July 24th, 2008
Somewhere in Nicaragua
Now that the 2008 contest season is over, we’d like to congratulate our overall champions. For the Nationals and Junior Nationals, the Champ is none other than Young Rex “La Bestia” Calderon. For the International division, Luis Chamorro took home the honors. It was a clean sweep for the SJDS boys this year who all take home gold Rolex’s! (Second place gets steak knives) We’ll see ya again next year.
Hi folks, this is Roberto “Lucha Libre” Garcia bringing you the action from the beach. Today the swell was supposed to pick up, so we headed out to the beach early in the morning and we scored some fun waves with no crowd. It was head high with some over head sets coming through, the wind was off shore but it was overcast making it tough for photos. Check out what we got this morning.
The man of the day was Rex “La Bestia” Calderon who paddled out there and was destroying every single wave he caught. Check out what he did after this shot of him so proud with the last four trophies he got from the last contest at Popoyo, where he got the tittles as the best junior surfer in the country and as well as the best national surfer in Nicaragua. For complete contest coverage, click on the above photo.
No even close to show all that he got, he was practicing some aerials. Here I caught him with his signature move.
Juan “La Mosca” De la Perra is trying to follow Rex’s steps but he still has a lot work to do. Check him out going big with a late take off on this nice looking left.
Luis “La Baloy” Chamorro was part of the show out there today and was having so much fun with his friends. There were only about 6 guys out making it easy to do what you wanted to do. Here is “La Baloy” setting up for the barrel.
Here we have Rodolfo “Calibilly” Villareal who lately was doing pretty well in the last two contests we had. I think he will be one of the guys to beat the next year in the upcoming contests.
There were some empty waves that rolled in with nobody on. Here is one of them to prove it.
The last shot of the day we have “La Bestia” Calderon with a sick snap. The swell is still building for the next few days, so we might score some fun ones. Until them!!!
RECENT REPORTS
Hey everyone! Welcome to Tuesday’s surf report from Panga Drops. The waves were really fun this morning. This week should be the best we’ve had in some time.
Hey everyone! Welcome to Monday’s surf report from Pangas. The waves were even bigger today than yesterday which was interesting. The wind was more problematic today, but there were some reasonable windows.
Howdy everyone! Welcome to Sunday’s surf report from Panga Drops. Today the 18 sec secondary swell kicked in and made for some fun waves. The wind was also lighter today.
FROM THE ARCHIVES
Hi folks, we’ve got Lucha here with the surf report for today. After almost 2 weeks with no waves we have a new swell in the water today. It’s running about head high to overhead on sets and the wind is offshore. Check it out.
Now for those of you who’ve never been to PV – it’s INSANE this time of year. Think Spring Break meets Mardi Gras meets Disney World, at the beach. I’ve never seen so many people walking around the Malecon. Hot Carl and I felt it would be a shame to come all the way here..
Lots of waves today, but not lots of pictures. We have overhead sets and offshore winds today at 4748’s. It was super fun, just take our word for it. We’ve got a fading swell tomorrow.