De Luis Castillo - Los dirigentes del surf de Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Panamá y Costa Rica decidieron emprender esfuerzos para crear una Confederación de este deporte. Adjunto podrán encontrar una información al respecto junto con dos fotos de la premiación durante el último Campeonato Centroamericano en Playa Esterillos, Costa Rica. Una de esas gráficas corresponde a la premiación de la categoría de mujeres donde aparecen (izquierda a derecha) Lisbeth Vindas (Costa Rica, ganadora del primer lugar), Natalie Bernold (Costa Rica), Sonia García (Panamá) y Malia Galluccio (Costa Rica). El crédito de las fotos le pertenece a Philippe Demarsan.
COSTA RICA'S FEDERICO PILURZU WINS CAMPEONATO CENTROAMERICANO DE SURF ADRENALINA 2006 WHILE
COSTA RICA SECURES 1ST PLACE WITH NICARAGUA 2 ND
JASON TORRES GETS JUNIOR CROWN, LISBETH VINDAS EARNS WOMENS TITLE; LUIS VINDAS MAKES BEST MANEUVER AT _EXPRESSION SESSION
EL SALVADOR, PANAMA, NICARAGUA, GUATEMALA, COSTA RICA COMPLETE FIRST-EVEN CENTRAL AMERICAN SURF CHAMPIONSHIP WITH FEDERATION COMMITTEE AND PLANS FOR PANAMA 2007 SURF TOURNAMENT
by - Ellen Zoe Golden EllenZoe@aol.com 800-548-1753 In Costa Rica 011-506-867-21-97
Playa Esterillos, COSTA RICA July 17, 2006 -- Tamarindo, Costa Rica's Federico Pilurzu completed three days of rigorous surfing that culminated in 7- to 8- foots barrels in front of Hotel Monterrey Del Mar in Playa Esterillos, by winning the Open of the first-ever Federacion de Surf de Costa Rica (FSCR) and Adio Campeonato Centroamericano De Surf Adrenalina presented by Freestyle. His consistent, excellent maneuvers—completed despite a sprained ankle—along with those of Junior 1 st place winner Jason Torres (Jaco), Women's 1 st place winner Lisbeth Vindas (Jaco) and her brother Luis Vindas, who made the Best Maneuver during the _Expression Session, carried the entire Costa Rican National Surf Team #1. 109 surfers, traveled from Costa Rica , El Salvador , Guatemala , Nicaragua and Panama to earn $14,000 in prize money, as well as individual surf notoriety and country team glory.
In 2 nd place, was the team from Nicaragua , which feature the powerhouse surfing of Roque Calderon (San Juan del Sur). His last heat featured such high-level surfing—against Pilurzu, Gilbert Brown (Puerto Viejo),and 11-time Panamanian National Surf Champion Gary Saavedra, that that could have been a Final in and of itself.
"You'll see how much greater a level of surfing these guys take with them back to Nicaragua ," said Ricardo Morales, President Federacion de Surf Nicaragua , even before Calderon was out. In the Juniors, Roque's 13-year-old nephew Rex—who specialties are 360s—held it down proudly as last man out for the country.
Day 3 of the Campeonato Centroamericano de Surf Adrenalina 2006 ended Saturday with beautiful waves, sunny weather, and compliant wind, a complete contrast to the rain and strong onshore winds that challenged competitors with difficult, closed-out waves and low visibility on opening day, last Thursday, July 13. Costa Rica, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Panama's Saavedra—finished Thursday to advance to Round 2 in the Open, while the Salvadorans lost out in the Open, in part, because their strongest surfer, Jimmy Rotherham didn't show up for his heat.
Meanwhile, Nicaragua still had three guys in the next Round with Gerardo Miranda, Calderon and Augusto Chamarro. Guatemala and Panama also advanced with, Cristian Mendez and Saavedra, respectively.
Juniors were the story at the completed of Day 2, with Jason Torres and Jairo Perez placing in both the Juniors and Open Quarterfinals. The Juniors Quarterfinals also still included Harvey Gil of Guatemala and Henry Diaz of El Salvador , as well as Costa Ricans Dexter Lewis, Carlos Munoz, Juan Calderon, Ronald Brown.
Yet, Gill lost, knocked Guatemala out, sending them back for a 26-hour drive home.
In the Open on Day 2, Saavedra acknowledged: "This is not an easy contest, and there are no easy heats. I'm just glad to be here."
He did not however, make the Finals, which including Perez, Brown, and a riveting man-on-man heat between Torres and Pilurzu. Shortly after they paddled out, Torres, who surfed a record 6 heats that third day, was back on the shore with a cramped right leg, flat on his back for 10 minutes, getting massaged, and doing breathing exercises.
With 8 minutes to go, Jason got back in the water, caught a right to the beach, ran up to the staging area, paddled back out caught another right, did 4 maneuvers, got barreled, rode to the beach and finished up the heat."
"I did too many heats, my muscles cramped up, and I cried like a baby," Torres said, after happily ceding 2nd place to Pilurzu in the Open, but earning that Juniors title. "Now, I just want to be humble."
(It's been a great year for Torres: Not only will be now claim the Central American Junior Championship, but he has the Pan-American Junior Championship and Costa Rican Junior Championship as well.)
