{"id":144141,"date":"2024-10-30T17:56:50","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T17:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=144141"},"modified":"2024-10-30T17:57:18","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T17:57:18","slug":"sri-lankas-first-female-surf-club-at-arugam-bay-breaks-gender-norms-by-meera-srinivasan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/sri-lankas-first-female-surf-club-at-arugam-bay-breaks-gender-norms-by-meera-srinivasan\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka\u2019s first female surf club at Arugam Bay breaks gender norms-by Meera Srinivasan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sri Lanka\u2019s first female surf club at Arugam Bay breaks gender norms-by Meera Srinivasan<\/span><\/h2>\n

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The club has 13 members, most of whom are certified instructors trained by international experts | Photo Credit: special arrangement<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:<\/strong>Thehindu<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWant to hang out and surf with our club members?\u201d \u2014 reads the message on its website. Not an unexpected pitch in one of Sri Lanka\u2019s most popular tourist destinations, but the Arugam Bay Girls Surf Club is anything but ordinary.<\/span><\/p>\n

Arugam Bay, located in Sri Lanka\u2019s south-eastern Ampara district, is well known as the island\u2019s surf capital. For years, it has been drawing scores of tourists from around the world and has hosted international surf contests. Until 2009, it was caught up in the country\u2019s long civil war that caused much death and destruction in the island\u2019s North and East.<\/span><\/p>\n

Over the last few years, though, a local girls\u2019 surfing team has been turning the tide.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nThe women of Arugam Bay Girls Surf Club | Photo Credit: special arrangement<\/span><\/p>\n

WL Shamali Sanjaya, 36, was among the first women from the village along Sri Lanka\u2019s stunningly scenic East coast, to take up surfing in 2011 with support from an American family based there at the time. It was not easy. \u201cThere was this view that this will not be suitable for a lady in our culture. Staying home, going to school \u2014 this was the general lifestyle,\u201d she says, standing by the shore at Baby Surf Point, a well-known spot for beginners\u2019 lessons. Despite showers the previous night, the morning sky looks clear. The sea, mirroring its perky shade of blue, is calm. Many tourists are paddling and warming up in the shallow waters, the waves seem welcoming.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ampara is one of the few districts in Sri Lanka where a sizeable population of the country\u2019s three main ethnicities, Sinhalese, Muslims and Tamils, live. The sight of a local woman carrying her surfboard and heading to the beach was not something residents were used to until some years ago. \u201cEven in my family some did not like it. My ammamma (maternal grandmother) was a big source of support\u2026 I have managed to come this far only because of that,\u201d says Shamali. \u201cI knew I wasn\u2019t doing anything wrong, so I did not have to fear anything or hide from anyone.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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The women of Arugam Bay Girls Surf Club | Photo Credit: special arrangement<\/span><\/p>\n

Watching her, a few more Tamil and Sinhalese women signed up to learn to surf and by 2018, there was enough interest in the community to set up the Arugam Bay Girls Surf Club. In October 2018, it officially registered with the Surfing Federation of Sri Lanka as the country\u2019s first female surf club. Today the club has 13 members, most of whom are certified instructors trained by international experts, with support from the Australian government.<\/span><\/p>\n

Members including Shamali were afraid of the waves at first, but their eagerness would invariably beat their fear. Pulanthiran Nadhya had to cope with a lot of trauma before she found the strength to touch the surfing board a decade ago. She lost her mother in the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 \u00ad\u00ad\u2014 it severely impacted the island nation\u2019s East coast, claiming several thousand lives \u2014 and was terrified of the sea after that. \u201cI never went [to sea] even when my friends did. As time passed, I thought why should I fear these waves. If it was this wave that took away my mother, why don\u2019t I fight it instead of fearing it, I told myself. I was really determined,\u201d says Nadhya, 37, a mother of two daughters.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nOne of the surfers | Photo Credit: special arrangement<\/span><\/p>\n

That is when she decided to train. She brushed up on her swimming and took regular surfing lessons, something she always wanted to do as a child, but could not. \u201cNow I don\u2019t like small waves, I only like big waves while surfing. Friends ask me aren\u2019t you going for the small wave, and I tell them, no, I only want the big wave\u201d she says with a dashing smile.<\/span><\/p>\n

Readying themselves for a short demo, Shamali and fellow club member J Loka, who is better known as Anu among teammates, smear some sunscreen on their faces. They tie the surfboard leash around their ankle. \u201cThis is important, it\u2019s the only connection between the board and our body,\u201d Shamali explains.<\/span><\/p>\n

As for skills, surfers need to know how to swim. \u201cSuppose your leash comes off, you should know to swim to the shore or at least swim a little, to be able to wave and call out for help.\u201d Surfers also need to work out, so training sessions with the club always begin with warm-up exercises. Then the instructors teach beginners how to paddle, work with them on their stance, balance and their hand positions. Staying focussed is key, the surfing instructors emphasise, to be able to read an approaching wave, assess it and swiftly move left or right to be able to \u201ccatch it\u201d and ride it.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cWhile in the ocean, amid waves that are approaching you, the rest of the world, all your problems cease to exist. The mind just relaxes,\u201d says Shamali. Anu feels \u201creally happy\u201d when she catches a wave. \u201cOnce I catch the first wave, I am eager to catch waves again and again,\u201d she says.<\/span><\/p>\n

With their surfboards in one hand and back upright, the two women walk into the sea with an endearing swag, not turning back once.<\/span><\/p>\n


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