Source: FEDESURF CR With a spectacular performance in Sao Paulo, Leilani McGonagle was crowned queen of the groms at the Rip Curl GromSearch International in Brazil. This is the first time a surfer from Costa Rica secures victory at this event, which in the past has been dominated by high-caliber Hawaiian board riders such as Brisa Hennessey, Tatiana Weston-Webb and Malia Jones. Leilani McG...

Flickr Commons By David Blanco Bonilla Lima, May 1 (EFE).- Surfers have rebelled against the Municipality of Lima after it decided to lay a new road and place rocks on one of the most popular beaches for that sport near the Peruvian capital. The clash has been full of mutual accusations and even calls for intervention on the part of the navy, which says it has not authorized any construc...

Source: Chica Surf Adventures Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) April 13, 2015 - Chica Surf Adventures has taken advantage of one of the top marketing tools available to businesses today. Social media like Twitter, YouTube, Instagram and Facebook have become the new poster boards for users to comment, review and even post videos to show others all about a location and a vacation experience they love. Th...

Source: FEDESURF Toronto, ON -- (ReleaseWire) -- 04/14/2015 -- Surf the Greats is an adventure travel company created by three friends – Antonio Lennert, Marcello Gortana, and Symon Oliver. This lifestyle brand was built on their shared passion for adventure, exploration, and love for nature. It is currently the first company in Toronto to offer organized surf adventures locally in the Great L...

Source: Chica Surf Adventures (PRWEB) April 07, 2015 / Chica Surf Adventures strives to share the love of the ocean, travel, and friendships among women of all ages. Women are sure to have an incredible experience of a lifetime in their surf camps where they surf together, laugh together, and formulate new lifelong friendships. Chica Surf Adventures announces camp dates for the month of April,...

A tourist from Montreal who visits Costa Rica each year to enjoy surfing was unexpectedly attacked by a caiman (crocodile) while waiting for a set. The attack occurred last weekend in Tamarindo Beach, a coastal community that is home to many North American and European expats. According to a news report filed by Pablo Rojas of online news daily CRHoy.com, the Canadian surfer was sitting on his ...

Playa Junquillal is part of the charming communities that make up the Gold Coast of Costa Rica. This quiet beach town is located about 30 kilometers west of Santa Cruz and 20 kilometers south of the major expat enclave of Tamarindo Beach. Playa Junquillal is about as quiet, serene, relaxed, and authentic as you can get in Costa Rica. Here you can find an estuary, choice breaks, a savannah, a handf...

Roxy team surfer Nataly Bernold (PRWEB) February 05, 2015 Chica Surf Adventures offers women of all ages a chance to learn how to surf. They organize exceptional surf camps in places like Costa Rica, Hawaii and Panama. Choice locations, beautiful waves, experienced surf instructors and well planned itineraries make vacationing with Chica Surf Adventures an unforgettable experience. Its surf ca...

Gilbert Brown Professional surfer and all-around waterman Gilbert Brown was a clear favorite at the first day of competition in Costa Rica's Kolbi National Surfing Circuit; after all, the heats took place in break that is very familiar to the native from Limón: Playa Cocles. Brown is the current champion, but it was Anthony Fillingim who took the lead in this highly competitive tournament. ...

Source: FEDESURF The ninth edition of the Central American Surfing Games resulted in a ninth consecutive victory for Costa Rica. This year, the games were hosted at the pristine breaks of Puerto de la Paz in La Libertad, Republic of El Salvador, and Tico surfers captured 10 out of 13 gold medals awarded to competitors.   According to a press release by the Surfing Federation of Cost...

Hainan. Source: ISA Thanks to the great performance of Costa Rica's National Surfing Team at the recent World Surfing Games in Peru, our professional surfers have another shot at high-level international competition. According to an official press release by the Surfing Federation of Costa Rica (Spanish acronym: FEDESURF), our Tico pro surfers are now in Hainan, the smallest and southernmost pro...

Source: National Surfing Federation For the first time in the history of professional surfing in Costa Rica, the national team is proudly returning from a major international tournament with medals. This is the second time that the National Surfing Team of Costa Rica participates in the World Surfing Games of the International Surfing Association (ISA), and it was a momentous tournament for Ti...

Riding longboard skateboards in Costa Rica is nothing like surfing the Gold Coast beaches of Guanacaste. There are many more obstacles to negotiate on our dangerous roads, and skateboard wipeouts tend to be quite painful and will often result in weeks of road rash. Such matters do not seem to affect the Longboard Girls Costa Rica Crew, who actually enjoy hairpin turns that lead to downhill surpris...

Spinner dolphin in Costa Rica PRWEB.COM NewswireCosta Rica (PRWEB) October 02, 2014 - Bodhi Surf, the leading Costa Rican yoga and surf retreat, is proud to announce the start of their second annual My Ocean Guardian Journey Competition. The goal of the contest is to raise awareness of ocean conservation needs while encouraging a proactive approach to the problems by generating innovative idea...

