Leah Dawson Might Save Women's Surfing - The Inertia
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Watching Leah Dawson surf is mesmerizing. It's a dance.
“My biggest compliment is not that I surf like a man, but that I surf like a woman,” says Leah. “If someone watches me ride a wave, I want them at the end of it to know that I’m in love with the ocean.”
She smiles a lot, so that helps. But her movements are unique. And in getting to know her, whether overtly or not, it’s easy to decipher she has more ambitious plans that are naturally unfolding. Through her own resources and energy, she’s quickly becoming a modern ambassador for women’s surfing.
“It makes my heart sing when I see other women out celebrating in the water and just playing and rejoicing,” says Dawson. “They’re not trying to do tricks, and they’re not trying to become number one in the world. They’re just going out for their daily medicine…As a lover of the sport I want to see women feeling more empowered to surf like a woman.”
Dawson is also a storyteller. She makes compelling short films like Peanut Butter, a story about her relationship with a yellowed single fin that a lot of people might have thrown away. And she has a strong opinion about the representation of women in surfing. It’s not about sex. It’s not about performance in the water. For Leah, it’s about soul - another word so thoroughly bastardized from overuse that it’s sometimes hard to recognize when we see it. In Leah, it’s boiling. And she’s not militant or overzealous about how she’s profoundly adjusting the narrative in championing women’s surfing.
She’s just her. And that might be exactly what surfing needs.
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Love how your eloquence gets tripped up by your enthusiasm... when you're so full of life and joy and reaching for that one word to describe what you mean. You're awesome. From a guy who loves the energy that woman surfers bring to a line up.
Thank you for showing us women have a style of our own
Great video!!!!!!!! I had to watch it again!!!!!!
WoW ! Thank God for bringing Leah Dawson to earth! Such a beautiful soul and spirited surfer. Thank you for inspiring us. Love ❤️
its hard not to love LEAH
Her style is amazing
😍 I love the way girls are surfing. They put ego apart, just flow with the wave. That's surfing...
Leah, so talented! She can do it all too, short and long! Champion heart! Works hard and I believe with more Women in our industry that work harder we can have what ever we want!
I love her style, definatly going with the flow.
Such a rad women! Love what you are doing for surfing. I'd certainly love to see more women in the water here in Oregon. Love your style and your passion! Wish I could surf half as well as you!
I am definitely more inspired after watching this :) thank you!
Waohh this is surfing ! Not like aggressive surfers without spirituality who believe that surfing is to dominate the wave and use it to flatter their ego...
Agree with your Mystique Vision
Saludos desde Fuerteventura :)
niice video !!go ahead Leah Dason
Cool yeeeaaahhh...
*Thumbs up*
❤️
What song is playing?
perfect! such a lady
🤦🏽♀️ re: Baryshnikov
More change for what ? Woman have all ways graced the waves when & wherever they have paddled out, all real men love that ! Woman don't need to exploit them selves through so called professional surfing, just go surfing & dig the moment ! Man is allways watching !
Pro surfing women need to be on different sorts of surf craft to really distinguish themselves from the guys. Comparing the skills of the guys to the girls on the pro tour, the guys blow the girls out of the water on radical skill flow. And so, it'd be great to see women surfing on different boards, to do a different style,… so that the pro women can be really distinctively different but at a high quality level, compared to the men's surfing.
Dropping in toes on the nose??? Awhoooo!!!
Keep on surfin like a woman..get em
A soul surfer who looks like she couldn't give a hoot if a modelling agency never calls - refreshing, but its so far away from where the industry and the tour is today. T&A, sadly, still sells magazines and bikinis.
I'll be your mentee any day!
What is she on about?
@nomadicam
8 жыл бұрын
+Ed Morgan what are YOU on about?
@Lattakeoff
8 жыл бұрын
+Cama Kay exactly!
@mermaidsurfer
4 жыл бұрын
Absolutely nothing mate.
@adamlorden5666
3 жыл бұрын
you mean what is HE on about.
You don't surf like a gender, you surf.
@kylewattssurfing3266
Жыл бұрын
Truuuuuuueeee!!!!!!!
God loves you so very much that He sent His Holy Son Jesus from heaven to earth, to be born of a virgin, to grow up & die on a cross for our sins, and to be put into a tomb 3 days and rise from the dead the third day, and He (Jesus) went back up to heaven. We must receive Sinless Jesus sincerely to be God's child(John 1:12).After we get saved by grace through faith in Christ, if we truly love the Lord Jesus Christ, then we will obey Jesus(John 14:15). Mark 1:15 "And saying, the time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: Repent ye, and believe the gospel." Jesus said in John 14:15 "If you love Me, keep My commandments. "There's a real hell. It says in Revelation 21:8 "But for the cowardly, and unbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and immoral persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part will be in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone..." Please sincerely receive Holy Jesus and put your true faith and trust in Him today & repent please.
leah your not saving womens surfing at all lame