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

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
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