Re-Air: EP 80: Keala Kennelly - Equality in women’s surfing, Charging Teahupo’o, The importance of opportunity, Competing against the Irons brothers, Big Wave surfing, Working in Hollywood, and Her career on the Championship Tour

Happy New Year! Big Wave World Champion and former Championship
Tour surfer Keala Kennelly talks about her successful career as a
surfing pioneer. She dives deep into equality in women’s surfing,
touching on the importance of women’s events at waves of
consequence like Pipeline and Teahupo’o, her excitement about the
women’s CT returning to those places yearly, fighting for and
eventually winning equal pay, and how female surfers always rise to
the occasion when given the opportunity. She dissects her own
origin story and career on tour, from growing up in a surfing
family on Kauai and competing with the Irons brothers, to making it
onto the tour, always performing better at big waves than smaller
beach breaks, and her eventual decision to leave the CT for free
surfing. Keala also shares stories about her evolution into a Big
Wave champion, her first time surfing Teahupo’o, working in
Hollywood on “Blue Crush” and “John In Cincinnati,” her career as a
DJ, and how the WSL has begun to embrace LGBT surfers like Tyler
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