Who knew that as we started the conversation in our last episode, Stab were already deep in production of the latest episode in their How Surfers Get Paid series, covering exactly the same topic - the sexualization of women's surfing. This time around we further the conversation covering the subjects raised in Stab's series, plus breakdown the Rip …

A lot has changed since surf brands started at the grassroots level in the late 60's. From making boardies with grandma to an endless cycle of greed and excess, passing from one owner to the next. This episode we talk about all of the recent changes in brand ownership and what that means for the sponsorship of many women, before being joined by Luc…

It's impossible to overstate the impact of the first two months of 2024 within the history of women's surfing. Between the earth-shattering efforts of Caity Simmers, Molly Picklum and Bettylou Sakura Johnson on the North Shore, Sally Fitzgibbons furthering her ISA GOAT status, and multiple new Olympians qualifying in Puerto Rico, including 14-year-…

This week we discuss the topic on everyone’s lips - the departure of Carissa Moore and Stephanie Gilmore from the 2024 CT season. While there has been plenty else happening throughout the women's surfing world lately, we decided to focus solely on the two big announcements and what that might mean for the coming season. As a special bonus we also a…

A lot of things have happened in women's surfing over the course of the past three months and Shannon and Rachael have covered absolutely none of it. Well at least not on this podcast...they've been participating in it directly too much to talk about it. This episode seeks to rectify that by catching up on a whole lot of surfing World Champions bei…

This week on the show Rachael's dearly departed voice returns just in time to join Shannon in previewing the WSL Finals, which could take place at any moment now. They also break down all of the happenings at the inaugural Bells Beach Longboard Classic, a wonderful new addition to the WSL Longboard Tour. Go Deeper Follow: Sea Maven Magazine Listen:…

This week we catch up on a big month of surfing including the Shiseido Tahiti Pro and its related Olympics and Final 5 implications, as well as the US Open of Surfing’s shortboard and longboard comps. Chapters 00:00 - Intro 11:54 - Shiseido Tahiti Pro 38:49 - US Open of Surfing Info Music: Dry Grass, courtesy of Body Type Contact: info@womensurf.ne…

This week Shan and Rach talk Asian Surf Championships, review the Corona Open J-Bay and Ballito Pro, take a look at Stab Audience's Picks for best surfers and catch up on the rest of the news in women’s surfing. Go Deeper Read: Stab Audience's Favorite Female Surfers Chapters 00:00 - Intro 10:52 - Asian Surf Championships 32:16 - J-Bay Open / Balli…

The 2023 ISA World Surfing Games saw many fascinating storylines play out, but one of the tightest battles came down to New Zealand teammates Paige Hareb and Saffi Vette, with Saffi making heat after heat thanks to seemingly endless buzzer beaters and finally claiming the Olympic slot up for grabs for the Oceania region. This week Shan and Rach tal…

This week Shan and Rach discuss WSL CEO Erik Logan’s mysterious departure, follow up on the Kirra Longboard Klassic, celebrate Caity Simmers’ second CT win, and talk through Erin Brooks’ Canadian cancellation. Go Deeper Read: Kirra Longboard Klassic ABC article, Erin Brooks CBC article Chapters 00:00 - Intro 05:40 - Erik Logan Departs 19:28 - Kirra…

This week Shan and Rach talk to Lucy Small about the movement around the Kirra Longboard Classic, chat with Quincy Symonds about Seas the Day and the progression of women’s surfing, recap the WSL El Salvador CT and glance through the current Challenger Series rankings. Go Deeper Purchase: Longboarder Magazine Listen: Michelle Mitchell on Good Human…

What do Surf Ranch, longboarding, the Olympics, Iran, judging, puppies and surf festivals have in common? They're all discussed in detail on this week's episode. An unexpected month away has left Shan and Rach with a lot to catch up on this week. It's a wide variety of topics, but somehow it all flows as they talk ISA World Longboard Champs and Wor…

Two major events in the short and long board worlds finished up in the past few days and our very own co-host Rachael Tilly placed runner up in one of them (hint: it wasn't Margaret River). This week Shan and Rach break down the Mexi Logfest and Margaret River Pro and surrounding conversations. They also catch up on the latest happenings in the res…

The concept and execution of the White Horses magazine She Has Stories issues is always so great that upon receiving the latest issue we had to track down its guest editor and learn more. And we're extremely glad that we did. Our conversation with Ula Majewski left us feeling excited, joyous and pumped on life. Dive in to hear from the infectious w…

This week we're celebrating our 50th episode by welcoming very special guests who need no introduction. 1990 World Champion Pam Burridge and 1993 World Champion Pauline Menczer both held 20-year careers on the Championship Tour, collecting all kinds of accolades along the way. After both women recently attended their first CT in years, the 2023 Rip…

The world's longest running surf contest, the Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach, is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year and the waiting period is officially underway. This week Shan and Rach look back at some of the history, preview this year's event, including the Gromsearch International Finals and the Heritage Heat, and delve into the current rank…

