Tag: SIMA

• Endless Cannibalization of Authenticity, Cease

  

  Bruce Brown’s 1966 The Endless Summer(TES) presented an alternative narrative to the shenanigans of the many beach/surfy lifestyle movies that erupted from Hollywood after Gidget emerged to much fanfare in 1958. In TES, there are no post-surf bonfire orgies, no frustrating hetero-love triangles that finally resolve in dramatic Hollywood fashion, and certainly no surfing ladies…

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  May 7, 2013

  Deconstructing Surfing, environment, Environmental Justice, Feminism, History, Surfing

  ambassadorship, ASP, association of surfing professionals, Big Surfing, branding, consumerism, Cori Schumacher, Feminism, SIMA, sponsorship, surf brands, surf industry, surfer, surfing, Ted Endo

• China and Big Surfing

  

  “Sports themselves are not political, but they have important political functions. The close connection between sports and national identity takes different forms in different countries at various stages of development, and in China it has special significance. The phrase ‘a weak country has no sports’ has particularly painful associations for Chinese people [owing to China’s…

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  January 5, 2012

  Deconstructing Surfing, Politics, Surfing

  ASP, ASP Prime, Big Surfing, billabong, boycott, China, Cori Schumacher, Fernando Aguerre, Hainan, isa, liu xiaobo, no enemies, no hatred, quiksilver, SIMA, surfing, wanning, World Games

• “Standing Her Ground”: Curl Magazine #31

  (This interview about women in surfing and my decision to boycott the ASP World Tour, was just published in the summer issue of Curl Magazine. There is no online access to this article so it is being reprinted here, with the images and captions provided in the article. I have also added links throughout the…

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  December 17, 2011

  Feminism, Interviews/Articles, Politics, Surfing

  ASP, association of surfing professionals, boycott, brodie carr, carissa moore, Chelsea Williams, China, chinese government, Cori Schumacher, Curl Magazine, Feminism, Hainan Island, human rights, Kassia Meador, Lindsay Steinriede, longboarding, new york times, nike, one child policy, shortboarding, SIMA, surfing, the inertia, volcom, women in boardsports, women’s longboarding, women’s rights, women’s rights without frontiers, women’s shortboarding, zach weisberg