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Junior Training thinking of Ecuador 09 The training is taking place in Mar del Plata’s waves at Biología beach, Playa Grande. Sixteen surfers have started the training to be part of the team for the next big event in the Juniors schedule. The second training session will be carried out on Saturday, November 22. A championship will be organized with the participation of many surfers. In this first meeting, the candidates to become members of the Argentinean team were: Martín Carricart Maximilano “el Rulo” Prensky was the coach, while Alejandro Carricart and Horacio Ipucha assisted. The session started with a physical training with Silvio Pedro, a new Argentinean Team collaborator. After a warm-up and stretching, the surfers made aerobic and anaerobic exercises to improve their endurance. Then it was time to go into the water where the coach gave them different tasks. These exercises are aimed at improving their wave selection and their moves. The coach also wanted the athletes to understand the importance of taking advantage of the whole wave chosen and of choosing the critical moments to make their moves. The sessions require the surfers to be completely focused on the different tasks in order to fulfill their coach’s requirements. After two and a half hours of hard training, the surfers gathered together and celebrated the end of the first stage of training on their way to Ecuador. A positive outcome for Argentina in the ISA World Surfing Games Amazing heats were ridden and a spirit of union was in the air every minute of competition. All the members of the team enjoyed Caparica’s waves and they witnessed a great level of surfing. It was an important learning process. To be competing with the most important surfing powers in the world aroused in the team an enthusiasm to improve and to believe in them self again. It will be very hard to better oneself, a lot of organization and commitment will be necessary. The Argentinean Surfing Association is working on it, step by step. This year, three full Argentinean teams participated in three different World championships: the Masters at Punta Rocas, Peru, the Juniors at Capbreton, France and Open at Costa de Caparica, Portugal - something that seemed impossible at the beginning of this year. Leandro Usuna, member of the Open team said “It’s great to see the high level of surfing the ISA World Surfing Games shows. We know we can improve our level and that we have the potential to do it and to be among the eight best countries of the world, which gives us the inspiration to keep going for our future generations of surfers.” It’s true that Argentina has potential, it has the guts and it has 45 years of surfing in its beaches. That gives the Argentinean Surfing Association the strength to keep growing, creating serious and competitive circuits that will take them to the place they hope to soon achieve. The Argentinean Surf Team is sponsored by: Aeropuertos Argentina 2000 - Quiksilver - Rip Curl - Mohs Argentina Surf Team Open Surf: Martin Passeri, Maximiliano Siri, Leandro Usuna, Lucas Santamaria The International Oceanic Initiative aims at attracting the media and community attention about sea, waves, beaches, coasts and shores preservation. It was organized as usual by the Surfrider Foundation. The 5th Argentinean Oceanic Initiative focused on the stone structures that are used to protect Mar del Plata’s coast. These structures are destroying the swells without taking into account its recreational and tourist aspects, and the negative impact it causes in the environment. More signatures were collected for the campaign: “More stones? No, thanks”. The signatures will be presented to the OPDS managed by the Lic. Ana Corbi. In addition, workshops to talk about this and another aspects of the problem that affects Mar del Plata’s coasts were organized. The pollution of the coast at the north of Mar del Plata caused by the sewage waste and the drag of rainwater is getting worse because the water is blocked in the stone heaps. The contradictions of the local policies make the matter worse. The local government declared Mar del Plata the “Surf capital city” but at the same time they allow the building of the stone structures that destroy the natural scenarios that are needed to practice surfing. The use of these stone structures and breakwaters has been replaced for new technologies against coastal erosion in the rest of the world. Costa Rica, for example, has a 250 million dollar income per year thanks to surfing. And that’s why they protect their coasts that are considered a vital resource that benefits the whole community. Costa de Caparica, in Portugal, which was the ISA World Surfing Games 2008 venue, had Almada city council’s support because of the economical benefit surfing implied for the city. Almost 40.000.000 people watched the games on-line and on TV and that was a great international tourist promotion for the city. The 5th Oceanic Initiative 2008 was a positive way of protesting against these problems. It caught the community and their authority’s attention. Many people related to surf and not so related to it participated in the Initiative. Surfrider Argentina wants to thank to Aeropuertos Argentina 2000, Camarón Brujo, Quiksilver, Surf Addiction, Timex and Xtorsion for participating in this new edition of the 5th Oceanic Initiative 2008. About International Surfing Association
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