{"id":39649,"date":"2018-02-27T22:34:45","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T22:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.perfectwavetravel.com?p=39649"},"modified":"2020-02-10T14:58:39","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T04:58:39","slug":"womens-pro-surfing-reunion-pam-burridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.perfectwavetravel.com\/au\/magazine\/bali\/womens-pro-surfing-reunion-pam-burridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s Pro Surfing Reunion Hosted by 1990 World Champion Pam Burridge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pam Burridge was pretty much the face of women\u2019s surfing in Australia<\/a> in the 80\u2019s and 90\u2019s paving the way for the likes of Layne Beachley, Steph Gilmore and more recently Tyler Wright to go on their amazing multiple world title runs.<\/p>\n

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Pam along with her peers Jodie Cooper, Pauline Menczer, Frieda Zamba, Kim Mearig, Wendy Botha and later Lisa Anderson pretty much busted down the doors for women\u2019s surfing in those heady misogynistic times.<\/p>\n

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Pam picked up her first surfboard in 1975 at the age of 10 and was entering her first competitions like the Move It On Pro at Nth Steyne and entering male dominated board riders club comps just as the sport of professional surfing was being born.<\/p>\n

When Pam started surfing at Nth Steyne, women were not part of the then ASP world tour and contests for girls were extremely limited.
\nNone of that halted Burridge.<\/p>\n

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In 1980, aged 15, she was ranked 11th in the world and began to travel around the world, surfing in contests trying to make a living.<\/p>\n

For the next two decades, travelling the world competing, making friends, surfing amazing waves, having fun and socializing was her life.<\/p>\n