A blood feud of sorts!
The noble profession of surf instruction is coming under attack in Costa Rica. Central America’s famously stable country, filled to the brim with yoga retreats, henna stalls, murderous expats hiding from the law is, by all accounts, a paradise. The perfect place for white girls to culturally appropriate cornrows or chubsters to learn how to surf.
Herein lies a major malfunction.
Greasy foreigners from the United States, Australia and New Zealand are backing packs, moving down and teaching wave sliding thereby stealing ceviche from baby Tico mouths.
So rude.
But the locals have decided enough is enough. Per an exciting new report, homegrown surf instructors are banding together to fight the invading devils. Per The Tico Times:
The movement, known as Surfistas Locales CR, is a non-political and non-religious civil society initiative dedicated to fighting for the employment rights of hundreds of Costa Rican surf instructors. Comprising Costa Ricans, residents, and naturalized citizens who adhere to all legal requirements for employment, the movement aims to promote decent work that contributes to the country’s development through compliance with social security and tax regulations.
Representatives from popular coastal communities such as Tamarindo, Negra, Hermosa, Avellanas, Guiones, Nosara, Santa Teresa, Jacó, Dominical, Dominicalito, and Pavones have come together under this initiative. The group of 87 instructors has launched a vigorous campaign to expose and address the issue of foreigners engaging in unauthorized surf instruction.
I hope the Surfistas Locales win both the battle and the war.
Burn all foreign surf instructors.
Everywhere in the world.
Burn all surf instructors
Good call Costa rica, line the cunts up and shoot them all
One of our President’s Club trips was to Costa Rica. That is when I knew the place was smoked. I like the Waikiki surf instructors the best. The 12′ foam boards with “Dive Oahu” on them really upped my game. I now am riding a 14′ epoxy airplane wing that has a samurai sword on the bottom, it’s basically a sit-down SUP foil. My skills are getting better. Everyone keeps calling me “Coug” or something like that so they must think I’m cool.
playboy, hustler, and mad magazines…
Imagine the USA government protecting the jobs of its citizens against foreigners. Yeah never
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I was a surf instructor once. I remember those 18mins before sending a group of four inexperienced German expats to their watery graves, or so I thought.
Alas! They survived, somehow crossed the Atlantic ocean clinging on to the rudder of a ship by compromising three of the four rented soft-tops, tying all four leashes together to avoid getting sucked into the ship’s propeller and they fucking surfed the wake of that ship towards the sunny shores of Venezuela where they were picked off one by one by awaiting Oceanic white-tip sharks__ who were not amused by the lack of fat covering their bones.. it turned into a thrashing-frenzy to obtain the butt-cheeks.
But, all in all.. mission accomplished.
They rode a 42h hours wave … quite a lot of bang for their buck.
Soft-top deposits were not refunded.
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Well, the VAL zombies finally reached their apex where blaming the collateral damage of their own industry threatened their industry.
Imagine parasites questioning each other pointing fingers.
nothing a good dose of ivermectin can’t take care of.
kelly did not take any obvs – out of Supertubos!!!!
Translation of the article: A bunch of expat gringos that moved to CR 10-20 years ago, paid the tens of thousands to gain residency or citizenship just to live the pura vida lifestyle are mad that younger and hotter gringos are trying to do the same now. CR was ruined when we last went in 2012. We found Nicaragua to be half the price, waves just as good and the winds offshore more often. The food is crap in both countries but fortunately the Italian expats brought their wood fire pizza, handmade pasta and espresso skills.
I will never forget “Nachos as big as your ass” in Tamagringo. Basically the food is shit from Mexico through to Peru. Deep fry everything and no flavour but oil.
I think all the Central American cultures put ketchup in their ceviche. Nasty as fuck!
avos from mex? haas is vta~
they absolutely do not
Costa Rica….check. Nica….check. Panama….check. I haven’t been to The Salvador or Guatemala or Honduras so I’ll rephrase my assertion to “ half the Central American countries put ketchup in their ceviche. Nasty as fuck”. I’ll add Ecuador and Colombia to the list which is close enough to CA.
