On Friday afternoon, Keala Kennelly watched on the tiny screen of a borrowed cellphone as her friend and competitor Paige Alms won the Peahi Womens Challenge at Jaws, Mauis famed big-wave break, and captured the inaugural World Surf League womens Big Wave Championship.A few hours earlier, in the first heat of the womens contest, Kennelly caught the opening wave. It was the first surfed by a woman in a WSL big-wave contest, and it received the highest score of the day. On her second wave, Kennelly lost her balance navigating bumpy surf and felt the lip of a 30-foot wave crash onto her back leg. An MRI fortunately revealed no torn ligaments, but she was unable to surf in the final for which she qualified.As the first woman to tow into a wave at Teahupoo, the first woman to paddle into a wave at Nelscott Reef and the first woman to win an XXL Big Wave award in a previously male-only category, Kennelly, 38, is one of the most influential and respected women in big-wave surfing. Alms, 28, is the next generation. In 2005, she became the first woman to get barreled at Jaws, her home break and a wave shes surfed since she was 14, and was called the best female big-wave surfer by Surfline.She lived up to that billing on Friday, catching more waves than any woman in the event and surfing with confidence and poise on a windy, treacherous day at Jaws.The day after competing in this historic event, espnW caught up with both women, who were already asking, What next?espnW: What was the vibe like when you all arrived at the beach Friday morning knowing youd surf in the first WSL womens big-wave contest ?Paige Alms: Everyone was so supportive. I was so happy to see that all the girls showed up and were charging.Keala Kennelly: I was more relaxed than ever for a contest. I was Zen. Ive been living in California. I was just so happy to be in Hawaii and back in warm water. I was excited to surf anything over 4 feet. I was hyped to be able to paddle out without 60 guys in the lineup.espnW: What was it like to be out at Jaws with only women, and so few people, in the lineup?PA: Even when were free surfing at Jaws, there are usually only one or two women in the lineup. The most theres ever been at once was four or five girls. To have six of us out there in a heat with no one else in the lineup, we all felt the same way: This is awesome.If there are 60 guys in the lineup, you dont catch a lot of waves. We were all glowing and proud to be out there together. Win or lose, having an empty lineup at your home break, one of the best big waves in the world -- nothing tops that.espnW: Paige, because Maui is your home break, did you feel more pressure on you to take the win?PA: The pressure comes from within. I wanted to put on a good show and make sure we represented women well. That was the pressure for me. It wasnt about winning the contest. My friends tried to put that pressure on me. But it was about having those empty lineups, choosing the waves you want with other girls. When I won, I felt like I won for everyone.espnW: What was it like to have so many women competing at a break at which you both have been such pioneering surfers?PA: Only half the 12 girls had surfed Jaws before this contest, and the other half of us were nervous for that. I know how powerful this wave is, but not knowing is almost better. Those girls showed up and sent it. I felt pride for the girls.KK: Windy Jaws is treacherous, so my hats off to all the girls who went out and took a wave.espnW: Speaking of wind, the conditions looked incredibly windy on the webcast. How bad was the wind?PA: It was very challenging. It matched the name of the contest, The Peahi Challenge. The wind was gnarlier than it looked at home. When its windy like that, it becomes really dangerous. I dont usually surf it when its windy. The risk isnt worth the reward.KK: I was excited when we left the harbor. But on the boat ride out, you can tell if the wind is going to be an issue. As the water got choppier, I could see the wind was going to be an issue, and that gets scary for me at Jaws. It becomes really dangerous because the wind gets up under the board, holds you up at the lip, doesnt let you in and releases your fins. It ups the danger so much. It was intense.espnW: Knowing that, how do you find the confidence to paddle out and make the decision that its worth the reward?PA: When the stadium is set and you know you have to go out, you go. We had a moment when I heard there would only be three of us in the final [after Kennelly, Laura Enever and Emi Erickson qualified into the final but pulled out due to injuries], and some girls asked if we should postpone the event or push it to the next stop on tour. I was like, No. We are here to surf, to do the job they invited us to do. If we didnt step to the plate, it would make womens big-wave surfing look bad.The conditions were tough, but its still the best big wave in the world, even when its windy. We are going to do it now. It was game on for all of us from that point.KK: Paige did such an amazing job and sent it. She went out there and earned her victory and carried it for the women. But Paige is a true sportswoman and she was bummed I wasnt in the final. We love and respect each other, and Paige definitely wants me out there. But she is so