But she asks also for equality for women, for the LGBTQ+ community. Some months ago Tyler showed “Blacks lives Matter” writing on the bottom of her surfboard, reminding everyone of her will to fight against racism. She knows how important can be her impact, so she makes her voice heard outside of surfing competitions. She has always been careful to be a spokesman for the rights of various people. In addition to being a world surfing champion, Tyler has always revealed her human side as a person. In 2017, one year later, she gets again the trophy. That’s what gave her the strength to get back in the game and in 2016 Tyler conquests her first World Title. She had to face several challenges in life, including the time when the loss of a beloved uncle was added to his brother Owen illness. However Tyler’s relationship with surfing has not always been positive, during her adolescence she suffered a lot the intense rhythms of the Tour.
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Born in Culburra Beach, a city of New South Wales, Australia, in a big surfing family of five children (her brothers Owen and Mikey became pro surfers too) her talent was immediately noticed.Īt 14 years old Tyler became the youngest surfer to win a Championship Tour event at the Beachley Classic in Sydney. On the other hand, since childhood, Tyler has proved to be a surfing prodigy. The return to surfing has been a long and fatiguing process that Tyler has done with all her strength back to compete in 2019. In that time Tyler had to withdraw from the Tour for an year after having contracted an influence that left her very hard post – viral symptoms that debilitated her not only in her physique, but also mentally.
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But there is no doubt that Tyler knows how to face challenges, after those outdated in her life when the wait of last year added to the forced break she had in 2018. We will see in the next events of the championship how Tyler will deal with her competitors. The Australian two-time World Champion has resumed the tour in the best way. After three long years wrecked by debilitating illness and the disruption of a global pandemic, Tyler Wright is back on top of the surfing world. Quotes from an interview with Vaughan Blakey Surfing World Magazine (issue 355, 2014) and featured on the Coastalwatch website.WSL competitions are taking place again after the forced stop due to the Covid -19 pandemic and currently we find Tyler Wright at fourth place in the Women’s Championship Tour after she began the year at first place obtaining, last December, the victory at Pipeline during the first event of the WSL Tour. “A lot of people are beautiful whether they’re considered hot or not and I don’t find it just degrading to women, I find it degrading on a basic human level to be defined by one thing, especially when it’s as shallow as how you look.” To say the girls on tour now are super hot, well yeah, we are beautiful and all women are beautiful, but we are athletes and I’d much rather be acknowledged as a fantastic athlete than someone who looks a certain way.” It degrades everyone who has worked their arses off to be in the top 17. On the Women’s tour being labelled hotter than ever: Women’s surfing has progressed, we have a legitimate Women’s World tour at challenging breaks and fantastic webcasts that showcase our surfing to the world. It hasn’t gotten the coverage that it could have but all things progress. That was the only surf magazine dedicated to women’s surfing and it lasted four issues. “When I was a kid there was Splash Magazine which was a girl surf mag liftout from one of the other surf mags that came out once a year. It’d be an honour to be looked at like that.” “The people I look up to are the people who love what they do and love being themselves. But if you do things in your own way, you can stuff up and it’s not the end of the world because you stuffed up on your own terms.” You’ll begin to question yourself, ‘Am I doing this right? Am I doing the right thing?’ It creates doubt. If you try to be something you’re not you’ll always be under pressure. “I realised a couple of years ago that if I’m going to do this, then I’m going to do it my way.
I learned a lot and this year I feel like I’ve been learning more too. But I always tend to look at things that way.
“…this will probably sound bad but I felt amazing! I was like, ‘This is messed up! I’m not meant to be here.’ No way did I feel like I lost at all.
On coming second in the World Title race last year: I recently saw a magazine with Tyler on the front cover which piqued my interest, as features on women surfers are rare.
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Her words give an insight into her passion for surfing, the state of women's professional surfing, and who Tyler is as an individual. I discovered these awesome quotes from Australian surfer Tyler Wright.