Surfer Babes

Surfing is one of those sports that is graced by a great quantity of good looking people. There are a lot of hot guys and quite a few surfer babes on the surf scene. The surfer chicks don’t just look good, though; a good many of them can keep up with the guys on the waves and many are professional surfing babes, increasing their appeal for both the media and their male counterparts.

For example, Joyce Hoffman was one of the original surf babes and is considered a pioneer in women’s surfing. She was one of the first surf chicks to be inducted into the International Surfing Hall of Fame; indeed, many consider her to be the first international surfer chick. She started surfing when she was very young and secured victories in a number of competitions, including the Makaha International Open in 1964 and 1966 and the US Surfing Championship for Women from 1965-1967. She was the first surfer babe to surf Hawaii’s Pipeline, in 1968. She was also named Woman of the Year in 1969 by the Los Angeles Times; she is the only surfer to ever receive this honor.

The very first Australian to hit the waves as a surfer was the surf babe Isabel Letham, who was born in 1899. Her father helped build a board for Hawaiian surf legend Duke Kahanamoku, who had visited Australia to teach about “Hawaiian-style” surfing; this was simply surfing standing up, as Australians had only been bodyboarding or bodysurfing. Duke took the young Isabel, then 15 years old, out into the water with him for a surfing demonstration; ever since then, she has been surfing. She has even taught surfing.

Another surfing chick is Sofia Mulanovich, who is a Peruvian surfer with Croatian ancestry. She is the first South American to win the World Title and she is the first Peruvian surfer to win an ASP World Championship Tour event. Roxy sponsors this surfing babe. The first surf chick to win the Women’s World Surfing Championship was the Australian Phyllis O’Donnell, in 1964.

A surf babe who had a significant role in women’s surfing was the Hawaiian born Rell Kapolioka’ehukai Sunn. She was known often as “Queen of Makaha” (the location in Hawaii where she was born) and was a world surfing champion. She began surfing when she was 4 and was competing by the time she was 14. At times, competitions had women’s divisions, though this was rare; therefore, Rell often found herself competing successfully against the men. She was fundamental in promoting female surfers as she helped found a number of female surfing organizations.