Thanks to G Love, Safari, donators like Ray Moss who supplied this picture in the intro.
Category: Surfboards
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Pao Barrera details purpose of the Triple Crown of Surf Nosara hosted by Asociacion de Surf Nosara + ideas on how to help
Long time friend Pao Barrera dropped in for her first Nosara Podcast episode to explain the purpose & intentions for Triple Crown of Surf Nosara contests plus explain how & why the Asociacion de Surf Nosara is asking for support from the local community & visitors.
Pao is pleasure to be around, and it is fun to see her growing family evolve while she continues to be a pillar in the community.
She serves as vice president for the Asociacion de Surf Nosara & their main objective is to unite people through surfing to make a difference in the community for a greater good.
They are paying prize $ to winners plus they are getting local children involved in the festivities. They are asking for people to come join in on the fun plus consider anything and everything from financial to gift donations which may help serve as prizes & or benefit local kids. Some local leaders of the surf community are assisting Dreamcatchers Foundation on a regular basis & overall the Asociacion is committed to uniting the community through surfing.
*There’s several ‘Rich rants’ in this episode pertaining to community items; especially about empowering the local Tico populace with the education and skill set systems to acquire higher end jobs and own their own successful businesses and become the future.Personally I am growing quite tired of people directing anger & frustration about Nosara’s challenges without being part of a solution. Being upset or angry is OK, but direct it to the right direction… The Asociacion de Surf Nosara is doing this & it has my attention a great deal.
The Asociacion de Surf Nosara is happy for anyone & everyone to help any number of ways ranging from financial assistance to used surfboards, games for kids, and even just some ideas &/or helping local kids learn to surf are super appreciated as Pao explains in this episode.
Per usual, I ask 3 favorite restaurants question of Pao plus a bunch more.If you’re in town get to the contest to participate or just cheer on the folks involved. Shout out to all sponsors and everyone involved looking to help for a greater good.
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Eric Kurzbard 3.0
Eric Kurzbard is back on the Nosara Podcast and we go over tons of stuff in this jam packed episode. We cover his journey from east coast to California to Hawaii to Nosara & all kinds of things & events in between. Rich complains about shortboarding in weak surf, longboarders who don’t move around on the board. Eric explains his past, present & goals for the future.
Enjoy this hour with EK 3.0!
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Alvaro ‘Medio Kilo’ Avila
Estamos muy felices por este episodio con un buen surfista y un buen hombre… ¡Disfruta este introducción a Medio Kilo!
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NP #167: Caricaco Music Festival is coming back to Nosara!
Dr. Alejandro is back, except this episode is only fun stuff: Music & surf talk. He details the upcoming Caricaco Music Festival and I ask him details about his surfboard inventory.
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NP #87: Julian Hoeing from Awesome Surfboards; Leaving
Julian Hoeing is successful by most anyone’s definition. He’s got a beautiful family and his professional resume includes designing for Lamborghini and Audi as well as Apple. However, Julian essentially walked away all of this to design surfboards and surf.
For those who may be unaware… It is extremely difficult to make money in surfboards. The margins are small, and there is a huge amount of competition. Regardless, this Austrian born designer and engineer who grew up skiing and snowboarding decided it was time for a change towards all things surf.
Here’s a sample of some Awesome Surfboards shapes This podcast is one of my favorites in a while. I literally met Julian when we sat down for this episode and ended up making a new friend. He’s super funny (certainly by engineer standards anyway) and we covered all kinds of things.
We discuss surfboard design and go through a couple of his newer models, the time Kelly Slater reviewed his boards and shared some of his own, favorite waves and boards, some Nosara stuff, wave pools, and I ramble about how most everyone is riding the wrong equipment and tease Julian about yoga. But the main takeaway in this episode for me is how Julian left the definition of what most people call ‘success’ behind to live his life more based around what he really wants to do, which is all things surf.
PS – Many thanks to Denisse Lashley for introducing me to Julian and setting this up!
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NP #82: Mr. Steve Reyer from Coconut Harry’s in 28 minutes
Coconut Harry’s Surf Shop is an iconic business in Nosara most everyone knows about and drives by as you roll into Guiones on Ruta 160. Steve Reyer purchased the shop from founder ‘Coconut’ Harry Heinke in 2007 and has been running it ever since. It was nice to get him into the Nosara Podcast studio for this episode and I hope you enjoy hearing from Steve.
In this episode we discuss:
- Shop updates
- Coronavirus challenges
- New surfboards & clothes
- Borders & beaches reopening
- Getting angry about our beaches opening later than the rest of the country
- Pipas & boardroom improvements
- Steve’s personal journey to Nosara
- His Nosara dislikes
- Is Coconut Harry’s for sale?
- His hatred of dust and our road problem
- Support for local groups like NCA
- Steve’s conspiracy theory
- Is Trump getting re-elected?
- Steve’s new surfboard
- Rich using quarantine to get in paddle shape
- Who ‘drops in’ the most in Guiones?
- 3 favorite restaurants
- Who in Nosara does Steve want to meet?
- Nosara’s growth pattern and thoughts about being different from Tamarindo and Jaco
- Some shout outs
