Bianca Valenti: Big Wave Surfing, Gender Inequity, and Winning the Fight for Inclusion and Equal Pay
The Ready State Podcast
Kelly Starrett & Juliet Starrett
4.9 • 623 Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2021
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Bianca is one of the best big wave Surfers in the world. A true warrior, she is recognized for many victories including winning equal pay and access for all athletes in professional surfing. Notable recent surf victories include a podium finish at the 2021 XXL Big Wave Awards for biggest paddle of the year, 2X winner of the Puerto Escondido CUP in 2018 + 2019, and Bianca is the first woman in history to win a big wave competition in 2014 at Nelscott Reef in Oregon.
Lookout for an upcoming Hollywood Film with Charlize Theron telling the story of Bianca’s "fight for gender equality in one of the most dangerous sports on earth” based on the NYT Magazine cover story from February 2019. SheChange is the documentary film version of the story following Bianca, Keala Kennelly, Paige Alms and Andrea Möller, as they fight to be included in the competition at Mavericks.
In her free time when she’s not practicing and playing pro surfer, she’s fighting for all athletes in outdoor sports, by creating BETTERWAVE an investment vessel enabling athletes to focus on "athleteing".
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, I'm Dr. Kelly Starrett. |
| 0:06.5 | And I'm Juliette. |
| 0:08.0 | And you're listening to The Ready State Podcast. |
| 0:10.5 | You got it. |
| 0:13.0 | This episode of the Ready State podcast is brought to you by Element. |
| 0:19.0 | That's LMNT. On this episode of Element, I want to talk about one of the things we're seeing in our Greater Strengthen, conditioning community, which is people are spent a lot of time in the sauna. Yeah, it's really the thing to do, and we are no exception because we are in our sauna three to five times a week, and sometimes we're sitting in there for over an hour. I oftentimes will train and not do a lot of sweating. Maybe I glisten a little bit. I don't know if you've ever seen me glistened. I have. You do glisten. But in the sauna, it's not glisten. It is full on sweat. Yeah, we are fully sweating in there. You have to replace electrolytes. We're seeing in the same community, people are eating way more fruits and vegetables, |
| 0:58.3 | and they're not replacing any of this. They're not salting anything. Yeah, so my strategy is I fill up a giant Yeti water bottle and fill it up with element and I drink it while I'm in the sauna. |
| 1:04.5 | My goal is to drink an entire bottle of element while I'm in the sauna. Yeah, you know, |
| 1:08.8 | sometimes I think obviously thirst drives everything, right? If you're thirsty, drive to drink. Drink when you're thirsty. But we are saying that if you just chug a bunch of water and you're not eating or you don't have enough salt in that water, you're not going to absorb the water. You're going to, you're just going to bounce off your kidneys. Plus when I'm sauning, I just want. And then Kelly said water bounces off my kidneys. And I just went going back to the sauna, I just going to bounce off your kidneys. Plus, when I'm sannying, I just want... That's for the internet. And then Kelly said water bounces off my kidneys. |
| 1:29.2 | And I just went, going back to the sauna, I just want to get ahead of it, which is why I try to drink a lot of water while I'm in the sauna, not after the fact. Dude, this is the game if you're sweating hard in training. If you want to get some element yourself, right now you can order a sample pack for just the price of shipping, which is $5 in the U.S. |
| 1:46.0 | Their sample packs include eight packets, so you can try each of their eight flavors. They're all worth it. Go to the readystate.com slash free element. That's free LMNT to check it out. This episode of the Ready State is brought to you by Virtual Mobility Coach. This may sound crazy, but last year, I kind of tried to clone my husband. Awesome. Only kind of, though. You see, Kelly gets dozens of requests every day for help. And even though he wants to give everyone his personal attention, there just aren't enough hours in the day. So I typed in how to clone a human being into Google. Just kidding, but in seriousness, |
| 2:20.9 | what we did do was create our virtual mobility coach platform. |
| 2:23.4 | It's like having a virtual Kelly Star ad in your pocket. |
| 2:25.1 | Which obviously everyone needs. |
| 2:26.1 | I mean, that's right. |
| 2:30.3 | I personally create over 600 mobility protocols for the virtual mobility coach. |
| 2:33.5 | So the platform can help you with almost any movement problem and imaginable. |
| 2:34.9 | For example, let's say you're in pain. The VMC can help you with almost any movement problem imaginable. For example, |
| 2:39.8 | let's say you're in pain. The VMC will show you a diagram of the human body. All you have to do is click where it hurts. And from there, we'll serve you up a customized pain prescription we call |
| 2:43.7 | Mobility RX. The virtual mobility coach can also help you warm up and cool down when you exercise. |
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