Source: Wikimedia Commons A surfer in Playa Avellanas, province of Guanacaste, tragically passed away yesterday despite cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) efforts that lasted more than 30 minutes. National newspaper La Nacion identified the dearly departed as Francis Gianvalbo of the United States, who had reportedly begun to enjoy his retirement in Costa Rica only three months ago. The re...

Santa Teresa’s awesome waves will be in the limelight once again as top Costa Rica surfers roll into town at the end of April for the fifth 2014 Olympus National Surfing Circuit competition. The COPA Unit tournament will be held April 26 and 27 at the spectacular beach of Santa Teresa, Costa Rica, on the southwestern Nicoya Peninsula. Famous for year-round Pacific Coast surf and a friendly, ...

One of the most well-known landmarks at Nosara, Costa Rica is the Nosara Yoga Institute (NYI). People come from all over the world for the yoga teacher training and yoga classes at the internationally-renowned center. Opened in 1994 by founders Don and Amba Stapleton, NYI is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. Starting in the 1970s, pioneering expats from the U.S. began trickling into t...

Costa Rica’s fourth 2014 Olympus National Surfing Circuit competition is coming March 15 and 16 to the beautiful south Pacific beach of Dominical. The Marley Cup will be held in front of the well-known Tortilla Flats beachfront restaurant and bar at Dominical. The competition is named for principal sponsor House of Marley, which sells earth-friendly products inspired by legendary reggae singer Bob...

When a devastating earthquake hit Haiti in July 2010, within 30 frightening seconds, 220,000 were left dead. In the wake of this tragedy, nearly one million children were orphaned or abandoned. To simply sit back and only contemplate the atrocity of this situation was not an option for Nosara resident Kristin O’Connell. She felt the need to act. After volunteering as a midwife in Haiti in 2010,...

The waves were big, and so were the national surfers who came to Playa Guiones at Nosara, Costa Rica last weekend for the third competition in the 2014 Olympus National Surfing Circuit. Costa Rican pros like Gilberth Brown, Jair Perez, Jason Torres, Carlos Munoz, Lisbeth Vindas and Nataly Bernold descended on the top Costa Rica surfing beach for the tournament, held Feb. 8-9. Munoz was just ret...

Maikol Torres ripping the waves in Guanacaste Once again, perseverance paid off for up-and-coming surfer Maikol Torres from Costa Rica, who recently won the Reserva Conchal Tiki Hut Cup. The cup was disputed as the third event of the brand-new Guanacaste Pro Surfing Circuit. Conditions were excellent at the gorgeous Playa Marbella thanks to an inland breeze that shaped the swell into glassy 1....

As a surfer, wouldn’t you like to be able to surf for longer without getting tired, have more strength and flexibility and better balance, get a quicker pop-up, relax your breathing and sharpen your mental focus? Yoga can help you do this. Pro surfers know that yoga keeps their performance constantly improving and aids in preventing injuries. Here are 10 yoga poses for surfers that will imp...

The Triple Crown surf competition returned for the third consecutive year, to choose the coast’s best surfer. The first day was January 11th in the waves of Playa Barrigona. Funds raised will be donated to a housing project to help build a home for a low-income family in the Nosara area. This year, the Nosara Surf Association took charge of the event’s organization along with help from Nosara T...

Puerto Viejo and the Caribbean Coast of Costa Rica will host the second big surf competition in the 2014 Olympus National Surfing Circuit later this month. The Lime Coral Caribbean Classic II will be held January 25 and 26 at Playa Cocles just south of Puerto Viejo. Top surfers from all over Costa Rica will compete in seven categories in the race for the national champion title: Open Division (...

Maykol Torres surfing in Costa RicaThe holiday season in Costa Rica brings many good things for everyone to enjoy. The weather is great across the country and there are parades, carnivals, shopping bonanzas, etc. On the Pacific coast, the surf at this time of the year is spectacular, which is why the 2014 Olympus National Surf Circuit is taking place right now in Playa Bejuco, south of Jaco Beach...

Happy clients at Sunset Surf Camp in DominicalWhat happens when a sustainability-oriented surf camp and an NGO whose goal is to “build, support, and activate an alliance of businesses financially committed to creating a healthy planet” join forces? Boom! Sunset Surf Camp and One Percent For The Planet have come together and agreed on promoting some of today’s most vital values: living a healt...

Most people visiting Nosara head straight for Playa Guiones, which with its beautiful white sand and consistent surf break, is one of Costa Rica’s most favored surfing beaches. This breezy Blue-Flag beach is reputed to have the most consistent surf on Costa Rica’s Pacific Coast with “surf-able waves here over 300 days a year,” reports the Visit Nosara tourism website. Guiones Point at the south...

