A-frame

Aaberg, Denny

Aaberg, Kemp

Abberton, Koby

Abbruzzi, Sid

Abellira, Reno

Abubo, Megan

academia and surfing

Adler, Tom

advertising and surfing

Aeder, Erik

aerial

Aguerre, Fernando

Aichner, Scott

Aikau, Clyde

Aikau, Eddie

Aipa, Ben

air-drop

airbrush

Airshow

Ala Moana

Alabama

alaia board

Alaska

alcohol and surfing

Alexander, Kala

Allen, Chuck

Alms, Paige

aloha shirt

Alter, Hobie

Alvarez, Pepe

Ancell, Kevin

Andaman Islands

Andersen, Lisa

Anderson, Craig

Anderson, Simon

Andino, Kolohe

Angel, Jose

angle

Angola

Angourie

Antarctica

Apocalypse Now

Arabian Sea

Aragon, Janice

Arakawa, Eric

Archbold, Matt

Arena, Eduardo

Ashton, Juan

Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP)

Atlantic Ocean

August, Robert

Aurness, Rolf

Auster, Ken

Australia

Avalon, Frankie

Azores

backdoor

backside

backside attack, Pipeline

backwash

bail out

Bain, Rob

Baja California

Baker, Bernie

Baker, Grant “Twiggy”

Baker, Tim

Bali

Ball, John “Doc”

Ballard, Bill

Ballard, Rochelle

balsa

Baltic Sea

Banks, Jim

Barbados

Barilotti, Steve

Barland, Michel

Barreda, Sergio “Gordo”

Barry, Michael

Bartholomew, Wayne

Baxter, Jackie

Bay of Bengal

Beach Boys, The

Beacham, Debbie

beachboys

beachbreak

Beachcomber Bills Grand Prix

Beachley, Layne

beavertail

Becker, Phil

Bedford-Brown, Stuart

Belgium

Bells Beach

Bendall, Ma and Pa

Bennett, Barry

Benson, Becky

Benson, Blanche

Benson, Linda

Bermuda

Bertlemann, Larry

Likable, country-strong regularfoot pro surfer from New South Wales, Australia; 2013 world title runner-up. Wright was born (1994) in Lennox Head, and learned to surf as a toddler, charging into the shorebreak with her five siblings (including older brother and future world tour star Owen Wright), all of whom were taught to surf by their plumber father. As a child, Wright and her family traveled Australia’s amateur contest scene almost nonstop in a six-bed passenger van.

By her teens, Wright was one of her country's most dominant competitors. She picked off Australian National Titles in multiple age categories in 2008-2009, became the youngest person, male or female, to ever win a major ASP event (the 2008 Beachley Classic; Wright was 14), and took home the World Pro Junior championship in 2010. She made her full-time pro tour debut in 2011 and finished the year ranked fourth, easily winning Rookie of the Year honors; the following season she again placed 4th.

Wright is a sturdy, powerful, broad-shouldered, function-over-form surfer. The big frontside hack, her signature move, is without equal among women pros. She's also a first-rate tuberider. Along with Carissa Moore of Hawaii, Wright stepped directly onto the world tour as a likely successor to then-reigning world champion Stephanie Gilmore.

Wright bucked the sexpot trend embraced by many of her contemporary pros by surfing in full-coverage swimsuits rather than dental floss bikinis; while surfers like Alana Blanchard and Laura Enever starred in promo vids that doubled as fashion shoots, Wright filmed a segment for a Surfing Australia documentary in which she grinds out some house-framing carpentry alongside her father.

In spring, 2013, Wright showed off her comfort in heaving reefbreak waves, trading hellacioius eight-foot tubes at a Micronesian break called P-Pass with a group of seasoned male pros. Her best wave that day resulted in a photo of one of the biggest, cleanest barrels ever ridden by a woman, and nabbed her the cover of 

 magazine. “I was so petrified, I thought I was going to die,” Wright told 

editor Janna Irons. “It looks like I’m smiling [in the photo] but I was just screaming my head off.”

Wright and Moore battled head-to-head throughout the 2013 season. Wright started off with a win at the season-opening Roxy Pro, Moore answered back by taking both the Margaret River Pro and Rip Curl Pro; Wright pulled ahead two stops later; then Moore won event #6. It all came down to the final contest of the season, the Cascais Girls Pro, in Portugal. In semi-sloppy beachbreak waves, Wright lost in the quarters, while Moore went on to win both the event and the 2013 title.

Wright, Tyler

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