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Surfer chicks?

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  • 04-02-2011 1:14pm
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    Carverkid
    Registered Users Posts: 55 ✭✭


    I was just wondering why you don't see as much women out surfing. You'd think it would be one sport where they could actually match us men! Any idea anyone?
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    OldGuysRule
    Registered Users Posts: 451 ✭✭OldGuysRule


    Not sure where you surf, but there are plenty out there in the water when it is good.


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    Plazaman
    Registered Users Posts: 3,012 ✭✭✭Plazaman


    Carverkid wrote: »
    I was just wondering why you don't see as much women out surfing. You'd think it would be one sport where they could actually match us men! Any idea anyone?

    Strandhill in Sligo is wall to wall chicks out surfing. 3 or 4 of the Irish Surf Team hail from there also and would whup any fellas ass in a competition. Think you're in surfing the wrong place.


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    Carverkid
    Registered Users Posts: 55 ✭✭Carverkid


    I surf over on the east coast, not many people out anyway! But even when I'm over west I don't notice many out.


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    promethius
    Registered Users Posts: 1,103 ✭✭✭promethius


    Plazaman wrote: »
    Strandhill in Sligo is wall to wall chicks out surfing. 3 or 4 of the Irish Surf Team hail from there also and would whup any fellas ass in a competition. Think you're in surfing the wrong place.

    Huh? I surf strandhill regularly and there would be a max of 1 girl to 15 or so guys out in the water. Def more women (% wise) than say 10 years ago but they're still way underrepresented. From asking a few about it, getting salt in their hair, wearing a non flattering wetsuit, cold etc.. are serious considerations for a lot of girls and i don't just mean the girly girly princess types


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    echosound
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    There's always plenty out in the summer months, not so much in the winter I find.

    I'm female myself (although wouldn't class myself a surfer chick, as I wouldn't be what you'd call spectacular at surfing, just very very average :p) and when we're out in the winter months, I don't see many other females out (a whopping zero so far any day I've been out this winter just gone, actually), but I don't see all that many males out either TBH! Usually only a few out on any given day.

    Guess it's down to a combination of the cold putting a lot of people off, and the lack of consistent decent conditions where we surf -Tramore mostly. I stick to beach breaks as I know my limits and I'm happy to just cruise on a longboard :)


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    rodento
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    There are easier ways of going about finding a date


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    Kitiara
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    echosound wrote: »
    There's always plenty out in the summer months, not so much in the winter I find.

    I'm female myself (although wouldn't class myself a surfer chick, as I wouldn't be what you'd call spectacular at surfing, just very very average :p) and when we're out in the winter months, I don't see many other females out (a whopping zero so far any day I've been out this winter just gone, actually), but I don't see all that many males out either TBH! Usually only a few out on any given day.

    Guess it's down to a combination of the cold putting a lot of people off, and the lack of consistent decent conditions where we surf -Tramore mostly. I stick to beach breaks as I know my limits and I'm happy to just cruise on a longboard :)

    same here. Just fun. But it can be very cold..what put's me off is the hassle of having to get OUT of a 5 mill suit. I can get up and surf a board quite ok, but I always loose my balance standing on one leg when changing. And I still haven't found a way of pulling that bleedin' first leg off while sitting in the car. I have to get up and stand on the loose end and pull..yes I know. it looks funny.:o


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    piddles
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    There's a few of us around. I'm a girl and i don't even see many girls out. I've been out a few times this winter... nothing like a nice surf (although i am still in the learning stages) when its nice and clean during the winter...good for the soul :)
    Good bit too big for me the last week though :(


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    hollysf
    Registered Users Posts: 116 ✭✭hollysf


    Think this time of the year there are alot of couples out, not so many 'single' girls but in Summer you see tons of girls in general, think its a bit hard to venture out in the depts of winter alone not matter what sport you're at.
    Also would I be right in saying that beginner girls progress faster than the guys...


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    CRenegade
    Registered Users Posts: 226 ✭✭CRenegade


    hollysf wrote: »
    Also would I be right in saying that beginner girls progress faster than the guys...

    Are you trying to ruffle some feathers here?!!! ;)

    Where ya get this idea from? :confused:


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    hollysf
    Registered Users Posts: 116 ✭✭hollysf


    No, just from watching some lessons over the summer


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    Mickeroo
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    hollysf wrote: »
    Also would I be right in saying that beginner girls progress faster than the guys...

    Only speaking from my own experience but quite the opposite a far as I can tell.


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    leblanc
    Registered Users Posts: 176 ✭✭leblanc


    Could be the cold ... I was surfing in Peru and us men were vastly outnumbered by the ladies. Not complaining as a huge % of them were babes. Its one of the few places I've seen that though. Just seems to be a male dominated sport - like rugby or farting in bed.

    I've introduced a few girls to surfing over the years. 1 that I know of now surfs regularly. On the plus side she is a fanatic now, was out with me in the snow at the end of last year!


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    RoBo959
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4 ✭RoBo959


    All Depends on the climate and temperature of where you live.


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    SurferDude41
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    I avoid surfer girls like the plague, since one came paddling in my direction about four years ago.
    Here I was just minding my own business, when this pesky over-friendly girl on a Bic starts pestering me in the line-up, to join her and her friends at a shared house in Castlegregory.:D


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    James Jones
    Registered Users Posts: 534 ✭✭✭James Jones


    hollysf wrote: »
    Also would I be right in saying that beginner girls progress faster than the guys...
    Thats cause male instructors ALWAYS home in on the girls in the groups and leave the blokes to fend for themselves.


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    Carverkid
    Registered Users Posts: 55 ✭✭Carverkid


    rodento wrote: »
    There are easier ways of going about finding a date

    Haha I knew something like this would come up. Well I started surfing because I thought it would get me a few women but found myself hooked on the sport instead. Dam. :D


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    killedsirius
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    there are deffo more men than girls in the water, but more girls than a lot other sports i find. The girls who keep it up tend to really go gung ho for it though.
    And can't remember who said it but about the appearance issue, dead right, freckles being the other major problem. Freckles look cute when they'e just on your nose, by man surfing makes them take over your face, even with factor 30 :)


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