{"id":21881,"date":"2011-03-07T08:15:11","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T16:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=21881"},"modified":"2011-03-07T08:36:23","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T16:36:23","slug":"womens-surfing-too-sexy-for-the-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=21881","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s Surfing Too Sexy For The Sport?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/378427-alana-blanchard.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/378427-alana-blanchard.jpg','popup','width=650,height=366,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/378427-alana-blanchard-tm.jpg\" height=\"242\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"378427-Alana-Blanchard\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is no doubt that many male surfing fans have been finding themselves paying more attention to the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.roxypro.com.au\/eng\/home.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">2011 Roxy Pro Gold Coast<\/a><\/strong> and as much as we&#8217;d like to think it is due to the massive advances in women&#8217;s performance surfing, there is a chance that at least some of this new focus has more do with all that rocket ass bobbing in the lineup at Snapper.<\/p>\n<p>This seems to have gotten the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.couriermail.com.au\/sport\/confidential\/womens-surfing-gets-too-sexy-as-competitors-judged-on-looks-more-than-skill\/story-e6frepnx-1226016383019\" target=\"_blank\">Courier Mail<\/a><\/em><\/strong> wondering if the whole &#8220;sexy surfer girl&#8221; thing isn&#8217;t going too far.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At the Roxy Pro, at Snapper Rocks, many of the young males interviewed by The Sunday Mail admitted they were watching the heats for the women, rather than for the surfing tips. . . <strong>Manu Maier<\/strong>, 20, said he believed it was impossible for beauty not to be a factor in judging the heats. . . &#8220;They look great, don&#8217;t they? I heard about this surfing competition. I said to myself that I had to get here,&#8221; Maier said, as a female competitor turned her back on the right-hand break, her small bikini shrinking to a G-string.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Follow the jump to see what wisdom <strong>Rabbit Bartholomew<\/strong> had to add to the discussion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.couriermail.com.au\/sport\/confidential\/womens-surfing-gets-too-sexy-as-competitors-judged-on-looks-more-than-skill\/story-e6frepnx-1226016383019\" target=\"_blank\">Courier Mail<\/a><\/strong> via <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportsgrid.com\/media\/are-female-surfers-too-sexy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sports Grid<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no doubt that many male surfing fans have been finding themselves paying more attention to the 2011 Roxy Pro Gold Coast and as much as we&#8217;d like to think it is due to the massive advances in women&#8217;s performance surfing, there is a chance that at least some of this new focus has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21881"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21881"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21893,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21881\/revisions\/21893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}