in early 2024, she was in the middle of a big moment for smashing gender barriers in surfing. “It's an amazing time for women's surfing,” she says. “The ...

In pre-contact Hawaii, surfing was for everyone; mothers, grandfathers, warriors, princesses, children. In fact, historians of Ancient Polynesia acknowledge that it was women who seemed to stand ...

Are tourists welcome? But the question that continues to intrigue me is, Why don’t many Indonesian women surf? In Lombok, I surf nearly every day, often twice. I don’t share this to evoke ...

The Paris Olympics is only the second time surfing has been included as an Olympic sport, after it debuted at the Tokyo Olympics. For the women’s competition: Yang from China, Sarah Baum from ...

Gail “Buffy” Maetozo, 66, a Jacksonville University exercise science professor who competed in the classic’s Sage Sisters Longboard category, said women’s surfing is only getting better.

The surf world is mourning, as an icon, a pioneer, an innovator in the realm of women’s charging heavy Hawaiian waves, has passed away. Lane Davey has died of cancer; she was 55 years old.

A woman in northern California recently entered a man into a women's surfing competition in a sarcastic protest of transgender inclusion in women's sports. The stunt made the female contestants ...

Cash Hoover, a 15-year-old Hawaiian resident, and North Carolina’s Tony Silvagni won titles at the Coastal Edge Steel Pier Classic in Virginia Beach during Memorial Day weekend. Hoover won her first ...