GIRLS CAN'T SURF
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Girls can’t surf is a documentary that translates you to the 1980s and the world of professional surfing. A circus of fluro colours, peroxide hair and radical male egos.
GIRLS CAN'T SURF follows the journey of a band of renegade surfers who took on the male-dominated professional surfing world to achieve equality and change the sport forever. Featuring surfing greats Jodie Cooper, Frieda Zamba, Pauline Menczer, Lisa Andersen, Pam Burridge, Wendy Botha, Layne Beachley and more, GIRLS CAN'T SURF is a wild ride of clashing personalities, sexism, adventure and heartbreak, with each woman fighting against the odds to make their dreams of competing a reality.
Today, 2021 offers a completely different scene for female professional surfing.
Most of the events are held in the same places and dates as male surfing to promote and give visibility to female surfing. That has led to great improvement and promotion among girls to practice the sport also professionally.
The World Surf League (WSL) awards equal prize money to male and female athletes for every WSL, becoming the first and only US based global sports league, and among the first internationally, to achieve prize money equality.
At PLAY, we also work for gender equality and promote sports at all levels.
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