Yes, it happened. A group of male surfers has decided to intimidate, insult, drop in and snake female riders competing at the 2014 Billabong Women’s Summersurf Challenge, an event held in Kommetjie, near Cape Town, South Africa. The event attracted 41 surfers, including a nine-year-old girl and many other young surfers who traveled hundreds of kilometers to compete at Long Beach. “I’ve been to a good few contests over the years but today I was gobsmacked. It was a total free-for-all, with nearly every guy on an SUP, shortboard and longboard just blatantly dropping in on girls as young as nine! Some surfing their first contest,” Anne Wright, director at Surfing South Africa, told our friends at ZigZag.

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The day that the spirit of surfing must forget

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