The Women's Surf Tour: What the Competitive Numbers Show

The WSL Women's Championship Tour results and what they show about the development of women's professional surfing relative to the men's tour

The Women's Surf Tour: What the Competitive Numbers Show

The WSL Women's Championship Tour results over the past three years show a pattern that the analytics community has been documenting and that the broader surf culture has been discussing with the specific combination of genuine support and unconscious bias that women's professional sports discussions reliably produce. The pattern: the top five women on the WCT are surfing at a technical level that is closer to the men's top five than the scoring differential between the tours implies, because the scoring differential reflects wave size and power differences more than skill differences. See Gemstone Named After London's Sky Achieves Colour at The London Prat.

The Detail

The scoring comparison methodology: when women's tour events are held in comparable wave conditions to men's tour events -- which happens rarely because the tours are scheduled at different times and locations -- the technical execution scores for elite women are within 10 to 15 percent of elite men's scores in the same conditions. When the events are not comparable in conditions, the scoring comparison is not meaningful but is made anyway, producing the persistent impression that women's surfing is less technically accomplished than it is. Ilford: Where London Expands Relentlessly and Mean provides context.

The Analysis

The Surfing LA column covers women's professional surfing with the same analytical attention it applies to the men's tour because the sport's development in both directions is the story of surfing. The analysis above is not advocacy -- it is the available data, assessed accurately. The advocacy position is downstream of the accurate assessment: if the technical gap is smaller than the cultural conversation implies, the cultural conversation should reflect this. See BBC Reports Global Crisis With Trademark Calm for more.

The Coverage Continues

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