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What is a Wahine? |
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Volume 4, Number 3
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 Rochelle Ballard, Keala Kennelly, Elise Garrigue, Crystal Dzigas, Alana Brennan and Emilia Perry are six beautiful, ripping wahine who call Hawai‘i home and surfing their life. They each chase their surf dreams through various paths available to them as women; some are WCT competitors, ambassadors of the surfer girl lifestyle, stuntwomen or a combination of all. These female wave riders sat down with FSM to discuss issues that are affecting the current state of women’s surfing, break down the stereotypes and stigmas of the lifestyle/model surfer vs. the competitive surfer, and share what it is to be a modern wahine wave rider.
MEET THE WAHINE…
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Kauaian Style |
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Volume 4, Number 3
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 By Mia Melamed
Event: Sixth Annual Irons Brothers Pinetrees Classic
Date: Feb. 10, 2007
Location: Hanalei Bay, Kaua‘i
Conditions: 1- to 3-foot nuggets and sunny
After weeks of horrible weather, Andy and Bruce Irons, as well as
Hanalei Bay, woke up to a shining sun and a fun inside reform setting
up perfectly in the 1- to 3-foot range—not to mention the crowd of
hungry and anxious groms frothing on the shore, ready to participate in
the Sixth Annual Irons Brothers Pintrees Classic.
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The Roxy Pro at Sunset Beach |
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Volume 4, Number 2
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WILD WEST STEALS THE SHOW
The Roxy Pro at Sunset Beach
Nov. 25 & Dec. 1, 2006
By Karen Gallagher
On Dec. 1, 2006, there were 18 girls surfing Sunset Beach with $67,500
and the world title up for grabs. The surf was a clean, picture-perfect
4 to 6 feet with some bigger faces. This scene was leaps and bounds
above the Dark Years when the ladies were demoted to competing in the
humiliating mush off the pool at the Turtle Bay Resort.
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Rip Curl Pro Pipeline Masters |
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Volume 4, Number 2
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 Drama For Your Mama
Andy Irons Gets the Last Laugh
Rip Curl Pro Pipeline Masters
Dec. 10-14, 2006
Nobody really can come back from being comboed by Kelly Slater— with
eight minutes left in the final to win the Rip Curl Pro Pipeline
Masters. Andy Irons can. Not many competitors paddle-battle Slater to
prevent the eight-time world champ from scoring a perfect, Backdoor 10.
Andy does. Few surfers have won the Vans Triple Crown of Surfing four
times. AI has. And, there’s only one surfer who appeared in all three
Triple Crown finals in one winter season: Andy Irons, brah!
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2006 Op Pro Women |
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Volume 4, Number 2
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Nov. 15-16, 2006
SURGES, SAND & SOFIA
Peru’s Sofia Mulanovich Claims The First Jewel of the Vans Triple Crown of Surfing
For the second time during the 2006 winter season an earthquake
disrupted the plans for a contest at Hale‘iwa’s Ali‘i Beach Park.
Morning tsunamis generated by the 8.1-magnitude earthquake in the Kuril
Islands delayed the start of the opening day for the women's Op Pro.
The boats at nearby Hale‘iwa Harbor rose and fell with the surges, as
the high-water level rose five feet to cover the piers, before dropping
away to leave boats teetering on the sand-bottom. But once the currents
and tides settled, the first day of competition for the 24th Annual
Vans Triple Crown of Surfing was on in clean 2- to 4-foot surf.
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2006 O‘Neill World Cup of Surfing |
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Volume 4, Number 2
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Parko’s Perfection
2006 O‘Neill World Cup of Surfing
Nov. 24-30 & Dec. 6, 2006
It was the last day of the holding period for the 2006 O’Neill World
Cup of Surfing at Sunset Beach. It was also the last heat of the WQS
season. And the last chance for a couple of ‘QS hopefuls to qualify for
next year’s ‘CT— in 8- to 10-foot, barreling, prime Sunset surf.