The generational shift that has been long forecast appears to have definitively arrived on the 2023 WSL Championship Tour. For the second event in a row a first-time winner has topped the podium and we now have a 20-year-old and a 17-year-old sitting number one and two in the world. This week Shan and Rach dig into the MEO Rip Curl Pro Portugal and…

While we've spent the start of this year almost entirely consumed by the WSL Championship Tour, a whole lot else has been happening in the world of women's surfing. This week Shan and Rach start to catch up on those happenings, including the release of a handful of great new edits, a roundup of the Regional QS and just a little dash of the CT with …

For the second year in a row Sunset has delivered a first-time CT winner and this time it's Molly Picklum's turn. Backing up her Vans Pipe Masters win, Molly has proved that her current confident rise is no fluke, settling into equal first place on the rankings with Carissa Moore. This week Shan and Rach delve into Molly's rise, along with all of t…

This week it's all about the CT. It seems surprising that Pipe has already finished, despite the fact that it felt like it went forever, and Sunset is somehow already underway. Shan and Rach discuss Carissa Moore's long-awaited Pipeline win and the performances of the women in these early events, along with everything from their failed Fantasy team…

After a great career that included two CT finals, multiple QS and Pro Junior wins, and covered many changes in women's surfing, Keely Andrew recently announced her retirement. This week Shannon catches up with the Sunshine Coast CT stalwart to talk through the highs and lows of her career and what comes next. Much else has happened in the world of …

What better way to close out the year than with two epic comps featuring amazing women doing incredible things in the ocean? This week on the show Shan & Rach go deep on all things Pipe Masters and Para Surfing World Championships, as well as rounding out the year as a whole. Go Deeper Follow: Sea Maven Magazine, Emocean Magazine Chapters 00:00 - T…

This year's Haleiwa Challenger was one of the most exciting contests in recent memory, with Sophie McCulloch's dream run the cherry on top of an epic event. Shan and Rach break down the highs and lows of a dramatic and emotional week on the North Shore, along with an overall look at the first full run of the Challenger Series as a whole, before pre…

Adaptive surfing has been growing from strength-to-strength in recent times, with this year's ISA World Para Surfing Championship promising to be the biggest and best ever. This week Shan and Rach catch up with three-time ISA World Champion Victoria Feige to preview the event and learn more about Victoria and the wider adaptive surfing community. T…

Last week the Stab High series wrapped up, delivering what most are calling the best air ever completed by a woman. That woman happens to be 15-year-old Sierra Kerr, who is part of a pack of young women that appear destined to become the future of the sport. This week on the show, Shan and Rach go full Stab and review both the Stab High series fina…

While we might not have the Cahill Bell-Warren spreadsheet (see Lipped Podcast), we've used our high school math skills and have worked out who we'll likely see join the 2023 Championship Tour when the Challenger Series wraps in the coming weeks at Haleiwa. This week on the show Shan and Rach discuss those incredible women in contention, along with…

It's a mixed bag this week as Shan and Rach catch up on a variety of news. From the placement of a number on a magazine cover to the freshly announced invitee list of the new look Vans Pipe Masters, with stops at storm-ravaged QS's and Australian film tours along the way, the conversation is never dull...even when discussing flight weight limitatio…

It was a massive week in the longboard world with World Champions crowned and 2023 qualifiers potentially determined for two of the biggest regions in women's longboarding. As any longtime listener knows, no subject gets Shan and Rach more talkative than this, so settle in as they break down all of the happenings, as well as checking in on the Chal…

It seems crazy to think that we're there already, but the second Olympic cycle in the history of surfing is upon us with the ISA World Surfing Games held last week in Huntington Beach. This week Shan and Rach break down all the excitement and drama that led to Kirra Pinkerton's big ISA win and the implications it holds. They also catch up on feedba…

Women's surfing officially has a new GOAT. Tied with Layne Beachley for seven world titles since 2018, Stephanie Gilmore solidified her position in the history books at this year's WSL Finals, breaking that record and finally winning her long-desired eighth. This week Shan and Rach celebrate Steph's iconic win, talking through the performances, as …

This week Shan and Rach are joined by the one and only Sally Fitzgibbons, the GOAT of consistency, for a full insider breakdown of the contenders for this year's World Title. The trio delve into the psyche of each of the five finalists and make predictions of what might happen later this week when they take to the water at Lower Trestles. We daresa…

At a certain point in recent history finding a surf film, or even an edit, that predominantly featured women (or at least women surfing, as opposed to on the shore in various states of undress) was a very rare occurrence. Thankfully that all appears to be in the rearview as high-level surfing and fascinating stories just keep on coming from women a…

Featuring women for the first time in 16 years, the Outerknown Tahiti Pro did not disappoint in delivering us the action, drama, and yes, barrels, that we've been waiting for! This week Shan and Rach break down the event and delve into the different conversations it brought up. They also discuss the solidification of the Final 5, a confirmed Rookie…

