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Jodie Cooper and Pauline Menczer took different paths to the top, but faced the same macho surfing culture – ABC News
In the rough-as-guts Bondi breaks of the 1980s, rising surf stars Pauline Menczer and Jodie Cooper both discovered it wasn’t only big waves that could wipe you…
Jodie Cooper could ride the biggest waves the Australian ocean hurled at her. Yet that wasn’t the only thing that caught the attention of the surfing community in the 1980s.
“People thought she was absolutely gorgeous,” says her protegee and fierce surfing competitor, Pauline Menczer.
As an amateur, Pauline collected surfing magazines and studied the styles of the handful of women who were already competing professionally, when they were occasionally featured.
She remembers Jodie Cooper as one of…
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