Costa Rica Surfers | Locals ONLY

This is dedicated to local surfers of all ages. When the opportunity arises, our production costs for locals who meet specific requirements will be offered our pro bono service package. This means HD COSTA RICA will produce all video production free of charge to selected candidates.

When you purchase any of our services, please understand that your contribution will greatly increase the opportunity for local surfers to live their dream. Our motto is simply this:

Follow Your Passion, Live Your Dream.

Our goal is to allow each surfer to share with the world their passion and aspiration in the form of a video bio. Share the love.

Professional competition and sponsors are alive and well in the current surfing scene which has enabled individuals and the sport in general to ascend to a higher public profile.

Surfing has spawned a plethora of business ventures all aimed at spreading the thrill and enabling visitors to experience what's offered along our salty waters.

Sponsors provide surfers with surfboards, swimsuits and wetsuits, lotions for skin conditions, tanning lotion and sun block, hair products, beverages, food products, furniture, jewelry and other products that may be related to the surfing culture.

Still the quintessential Costa Rica surfing experience is the same as that shared by surfers universally - sharing good waves and fun times with friends in spectacular locations.

Local Surfers Seeking Sponsorship

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CoMING SOON

Santa Teresa

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Montezuma

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Mal Pais

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Hermosa

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Manzanillo

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Cabuya

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Surfing is defined as follows by the ISA:

• Any sport in which the primary force that moves the participant’s surfing equipment, is a wave either of natural or artificial source.
• An activity on the waves on any type of equipment used for surfing.
• An activity in calm waters on any type of equipment used for surfing.

Disciplines Recognized by the ISA:

Surfboard:
Stand up surfboard riding
Divisions: Open, Junior and Women

Longboard:
Traditional Longer surfboard
Divisions: Open division only

Bodyboard:
Lying in various positions on a soft board. Rider might use swim fins.
Divisions: Open and Women

Kneeboard:
Kneeling surfboard riding. Rider might use
swim fins.
Division: Open division only

Skimboard:
Throwing the board from the beach into the incoming wave, jumping on the board, and surfing said wave. No paddling is involved. Recognized by the ISA but not included in the ISA World Surfing Games.

Bodysurf:
Surfing the wave by only using your body. Rider might use swim fins. Recognized by the ISA but not part of the ISA World Surfing Games.

Tandem:
Two people (a man and a woman) compete together on a single board.  Riders must demonstrate a series of technical lifts.

surfer lingo:

Cutback: Generating speed down the line and then turning up the face to reverse direction. Has the effect of slowing the rider down to keep up with slower wave sections that appear after a fast section, for example a drop in.

Floater: Popping up on the lip of the wave and coming down with the lip. Can be used at the end of a wave when the wave section is closing out. Very easy and popular on small waves.

Top-Turn: Simple turn off the top of the wave. Used sometimes to generate speed and sometimes to shoot spray.

Air / Aerial: Popping up over the lip into the air. Many types include ollies, lien airs, method airs, and other skateboard airs.

Bottom turn: The first turn at the bottom of the wave.

Caught inside: When a surfer is paddling out and cannot get past the breaking surf to the safer part of the ocean to find a wave.

Close-out: When the wave breaks in front of, or potentially on top of, the rider. A wave is said to be "closed-out" when the wave breaks at every position along the face at once.

Drop in: Dropping into (engaging) the wave, most often as part of standing up.

Duck dive: Pushing the board underwater, nose first, and diving under an oncoming wave instead of riding it.

Goofy foot: Left foot on back of board.

Over the falls: When a surfer falls and the wave carries him in a circular motion with the lip of the wave, also referred to as the "wash cycle", being "pitched over" and being "sucked over" because the wave can suck the surfer off of the bottom and draw him or her "over the falls."

Wipe Out: Falling off your surfboard while riding a wave. Accident while involved with surfing.

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