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The Earthwave Global Surf Challenge is an initiative created by the Cape Town based Kahuna Surfing Academy that showcases the global nature of the surfing community, highlights their environmental concerns and issues a "call to action" on how we can reduce our impact on climate change.

By staging attempts on the Guinness World Record for the ‘most surfers riding one wave simultaneously’ on beaches worldwide on the first Sunday in September annually, Earthwave provides a platform for surfers of every age and ability to participate in an enjoyable group activity.

Leveraging the newsworthiness of world record attempts, Earthwave seeks to raise awareness of the threat of Global Warming and its effects on our oceans and waves while mobilizing the trendsetting surfing fraternity through practical advice on how to become part of the solution to the most devastating problem ever faced by mankind.




Global Warming is the greatest threat facing mankind today. We owe it to ourselves and future generations to learn more about this problem and then become proactive in reducing our impact on the environment. PAUL BOTHA



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31July 2007 | Brazil

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Surfistas ao redor do mundo vão participar, no mesmo dia e no mesmo horário, do I Earthwave, um desafio global de surfe, no qual se tentará em todos estes lugares quebrar o recorde mundial de o maior número de surfistas na mesma onda.

No Brasil, a Rico Promoções Esportivas foi convidada pela Surfing Academy of Kahuna para realizar o Earthwave Festival de Surfe EcoRodovias, que acontecerá em Santos, na data mundial de 2 de setembro, de 12h às 13h.

Responsável pela inclusão do surfe brasileiro duas vezes no livro dos recordes,em 2005, Rico organizou 42 surfistas na mesma onda durante o Petrobras Longboard Classic, estabelecendo nova marca mundial. No ano passado, Rico inovou novamente e estabeleceu nova marca mundial: a maior prancha surfada do mundo por um surfista, com 8,05 metros. Agora, ele pretende colocar mais de 100 surfistas pegando juntos a mesma onda.

"Acho muito importante essa mobilização mundial dos surfistas contra o aquecimento global e em prol do Meio-Ambiente. Afinal, nós dependemos da natureza e estamos nesta luta há muito tempo, e este tipo de evento vai ajudar a chamar ainda mais atenção para os problemas que estamos enfrentando, para tentarmos deixar um mundo melhor para nossos filhos", diz Rico de Souza.

Dessa vez a idéia é colocar pelo menos 100 surfistas numa mesma onda ao meio-dia do dia 2 de setembro, com transmissão ao vivo pela internet, aqui no site www.ricosurf.com

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Motivated by the immense interest in the record breaking attempt on the Guinness World Record for the ‘most surfers riding the same wave simultaneously’ in Cape Town in September 2006 and inspired by Al Gore’s film “An Inconvenient Truth”, the Kahuna Surfing Academy (KSA) created the Earthwave Global Surf Challenge.

Convinced that they could break the Guinness World Record for the ‘most surfers riding one wave simultaneously’ after the paltry total of 44 was confirmed as the new record by the Lahinch Surf School in May 2006, the duo of veteran watersports promoter Paul Botha and his son Dene, South Africa’s highest internationally qualified surf instructor, registered an attempt on the record with the GWR organisation in London.

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