Source: Witch's Rock Surf Camp Guanacaste, Costa Rica. November 25, 2013 – An instructor from the prestigious Witch's Rock Surf Camp in Playa Tamarindo is the first professional surfer to win a tournament in the brand-new Guanacaste Surfing Circuit. As proudly reported by Witch's Rock Surf Camp, Isaac Vega shone during the final heats of Day 2 under clear skies and less than moderate swells. ...

Pro Surfer Emily Gussoni from Costa Rica For the first time in the history of aquatic sports in Costa Rica, the gorgeous beaches of Guanacaste will host their very own surfing circuit. According to national newspaper La Nacion and Primero en Noticias, an online news daily based in Santa Cruz, the Costa Rica Surf Federation aims to drive even more tourism to Guanacaste through surfing and to gi...

Since he was five years old, Sean Forrester has been living on surfboards. “It was a soft board, and it was purple,” he said, recalling his first board. His father, Chris Forrester, former owner of C & C Surf, taught him how to ride the waves. Although Sean was born in the United States, he came to Costa Rica when he was three. He says he feels very Tico and now 14 years old, he says he is "10...

Source: Wikimedia Commons The main attraction of the upcoming $10 Million Water Kingdom Aquatic Park in Guanacaste, Costa Rica is named after a legendary surfing spot in the island of Oahu in Hawaii. The Waikiki artificial wave pool is bound to attract many visitors, both foreign and domestic, and thus it is ready to accommodate up to 1,000 swimmers and inland surfers. The pool's mechanism wil...

Singer-songwriter and pro-surfer Donavon Frankenreiter is returning to Nosara in November after a two year absence and will be performing a concert Nov. 8 at the Tropicana. Frankenreiter will be in the local waters as part of the “Surf With a Pro” program sponsored by Billabong at the affiliated Safari Surf School. He and his musical partner Matt Grundy will offer an acoustic show featuring som...

Four youths united by a passion for surf are making waves online with creative videos and images that promote the Costa Rican surf culture as well as creating awareness of environmental initiatives like the Costas Verdes reforestation program in Playa Hermosa and in Playa Guiones. The co-founders of Gallo Pinto TV are “Tití” Enrique Uribe Herrera, Daniel Berrocal Ferris, Kevin Woodbridge an...

With World Championship dreams. In this way the Samareño Alex "Choco" Gómez, ranked second in national standings in the longboard category, departs to participate in the next World Longboard Championship 2013, organized by the International Surfing Association (ISA) and held in Peru from September 22nd to the 28th. Gómez , who will turn 38 next Monday just as the tournament starts, gives surfin...

If you would like The Costa Rica Star to publish your business press release, please contact us. Jaco, Costa Rica – Revel in the lush beauty and fantastic waves of Costa Rica’s Green Season during Vista Guapa Surf Camp’s YOLO SUP Experience set for October 19th to 25th in beautiful Jaco on the Pacific Coast. The YOLO SUP Experience offers an all-around SUP-based adventure where guests enjoy dai...

Imagine a blend of surfboards, wakeboards and kiteboards. Now, add motor power and a Formula 1 design engineer. That’s it. Meet the new JetSurf, a custom designed carbon fiber hull equipped with a two-stroke engine that can ride waves of all kind. The Jet Surf has an automatic electronic control unit that is manually operated to reach a maximum speed of 57 km/h (35 mph). Looks like awesome fun...

If you would like The Costa Rica Star to publish your business press release, please contact us. Glossy, high-quality surf photos are the main attraction of a new Nosara Shack Surf Magazine, which will hit the shelves of about 20 different Nosara grocery stores and surf schools during the first week of September 2013. Graham Swindell, the magazine’s publisher, had already made flipbooks of s...

Source: Wipeout Films Wipeout Films, the premier audiovisual production label for outdoor extreme sports and events such as surfing, stake boarding, mountain biking, body boarding, and others in Costa Rica, will be celebrating its fourth anniversary with a Surfing Awards ceremony and party at the Luxe Lounge in Escazu tonight. The mission of Wipeout Films is to highlight Costa Rica and to p...

Surfing and yoga retreats, especially in warm, tropical places, have become the latest vacation craze. But what if you don’t know how to surf or live in a land-locked place? Is it an adventure still worth trying? Here’s what a few surf retreat goers had to say: “This week has been about so much more than learning how to surf ... the support & encouragement you have given me, and this beauti...

When Costa Rica Surf Travel Company was created in 1999 their slogan was “The best place to check the surf in Costa Rica.” After 14 years they have not only earned the top position on Google when searching ‘Costa Rica surf’, but have helped thousands of surfers and their families find safe and comfortable places to stay, along with waves matching their skill level. Their website, www.CRsurf.com...