deserving. Paige let people know that we deserve to be there.One of the disadvantages of being backside at Jaws is you have your back to most of the wave so its difficult to see ??the oncoming section and sometimes it can creep up on you and take you out. ?????? unfortunately I didnt see the end section coming on this wave and it caught me by surprise so I had no time to brace myself for the explosion ???? and my body paid the price ??. @wsl #Peahichallenge2016 ?? by @tonyharringtonA photo posted by Keala Kennelly (@kealakennelly) onNov 12, 2016 at 11:34am PSTespnW: What do you think happens from here? Is this the first of many big-wave events for the women?PA: Thats the goal. This is the first of its kind, the first time they gave us this opportunity. This is my home break, where I grew up and learned to surf big waves, and I felt obligated to put on a show to show the world we know how to surf this wave. Thats where the pressure came from. 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It is vital in respect of keeping their driver running at his most efficient and effective but it is also a bit of a giveaway when it comes to revealing the extent of any problem. At the end of the day, they will only let us hear as little as they can get away with.Can you imagine what it would be like if all chat was unfettered by privacy and we could hear every word of it? That was the potentially happy state of F1 audio in the mid-1980s when the plug-in umbilical chord linking engineer to car and driver gave way to radio transmission. The difficulty was finding a means of eavesdropping without alerting the parties involved.Discussing this problem with a mate in the pub -- as you do -- he happened to mention a bloke who was into plane spotting at Heathrow and seemed able to listen in to air traffic control. A phone call later and I was introduced to the benefit of the scanner.This may seem obvious now but, back in the day, scanners were as alien to me as a Harrods tea hamper would be to Kimi R?ikk?nen. You could find one if you searched hard enough but they were prohibitively expensive in the UK. The answer, my new-found friend informed me, was to source a scanner in the United States.By good fortune, the Detroit Grand Prix was next on the calendar. Within an hour of arrival, I was choosing my secret weapon in the local Radio Shack store. That was the easy bit. Now I had to discover the frequencies used by the teams. I couldnt give the game away by either asking outright or waving this black box and aerial around in the pit lane.By another piece of good fortune, the answer was provided by my hotel being the towering Renaissance Centre overlooking the pits. For first free practice in 1987, I sat in my room while the scanner did its work, flicking back and forth at a huge rate of knots through the wave band.It was not going to be the work of a moment because the engineer or driver needed to be speaking as the scanner was halted by the sound of activity on that particular frequency. I became familiar with the activities of security personnel, catering staff and one particularly voluble lady ordering cab drivers around the city. At least, I think thats what she was doing since her short, sharp barking of colloquialisms was totally unintelligible. This continued for at least half an hour. Practice was cracking on and, being away from the media centre, I had no idea what was happening on track.Suddenly, clear as day, the authoritive voice of Peter Warr boomed around the bedroom: Okay Ayrton, lets try the Bs. That might help the understeer.dddddddddddd. Hallelujah! Warr and I were not always the best of friends but Id never been so happy to hear either the voice of the Lotus boss or his mundane reference to a Goodyear tyre compound. We were in!I locked in the Lotus frequency and let the scanner continue its search. Over the space of two practice sessions, I gradually caught a few more big fish in the audio net. A few races later and I had all the top teams. I was now well informed, with the proviso that I could not show my hand by printing anything of a very private or personal nature in my newspaper. But at least I had a decent idea of what was going on and could avoid looking an idiot by making wrong assumptions. This happy state of affairs would continue for a few years until other reporters cottoned on to the scanner ploy and the teams, listening to each other in any case, began to encrypt their messages.Nigel Mansell would be a constant source of entertainment with his constant chatter, particularly during the races when, if everything was going well, he would actually sing to the Williams crew. During qualifying at Suzuka in 1987, I was startled to hear a very strange sound on the Williams frequency. It turned out Nigel had spun off and caused the back injury that would put him out of the championship, the curious noise being a low moan as, strangely, he kept his thumb on the radio button in the aftermath of the shunt.The funniest moment came right at the start of practice for the 1989 British Grand Prix. Derek Warwick had failed to appear at the end of his installation lap with the Arrows.Where are you Derek? I heard Ross Brawn intone. Then a pause before his driver replied. 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