“My hope is in the next one to three years we’ll see a marked improvement in all areas of women’s surfing-from inclusive designs and manufacturing to media representation and marketing,” says Sneed. Rip Curl has started featuring curvy surfers in their marketing campaigns and a newly launched inclusive fit guide offers designs for DD-chested women. The closest form of body surfing using a board is a handboard which normally has one strap over it to fit on one hand. Citing a growing number of female-led brands that go beyond performative inclusivity-like Night Dive Swim, Body Glove and Do Good Swimwear-Sneed is optimistic the tide is turning, “We are witnessing the beginning of the shift,” the surfer says.Īnd while that shift towards inclusion has largely been spearheaded by smaller, independent brands, mainstream players are slowly catching on too. New York’s finest, Quincy Davis, is one of the 10 hottest surfer girls in the world. Body surfing, in which the wave is caught and ridden using the surfer's own body rather than a board, is very common and is considered by some surfers to be the purest form of surfing. Asia Brynne via Maajiīut until surfwear takes inclusivity seriously, the sport will continue to feel inaccessible to plus-size women. If surfboards, surfable waves, and surfing bodies develop, it is not because they are given in the materiality of the environment the end result of the. Have the strength and mobility required to surf well i.e.
Elizabeth Sneed is optimistic plus-size surfing will become normalized as more small brands champion. As the surfer drops down a wave face he / she is gaining speed through gravity pulling them from the top of the wave to the bottom of the wave, converting potential energy into kinetic energy that is then stored within the surfer as he / she compresses their body as they reach the trough of the wave. Be able to paddle for long periods of time and maximise wave count 2.
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