18 to 19 July
Koizumi Beach, Miyagi

Hiroto Arai won the 2010 Junior Open Surfing Championship. The Junior event took place at Miyagi. The wave conditions were not good enough for competition but all junior surfers showed a great level of surfing. Especially Hiroto Arai, who won the event and displayed world-class surfing.

He placed 2nd at the NSA event in May. This result was taken as the revenge of Hiroto. He has already decided not to participate in the 2010 Billabong ISA World Surfing Games. Nonetheless, the NSA is expecting to have a Japanese surfer on the podium this year. 

25 to 29 August
Kawarago Beach, Ibaraki

In August, the biggest surfing event in Japan, known as All Japan Surfing Championship, will take place. It is expected that one thousand participants from all over Japan will gather on the beach for the Championship.

The AJSC 2010 will last 5 days and take place in Ibaragi prefecture, on North Kawarago beach. 10,000 amateur surfers are expected to compete in the qualifying rounds and 1,000 qualifiers will get tickets to the event. We are keeping our eyes on who will be the champion this summer.