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FEDERACIÓN DE SURF DE COSTA RICA HOSTS ADIO CAMPEONATO CENTROAMERICANO DE SURF ADRENALINA PRESENTED BY FREESTYLE AND WELCOMES EL SALVADOR, GUATEMALA, NICARAGUA, PANAMA FOR ISA-SANCTIONED SURF WORKSHOPS, EXPO AND TOURNAMENT AT PLAYA ESTERILLOS JULY 10-15, 2006
ALL FIVE NATIONS ALSO TO ESTABLISH NEW ISA GROUP TO BE CALLED FEDERACIÓN CENTROAMERICANO DE SURF
San Jose, COSTA RICA June 7, 2006 -- The Federación de Surf El Salvador, Aso De Guatemala, Federación de Surf Nicaragua, and the Pro Federación Panameña de Surf, have all accepted the invitation of the Federación de Surf de Costa Rica (CRFS) to attend the first-ever Adio Campeonato Centroamericano De Surf Adrenalina presented by Freestyle, which will take place in Playa Esterillos, July 10 through 15, at Hotel Monterrey Del Mar.
This five-country Central American surf championship was spearheaded by Costa Rica’s Antonio Pilurzu, who last month received notice from Instituto Costarricense del Deporte y la Recreación (ICODER) that after six years of trying to legitimize the sport of surfing with the Circuito Nacional de Surf (CNS) tournaments, as well his organization of the National teams’ participation in the International Surfing Association (ISA) games abroad, he was now President of the official, government-sanctioned Federación de Surf de Costa Rica.
The idea for the regional tournament was conceived in 2004 in Ecuador at the ISA World Surfing Champions, when surf officials from Panama and Guatemala first discussed it with Pilurzu. Last year, in Huntington at the Quiksilver ISA World Junior Surfing Championships, the conversations continued with El Salvador and Guatemala. And then, this past January, when Pilurzu was in Peru with the Costa Rican National Surf Team to compete in the Reef Panamericano de Surf Peru 2006 Copa Motorola, the Nicaragua team was on hand, making it five countries who agreed that Pilurzu would help organize a Central America surf organization with competitions modeled after Costa Rica’s CNS.
With the approval of the CRFS board, Pilurzu contacted Fernando Aguerre, President of the ISA, the global governing organization that has the recognition of the International Olympic Committee. The news was great.
“We recognize and appreciate the effort and cooperation that Federación de Surf de Costa Rica is providing to promote surfing globally,” Aguerre said when sanctioning the Adio Campeonato Centroamericano De Surf Adrenalina. “The ISA is looking forward to this great event.”
The Central American Surf Championships will offer prize money of $10,000 for the Open and $2,000 for the Women. Juniors—in ISA guidelines, that’s18 years and younger—will compete for a $1000 cash dividend. Inscriptions are $30 Open, $25 Women, $20 Junior. (ISA rules stipulate that ONLY CITIZENS WITH THEIR COUNTRY’S PASSPORTS ARE ALLOWED TO COMPETE. Panama, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, El Salvador or Guatemala residency will not be sufficient for entry in the contest.)
The one concession that was made by ISA President Aguerre in order to balance out what Pilurzu says will be an uneven amount of entrants from the various countries is a change in the way the team rankings will be tallied. The ISA typically requires a certain, finite number of team members per country in its surf tournaments, so that the total team members’ points who are ranked are included. For the Adio Campeonato Centroamericano De Surf Adrenalina, the five countries agreed that for this premier contest, each nation can inscribe as many competitors that qualify; therefore, to create fair scoring, only the top 4 best surf results for each country, for each category, will be counted in order to determine the total points for each country’s summary ranking at the end of the championship.
Another sign that Central American surfing is coming up in the world are the two, top level workshops that will accompany this event. On July 11, there will be a judge clinic, led by World Championship Tour (and Costa Rica’s surf coach for Ecuador and Tahiti’s 2004 Quiksilver ISA World Junior Surfing Championships) Wade Sharp. The next day a mandatory tactical surf clinic for all competitors, led by Event Director Magnum Martinez will take place.
Like the process that went down in Costa Rica to earn its government recognition, representatives from the five countries— Federación de Surf de Costa Rica, Federación de Surf El Salvador, Aso De Guatemala, Federación de Surf Nicaragua, and Pro Federación Panameña de Surf—will convene on July 14. Representatives will begin the course of actions necessary to officially become the Federación Centroamericana de Surf under the guidelines of the ISA, who “will sanction the new group officially after all of the legal papers are filed,” Pilurzu confirmed.
“We are looking for our own identity in the surf world,” he added. “The new Federación and tournament will strengthen us, help us support ourselves and our sport from within, while promoting our own talent to the rest of the surf community around the globe. If we are united, it will help our athletes to grow within our region and be better prepared to compete in the international contests. Also, we can show everyone that our surfers received their expertise on world class waves of Central America.”
“Our guys can find their identity this way, by eventually participating in a lot more contests within Central America. They can start with the tournaments in their own countries, then move up to the more challenging competitions in the Central American contests. This year we will have the one in Esterillos, Costa Rica; hopefully, next year we can arrange more at this level.”
Beginning on the day of the contestants’ arrival—July 10—and continuing throughout the entire event through closing on July 15, sponsors will display and sell their wares in a Surf Expo outside of Hotel Monterrey Del Mar in a grassy area just in front of the beach. Sponsors for the Federación de Surf de Costa Rica and Adio Campeonato organizan Centroamericano De Surf Adrenalina are Adrenalina, Adio, Freestyle, Hotel Monterrey Del Mar, Nature Air, Quiksilver, Arnette, Cobian, Polaris, Surfos, Teletica 7, Bevy Media Corp, Jaco Surf Shop (JASS), Mango Surf & Skate, Barri Surfboards, 911 La Radio, Banzaii, JB T-Shirts, Cala Luna Hotel & Villas, Wishbone Restaurant, Hotel Rancho Coral, The Backyard Hotel, Shifi Surf Shots, and Hotel Tropical Garden.
For more media information please contact Ellen Zoe Golden at 800-548-1753 or EllenZoe@aol.com <mailto:EllenZoe@aol.com> . For surf contest information, please contact the office of Federación de Surf de Costa Rica, country code (506) 244-2400 or dbrenes@surfingcr.net <mailto:dbrenes@surfingcr.net>
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