FireTravels #1—Exciting Pictures from the Indian Open Of Surfing 2017 (2nd Edition)

The 2nd Indian Open of Surfing was a three-day surfing extravaganza that took place last weekend at Sasihithlu Beach located at the outskirts of my city of Mangalore.

It saw more than 120 participants from across India, USA, Australia, France and Maldives who arrived to take part in the championship!

The photogs are my friends and they are joining Steemit! Now that I’m blogging full-time on Steemit, a quick Steem->BTC->INR conversion is paying for these pictures to support their work. Meanwhile, I hope you enjoy it!

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This 3 day, annually held national event is recognized by the International Surfing Association and promoted by Karnataka Tourism. It was
organized by our local administration in partnership with the country’s oldest surf-club based out of Mangalore, Mantra Surf Club. It was a colorful weekend with several activities such as beach volleyball, skateboarding, slack-lining, stand-up paddling and a mixed martial arts demo that held the crowd’s attention.

^{With my young friend, India's youngest surfer Aneesha Nayak}

^{You will see Aneesha log on to Steemit soon!}

^{Preview Video}

^{Ishita Malaviya was featured in GoPro 5 launch video!}

I managed to get there with my friends to take pictures! They also had a few cultural programmes early in the morning and incredible bands from across-India playing in the evening. I couldnt spend all three days but I’ve managed to get the event covered as best possible. There was also a food festival serving local delicacies.

^{Local ladies serving customers}

^{Idli with Sambar}

^Samosa

^{Bhelpuri in a cup!}

^{Day 1 Highlights}
The event also marked the presence of Bollywood superstar Suneil Shetty who was the ambassador for the event and South-African cricketer Jhonty Rhodes-once considered one of the greatest fielders in the cricketing sport! He loves coming to Mangalore for surfing and has been coming for some years!

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^{Day 2 Highlights}

One of these days I’ll write about my city. If you are visiting India you must certainly visit during the surfing event if you love the sea and surfing the waves! Take note @heiditravels and @surfermarly.

^{@karthikrao with some of our friends}

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^{Day 3 Highlights}

^{My friend Candida has signed up Steemit as @bikergirl. She's one of the most well known female motorcyclists in the country.}

^{Phenomenal music that kept us grooving}

^{@wandereronwheels, Candida Louis and the Wicked Rides gang with Jhonty Rhodes}

These videos are from Indian Open of Surfing YT Channel

Surfing Results are here

One of my very dear friends @varunpinto has shot most of these incredible pictures. Rest of them are from Nitish Byndoor and @bikergirl Waiting for his account to get approved so he can do more on his own!

Hope you enjoyed these pictures from my town!

If you liked these pictures and enjoyed them leave a comment and help me further encourage my friends to sign up and use this platform to share their work. If you love surfing and take part in events tell me about experience!

Thanks to my bro @timsaid for the name, 'FireTravels' series of travel and photo blogs that I will be writing moving forward!

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