https://www.funtemplates.com/blogs/seeababes.atom Seea - Seeababes 2024-09-15T15:33:40-07:00 Seea https://www.funtemplates.com/blogs/seeababes/small-waves-big-fun-at-the-malibu-surf-classic 2013-09-10T10:50:00-07:00 2019-03-04T22:01:15-08:00 Small Waves, Big Fun at the Malibu Surf Classic Rhea
A Seea family photo in the VW tent. 
It was a gorgeous sunny day in Malibu last Friday for the Malibu Surf Classic Women's Logger Open event, presented by Seea and Bing Surfboards. The water was refreshingly warm enough to surf in a bikini (under their jerseys) and the Seea crew camped out under a cluster of umbrellas to cheer on the competing ladies.

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A Seea family photo in the VW tent. 
It was a gorgeous sunny day in Malibu last Friday for the Malibu Surf Classic Women's Logger Open event, presented by Seea and Bing Surfboards. The water was refreshingly warm enough to surf in a bikini (under their jerseys) and the Seea crew camped out under a cluster of umbrellas to cheer on the competing ladies.

Even though the waves were micro-size, all the participants made the best of it and impressed us with their quick cross-stepping on the white ripples. Thanks to everyone who came out to support and congratulations to Lola Mignot (read all about her in the next post, here) for placing Third in the finals of the Women's Logger Open!

funtemplates VW tent and our spot on the sand at famous Malibu Surfrider Beach. 

Amy Lowry and Jenayl Peters before their heat.

Shakas from Makala Smith.

And they are off! 

We stayed cool in the hot sun under umbrellas. 

We got to meet Kathy Kohner Zuckerman, the real live Gidget! Kathy's dad wrote the 1959 movie, "Gidget" based on her diary about hanging out at the Malibu pier and learning to surf with the guys. 

Surfboard shaper extraordinare and musician, Ashley Lloyd showed us her band merch stored in an awesome vintage suitcase.

The rad hat pack. From left, Bing Surfboards' Margaret Yao Calvani; Ashley Lloyd and Amanda Chinchelli.

Go Lola! Just before the finals. 

Lola wearing the Tourmaline under her jersey for her heat in the finals. 

Congrats to all the ladies who made the finals and to first place winner Jen Smith who took home prizes of a Seea neoprene suit and a Bing Dharma surfboard! 

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We met Sayulita local Lola Mignot in Mexico on a surf trip earlier this year and fell instantly in love with her young, fun energy in the waves, worldly cultural perspective and friendly smile. It wasn't long before we returned to Mexico to shoot the Spring 2014 lookbook with the Seeababes from California and welcomed her to the family!

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We met Sayulita local Lola Mignot in Mexico on a surf trip earlier this year and fell instantly in love with her young, fun energy in the waves, worldly cultural perspective and friendly smile. It wasn't long before we returned to Mexico to shoot the Spring 2014 lookbook with the Seeababes from California and welcomed her to the family!

Lola is lucky to have the longboard-friendly waves of Sayulita be her home break and to have traveled around the world with her family. She recently scored her first cover shot in Foam Symmetry magazine's September 2013 issue, so we caught up with her while she was in town to participate in the Malibu Surf Classic Women's Longboard Open tomorrow to find out how it felt when photographer Nick LaVecchia delivered the news.

Lola Mignot makes her cover girl debut on the front page of Foam Symmetry magazine.

Age: Turned 15 on the 4th of September

Born: In Paris.

Has lived in: Tahiti, in my sailboat, and Mexico

Parents are from: My dad is half Argentine, half Spanish, and my mom is from France.


How did you feel when you heard your photo was going to be on the cover of Foam Symmetry?  

Well, Nick [Lavecchia] told me "I have a surprise for you..." and I thought, well, what is it going to be? So he told me to check his Instagram and I saw the picture and he was like "yeah, that's the cover!" I was like, "wow, really?" I had never seen the picture and it was so pretty. I told my mom and she was so happy!


Photo by Nick Lavecchia. 

What do you love about surfing at your home waves in Sayulita?

It's the best. It's just like hanging out with everyone, except we're in the water! We have fun, take party waves and push each other around. Everybody sings in the water... I love it!


What surfers have influenced and taught you the most?   

All the surfers in Sayulita have taught me—especially my brother, my cousins, and my coach Israel. They're always there to help me and point out how I can improve my surfing.


What are your future plans for surfing contests and travel?

I'm going to the ISA Longboard Championship in Peru this month, and hopefully on to Australia with my friend Karina. I'd like to compete and travel more, so I'm looking for sponsors who could help me with that.


Are you excited about the Malibu contest?


Yes! I'm so happy that they invited me!


Graceful goofy. Photo by Nick LaVecchia.

To see Lola in action surfing around frequent spots in Mexico, check out the videos below.



Diosa De La Costa from Quality Peoples on Vimeo.


Lola Mignot, Sayulita, Nayarit , Mexico from higher latitud(Sayulita) on Vimeo.

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