Source: Venezuelan Surfing Federation  

Waves of triumph at UCV
Members of the Venezuelan surfing team visited the swimming-pool complex at the Sports Center of the Central Venezuelan University (UCV Spanish Acronym) on June 26th .

The objective of this visit was to instruct the national team on new resistance techniques in moments of pressure.  This workshop was administered by renowned apneist Carlos Coste, who apart from specializing in the aforementioned discipline, is also one of Venezuela’s surfing coaches. 

The diver instructed more than thirty surfers who aspire to become a part of the team that will compete in the Billabong ISA World Surfing Games 2009 in Playa Hermosa, Jaco, Costa Rica this August.

Preliminary National Team Exercises in Foreign Element

Continuing the overall training that is being carried out by the Technical Staff of the national surfing preliminary team, our tritons and sirens climbed up the “natural lung” of the city of Caracas, the Avila National Park.
Gerhard Weil, the team coach, was in charge of directing the trekking to Sabas Nieves and then continued with a coaching exercise applying Neuro-Linguistic Programming – (NLP) techniques.  This consisted in previewing mentally their objectives through the Optimal Flow Ritual Neuro-Synergy technique in order to bind the union, confidence and conviction of the national team.  Our athletes visualized specific points on a technical and tactical level in their road towards the world surfing championship in Costa Rica.

Guided by Weil’s instructions, they placed themselves in the logical sequence of situations that they are to undergo, beginning when they board the plane towards their destination, going through the team parade where they wear the traditional “liquiliqui” costume with our tricolor flag undulating, continuing with their respective heats imagining perfect waves, doing radical maneuvers and obtaining magnificent scores, to finally end in the winner’s podium with a possible team Gold Medal leaving Venezuela at the top. 

After this, each one of the athletes was interviewed as part of a documentary-type audiovisual that has been in production since the beginning of the training sessions.  The day concluded with the normal exercise routine with the assistance of the physical trainer Giussepe Ferri with an innovative stretching and flexibility exercise in which each part of their bodies was elongated.

Although our athletes were in a different environment, they showed great physical aptitude since most of them took from 18 to 27 minutes to climb the peak and one could also observe the great unity they showed as a team. They shared one common goal, which is having the best performance than any other national team in the history of Venezuelan surf.


EVOLUTION TC Supports Venezuelan Team
Thanks to the EVOLUTION Training Center gym, members of our National Surfing Team will be pleasantly favored and will obtain a constant and unending improvement in their health and well being, through attention by a group of professionals that include dietitians, physical therapists and coaches that will work in consonance with the technical program assigned by the Venezuelan Surf Federation.

They have created a plan that was designed so that our athletes manage to reach an optimal integration between the body, mind and spirit elements in order to yield their best performance in the upcoming competitions.

This new sponsorship was obtained after talks between the Federation and Mr. Carlos Amador, representative of EVOLUTION TC, which has state-of-the-art installations.  This gym is located at Av. Central de Playa Grande, CC. Sol Marino Center, Nivel Feria Local NF-4, Urbanization Playa Grande, Vargas State.

About the International Surfing Association (ISA)
The International Surfing Association (ISA) is recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as the World Governing Authority for Surfing. It was originally founded as the International Surfing Federation in 1964 and has been running world championships since 1964 and the Junior World Championships since 1980.

ISA membership includes the surfing National Governing Bodies (NGBs) of over 50 countries on six continents. Its headquarters are located in La Jolla, California. It is presided by Fernando Aguerre, first elected in 1994 in Rio, and re-elected six times since. The ISA's four Vice Presidents are Alan Atkins (Australia), Robin de Kock (South Africa), Mike Gerard (USA) and Karín Sierralta (Peru).

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