A few months ago this podcast came to a halt for a few reasons out of our control. We've worked it out, however, and we're back and not going anywhere anytime soon. This week Shan and Rach shake off the dust, gather their still-developing, yet somehow already rusty podcasting skills, and catch up with the latest in women's surf. Caity Simmers' seri…

The second CT of the year has already wrapped and with it has come a trail of destruction courtesy of some of the newest members of the Championship Tour. With Rachael out for the week, Shan and Jess Grimwood comb through the wreckage to dissect what went down during what we're calling one of the better women's surf contests of recent history, an e…

The hits keep coming as surfing quickly moves on from Pipe to a social media storm around longboarding, the Hurley Pro Sunset Beach waiting period kicking off, surfing's inclusion as one of the 28 core Olympic sports, the always epic Australian Boardriders Battle and the return of regional QS events. Jess Grimwood joins us to give an update on the …

It's a very special episode this week as we have one of the legends of the sport, and possibly the greatest women's barrel-rider of all time, Rochelle Ballard, joining us to break down the very first women's Championship Tour event at Pipeline. Shan, Rach and Rochelle talk highlights and specifics of the Billabong Pro Pipeline, and both the history…

While it's not the focus anyone wanted for the long overdue first women's CT to be held at surfing's most iconic break, you couldn't avoid the conversation no matter which surf community you were a part of, least of which the online - should the WSL have sent the women out to Pipeline on Monday, January 31, 2022? We gauged our listener's thoughts, …

The eyes of the surf world will be on Pipeline for the coming weeks as the women hit the water for their first official Championship Tour event, following 45 years of men's events. This is far from the first time women will have surfed or competed at Pipe however - a fact that's easy to overlook considering the absence of events on the world stage.…

But seriously, is there anything Carissa didn't win in 2021? On this week's episode Shan & Rach talk Stab Surfers of the Year and Vans Triple Crown of Surfing. You'll never guess who won both. They also chat with Tru & Jesse Starling, the pro-surfing sister duo behind Murmur Mag and catch up in a Post Heat with CT veteran Paige Hareb after her long…

It was yet another massive week in women's surfing as we saw history being made on the North Shore yet again, most notably from Bethany Hamilton, while on the other side of the world Justine Dupont had a brush with death surfing one of the biggest days ever seen at Nazare. We also saw the 2022 Championship Tour get a shake-up with Caity Simmers off…

For the first episode in our new Critical Conversation series Shan & Rach catch up with Isabella Nichols. As the only rookie in the women's field of the WSL Championship Tour during the most turbulent era of modern surfing, the former World Junior Champion had to learn the intense dynamics of tour life with constantly shifting expectations. Rising …

We may have taken a break over the holidays, but the North Shore surf season kicked on strong. While there has been plenty of incredible moments from women on the North Shore over the past decade, 2022 has brought a tidal wave of action, unseen in over a decade, that is continuing to gain momentum heading into the first events of the WSL Championsh…

This week Shan and Rach are all about wrapping things up for the year. The Haleiwa Challenger, the Championship Tour class of 2022, the Nazare Challenge and the ISA World Para Surfing Championship are all tied in a neat little bow, before checking in for Post Heats with not one, not two, but three different surfers. Shan catches up with Liv Stone a…

We’re in the thick of it this week as Shan is mid-event on the North Shore and Rach has finally reached the end of her jump-roping. The intro gets extended for some hilarious stories while Hot Topics shrinks to cover only the good stuff. We talk free-surfing greatness through Jaleesa Vincent’s new edit, the opening of the Northern Hemisphere’s big …

Maybe one day we’ll be able to spend less time discussing equality in surfing, however we are not there yet. Front and center this week is a conversation around an air show that was announced for the NSSA Nationals in California. We also check out an epic new edit from Erin Brooks, chat with Laura Day, the host of fellow women’s surfing podcast Con…

The topics are diverse this week as we cover the latest edit from Vans - an all-woman affair affectionately curated by Lee-Ann Curren, take a deeper look into some comments from Steph Gilmore in a Joyce Magazine article, check in on the Saquarema Surf Festival and the Rip Curl GromSearch US national final, catch up with Selena Morgan, director of t…

Gabriela Bryan and India Robinson have had extremely similar surfing trajectories so far, so it's no surprise that they ended up becoming great friends despite living in very different parts of the world. On this week's episode Shan & Rach catch up with the the two powerhouse surfers as they begin their North Shore training to discuss their competi…

A full range of topics are on the cards this week as we take on the Red Bull Big Wave Awards, the Yeti Australian Online Junior Championships, an array of new French National Champs and celebrate one new mother as well as a mother-to-be. We also chat with Jemima Robinson, founder of the She Surfs Film Tour which will hit the road in Australia next …

We’re keeping it simple this week, with many different conversations lined up for the coming weeks, Shan & Rach exclusively cover the top news from the world of women’s surfing before receiving a wrap of the Roxy Pro France from Jess Grimwood on The Grind. Starting with Morgan Maassen’s rumination on the Fierro sisters and their Tahitian island par…