Asociación Geselina de Surf

A year in the making of Olas del Alma. From Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica, to Cape Town, SA. To Argentina and San Francisco California and back to PV. What a wond...erful voyage with wonderful people and their contributions to this cause. We are for ever grateful to all. The kids are stoked and can't wait to get back out there. Another day, another year! Surf Therapy Olas del Alma. Aguas Claras Horacio Pereda Elisabeth Steinvorth Eddie Donnellan Janine Milne Maira Pinto Hershel Lewis

A Wise Surfer: It was just after a January storm in 1953, and the waves were epic. With other adrenaline-charged young surfers, 16-year-old Ricky Grigg caravane...d up the coast from Santa Monica to Rincon. Racing with his board into the roar of the waves, he had an epiphany: This was more than a sport, and the ocean was more than a playground. He said It was like discovering your destiny. Born in Los Angeles, Richard and his sister were raised by their mother in a Santa Monica beach house once occupied by the actress Mary Pickford. Their parents had divorced and their grandfather purchased the rundown home. Two blocks from Santa Monica Pier, on the boardwalk next to Muscle Beach, the Pacific Ocean was his playground and Buzzy Trent’s lifeguard tower rested in front of it. Befriending Buzzy, they would travel to Tijuana and watch the bullfights. After each fight, if the matador did a good job, he’d stand there and look at the crowd and throw his arms and head back arching his body. Grigg made that his signature move on the waves of the North Shore. Entering college, Grigg headed north to attend Stanford. After earning a degree in biology, he felt a brief sense of freedom to permit him a short hiatus. At last, he traveled to Hawaii. Loving the islands, but longing to see more, he took a job as a shipmate on the Maunawanui, earning his keep while sailing to Tahiti. Returning to Hawaii to attend the University of Hawaii, he earned his Master’s degree in Oceanography. From there he checked out of surfing for further education. Then he got an invitation. It was an invitation to compete in the Duke Kahanamoku Invitational. When he got his invitation, Grigg was in San Diego, at Scripps, hitting the oceanography books, cranking on a PhD. Stepping off the plane the day before the contest (looking pale and bookish, according to SURFER), having not surfed the North Shore in two years, he was definitely an underdog. Not knowing how the surf would be until his hotel bus rolled over the hill, he could see a ton of whitewater at Avalanche. The waves at Sunset were huge. Greg Noll called it the best day of the year; maybe the best day I’ve ever seen at Sunset. Two Duke competitors bailed out. Rusty Miller broke his leg.. Grigg paddled calmly way past the other guys, caught one way way out there, and went left, fading. Brought it back around and went right where everybody was sitting. He had the wave for about 200 yards by the time he passed them. Kahuna smiled and sent him another flawless hard-west wave. Grigg nailed it. Won the thing going away. That year, Surfing magazine named him the top surfer in the world. On top of that, Duke Kahanamoku paid Grigg a lasting compliment: Ricky, you really understand the ocean. At that moment, Grigg later said, I felt my strategy of life of surfing, of oceanography all come together. Grigg then continued his studies at Scripps Institution of Oceanography where he was one of the aquanauts aboard the NASA-sponsored Sealab II - living 15 days in a 12-by-60-foot cylindrical steel chamber under the sea at a depth of 205 feet. Grigg also became one of the world's leading experts on coral ecology. In the process he confirmed one of Charles Darwin's theories about the origin of tropical islands - explaining why islands drown at the northwestern end of the Hawaiian Islands. At its northwest reaches, the Darwin Point is a latitude at which, for various reasons, the growth of coral colonies slows and the volcanic islands built upon them start to drown. Grigg also explored volcanic activity beneath the waters off Hawaii’s Big Island. In 1971, he and an associate dived into a sea steaming with molten lava from the Mauna Ulu volcano. Dodging a layer of scalding water and streams of cascading lava, they came upon a twisting, ropy tangle of exploding volcanic debris winding downslope like a dying dragon. We decided to collect a couple of samples, take a dozen or so quick pictures and then get the hell out of there, Grigg wrote. They were the first divers in history to witness such a spectacle. Having lived his life as a champion surfer, professor and renowned scientist, Ricky Grigg passed away in 2014 with his wife at his side on the island that he loved. Photographer: Don James

Great news Ali! Gracias Fernando Aguerre.

