Change The Forecast (Pilot) - Costa Rica
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- Mal Pais Surf Cam: bit.ly/1AxFs7O
Otro Lado Lodge: bit.ly/1FdM9XX
For everything else mentioned in this video, plus A LOT MORE click here - bit.ly/1KsJwpI
Picture credits:
Waterfall break pick by Colin and Sarah Northway: www.flickr.com...
Waterfall pic by Chad Teer: www.flickr.com...
Waterfall jump video by Christian Haugen: www.flickr.com...
Waterfall jump video #2 by Christian Haugen: www.flickr.com...
Monkey Pic by Christian Haugen: www.flickr.com...
This episode is unsponsored. All opinions are my own.
If you go stay at Blue Surf Sanctuary, there's a great little bar right on the beach next to it that serves really good food. they have amazing staff and the waves are less crowded on that side of town. also if you get a chance go do the fishing tours on mal pais. you will catch so much good fish you will have no idea what to do with it all.
Can you make one of these ltalking about Indonesia if you have been there?
Pura Vida Chris! :) If this is going to be the next big thing for Shred Show come to Puerto Rico, and I'll show you around!
Chris..! this is Awesome! i'm a Costa Rican living in San Jose, and i go to surf with my buddies to Hermosa & Jaco every Saturday, and let me tell you, i have seen all of your shows, i only open RUclips, to check if you upload something, and i came with the surprise today that you uploaded a video of my beautiful country and the Surf + that it is! thanks for this video! there is nothing better that hearing the world's best Surfing Guru talking about your country, and giving awesome info! also if you come back, you definitively need to check; Guiones, Negra, & Avellanas (Little Hawaii) Beach..! you will be thrilled with the quality of waves, and Good Vibes there are! if you come again, contact me, and i will be more than glad to hook you up with some sweet surf spots, and accommodations cheap, and super nice! thanks again my friend! :)
Emilio Badilla Thank you Emilio. So much gratitude for you and everyone down there for letting us travel in from around the world. Your country is spectacular.
make more videos! Never been on a surf trip but planning on it in the future once I finish school!
YES! Make more vids like this.. Mucho Bueno!
Very interested in more videos like this one. Would like to see this kind of information in relationship to surf trips on boats (Indo) too and your recommendations for a good travel quiver (How many/what kind of boards to bring).
Love this! thanks!
I just booked a trip here in July, now I'm concerned you created a crowd! thanks for the info, I love your reviews....Otro was booked so we are staying at Latitude 10 and Canaima Chill House...before we head to Nosara and stay at The Living Hotel.
Gregory Klein Good point on crowds - I thought long about this before uploading... Here's what I think is most important: infrastructure limitations (especially water limitations) prevent anything larger than boutique development here. One local I spoke with who has lived in Santa Teresa for 10 years said this area is safe from the question of Tamarindo or Jaco style development for another ten years. A Hilton doesn't seem to be coming soon.... A couple more reasons not to fret: Santa Teresa has not been a secret for years and years already and peaks still go unridden. Also the beach spreads out crowds nicely. Re: lodging - Stayed at Canaima before and really enjoyed it. Wish you a good trip.
Shred Show i wouldnt worry too much - loads of space
Dammit! I thought Santa Teresa was my secret spot. I always stay at Pacific Apartments.
you should come to nicaragua the surfing is great
Do a video for Puerto Rico, I have never been to Costa Rica but im trying to get my parents to take me soon, and you should definitely think about getting the full sleeve tattoo containing the names of everyone on the email list, that may be awesome. maybe not.
awesome video! ive been looking at going to Nica (Popoyo area) for my honey moon. most places are around $1500 per person all inclusive plus 10% tipping. trying to find some good cheap spots that you can live like a king and surf great waves for cheap.
This is a great video. When you have limited vaca time and $$, you want to make sure they count. This covered everything! Thanks, and please go on vacation more often.
Dude, you just saved me a lot of trouble! More places like this, please! ;) Great channel btw. Kudos from Germany!
I've never been on more than a couple day trip to Baja Norte, so these videos are awesome. I love how you put the real world costs in as well. Definitely do more of these and anything else that pertains to surfing (workouts for surfing? sunscreen you like? wetsuits?).
Nate Fox I've got a long history with Sunscreen. Haole skin burns easy. Will see.
