By Erick Fonseca – Venezuelan Surfing Federation

The performance of our athletes in the opening of the Central American Surfing Triple Crown in El Salvador was as spectacular as expected since Venezuela obtained five medals: Francisco “Lolo” Bellorin won the gold in the Open division, Jesus Chacon won silver in the Junior and in Longboard, Ronald Reyes, Armando Colucci and Giancarlo Marin obtained gold, silver and copper respectively.

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Venezuelan surfers Magnum Martinez and Julio Nurse showed a great display of courage, high performance surfing and intelligence in their respective heats, during the 2010 Quiksilver Pro Puerto Escondido. Both faced heavy wave conditions and succeeded in their efforts, making it to the 5th round and showing that Venezuelan surfers are also good in big surf.

Article published 2 August 

Last weekend was full of activities for the national surf team as the Venezuelan Surfing Federation continues to prepare its athletes.  The cut in the preselected Open Men and Open Women categories took place on Saturday while the Masters and Juniors had special training on Sunday.

Fido Lido beach in Vargas State was the meeting point and presented great wave conditions in the 3 to 4 foot range.

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Last Saturday on the 4th of July, taking advantage of a small swell that hit the Venezuelan coastline, the Technical Body of the National Team called the preselected Juniors, as well as the preselected Open Men and Women athletes to a training session.

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Under the tutorship of Mr. Gaetano Lauro, the International Surfing Association ministered a course for judges, with the participation of several judges, athletes and some interested outsiders that obtained their accreditation as Level 1 Judges.

The course took place in the Francisco de Miranda hall of the Los Caracas Vacation City.  It lasted 8 hours during which the participants had their doubts cleared and reinforced their information and knowledge as to how to judge the performance of athletes in the water.

Ronald Golindano, one of the most experienced judges in Venezuela, has been called to participate in the next Billabong ISA World Surfing Games that will take place in Peru in late October. 

Our sincere sympathies to the family of Athlete Denis Rangel, in the certainty that they are going through difficult times.  These lines are to offer them our support.

There is nothing we can say to mitigate the pain, death is a certainty, but we never get used to it.  It is best to remember him for what he was: a great human being, athlete and friend. 

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Thanks to the valuable support of the La Guaira Sports Gym, the members of the preselected National Surfing Team exercise and train in their installations for their future participation in upcoming international competitions. 

In charge of these workouts is Alejandro Perez, fitness coach of the National Team.  The program focuses on cardiovascular resistance and muscular toning.  The latter is carried out in state-of-the-art equipment belonging to the gym.