Magnum martinez between El Salvador, MExico and Brazil

Source: Surfpress

The Quiksilver Pro Punta Roca-El Salvador 2007 will be the next mission for the Venezuelan surfer Magnum Martinez. From May the 31^st to June the 3^rd Magneto will attend to this traditional event that Mr. Jimmy Rotherham has been organizing from many years now. This event gathers a select group of Latin American surfers and four of the members of the Quiksilver USA team.

During last May, Martinez was surfing and taking photos in Brazil with Peter Mendia and Wesley de Souza and with former Transworld Surf Magazine photographer, Seth Stafford. They stayed most of the time in Rio de Janeiro but they also visited the main walls of the Bossa nova’s country. The pictures could be seen in the mentioned magazine.

Hermanos II

After competing in El Salvador, Mr. Magneto will join the Reef team in Mexico to shoot the images of “Hermanos II”, which is the second part of the DVD where Reef shows from the inside the most pure Latin American surfing spirit. Martin Passeri (Argentina), Gary Saavedra (Panama), Luisma Iturria (Uruguay) and Kalle Carranza (Mexico) will be some of the surfers that Magnum will join in aztecas lands.

“We will be in Mexico shooting Brothers II, and I’m sure this will be quite an event. In the first part we had a lot of fun and I think it will be the same this time. Mexico is an amazing place, what can I say about its people and its waves that has not been said before?” Said Martinez on a telephone conversation to Surfpress.

Brazil and a new stop of the ALAS tour

Thrilled with his last victory in the ALAS tour in Ecuador last March, Magnum Martinez will come back to Brazil but this time as a competitor. The Río Latin Pro Surf 2007 will have 6 stars category and it will be the fifth day of the ALAS tour. It will take place in Prainha, July 6-8.

Magnum is currently 6^th on the ALAS ranking, his triumph in the Reef Classic Latin Pro Montañita (Ecuador) proves his class and talent in competition. He could make clear that he is always a rival to consider.

“I have been training a lot and I feel really good. I’m very pleased with my surfing and my physical condition and that is something I have been working on all this year long. It’s still a long way in the ALAS tour and it’s always good to win not to be far away from the first places”, said Martinez.

During the last few days the member of the Quiksilver International team has been training in the most important spots of California, where he lives. Besides he had the chance to get the right quiver to take to El Salvador, Mexico and Brazil.

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