Shred Show I 2nd a desire to hear about sun screens. So many run into your eyes; others cause rashes. Please do more of these location reviews. Very informative and helpful. I'd reccomend doing one on the eastern cape of Baja Mexico.
I take my non surfing girlfriend everywhere with me. She gets to sit on the beach for 3 hours while I surf, then I come out and we leave.
Crazy man. Read your email and it sounded great. Video sounds like your promoting something though. BUT wait. Then I realized these videos are great. It's like the food network for surfing. It's everything you need to know, but it needs to be way better.
Make a video about Bali... I'll head out on a surf trip with you and tattoo surf nation on your neck ahah
Hellz yeah bro. Never been to Costa Rica but can't wait to go . only been to Mex and that's about it . every time I thought about it or talk about going to Costa Rica I always thought I need to go with someone who's been there before or I needed to know someone there but now watching this episode , i totally pull it off thanks and YES make more episodes like this ...
I've been near tamarindo and surfed witch's rock, go get a boat ride from iguana surf shop. Also they can take you to a magical long point break that will dazel your ballz
good stuff! I've been to Costa Rica many times and enjoyed Tamarindo the best
I have seen a few of these advice shows, but you top it bro... very funny to watch and also super informative... Fantastic.
Hey thank you so much for this video. My girlfriend and I went and stayed at Otro Lado after seeing this and it blew our expectations away. Not only was the hotel perfect, but we were able to go on a lot of fun adventures like take a quad to Montezuma falls and go ziplining in mal pais. On top of that, Playa Santa Teresa was absolutely a dream come true. One question I had for you was about the rental cars. We ended up getting screwed over by our rental car agency and it was a really stressful situation (made my girlfriend cry). The company wanted to charge us $1000 for insurance on the car and I was so upset about this I told them to shove it. The problem then became that we needed to make it to the ferry before the last one of the night departed. We ended up renting a kind of janky little SUV from a company in a sketchy part of town (they were actually very nice and accommodating though). So my question is: what rental agency did you book with on what website and how much did it cost with insurance factored in. We would really appreciate an answer as we plan to relive this dream vacation again this summer. Cheers. - Kevin
Hi! I'm sorry for your troubles with the car rental company. I did work for Alamo and National car rental for over 13 years, they are big ones in thr country. If you wanna try Costa Rica again just contact me, it will be a pleasure to give details and info about my country. Pura vida!
If you arrive in San Jose early (before 1) take a taxi from the airport (Juan santamaría) to la estación 7-10 where they have a bus at 2 on weekdays usually which takes you all the way to Santa Teresa (6500 colones). I recommend changing all your dollars to colones because the exchange leaves you on the winning side since the dollar to colon exchange is $1=530+ colones whereas if you were to pay in dollars they round it to 500 but make sure the hostel you want takes dollars too so you can pay that in dollars which is way more comfy. After that everything is a cheap taxi that shouldn't cost you more than 5000 colones to where you're staying. The way to go in Santa Teresa is definitely a quad which you can rent there. After a year of living in playa hermosa the cheapest I could get a quad for is $30 per day which is honestly incredible pricing. Hope this helped and watch out when you bring the quad to a beach because you can get fined!
Just spent all of last month in Costa Rica. Spent about a week in Santa Teresa. Super fun waves, tho the entire country seems just as expensive and the lineups are as crowded as staying home in Los Angeles. It is for sure more girlfriend friendly, probably won't go back to surf there.
Great video!! Please upload more videos like this one!! I'm from Argentina and is great to hear us name in your reviews!! Next saturday I'm leaving for a surf trip to San Bartolo, Perú
you did an amazing Job with this video.
the dude from canada with Da Monsta, we met @ cabuya :-D
Costa Rica is awesome!! Santa teresa is just one of many magical places in Costa Rica... Osa Peninsula .Puerto Viejo... Guanacaste... all of Costa Rican coastside is a natural and surfing paradise!!!.. thank you @shred show for the great review! Pura vida!!!!
WhatsApp dude... This was a show about surfboards!!!
When are you talk about big XXL boards for serious surf???
You have the Best show, dont fxckt it up!!!!
can you give some info on the lost... futures slingshot quads ? i would be using them with my 5'5 joe. mainly surfing them in 2-6 foot relatively week surf in the pacific northwest.. Shred Show thanks!
