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...Women's surfing also rides a surging tide of fashion. Surf brands such as Quiksilver, Rip Curl and Billabong--originally created for males--have rapidly expanded their female lines over the past few years. The clothes' increasing popularity has in turn drawn younger girls from the malls to the beach. Once they get there, a boom in surf schools makes learning to surf as common as enrolling in a yoga class. No longer content to sit on the sand and watch the guys feel the ocean beneath their feet, an estimated half a million women in the U.S. are taking...
...thick as it is tall, has battered and broken countless professional surfers and killed at least one of them. When the wave closes out, it looks as though the entire Pacific Ocean is trying to stomp onto the shallow coral reef below. It is terrifying to watch, insane to surf--and Keala Kennelly's favorite spot...
...trend that's getting a Hollywood endorsement in the film Blue Crush. Kennelly plays herself in the film, and some of her surf-pro pals, including Megan Abubo and Rochelle Ballard, provide the action as stunt doubles. Blue Crush tells the story of tough but sexy surfer chicks who live in beach shacks on Oahu's North Shore. No Baywatch bimbos, they wake at dawn to surf big waves, work as hotel maids during the day and party whenever they want. Boys are on the side. "Every little girl who sees the movie is going to want to surf," says...
...wave of surfer girls can be found everywhere from New Jersey to France. In Biarritz, on the coast of southwest France, Helene Malvaux, 12, is learning to surf. "My brother's been doing this for a few summers now, so I thought it was time I had a go," she says. At Surfrider beach in Malibu, Calif., Megan Stone, 16, says she surfs because "it's something that isn't ordinary." And up the coast in Santa Cruz, Mel Hanson, 42, a mother of two, got hooked last year after a friend taught her how. Not even a couple...
...hope springs eternal, so does Nash's verse on fresh turf, For it is all over the Internet, in blithe disregard of copyright law, for any kid today to surf. A generation of websters can splash In his odes to the hippopotamus and the socialite and good dogs and diaper rash. Today's 10-year-olds can discover for themselves my long-ago pash: To put aside the weeping and gnashing of teeth and instead luxuriate in the reaping and teething of Nash...