Federico Pilurzu said that his win felt really good, hard-fought, and even surprising.: "I was kind of nervous out there in the water because I didn't know what was happening on the beach with Jason and, at the same time, there were no waves the first 10 minutes. Then, I got a left, then a right. To tell you the truth, I thought I was going to get knocked out of this contest in the first heat. I didn't think I was going to make it all the way till the end."
Earlier in the week, FSCR President and primary organizer of the Campeonato Centroamericano de Surf Adrenalina 2006, Antonio Pilurzu, learned that Latin American Surf Champion Magnum Martinez would be able to make it to the contest. Jose Urena, owner of JASS (Jaco Surf Shop), an FSCR board member and long-time organizer of the Circuito Nacional de Surf, replaced him as Event Director That meant that head judge Wade Sharp, an Association of Surfing Professionals' (ASP) World Champion Tour (WCT) judge also had to step in and take over Martinez' scheduled mandatory tactical clinic for all of the tournament competitors, combining that training session with his planned judging clinic—where he passed up-to-date ASP contest rules to one judge from El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Panama plus the four from Costa Rica, the host country. This dual workshop ended up as the single, strategically important session, as Sharp's integration helped guide the format of the fledging Central American Championships as organizers moved from day to day, heat to heat and round to round. Whenever any debate arose, Sharp only had cite ASP rules, and the matter was settled.
Said Pilurzu: "On one hand, the Campeonato was a hard job ,a big job, not easy. We had a new format with a lot of rushing because it was new for the other nations and us as well. But, for everything, thanks, thanks, thanks, to Wade Sharp. What an unbelievable professional .Because of him, we didn't have one problem that couldn't be solved."
This also meant that the landside business could also be attended to at the Campeonato Centroamericano de Surf Adrenalina 2006, including laying the groundwork for unifying the five Central American surfing organizations under the Federacion de Surf de Centroamericana, and inviting the Federacion Mexicana de Surf to join as well.
"The meeting between the five Federation heads was good, very positive," reported Julio Mejicanos, President of Asosurf de Guatemala, who explained that the structure of would be a committee with the Presidents of all five groups, plus Federacion Mexicana de Surf, acting equally. The next meeting will take place in Huntington Beach, California at the World Surfing Games 2006 sometime during October 14 through 22, 2006.
Panama will be the location for 2007's Central American Surf Championships, and the team member count has now been set at 15 to eliminate the variants of this year, including the debate about host country having so many competitors.
Antonio: "On one hand,this was a hard job,a big job,not easy. We had a new format with a lot of rush because it was new for the other nations and us too. For everything, thanks thanks thanks to Wade Sharp.Unbelievable professional we had not one problem that couldn't be solved.
Concluded Sam August, who was filming a DVD of the Federacion de Surf de Costa Rica (FSCR) and Adio Campeonato Centroamericano De Surf Adrenalina presented by Freestyle for his "Endless Fun" productions: "All of a sudden, surfing in Central America is at a world class level. Surfing here is so young, and it's already at a world class level, what's going to happen next?"
Sponsors are Adrenalina, Adio, Freestyle, Hotel Monterrey Del Mar, Nature Air, Billabong, Maxx Energy Drink, Quiksilver, Arnette, Cobian, Polaris, Surfos, Teletica 7, Bevy Media Corp, Jaco Surf Shop (JASS), Mango Surf & Skate, Barry V 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 contest information visit www.surfingcr.net/centroamericano
Team Finals
1. Costa Rica : 10360 points
2. Nicaragua : 4590.
3. El Salvador : 3560.
4. Guatemala : 3360.
5. Panama: 2580.
Individual Finals
Open: 1. Federico Pilurzu, Costa Rica: 2000 points
2. Jason Torres, Costa Rica: 1720
Junior: 1. Jason Torres: 1000.
2. Ronald Brown, Costa Rica: 860.
Mujeres: 1. Lisbeth Vindas, Costa Rica: 1000.
2. Natalie Bernold, Costa Rica: 860.
3. Sonia Garcia, Panama: 730.
4. Malia Galluccio, Costa Rica: 670.
Expression Session Winners: Luis Vindas, Jose Calderon, Gilbert Brown
Photo of Open Winners from Left: Jason Torres, Jairo Perez, Gilbert Brown, Federico Pilurzu by Shifi Surf Shots http://www.crsurf.com/images/guestpics/FSC-CNS/adio06contest/premiaciondemujeres-sm.jpgFEDERACION 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 FEDERACION CENTROAMERICANO DE SURF
San Jose, COSTA RICA June 7, 2006 -- The Federacion de Surf El Salvador, Aso De Guatemala, Federacion de Surf Nicaragua, and the Pro Federacion Panamena de Surf, have all accepted the invitation of the Federacion 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 Recreacion (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 Federacion 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 Federacion 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- Federacion de Surf de Costa Rica, Federacion de Surf El Salvador, Aso De Guatemala, Federacion de Surf Nicaragua, and Pro Federacion Panamena de Surf-will convene on July 14.
Representatives will begin the course of actions necessary to officially become the Federacion 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 Federacion 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 Federacion 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. For surf contest information, please contact the office of Federacion de Surf de Costa Rica, country code (506) 244-2400 or dbrenes@surfingcr.net
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