I have a place in Playa Jaco and we travel to Santa Teresa for a week or so while in CR. Your show nailed it perfectly. The whole area is great with awesome waves, friendly people, and great food. The soda you mentioned is by far the best in town! Check out Don Jon's for a place to stay right across from the beach access. B&B Hotel is right next door with good rooms as well. Beware of the suicide showers :) Pura Viida amigos!!!
....not bad man. It can be a pretty fickle place to surf in the rainy season, as exposed as we are down here, the sand migrates away from the majority of the beach breaks and as sand bars change, from Carmen/Banana all the way up to La Lora, the options become a bit more limited (and tricky). At this point in time in the year your pretty much surfing La Lora until the sand comes back. La Lora/Suck Rock can handle some fairly serious swell... and there's also 3 point breaks in town that co-operate with the heavy south swells..... Or your piling into a car to hit up one of the many options going off down in the OSA. So many hidden secrets.... and thanks for shouting out Product C, BEST family and food in town.... Puddle Jumper and V3 Round it country :)
lostinactionable Thanks for sharing so much insight. About Product C - those guys have been very helpful pointing me to waves when the sandbars haven't worked, even though they didn't know me from the next guy... Wouldn't mind if they opened a location in California... Maybe put in a word with the family? Haha. Cheers.
That kind of video is great!!! Do more!!!!
Make a partnership with a surf travel agency and do maldives, bali, other central america, etc... Move this way to be the surf community best information source.
YES MAKE VIDEOS LIKE THIS, I really want to travel and knowing the good surf areas are helpful too! I'm still a beginner but I plan on surfing more 👍
Great review. Super helpful tips on affordable lodging in walking distance of surf.
I would love to see a review of Nicaragua. I've heard very mixed reviews and appreciate your thoughts.
Spent a week at Salsa Brava and Cocles on the Caribbean side of CR. Amazing time, killer food and waves for days. Less tourists there and rode waist to head high waves in 80º water with no more than 5 people in the lineup at any given time. And raced horses on the beach with my surfing and horse-galloping gal. If you're heading here, bring a few bars of extra wax for some local friends you'll end up making-apparently it's tough to get and even the 2 shops in Puerto Viejo had none. Killer show, solid video. Pura vida.
Just came back from Santa Teresa. Stayed in the Manala hotel. Rented from Denga which had some pretty ok boards. Had great chicken tacos at Habenero thanks you for your suggestion. And had an amazing time. My sister who doesn't surf had a great time too. Spending time at the beach no hiking up to the water fall. Overall great trip. Pura Vida
Shred show. Shred Talk, Camp Shred now Shred Travel....loving your work Mr G . Now I only wish I had a pair or two of Sanuk sandals to aid me on my travels. *wink wink *
I love this type of review. Gives a ton of insight, not usually absorbed via forum reviews or resort websites. Pre 2 year old toddler, I would travel extensively to baja and would not take my wife. Lately, I just cruze N. baja for a quicky, or I just hope to surf during vacations. Like this past vacay we went to hawaii and I ensured it was around the winter swells and we stay on the north shore of Oahu and Kauai. I am waiting for my critter to be about 4-5, or all my future critters to be the youngest of 4-5 then take a full blown family, surf vacay to costa rica. I doubt the boss would agree with me taking off and leaving them behind, since she likes adventures too.
Thoughts on heading down in the wet season..more specifically the june/july? A couple buddies and I are thinking of going down but are worried about the rain. Great video as usual am psyched about the potential trip! Would love to see something on indo/nicaragua!
Hi Shred Show , Im from Panama and go back and forth to San Diego, so let me know if you can to come to surf to Panama or if you want any advise of surfing in Panama.
Question - you said a $1000 budget including hotel, food, car and lots of surf. My question is this for 7 days??
Great video and I really like the idea of reviewing reasonably priced trips. The real prices are awesome too. I second a Puerto Rico summary, I am taking the family in two years for a 25th year anniversary gift.
I would highly recommend the full sleeve subscribers tattoo because you will no longer have to worry about keeping the girlfriend happy while on vacation, because you sir...will be alone.
Chris - absolutely more videos like this one! Expands the surfing community on the web. Costa Rica is a wonderful place! Glad you were able to share with all of us! Pura vida!
