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2 weeks ago | 
surfer.com | Ashtyn Douglas-Rosa
Since the inception of a world competitive tour 50 years ago, over forty surfers have laid claim to the title of “world champion”. It’s a stacked list, filled with legends like Kelly Slater, Andy Irons, Lisa Andersen, Tom Curren, Steph Gilmore, and more. And at the very tip top of this storied lineage is one Peter Townend, the very first to don the crown, and an Aussie trailblazer who, in the winter of 1976, etched his name into surfing history as the sport’s inaugural World Champion.
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Feb 3, 2025 | 
msn.com | Ashtyn Douglas-Rosa
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surfer.com | Ashtyn Douglas-Rosa
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
surfer.com | Ashtyn Douglas-Rosa
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
surfer.com | Ashtyn Douglas-Rosa
This piece is excerpted from the SURFER Interview with Caitlin Simmers in the new print issue of SURFER. Order your copy here. Caitlin Simmers marches to the unpredictable beat of her own drum. While the Oceanside, California, native is currently in contention for her first world title after just her second year on Tour, the 5’2” progressive aerialist and tube-fiend is anything but one-dimensional.
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Aug 31, 2024 | 
surfer.com | Ashtyn Douglas-Rosa
This piece is excerpted from the SURFER Interview with Caitlin Simmers in the new print issue of SURFER. Order your copy here. Caitlin Simmers marches to the unpredictable beat of her own drum. While the Oceanside, California, native is currently in contention for her first world title after just her second year on Tour, the 5’2” progressive aerialist and tube-fiend is anything but one-dimensional.
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Jul 16, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Ashtyn Douglas-Rosa
One of the best parts about surfing, as a physical endeavor, is that one can constantly chase new feelings with a little bit of board experimentation. Unlike say, skateboarders, skiers or snowboarders, surfers have access to a plethora of different types of equipment (varied in a multitude of specificities) that can completely change the way one rides a wave from one day to the next. Or even within the same session.
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Apr 11, 2024 | 
surfer.com | Ashtyn Douglas-Rosa
Not to lure you away from watching the opening day of the Margaret River Pro, but things got off to a fairly average start yesterday during the women's first round of competition for stop No. 5 of the Championship Tour. For the commencement of the final event before the dreaded mid-year cut, the women's Top 17 were greeted lazily with a two-to-four-foot southwest swell.
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Feb 14, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Ashtyn Douglas-Rosa
On the list of people owning surfboard brands there exists very few women. But this very fact–that the world of board building had traditionally been run by men–is changing each year. Recently, North Shore style queen and ex-'CT vet Coco Ho broke through the fiberglass ceiling by stamping her name on a brand-new board brand: XO Coco. In partnership with Album shaper Matt Parker, Ho's aim is to provide more off-the-rack options to women surfers by supplying boards that are shaped with them in mind.
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Nov 16, 2023 | 
sandiegomagazine.com | Ashtyn Douglas-Rosa |Cole Novak
The similarities between baking a cake and remodeling a home might be slim in the minds of most. But to renowned pastry chef and owner of Extraordinary Desserts Karen Krasne, paying attention to detail when decorating anything—be it a gorgeous wedding cake or her 2,200-square-foot house in Mission Hills—is the recipe for a tasteful design.