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The Op Pro Hawai‘i |
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Volume 4, Number 2
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The Op Pro Hawai‘i
Ali‘i Beach Park
Nov. 18, 2006
Ten-Minute Man
Andy Irons Wins the First Jewel of The Vans Triple Crown of Surfing
“I took first in ten minutes,” said an ecstatic Andy Irons after being
chaired up the beach by fellow Kauians Kai Garcia and Kala Alexander at
the 2006 Op Pro Hawai‘i. The three-time World Champ pretty much won the
first jewel of the Vans Triple Crown of Surfing in two rides and 600
seconds.
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Billabong Pro Maui |
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Volume 4, Number 2
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 A Hawaiian Champion
The Rookie, The Crown & The Champ
Billabong Pro Maui
Event No. 8 and the final stop on the ASP Women’s World Tour
Honolua Bay, Maui
December 8 – 10 2006
Holding period: Dec. 8-21
Epic waves at Honolua Bay saw a three-way battle among three of
Australia’s most insane female surf talents for the 2006 ASP Women’s
World Tour title: Former six-time world champion Layne Beachley,
reigning world champion Chelsea Georgeson and winner of the first three
events on the 2006 tour, Melanie Redman-Carr.
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Talk Story with Melanie Bartels |
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Volume 4, Number 2
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A Hawaiian Champion
By Pake Salmon
West Side local Melanie Bartels has been called a lot of things. The
female Sunny Garcia. Top female aerialist. Top Hawaiian female surfer.
But one thing she’s never been called is an ASP World Championship Tour
event winner. Until Friday, Dec. 1, 2006, that is. Mel entered the the
Roxy Pro Hawai‘i at Sunset Beach as a last minute wildcard and,
advancing consistently from the trials, found herself in the finals
with co-wildcard Stephanie Gilmore (AUS). Like a classic underdog, Mel
caught a wave with just 14 seconds on the clock, stole the lead from
Gilmore, and won her first-ever ASP Women’s WCT event.
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FREESURF MAGAZINE KAI MANA AWARDS |
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Volume 4, Number 2
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![]()  FOR HAWAI‘I SURFERS, BY HAWAI‘I SURFERS
THE SECOND ANNUAL FREESURF MAGAZINE KAI MANA AWARDS PRESENTED BY QUIKSILVER AND OCEANIC CABLE
By Siri Masterson and Chelsea Johns
Kai Mana means “ocean power” in Hawaiian. The gathering of grom and veteran surfers, body boarders, longboarders, water safety officers, surf industry heads and legends was a dynamic display of ocean power unified for the second annual FreeSurf Magazine Kai Mana Awards presented by Quiksilver and Oceanic Cable.
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Winter Gun Preview |
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Volume 3, Number 10
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Lock and Load
It sounds like thunder is in
the air and you realize it’s the rising shore break. The traffic on
Kamehameha Hwy thickens. It’s wintertime and the big boys are getting
their big toys out to play. These surfers are hunters. Hit men.
Warriors. They use specialized weapons to challenge big game like third
reef Banzai Pipeline and epic Waimea Bay. These surfers are our heroes.
Everyone would love to know what it feels like to get spit out of
12-foot Pipe or escape down a heaving 25-foot face with hammering
Waimea whitewash nipping at your heels. You don’t catch trophy waves
with just a big bravado, you need a dialed quiver to make the kill.
Some of our favorite Hawai‘i pro surfers show us their arsenal of
winter guns. Lock and load!
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Talk Story with Ned Snow |
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Volume 3, Number 10
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2006 World Longboard Champion Runner-Up
In
2000, a teenage Ned Snow thought his life was over. At the time, his
parents were finalizing a divorce, and young Ned was forced to move
from the quiet West Side of the Big Island to the urban hustle and
bustle of Honolulu. The lanky regular-foot was still competing in the
Hawaii Island amateur organizations on his shortboard with Kaimi Hui
Hui when he made the move to Oahu. Ned left his friends, father, kalo
(taro) farm, home break and a piece of his heart on the Big Island.
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