Chapter: 8
The Ride of Your Life
- Is Surfing Hip?
- Lisa Andersen Surfs Better Than You
- Killer Cute
- Kelly Slater is Just Warming Up
- Rebel for Hire
- I Believe I Can Fly
- A Monster in Half Moon Bay
- Mark Foo's Last Ride
- Open Throttle
- Laird Means Lord
- Tahitian Scream
- A Webcam for Every Wave
- Last Call for Print Media
- Taylor Steele Likes it Rough
- Searching for the Perfect Phrase
- Hollywood Tries Again
- Thirty is the New Twenty
- Andy Irons' Poetic Fury
- The Beast and Beyond
- A Dance with the Past
- Foam is Dead, Long Live Foam
- Nature Gets a Makeover
- Surf in a Box
- The End of History
Lisa Andersen Surfs Better Than You
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Lisa Andersen, 1993
![Pauline Menczer. Photo: Pierre Tostee](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/f1hjpcr4/production/e731bcd6ce520a2ba1190fd326edd6d22531b5c3-1280x720.jpg?w=640&h=360&q=65&auto=format)
Pauline Menczer. Photo: Pierre Tostee
![Frieda Zamba, 1988](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/f1hjpcr4/production/6214fa66cadd8c7f8c419a4d43b1cbb3bbc7cd5a-900x506.jpg?w=640&h=360&q=65&auto=format)
Frieda Zamba, 1988
![Lisa Andersen](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/f1hjpcr4/production/78a125f75871cbd06e5e90a76e05b80d37162431-1280x720.jpg?w=640&h=360&q=65&auto=format)
Lisa Andersen
![Wendy Botha. Photo: Jeff Hornbaker](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/f1hjpcr4/production/4626b8451e3ad36be225ba6a7565bb1776e74e94-1280x720.jpg?w=640&h=360&q=65&auto=format)
Wendy Botha. Photo: Jeff Hornbaker
When Surfer published an article titled “Sexism Sucks” in 1993, it brought down a shower of hate mail, including one letter that began, “Hello, I'm a chauvinist pig,” and finished with, “I'll give a chick respect when she can surf big waves, hold her liquor, and acknowledge the dominant gender.”
Surfing’s second boom—the 1980s beachwear-driven surge that turned the sport into a billion-dollar industry—was kneecapped in 1990 by a recession and a consumer market suddenly repulsed by neon boardshorts and scrawly ethnic-print T-shirts. Red ink splattered across the surf industry power centers of Costa Mesa, Biarritz, Sydney, and Torquay. Dozens of new companies imploded, and a few established...
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