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SPORT & OUTDOOR
Earthwave Beach Festival 2010
Venue: Surfer's Corner, Muizenberg Beach.
Time: -
Price: -
Performances: 25 & 26 Sep 2010
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The Earthwave Beach Festival will again
host an attempt to challenge the Guinness World Record for the most
surfers riding the same wave.
The fourth edition of the popular
festival that harnesses the huge interest surrounding attempts to break
Guinness World Records (GWR) to promote sustainable lifestyle choices,
will include a national SA Longboard Surfing (SALSA) event and Stand Up
Paddleboarding (SUP) races featuring many of the country’s top performers,
alongside plenty of fun beach activities, demonstrations and talks on
climate change over the two days.
“We excited about Earthwave 2010 and
after setting the Guinness World Record of 110 surfers riding the same
wave at Muizenberg last year, we feel that we can raise the record even
further,’ says Paul Botha from Kahuna Promotions, the organisers of the
festival.
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“Earthwave has become a really fun, mass
participation event since 2006 with more than 440 surfers of every age and
ability paddling out to break the record last year, and three times that
many on the beach urging them on,” Botha added. “We’re inviting
environmental organisations and companies to join us at the event to raise
awareness of climate change and what can be done to reduce our impact on
the planet.”
“There’ll be plenty of action in the
ocean and on the beach with heaps of give-aways, raffles for worthy causes
and competitions like Dig for Gold with prizes worth tens of thousands of
Rands. And the whole fiesta ends off with the after-party-of-the-year at
the Brass Bell.”
The attempt on the Guinness World Record
will be made between 1pm and 2pm on Sunday 26 September, with registration
starting at 10am, and the SALSA longboard surfing event and SUP races will
start on Saturday 25, with the finals on the Sunday morning.
Earthwave Brazil, where the Guinness
World Record of 100 surfers riding the same wave was set in 2008, will
also be making another attempt to break the record on Sunday 12 September
as part of a three day professional longboarding and SUP event at Quebra
Mar near Sao Paulo.
The Earthwave Beach Festival at
Muizenberg provides unlimited sponsorship opportunities for companies and
organisations keen on promoting their environmental credentials or simply
wanting to showcase their products and services to a receptive audience
and through the saturation media coverage.
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