Dear friends of the surfing world,

It is my pleasure to get in touch with all of you again with this new edition of the World Surfing News. I’m sure you will enjoy it while learning about surfing in all the nations of our tribe.

Almost a month has passed since the last day of the fifth edition of the Quiksilver ISA World Junior Surfing Championships, and I still have the wonderful memories of those excellent days in Portugal. I want to thank the Portuguese people including the organizers that allowed us to have those great 12 days of friendship and surfing.

We shared our lives with brothers and sisters from different countries, cultures, races and religions, all having the common passion and stoke we have for riding waves, respecting the environment, all in a climate of the peace so much needed in the world.

After more than 40 years of history, the International Surfing Association continues in its path of permanent improvement. The ISA is about to announce the hosting nation for the 2008 Quiksilver ISA World Junior Championship. Meanwhile, we are looking forward to going to Peru for the ISA 2008 Masters World Championship. The event will be at the end of March 2008. Then will be meeting again to crown the best surfers in the world over 35 and returning to the waves where the second World Surfing Championship in history took place, where Felipe Pomar was crowned champion: the magnificent Punta Rocas.

Looking at each edition of the World Surfing News, it is easy to realize that we are working together and motivating the accelerated growth in surfing in all corners of the world. We can see the increasing activities that are carried out in those countries where surfing is a traditional sport and mainly the huge steps in motion in those countries where surfing is in fact an incipient activity and resources are scarce.

New surf magazines, national championships carried in countries without a coastline and that are organized in countries that do have one; surfers that manage to stand out struggling against all possible obstacles; concern and actions to clean our beaches and protect our oceans and make this a better word. A world in which tomorrow, our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, will be able to surf and have a good life.

Let’s keep it doing it. We’ll see you in the next edition of WSN.
 

Un muy fuerte abrazo

Fernando Aguerre

President, International Surfing Association

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