Kim Hamrock (Born 1960) is an American surfer.[1][2][3] She was awarded the “2005 Woman of the Year” by the Surfing Walk of Fame.[1][2] Hamrock has won many US surfing competitions.[1][3] She won the national Longboard Championship.[1][3] She wrote the book “My Grandma Surfs Better than You”.[1][3][4] The book was published in 2017.[1][3][4] Hamrock is nicknamed “Danger Woman” because she does not let male surfers bully her.[1][2][3][4] She also teaches surfing.[2]
Hamrock grew up in La Habra Heights.[1] She lived twenty miles from the coast.[1] Hamrock was six years old the first time she saw someone surfing.[1][5] The surfer was on television.[1] She liked surfing from seeing it on television.[1] At age 13 she went to Hawaii with her grandmother.[1] She surfed for the first time.[1]
Hamrock went to school at La Serna High in Whittier, CA.[1] She did not live near the ocean.[1] At age 16 she was able to drive a car.[1] Then, she could drive to the ocean to surf.[1] She would surf even though men thought girls should not surf.[1] She would also get car rides to the ocean from Marty Hamrock. She married Marty Hamrock in 1979.[1] She had children and did not surf very much.
Hamrock became serious about surfing in 1990.[1] She began winning competitions.[1]
During the mid-1990’s Hamrock won six national U.S. awards.[2] She won four shortboards awards 1993-96 and two longboard awards in 1995-96.[2][5] Hamrock began surfing professionally in 1998.[2] She placed third in the Women’s Longboard World Championship in 1999.[2] She placed fifth in 2000 and won the Women’s Longboard World Champion in 2002.[2] In 2005 she was runner-up at the XXL Big Wave Awards.[2]