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Surf Splendor

037 – Cori Schumacher on the State of Women’s Surfing

Surf Splendor

David Lee Scales

Sports

4.8653 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2014

⏱️ 76 minutes

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David Scales spends the hour with 3x Women’s Longboard Champion, Cori Schumacher. They discuss some of the challenges Cori faced as female professional surfing emerged in the mid 90s and how hypersexualization challenges the current growth of the sport. Visit Cori’s website, State of Flux at CoriSchumacher.com Cori’s recommended reading is: Cori’s recommended viewing: Out … Continue reading "037 – Cori Schumacher on the State of Women’s Surfing" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:36.1

the aches float away and doubts fade, replaced by a feeling of euphoria.

0:41.3

It's why you lace up at dawn, why little rain doesn't stop you, why one run turns into a habit.

0:50.3

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0:56.9

at puma.com. Sir, what was the difference? The difference was they were willing to do whatever

1:03.6

they needed to do to secure the sponsors, to fulfill their dreams. And I found that my, I didn't have the willingness to do whatever it took to, I didn't want to play the game.

1:21.2

That's the voice of three times women's longboard world champion, Corey Schumacher.

1:32.3

Corey has made headlines both in and out of the surf industry multiple times over the past 15 years

1:38.2

for repeatedly walking away from surfing after securing its highest prize.

1:45.0

Lady Nett, her come to me and hear, tell me I'm a while.

1:50.0

In fact, I saw them at the Surfer's Poll Award and then, you know,

1:54.0

got pulled off to the side by one of them, you know, where did you go?

1:57.0

And I'm like, she was crying, she didn't get the rookie of the year.

2:00.0

And I looked at her, I was like, because I don't want to put up with any of this like what is this

2:03.0

right what is this value system like what does this mean so I'd already made the

2:08.1

I'd already jumped to the place where I was I was realizing that none of it meant

2:14.6

anything you couldn't do anything with what you were getting out of surfing.

2:18.3

There was a larger world out there and I wanted to know what it was.

2:21.3

Welcome to Surf Splendor.

2:23.3

I'm your host, David Scales.

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