Role Models

In photo: Brenda, Me (Stephanie), Beth, Patsee, Lynn

As I watch what is in the press....(can't help it...it is shoved in our face everyday) and WHO is in the press....I am astounded by WHO and WHAT get the most air time...I don't like half the stuff I see and hear...as I get this strange feeling, like "that's just not right".

I tend to be choosy about who I invest my mind, soul, and spirit with. What info I let in, and what info I let pass by. As I know now (as some wisdom has set in) that life is both a weeding out process and full of choices.

I look at today's younger girls and women, and who their primary influences through media are. hmmmm...let's see....what's her name? Something Lohan? and a few tennis chicks in little skirts who get slapped on the wrist for bad sportsman like behavior to judges on the court? Throwing a hissy fit followed up by lame public apology was in my opinion...pathetic.
Lastly, today's young women have the media's obvious obsession with "perfection" or should I say air brushing coming at them every second of everyday...giving our young ladies, once again, a false sense of what it really means to be beautiful. (by the way, older women are just as effected as the young ones!)

There are more quality women out there that are great role models.
Why don't we hear more about them? Because most media business is about sensationalizing BAD news...my thought for the day, notice the good role models around you, and thank them. As it does take just as much to have a good attitude as it does to have a bad attitude.

I love to support and find ways to find better messaging for our young ladies (and for some others who are not young anymore who may need reminding) that beauty is not defined by a magazine cover or make up ad.
Check out DOVE's Self Esteem/REAL Beauty programs. Very cool.
www.campaignforrealbeauty.com
Go to gallery, find video titled EVOLUTION..takes 1 minute

Little RIPPER!

For those who don't know...Zsuzsi sponsors several top notch athletes in various watersports.

We ladies who LOVE the water understand how important our GEAR is. We know your swimsuit is one of the MOST IMPORTANT pieces of gear you have to have! It needs to look FAB and FUNCTION amazing to allow us the freedom to do our activity whatever it may be.

Here is my "Little Ripper" Shelby Detmers.
A local So Cal girl from Newport Harbor High School who is working her way up the surfing ranks. She is quite the "Little Ripper" who comes with a star studded resume at only 15 years old!
She Surfs at Newport Harbor on their Varsity Surf Team, surfs the USA Prime, NSSA, ASP Surf comps locally and Internationally.

We are proud to sponsor and work with our young ladies as another example of how to excel and have life balance....she also quotes that yoga and her academics are her other passions as well.

We salute you Shelby! Go girl go! (Her Zsuzsi suit is her favorite...no straps to come undone during her most prescious surf moments!)

Sportkini holds up to ANOTHER tough sport!

Another sportkini siting!

1st check out this rad canoe sailing video...the canoe hauls A*@!! woo hoo!

I love seeing women participating in AMAZING watersports, and here is Jane McKee, in video speaking, wearing her Sportkini! Phenomenal water woman...she lives it up in Hawaii, and is always out on the water in the various watersports she does...sooo cool!

Canoe sailing is a killer sport requiring functional apparel that does the job, and damn straight her sportkini also looks great!!

Go Jane Go!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0kU1fxEyeE

We have Burned our Bras, Fought for Equal rights...NOW

We have burned our bras...fought for EQUAL rights...and NOW we are swimming across channels in a Sportkini!!

Lynn has accomplished a feat that I couldn't imagine doing myself.

She S W A M across the Catalina Channel! (I have paddled in an outrigger canoe many o' time and shared the experience with the other women on my crew...it was not done solo)

Lynn swam it solo! I just find that amazing! I couldn't imagine swimming (and I LOVE swimming) and starting over on Catalina Island, in the middle of the night...SCARY! and then proceeding until land was hit on the California side...it is hard enough to RUN a marathon, or even to paddle this channel...but to SWIM it? WOW!

I believe it takes quite an individual to accomplish this, and I do know her support team played a vital role in keeping her fed, on track, and motivated to finish no matter the muriad of challenges along the way in both training and the day of the crossing.

My salute to Lynn, and for also being the FIRST female ever to complete the swim in a two piece swimsuit, and we at Zsuzsi are honored to know and have you as one of athletes that we support and LOVE!

congrats Lynn!

And look out....more sportkini news on the horizon!

Blogging is a Funny Thing

I find blogging to be "funny".

I write some stuff, some insightful thoughts I have....some fun facts, enthusiasm about good stuff, and life lessons along the way....and a plethora of other topics...

Hmph. (wheels are turning in my mind)

So the "weird" part about blogging....does anyone read it? Do I have an audience? Is it info or Stories people want? If I bare my soul (show my nerdy side) in these blogs...would it be too much? LOL! Would you really want to know what it is like to grow a business in a full blown recession? Would you want to know the athlete in me who has to use some of my athlete mental training and life skills to succeed?
OR is it the journey of the evolvement of the sportkini? where and who is wearing the Sportkini?

For today I am going to post some sportkini news!

One of my athletes, Lynn Kubasek is S W I M M I N G across the Catalina Channel tonight! It is a goal she has set for herself...she has helped others make their channel crossing supporting in a kayak and swimming along side other swimmers...but tonight is her night!!
She swims and trains all over Southern California in the ocean and the pool in her sportkini! She is amazing! (my photog bro took a fab photo and blogged about her on www.stephenkozowykphotography.blogspot.com )

Women have burned their bras! We got equal rights so that we could vote! We are now swimming across Channels in Sportkinis! AMAZING!

Tonight is the night! Go Lynn go!