Three days of free surfing in El Sunzal in a solid photo gallery

This is how SUPers and El Salvador prepared for the World Cup that starts tomorrow


November 23, 2019
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Presented by: International Surfing Association y Pure Surf 

All photos: ISA/Evans and Reed

The last three days have seen the Sunzal lineup packed with SUPers and paddleboarders like never before. From early morning to late afternoon, they showed off their paddles on every inch of the renowned Salvadoran right-hander.

All this because tomorrow begins the eighth edition of the Surf City El Salvador ISA World SUP and Paddleboard Championship and 160 athletes from 27 countries are in El Salvador to fight for medals and the team trophy.

The following photos by Ben Reed and Sean Evans show a lot of what has been experienced there: high voltage surfing, lots of people in the water, dreamlike sunrises and sunsets and the fact that in El Salvador it's not just right-handers that break, among many other things.

Below are the postcards:

Luxury accommodations in front of El Sunzal, does anyone know who the SUPer flying in the photo is?
Sunzal is the perfect terrain for planning maneuvers and putting pressure on them.
Geronimo Rogers, three-time Argentine SUP Surf champion, feeling comfortable in El Sunzal.
It will be interesting to see how the judges rate the backside and frontside attacks at El Sunzal... The forecast promises good waves.
French backside aerial on a fun morning at El Sunzal.
These past few days must not have been easy mornings to get a wave at El Sunzal.
But that didn't make them any less magical...
Whatever the case, there are so many waves in El Salvador that there are always moments of calm.
Surfer and photographer making eye contact.
World, know this: El Salvador does not live only on the right, there are also left-wing parties.
Moment of harmony.
South Africa's Matthew Maxwell bringing style and skill to his home away from home. El Zonte is a slightly friendlier, warm-water JBay of sorts.
Vania Torres is coming off a silver medal in Lima 2019, a second-place finish in Barbados, and is going for gold in El Salvador.
This is how a perfect right is made.
El Sunzal, its perfection, its length, is going to be a perfect court for a SUP Surf World Championship during these days.
There were perfect sunsets and there were mornings too.
Rowing towards the goal.
It is true that the coast of El Salvador is quiet, but in this section that connects El Sunzal with El Tunco, there is nightlife, quiet but fun enough to light up the night.
Speaking of lovely sunrises.
The dynamic duo of Peruvian SUP Surfing: Brisa Malaga and Vania Torres.
The Peruvian SUP racer par excellence is called Itzel Delgado.

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