For this purpose, in the next few days a press conference will be held in the epicenter district of the event, in which the municipal authorities, as well as the organizers and sponsors of this World Cup will explain to the media this important return of Bodyboarding to the scene. "We are looking for a comprehensive development not only for sports but especially for tourism," said José Luis Ugarte from Independent Bodyboards.
“It will be a stop of the 2020 World Championship. We are working to close a multi-year agreement. We have put together a solid work team and we are aiming at structural growth, that is, have the sport together with tourism in the district of Lurín. Its mayor Juan Jorge Marticorena has it clear. We have your support and we expect a significant advance. We have even been creating among the children and young people the important seedbed for the future human exchange,” he added.
Our country, thanks to its excellent waves and enviable Culture and climates is a great point across the globe. It also has a formar world champion: César Bauer. Miguel Rodríguez had a bronze medal at the ISA Surfing Games 2015 and was recognized by the Peruvian Sports Institute with the Laureles Deportivos. He will be a favorite for being local and for his knowledge of the conditions of our southern beach Arica. Dozens of competitors from nearby countries are expected.
The press conference will be held in Lurín on Thursday 12 at noon. For the appointment, journalists will have the respective transfer. The burgomaster Marticorena will take advantage of the proximity of the Christmas and New Year's Eve parties to celebrate together with the media guests.
Hans-Peter Firbas
FIRBAS GROUP
Editor's note on photography. - In the North of Peru, the Chimú culture
left indications that show men running waves on objects that may be the
precursors of the current surfboards. Before the Englishman James Cook
discovered in the year 1,776 the natives in Hawaii obsessed with the practice
of surfing, there are pre-Inca ceramics or (huacos) from the 12th century,
which endorse the theory that this activity, now sports, began in Peru. This
before the totora horses.
The facts indicate that surfing in its first forms could have started as
bodyboarding. In the photo you can see a photograph of pieces from the Kingdom
of Chimú exhibited at the State Museum for the Culture of Peoples, in Munich,
Germany -Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde München- and it is no accident that
Friedrich 'Pitty' Block (1930 Germany - 2016 Peru) has introduced the
'Pittytabla', in those days of the Tecnopor factory back in the 60s. It is also
no coincidence that the ‘huacos’ shown were found near Máncora, where Block
lived much of his life.
