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Featured in Surfer Girl UK!

Here is an article on Surfer Girl UK magazine on women’s big wave revolution. I was happy and surprised to find my Waimea photo published as a double spread! Hope you like it, Mercedes
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Featured in Ocean Force Mag- Part 2

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Featured in Ocean Force Mag- Part 1

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Surf therapy at the XXL Awards with Chris Cote

Surf Therapy at the Billabong XXL Awards with Chris Cote from simplemanhawaii on Vimeo.
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Nominated for the 2010-2011 XXL Awards in Girls Performance Division

The Billabong XXL Awards are around the corner and I am glad to get the news that I was nominated for third year in a row as one of the finalists in the Girls Overall Performance Division! Check all the info out  clicking here.
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Featured in Revista Surfar, Brazil

To read  interview click here and go to page 70
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Interview for Lupita website, Latin America

Mercedes Maidana, de la ciudad a las Big Waves “La historia de la Surfista Argentina Mercedes Maidana es una linda historia de una chica que desde la ciudad decidió partir y seguir sus sueños, a quien hoy presentamos con orgullo en Lupita y de quien podrás conocer mas su experiencia en las grandes olas. Mas [...]
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Interview for Revista Siete Mares

Click on photos to read full article in Spanish
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Billabong Girls XXL Awards

The XXL girls section has just been updated. I love seeing the work that all of us had been doing throughout the year. Keala, Savannah, Maya and me, all surfing big waves around the world. It’s an exciting time to be a part of this group. Women’s surfing will only get bigger and deeper, no [...]
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Featured in Surfline-Oregon Contest

Keala Kennely: “I had been invited to participate in a Women’s Exhibition Heat during the Nelscott Reef Big Wave Invitational Event in Oregon, which was going to be a paddle-in only event for the first time in its history. This was also the first time ever that women had been included in one of the [...]
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