How To Beat The Chill

July, 1987

Frieda Zamba carries her trithruster Hope past grommets into killer peaks and shreds. Translation: The top-ranked female surfer in the world carries her three-finned board past younger, less accomplished surfers into eight-foot waves and kicks the ocean's butt. Zamba, 22, hung her first ten in the mushy peaks off her Flagler Beach, Florida, home eight years ago. She passed the grommet stage ("Grommets are surf rats," she explains, "young surfers--the kids on the beach first thing...