This is a great companion piece to the 2020 documentary "Girls Can't Surf", which profiles the efforts of many pioneering female surfers worldwide starting in the 1980s to gain respect and equal treatment. As a sign they are not there yet, the final event shown in this film has 40 men and 20 women in the competition.
This four-part miniseries available streaming on Prime runs roughly three hours total. I found every minute of every episode totally interesting. While there are a number of friends, family, and surfing community members in the film it focuses on five of them, all good friends who support each other and often compete against each other. We see much of the non-surfing time, training or being with family. We also witness the injuries and heartbreak.
The five are all intelligent young ladies, two of them are teenagers about to finish high school. One of them is dealing with the pressure of having a father who was a world champion, wondering if she can measure up. At the other end of the spectrum one got into Stanford to study Aerospace Engineering and has been accepted into a PhD program.
I am not a surfer, but I really enjoyed "Girls Can't Surf" and I really enjoyed this one. The photography and editing are first-class, the whole series has a great look and sound to it.
As an aside of sorts, as of my writing these comments, 9% of the votes on IMDb are "1". That is hard to understand, this is a great documentary, why the world would anyone rate it "1"??
