The pure breeze

Some thoughts on the first Costa Rican in history to make it to the final day of Olympic surfing


Today Brisa shared a letter to herself and to the young women of the planet about how if there is a dream, there is a purpose and there is a reality that must be embraced and that the magic is in that process.

That the magic is in embracing the process.

There are people who don't believe in magic, but what he said is magical, just by saying it.

Magic is waking up every day and doing what you have to do and being aware that you are alive. That is the message that Brisa gives and it is worth listening to and holding on to.

The Costa Rican has shown throughout her career that she wants to be much more than a surfer, although as a surfer she is magical and she can do tubes that few can manage. At Pipe and Teahupoo and also, of course, at Cloudbreak, her second home.

Speaking of Costa Rica, she is like Cali Muñoz, one of the greatest surfers in the history of Latin America, a beast in the water, but we also all love to see him talking and sharing his views on life.

There is personality in the team.

Lately, poetry and cooking have been her form of expression, here in Tahiti she has cooked a lot of gallopinto… They are ways for her to inspire the world of surfing, and to show that she is Costa Rican, just like the punk rock band Kadeho.

By some standards we are perhaps small
But we have the strength of the place

All poetry aside, strictly speaking from a surfing perspective Brisa is a beast in the tubes. She has perfected her technique to levels that have taken her to the finals at Pipe and Teahupoo.

He intubates like few others.

And at Teahupoo you can make history.

He has a great chance of winning whatever medal he wants. He has surfing and he has talked about magic, which is what it takes to win.

Will there be magic with her? The homework is done.

Kadeho is playing, the soundtrack of Sopa de Latinos is playing, Surfos magazine is present in Tahiti, there is Cali Muñoz, Gilberth Brown, Noe Mar and Leilani, there is Diego Naranjo and Lisbet Vindas, Natahly Bernold, Jason Torres, Jairo Pérez… Costa Rica in full mode, from Pavones to Tamarindo, passing through Jacó, Playa Hermosa and Playa Negra, which vibrate with the possible Olympic victory of the one from Matapalo.