Surf from the Last Swell at Playa Hermosa

Here is a video from the site of the World Surfing Games in Playa Hermosa Costa Rica. Its from last week's big swell and was taken at the contest site at the Terrazza. The games started today with a parade of the teams in Jaco. My apologies, some of the video is a little shaky...but you can see the swell packed some punch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLSJvxi4lwQ

From Family in Colombia to Surf in Costa Rica

After three accidents and and some spanish lessons I've left Cali Colombia (and some of the world's most beautiful women) and am in Jaco Costa Rica near Playa Hermosa with a healthy swell pumping through the area.

With its notoriously tough immigration policies getting in to Costa Rica was tough! Costa Rica has implemented a new entry requirement that bears some discussion. If you are coming into Costa Rica from Central or South America you are required to have a yellow fever vaccination card. Its a yellow card that documents this shot. Whats worse is that after the shot you are suppose to wait 11 days for the results before entry will be allowed. In my case they wouldn't let me board in Cali.

There are a couple of ways around the system if you find yourself in this situation. In my case I cancelled my flight and booked a flight to Miami. I then booked a flight on another airline to Costa Rica. The next day I flew to Costa Rica and made it through immigration without any issues.

Someone also told me that you can fly to Panama and get the shot. For about $100.00 they willl back date the shot records.

New Surfboard Model on Surfboardbuilders.com - Larmo Squash

The new Larmo Squash is up and available. We don't have the pic up on the site yet but had a chance to stop Larmo's shaping room to snap a couple pictures for you here (thanks Mica!).

Here is the description of the board from Larmo himself:

At 5'3" this board has the volume of a 6' board. The added width and thickness along with the single to double concave bottom contour, low entry rocker, quad fins, and full shortboard rails makes for a super fast, super maneuverable board. This board does it all and unlike most fish performs great in the pocket, fits on the wave face, and performs much better top to bottom and backside.

Its Larmo's answer to the shorter, higher volume board trend popularized by world champ, Kelly Slater. The board comes stock with quad fins but you can set it up with tri or convertible 5's. You can tell from the pic that the lines look sweet!

Balls of Steel!

Here is some pretty insane tow-in footage from what must be Jaws. Don't have the info on the original source but Wow!

New Surfboard on Surfboardbuilders.com and Travel Update

Hello from Cali Colombia! I'm here for a few weeks of spanish lessons, visiting family (my wife is from Cali), seeing the country, and getting ready for a few weeks of surf in Costa Rica. So far its been great. The people here are exceptional and Cali...its full of life! Over the next few weeks I'll have more posts with videos and photos from different areas of Colombia.

BTW, we have some new boards coming on line and later more shapers. We don't have all the photos up yet but the boards are available to review and order. Most new ones we are seeing are along the lines of shorter boards similar in looks to those made in the early 80's and made popular again by Kelly Slater...of course the newer boards are much more refined. Regardless we love the direction and experimention going on. Doc Lausch has both an NDR and Lil Buddy. Up soon are the Larmo Squash and White Pony and shown below and available now is the Mitsven B-Tail Quad.


I'll get to demo a B-Tail Quad in Costa Rica and look forward to providing some feedback on it to you. Until the next post Hasta Luego!