1990, a month in CR w/ best friend and no one else to supervise/chaperone, wasn’t even old enough to vote, before cell phones and internets and forecasts – didn’t even realize we were in the heart of south swell season, just thought spots in CR always had lines stacked to the horizon. Two of us were totally on our own, didn’t know shit, couldn’t rent a car, just looking for waves. Met some random dude who had driven his Bronco from FL all the way around down to CR. Shacking up with a local lady in Jaco. Paid him a few bucks to take us down to dominical and other points south of the Jaco/Hermosa region for a few days. Surfed some epic little waves by ourselves. Got his Bronco stuck on the beach when the tide came in too high. Got stopped by federales carrying ARs in the middle of nowhere, dawned on us that we could be massacred and wouldn’t be discovered for weeks. Have not a single photo from that trip, just the memories of untouched jungle and waves, and the inside of pitch black lava-sand sucking barrels at Hermosa, and some dude named Carlos whose family owned the little no hot water or toilet seat place where we slept a few nights in Jaco absolutely murdering 6 foot hollow beach break like it was a 2 foot day at Trestles. He saw my first wave on the first afternoon we were there when it was pumping and told his sister that I was pretty good, which she told me a day or two later while helping me wash some clothes back at their little hotel. Turned into the world’s biggest kook over the years but still remember that, lol. Pura vida back when it was still pretty pure.
tripping like Zen!
Was down there a few years earlier. The French cook at playa negra had an amazing seafood menu. Agree with the food otherwise though.
Far right gives new meaning to “Sag”
cote’ voted Dane up!
It’s the national pastime
City of Ventura Historic Context Statement – Draft for Historic Preservation Committee Review
HISTORIC RESOURCES GROUP
Map of the Mission Quadrangle, 1855.
Source: USGS as illustrated in Engelhardt, San Buenaventura, The Mission by the Sea.
quadrangle with smaller church buildings and enclosing a plaza. A dedication was held to
commemorate the church’s completion on September 9, 1809 and the first liturgical services
took place on September 10.52
In addition to the Mission’s physical construction and operations, the interior of the church
also represented the significant use and exploitation of Chumash labor. The interior was
richly decorated with impressive works of art painted by Chumash artisans. Spanish
explorers centuries ago had made note of the Chumash’s use of lavish color, which was later
translated into the religious iconography found in the mission church. The Chumash created
their paints using mineral substances from the region, including cinnabar, diatomaceous
earth, burned graphite, charcoal, and natural asphalt tars.53 In particular, many of the interior
walls of Mission San Buenaventura were painted by Juan Pacifico, an accomplished
Chumash artist and musician. Pacifico created paint from the fruit of the native red tuna
cactus, using either egg whites or pitch as a binder, and brushes made from the tail of a small
animal or a DUCK…GO
I’m Pro Surfistas Locales CR. Keep the Gringos out. How long did those wack ass WSL branded AirBnB experiences last?
I have chunks of non-local Surf Instructors in my stool…
Surf instructing – the world’s oldest profession!
City of Ventura Historic Context Statement – Draft for Historic Preservation Committee Review
HISTORIC RESOURCES GROUP
Significant infrastructure improvements completed during the mission era include the
construction of an aqueduct to create a permanent water supply for the area.60 Aqueducts
and other waterworks were constructed throughout the mission system in the early 19 th
century. Based on historic data surrounding the development of the Mission, it appears that
the San Buenaventura Aqueduct was likely constructed between approximately 1792 and
1815. In addition to the construction of the aqueduct, there is also speculation that there was
a master mason at the mission in the mid-1790s and that a mill building was erected in 1802
to power the operation
jim the pimp…
Oh yeah I was an instructor in Nosara for a bit. Woops.
Did you hook up with a yoga instructor?
Ha, that wouldn’t be hard. All they want to do is yoga at sunup then a short session in the waves (sitting on the board is all they want to do anyway) then go in before the sun gets too high in the sky and fries everything.
great food nearby.
What i remember was they put molasses on the road to keep the dust down. So if you get real hungry, just get a knife and fork and eat the road!
waste oil?
Lots of sugar cane, I guess they gotta do something with it. Makes for sticky sandals when you walk on it thats for sure.
accident report. spill report later…lab. could take years/
Yeah it was pretty easy. Great tips from cashed up yanks. And some real juicy money if you got in tight with them – some guys and gals I knew were flown around the world as personal surf coaches.
Fully get the Ticos blowing up about gringos stealing jobs, but back when I was doing it there was prob a 50/50 mix of local and foreign coaches. Everyone got on pretty well.
another great Doris Day hit:
Nosara, Sara….whatever will be will be
the future’s not ours to seeeeee………Nosara, Sara
Nope and nope.
Pretty easy to catch the gringos red handed I would have thought.
red head match?
Sweden’s greatest export after abba.