The Hawaii Adaptive Surfing Championships is completed
In 2024 the third year of the Visit Oceanside Adaptive Surfing Professionals World Championship tour will be adding a fourth stop to the roster, the “Blackmores Australian Pro Adaptive Surfing Championships” in Byron Bay Australia, at the incredible surf break “The Pass in Byron Bay”. The first stop of the tour is in Australia, followed by a stop in Hawaii for the Hawaii Adaptive Surfing Championships, then off to Costa Rica for the Costa Rica Open Pro of Adaptive Surfing, and the final stop in the U.S. for the U.S. Open Adaptive Surfing Championships in Oceanside California.
The prize money will be setting new records and the AASP will be crowning more adaptive world champions. After all the AASP Champions are crowned the AASP will celebrate with a bonus stop at the Waco Surf Wave Pool for all the champions to surf for a two day event.
In 2023 The second year of the Visit Oceanside Adaptive Surfing Professionals World Championship Tour added a third stop to the tour, the Costa Rica Open Pro of Adaptive Surfing in beautiful Costa Rica at the amazing surf break Boca Barranca. The three-stop world tour was able to award a combined prize pool purse of just over $104,000 dollars to adaptive surfers from around the world.
The two-event tour kicked off in June of 2022 at the AccesSurf Hawaii Adaptive Surfing Championships hosting 100 adaptive surfers from 17 countries, giving away a record $36,000 dollars in prize money and the first points towards an overall adaptive surfing professionals world championship. The final leg of the AASP World Tour ended in Oceanside California on September 8th-11th at the U.S. Open Adaptive Surfing Championships, where the U.S. Open ASC awarded a prize pool purse of $29,000 with the AASP Points winners splitting a $32,000 dollar prize pool purse
2024 Event Schedule
The Blackmores Australian Pro Adaptive Surfing Championship
March 17-22, 2024
Byron Bay, NSW Australia
The Hawai’i Adaptive Surfing Championships
May 13-16, 2024
Queens, Waikiki
COSTA RICA OPEN PRO OF ADAPTIVE SURFING
June 18-23, 2024
Boca Barranca, Costa Rica
U.S. OPEN ADAPTIVE SURFING CHAMPIONSHIPS
September 5-8, 2024
Oceanside, CA
For an athlete to be eligible for an AASP World Championship competitors must participate in a majority of the scheduled tour events.
If there are three events on the schedule athletes need to participate in two of the three events to be eligible for a AASP World Championship. If there are four events on the schedule athletes need to participate in three of the four events to be eligible for a AASP World Championship.
Association of Adaptive Surfing Professionals
Stoke for Life Foundation is a 501 c3 nonprofit (EIN# 81-1207879) geared towards ocean therapy and adaptive water sports, SFL created the U.S. Open ASC and the classification structure that is now recognized worldwide. Stoke for Life Foundation has initiated the structure and leadership team put together to build the international governing body for professional adaptive surfing known as the “Association of Adaptive Surfing Professional” or AASP.
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