No Canadians at this year’s World Surfing Games
The following letter was written by John Fluke, President of the Canadian Surfing Association (CSA):
Due to economic conditions, the Canadian Surfing Association will not be sending a team to the Billabong ISA World Surfing Games in Costa Rica this July and August.
Over the past five years, Canada has fielded a team at both the Quiksilver ISA World Junior Championship and the ISA World Surfing Games.
Financial sponsorship from Mazda has been used to help offset the cost of sending the best Canadian surfers to these games.
Prior to Mazda’s involvement, Canada would send a team not based on the best surfers but who could afford to go. However, with Mazda’s sponsorship over the last few years, Canada has been able to send the best. This has paid off with Canada moving from the mid 30’s in international ranking to the low 20’s.
Unfortunately, Mazda has been forced to pull its sponsorship due to the worldwide economic meltdown.
We at the CSA hope this is only a small setback and we are working on finding other corporate sponsors for 2010.
John Fluke
CSA President
Reader Comments
hola john ,
we have been livining in cr for 19 yrs ,and have been surfing 34 yrs,
we would like to help get a hoser team together,i realize the sponser issues and economic melt down is a major issue ,but we have a plan ,,due to the fact that cr is very close to canada ,and there are a few canadain charghers livining down here ,with casas and transportation trucks for the dream team iam sure we could figure something out ,we would be willing to pay for 4 cheep tickets to your best riders 2 from each side or whatevever ,and we could find 4 down here ,no worries ,also we know this place inside and out ,
i hope to see canada in this event
pura vida
tomas
Hi Tomas,
My name is Reed Holmes and I am the editor of ScotiaSurfer.com. I am also a member of the Surfers Association of Nova Scotia (SANS), which organizes contests and is involved in surf development. SANS is having a meeting this week, and I will bring up your amazing offer. I’ll be in touch. Thanks!
Reed
P.S. Do you have an email address we can reach you at?