Lanzarote, autumn of 2004. It’s still unbelievable that, what started seven years ago as a friendly contest in the almost perfect lefthander of San Juan Beach, has become this year a four-star contest sponsored by Davidoff Cool Water and Rip Curl and organized by Jesús Arguallo of La Santa Surf. This event, the only four-star one that will be celebrated this year on a national level, closes the WQS Circuit in Europe. We’re standing before an event that will make history in the Spanish Surf World.

More than 200 international surfers will fill the San Juan Beach between the 19th and the 24th of October to participate in La Santa Surf Pro and attempt to win the 75 000 US dollars of the WQS 4* trial. The best European surfers will have their chance to stand among the greatest; Eneko Acero, Pablo Gutiérrez, Micky Picón, Tiago Pires, and Frederic Robin will try to reach the first places of the International Ranking.

Rip Curl looks for events in which surfers can give the best of themselves, the real spirit of those that face the ocean’s force with only a surfboard. On these dates, San Juan unites all the conditions that any international test demands: strong quality waves, optimal water temperature, nice weather and local islanders that party with the surfers.

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