In the nineties women’s surfing was nowhere, it was barely even on the radar within surfing let alone the world at large. But when a young girl from the East Coast of the US left home with a one way ticket to LA everything changed. Lisa Anderson waited tables, slept on the Beach and just scraped by in Huntington Beach before she won the US Champs and turned pro.

She went on to win four world titles and inspired a generation. Anderson was beautiful but a powerful surfer, and it was her surfing that got her really noticed. As she said, she wanted to surf like a guy, and she did, powerfully and unlike anyone before. She was the first women to transcend that gap between core surfing athlete and mainstream and she set in motion a series of events which grew women’s surfing to where it is now.