The above footage is of Gilbert Brown; Costa Rican native, professional surfer and Pura Vida No Pro volunteer. Gilbert showed up at the PVNP fresh off a third place finish in the Pan American games. As a Central American surfer he is making a serious run at the ASP world tour, which would be a phenomenal accomplishment. Gilbert is a local surfing star and in the midst of fielding tons of attention for his performance at the pan-am games, was amazing in the way he interacted with the kids. And though the video above shows more of his touchy feely side, we have some footage of this guy ripping some head high Las Olas beach break. Stay tuned to the film for more...
The event went off very nice, with a number of kids getting up on their first waves. Marvin, one of the veteran campers, became the first kid from Casa De Suenos orphanage to enter the contest. He was part of the winning team and paddled in to a huge crew of fellow kids who came down to the water to meet him and congratulate him. Pretty rad.
OPP is very lucky to have been invited on this project and I think we can do it justice. There were dozens of volunteers from Charleston, Arizona, California, and I think every local surfer in the Jaco, CR area showed up to help.
The thing I hope we can get across in this video is that these folks flat have a good time while doing this. That it is an easy thing to build into an action sports or eco-vacation. Help a kid get up on a wave.
These guys come to Costa Rica, catch waves, have surf-rock star parties and they laugh -- a lot. But when those kids climb off that bus, it becomes a bonding experience and sheer fun and games for all. We first met Marvin at the orphanage our first day in San Jose and when asked about the PVNP, his shy response was "it is the best day of the year".
A huge shout out to Chuck H. for his phenomenal camera work and great attitude, Timo, the crew at Los Alos, Michael and Marcel, and all the people showing some big love and catching some big waves.
The event went off very nice, with a number of kids getting up on their first waves. Marvin, one of the veteran campers, became the first kid from Casa De Suenos orphanage to enter the contest. He was part of the winning team and paddled in to a huge crew of fellow kids who came down to the water to meet him and congratulate him. Pretty rad.
OPP is very lucky to have been invited on this project and I think we can do it justice. There were dozens of volunteers from Charleston, Arizona, California, and I think every local surfer in the Jaco, CR area showed up to help.
The thing I hope we can get across in this video is that these folks flat have a good time while doing this. That it is an easy thing to build into an action sports or eco-vacation. Help a kid get up on a wave.
These guys come to Costa Rica, catch waves, have surf-rock star parties and they laugh -- a lot. But when those kids climb off that bus, it becomes a bonding experience and sheer fun and games for all. We first met Marvin at the orphanage our first day in San Jose and when asked about the PVNP, his shy response was "it is the best day of the year".
A huge shout out to Chuck H. for his phenomenal camera work and great attitude, Timo, the crew at Los Alos, Michael and Marcel, and all the people showing some big love and catching some big waves.
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