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In the March 2010 issue of SURFER magazine, there’s a great story about five top professional surfers who head to Mexico for a surf trip. Sounds fairly typical of something you’d find in a surfing magazine. But what’s different about this surf trip story is that these amazingly talented surfers are women. That’s not shocking of course – female athletes including surfers are enjoying more publicity today than in decades past. But by and large, if there’s photo coverage of women in a surfing magazine, it’s typically of beach babes lounging on the sand in bikinis. And when there is coverage of women surfers there is little depth to the story – usually a report on competitions, an occasional bio, or the random photo of a girl tearing it up somewhere.

What’s refreshing about this article is that it captures the heart and soul of surfing as these women know it. It follows them as they interact with each other as friends who are just wanting to surf. In the end, you tend to forget the fact that these surfers are women and instead you walk away with that surfing vibe where you ache for the ocean and how bad you want to be out there. In the end, you just want to surf. And isn’t that the point of a well-written surf article anyway?

In the video/article, the five surfers are:
Stephanie Gilmore
Alana Blanchard
Coco Ho
Paige Hareb
Megan Abubo

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