Women's surfing

Women have involved themselves in surfing as old as the development of the sport itself in Hawaii continuing into written records dating as early back to the 17th century. One of the earliest records of women surfing is of princess Keleanohoanaʻapiʻapi, dubbed Maui's Surf Riding Princess, who was rumored as the trailblazer of surfing and could surf better than both men and women. A few centuries later in the mid-late 1800s, Thrum’s Hawaiian Annual reported that women in ancient Hawaii surfed in equal numbers and frequently better than men. Over the last 50 years, women's surfing has grown in popularity.