The US Open of Adaptive Surfing Championships is completed
2024 was a record setting third year of the Visit Oceanside Association of Adaptive Surfing Professionals World Championship Tour. The tour included four stops, kicking off in March of 2024 at the Blackmores Australia Pro Adaptive Surfing Championships hosting 96 athletes from 19 countries and awarding $35,000 dollars to adaptive surfers from around the world. In May of 2024, the AASP World Championship Tour went to Hawaii for the AccesSurf Hawaii Adaptive Surfing Championships hosting 94 adaptive surfers from 17 countries and awarding just over $30,000 dollars in prize money. Then in June of 2024, the AASP WCT went to Costa Rica and the beautiful break of Boca Barranca for the third stop of the Visit Oceanside AASP World Tour hosting 65 adaptive athletes from 14 countries and awarding $25,000 dollars. The final leg of the AASP World Tour ended here in Oceanside on September 5th- 8th of 2024 and crowned U.S. Open Adaptive Surfing Champions and also crowned 15 Adaptive Surfing Professional overall points world champion in fifteen divisions. The U.S. Open ASC awarded $33,000 dollars in prize money and the overall AASP World Champions split a prize pool purse of $40,000 dollars.
In 2024 with all four tour events and the overall championship prize money the Visit Oceanside Adaptive Surfing Professionals World Championship Tour awarded $163,000 dollars in prize money to adaptive surfers from 20 countries around the world. Also, in 2024, the Visit Oceanside Adaptive Surfing Professionals World Championship Tour set records in international attendance, prize money awarded, and setting the trend for a true world championship tour in beautiful destinations with incredible surf breaks around the world with amazing sponsorship support. The Visit Oceanside Adaptive Surfing Professionals World Championship Tour is looking forward to another record setting year in 2025.
2024 Events
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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May the waves rise to meet you
May the winds be slightly offshore
May the sun shine warm on your face
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