A Wise Surfer: It was just after a January storm in 1953, and the waves were epic. With other adrenaline-charged young surfers, 16-year-old Ricky Grigg caravane...d up the coast from Santa Monica to Rincon. Racing with his board into the roar of the waves, he had an epiphany: This was more than a sport, and the ocean was more than a playground. He said It was like discovering your destiny. Born in Los Angeles, Richard and his sister were raised by their mother in a Santa Monica beach house once occupied by the actress Mary Pickford. Their parents had divorced and their grandfather purchased the rundown home. Two blocks from Santa Monica Pier, on the boardwalk next to Muscle Beach, the Pacific Ocean was his playground and Buzzy Trent’s lifeguard tower rested in front of it. Befriending Buzzy, they would travel to Tijuana and watch the bullfights. After each fight, if the matador did a good job, he’d stand there and look at the crowd and throw his arms and head back arching his body. Grigg made that his signature move on the waves of the North Shore. Entering college, Grigg headed north to attend Stanford. After earning a degree in biology, he felt a brief sense of freedom to permit him a short hiatus. At last, he traveled to Hawaii. Loving the islands, but longing to see more, he took a job as a shipmate on the Maunawanui, earning his keep while sailing to Tahiti. Returning to Hawaii to attend the University of Hawaii, he earned his Master’s degree in Oceanography. From there he checked out of surfing for further education. Then he got an invitation. It was an invitation to compete in the Duke Kahanamoku Invitational. When he got his invitation, Grigg was in San Diego, at Scripps, hitting the oceanography books, cranking on a PhD. Stepping off the plane the day before the contest (looking pale and bookish, according to SURFER), having not surfed the North Shore in two years, he was definitely an underdog. Not knowing how the surf would be until his hotel bus rolled over the hill, he could see a ton of whitewater at Avalanche. The waves at Sunset were huge. Greg Noll called it the best day of the year; maybe the best day I’ve ever seen at Sunset. Two Duke competitors bailed out. Rusty Miller broke his leg.. Grigg paddled calmly way past the other guys, caught one way way out there, and went left, fading. Brought it back around and went right where everybody was sitting. He had the wave for about 200 yards by the time he passed them. Kahuna smiled and sent him another flawless hard-west wave. Grigg nailed it. Won the thing going away. That year, Surfing magazine named him the top surfer in the world. On top of that, Duke Kahanamoku paid Grigg a lasting compliment: Ricky, you really understand the ocean. At that moment, Grigg later said, I felt my strategy of life of surfing, of oceanography all come together. Grigg then continued his studies at Scripps Institution of Oceanography where he was one of the aquanauts aboard the NASA-sponsored Sealab II - living 15 days in a 12-by-60-foot cylindrical steel chamber under the sea at a depth of 205 feet. Grigg also became one of the world's leading experts on coral ecology. In the process he confirmed one of Charles Darwin's theories about the origin of tropical islands - explaining why islands drown at the northwestern end of the Hawaiian Islands. At its northwest reaches, the Darwin Point is a latitude at which, for various reasons, the growth of coral colonies slows and the volcanic islands built upon them start to drown. Grigg also explored volcanic activity beneath the waters off Hawaii’s Big Island. In 1971, he and an associate dived into a sea steaming with molten lava from the Mauna Ulu volcano. Dodging a layer of scalding water and streams of cascading lava, they came upon a twisting, ropy tangle of exploding volcanic debris winding downslope like a dying dragon. We decided to collect a couple of samples, take a dozen or so quick pictures and then get the hell out of there, Grigg wrote. They were the first divers in history to witness such a spectacle. Having lived his life as a champion surfer, professor and renowned scientist, Ricky Grigg passed away in 2014 with his wife at his side on the island that he loved. Photographer: Don James

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Great news Ali! Gracias Fernando Aguerre.

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