A-frame

Aaberg, Denny

Aaberg, Kemp

Abberton, Koby

Abbruzzi, Sid

Abellira, Reno

Abubo, Megan

academia and surfing

Adler, Tom

advertising and surfing

Aeder, Erik

aerial

Aguerre, Fernando

Aichner, Scott

Aikau, Clyde

Aikau, Eddie

Aipa, Ben

air-drop

airbrush

Airshow

Ala Moana

Alabama

alaia board

Alaska

alcohol and surfing

Alexander, Kala

Allen, Chuck

Alms, Paige

aloha shirt

Alter, Hobie

Alvarez, Pepe

Ancell, Kevin

Andaman Islands

Andersen, Lisa

Anderson, Craig

Anderson, Simon

Andino, Kolohe

Angel, Jose

angle

Angola

Angourie

Antarctica

Apocalypse Now

Arabian Sea

Aragon, Janice

Arakawa, Eric

Archbold, Matt

Arena, Eduardo

Ashton, Juan

Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP)

Atlantic Ocean

August, Robert

Aurness, Rolf

Auster, Ken

Australia

Avalon, Frankie

Azores

backdoor

backside

backside attack, Pipeline

backwash

bail out

Bain, Rob

Baja California

Baker, Bernie

Baker, Grant “Twiggy”

Baker, Tim

Bali

Ball, John “Doc”

Ballard, Bill

Ballard, Rochelle

balsa

Baltic Sea

Banks, Jim

Barbados

Barilotti, Steve

Barland, Michel

Barreda, Sergio “Gordo”

Barry, Michael

Bartholomew, Wayne

Baxter, Jackie

Bay of Bengal

Beach Boys, The

Beacham, Debbie

beachboys

beachbreak

Beachcomber Bills Grand Prix

Beachley, Layne

beavertail

Becker, Phil

Bedford-Brown, Stuart

Belgium

Bells Beach

Bendall, Ma and Pa

Bennett, Barry

Benson, Becky

Benson, Blanche

Benson, Linda

Bermuda

Bertlemann, Larry

Small, short-lived California-based organization formed in 1999 by top female pro surfers Rochelle Ballard, Kate Skarratt, Layne Beachley, Megan Abubo, and Prue Jeffries, as a public relations tool for competitive women's surfing and a lobbying group for women members of the Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) world tour. Precursors to International Women Surfers (IWS) include the 1975-formed Women's International Surfing Association (WISA) and the 1977-founded Golden Girls promotional group.

In 2000, executive director and sole IWS staff member Christine Bent announced that the organization would first aim to establish a series of independent women's events on the ASP world tour, and to raise the women's pro tour prize money. Because the ASP was in a general state of flux at the turn of the decade, the impact of the IWS on the world tour was hard to measure. The number of scheduled ASP women's events dropped from 14 in 1999 to five in 2001. With an effort backed by IWS members, however, the minimum women's prize purse was raised from $30,000 per event to $60,000. Two or three years later, IWS was dormant; not long after that it was defunct.

International Women Surfers (IWS)

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