The first annual Sloated surf contest went off last weekend with a bang. The local community was out in mass numbers supporting the family fun day of surf and sun. Ocean Beach produced semi glassy 3-to-4 foot conditions. There were a lot of killer costumes and team spirit.
Thanks to everyone for your support!
Go Team!
Sloated
Sunday, September 28at 10:00am – 3:00pm
Get tickets:
http://www.eventbrite.com/e/sloated-tickets-12522662621
SPONSORED BY:
http://www.someshineco.com/
Sloated is a one-of-a-kind event in San Francisco, showcasing female surfers, their skills and ability on the dynamic waves of Ocean Beach, San Francisco. Come share your passion for catching waves in the City’s backyard and hope to get Sloated! Created for women by women, the event aims to celebrate community and diversity in and out of the water. Teams of women surf together in heats and can ride their equipment of choice.
BEFORE EVENT BEACH CLEAN-UP HOSTED BY:
http://sf.surfrider.org/
Space is limited – get your tickets today!
The High Line Film Festival is a three day gathering of celebrating the art, music and film that’s inspired by the culture of surfing. The dates for the event are September 4th-6th and will take place in Mill Valley, California. Twelve films will be screened followed by Q&A afterwards.
Here is a sneak peek of one of the films being screened, What the Sea Gives Me.
California native Bianca Valenti became the first ever female Big Wave World Tour Champion, after her victory in the Dive N’ Surf Oregon Pro against fellow big wave waterwomen. Since female competitors had never been invited to an event on the BWWT prior to this, the 2014 Dive N’ Surf Oregon Pro made history and a huge statement for female big wave surfers around the world. It was a monumental day for the sport, an for women everywhere.
Helping expose their talents to the world is a filmmaker named Sarah Jones working on her next project called, “It Ain’t Pretty” – a documentary about the women surfers of Ocean Beach in San Francisco.
Find out more on The Surf Channel
It Ain’t Pretty is a film about women who surf in San Francisco’s Ocean Beach. Over the next year we plan to follow and document these Bay Area women. We want to explore what drives their passion. We will be talking with a variety of women with a range of surfing ability and skills, from the passionate beginner to the professional big wave surfer and find what it is that draws all of these women to surf these unforgiving waters.
Read more about It Ain’t Pretty.
There’s no denying that the media has latched onto a stereotype of what it is to be a “surfer girl.”
DAYLA SOUL: Like they’re bikini-clad, jumping off of waterfalls and listening to cool girly music, you know? And I wanted something a little more edgy, something a little more of the reality of who we are at Ocean Beach.
Filmmaker Dayla Soul and her team want to challenge those stereotypes by making a surf movie featuring many of the women who regularly surf the gnarly waves of Ocean Beach. It’s called “It Ain’t Pretty.” Hear excerpts from a roundtable discussion between some big-wave female surfers in the film talking about what they face in the water.
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It Ain't Pretty 