Women Making Waves Trailblazing Surfers In and Out of the Water

The women in this book are my sea sisters and I believe that by sharing these remarkable stories, we inspire other women to make wiser and more empowered choices in their own lives. They learned from the ocean, from pushing themselves, trusting themselves, and dancing with this element. Water is the gateway to emotions and feelings. It offers the opportunity to be fully broken open, to be totally annihilated, to be brought to our knees in humility. These women and I have been defined, and are continually redefined, by surfing. What we learn each time we go into the water, we bring with us back to land and put that into the world. It s the ebb and flow of the tide, the giving and receiving and the giving again. Kassia Meador, former pro-longboarder and founder of Kassia+Surf