Spotlight: Big-Wave Female Photographers of Hawaii
Go behind the lens with the women photogs of Red Bull Magnitude
Christa Funk, getting the shot at Pipeline. Photo: Mike Latronic
Dashel Pierson
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Good news and bad news. First, the bad: the COVID-19 pandemic has toppled the traditional competitive season in Hawaii this winter. And the good? A seemingly endless run of swell has kept the Hawaiian Islands cranking for weeks on end.
And the bad news isn’t really
that bad, because, despite these unprecedented times and the lack of a “normal” winter, many events have pivoted into something special and fresh, and some new ones have cropped up, too. Like the Red Bull Magnitude event – an all-women, all-digital big-wave competition offering a prize purse of $40,000 for the top charging waterwomen in Hawaii during the course of the winter.
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Surfer, board shaper and coach Ben Aipa dies at age 78
Renown surfing figured Ben Aipa dies at age 78 By HNN Staff | January 16, 2021 at 5:12 PM HST - Updated January 16 at 5:56 PM
HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - A renown figure in the surfing community, Ben Aipa died Friday. He was 78 years old.
Aipa was born and raised on Kauai before he moved to Oahu in his teenage years.
He was a great surfer in his own right, and soon made waves in the community for his board shaping abilities. He notably created the board used by fellow Hawaiian Fred Hemmings in his World Championship win in 1968.