Spent a month down in Costa Rica driving around with my wife now (got engaged in Costa on that trip). We loved Santa Teresa and Mal Pais. She doesn't surf but we were able to find some fairly secluded beaches so she could lay out and read while I surfed. Also, the food there was pretty good. I don't remember the name of it but there is a pretty good little pizza joint in the middle of town. We ate there a couple time. I think we ended up staying there for 4 or 5 days. We spent the month bouncing around and our 3 favorite spots were Santa Teresa, Pavones and Puerto Viejo Limon. Limon was awesome to go with a non surfing girl friend or wife. The town is a lot of fun and food is amazing! Surf wasn't even very good when we were there and I'd go back in a heart beat.
Cool, Thanks Chris. I've always wanted to go there. Now I'll plan it. Stoked, great info!
Been to CR a few times, but after watching this, decided to check out Santa Teresa. Had an absolute blast! Running into Kerzy and Damo on the way down didn't hurt. Thanks for the recommendation!
You should've gone to playa hermosa. My mum lives there whilst I stay in San Jose. I haven't been to playa hermosa for 2 weeks and I'm missing the surfing already.
Just spent the last 8 days in CR. Our usual destination is Playa Hermosa but this year we decided to try something new and took your advice to drive north to Santa Teresa. We pretty much followed your step by step instructions from taking the ferry to staying at Otro Lados and even eating at Chicken Joe's. Scored some waves while we were up there as well, Just wanted to say this video was very helpful in making our travel easy and enjoyable. Pura Vida!
Great addition to the channel Chris!
I would recommend Biarritz as a place to stay with your girlfriend if your heading to Europe. Lots of cafes, shops, restaurants and yoga studios combined with great surf in the town or a short drive away.
Any chance you can do a video like this for San Clemente? We're coming over for a couple of weeks in August
Travelling def gives you perspective i went to fiji recently and cloudbreak was around 1-3ft. Dont get me wrong my wife and i had a great time and it fun surfing the famous break, but it made me realise how conditioned i was to watching unrealistic surf videos. My point is to experience things first hand. Cheers chris.
I just commented on your latest video saying the last time I surfed was in Santa Teresa haha
Amazing place!
Rented a board from lost in teresa, the owner was super nice and I fell in love with the board.
Highly recommend staying a night or two in Montezuma, really nice place with great people and great food.
These videos are awesome Chris. Your comments and recommendations are great. Having been in Santa Teresa many times, I would also recommend Soda del Bosque for eating local food and also a place next to Lost in Santa Teresa surf shop that I cant remember the name. Speaking of surf shops, Lost in Santa is the best around the area with great personal care, service, rentals, lessons, etc.....Thanks
First trip to Costa Rica was 1989. Drove unpaved road all the way to Pavones. It took two days to get there. No electricity at the time but we only paid 8 dollars a night and it included a complimentary iguana for the room.
Get the arm sleeve. My last name starts with an "A" so do it alphabetically.
Nice fresh twist on a good ole show.
@sqorpy I remember you! Thanks for the shout.
magentawave
continue with the road north to playa hermosa, very spacious and safe.
Brosif. Your shred show is amazing sauce! But people in Hawaii want to know... When will you review an Arakawa?!
Hi Chris,
I've owned a Puddle jumper since June and the only real damage I did to the board were some semi deep scratches across the bottom when some reef snuck up on me. I did end up filling them with an epoxy resin. Thanks again for the awesome vid!
Great review! I lived in Santa Teresa for a year; it was such an amazing town. Also check out Denga - a local surfboard company and shop where you can either buy or rent one of their boards and shop for any surf hear you might need. Zwart Cafe is a great spot for breakfast and lunch, which also sells art and used books. Rocamar is a beach front restaurant serving delicious seafood and vegetarian cuisine and they also host weekly sunset parties on Sundays - not to miss!
Loved this video! I think that a lot of students like me don't know much about traveling to surf and much surf spots like those on the video, it was realy helpfull, me and my girlfriend are actualy thinking about go to Costa Rica in this year or the next! I would love to see more traveling videos like these!
Can you review the Lost Mini Driver.
Awesome video! You literally just planned out my next vacation. My wife doesn't surf so this is perfect. More of these videos would be awesome!
Very nice. Do one for France please. That would be an easy sell to my wife.
No sleeve tattoo.
I love the board reviews, but mixing it up occasionally is great.
My beautiful country going back in December and I'm going to surf my heart out. Greatest place on earth.
Make more! I want to go on trips but the planning gets difficult sometimes. This helps a lot. Thank you!
Yep. I like the style of vid mate. Mixes it up a little from a bunch of boards I want but can't fn afford! Cheers!
Mahalo totally dig all the shred episodes I've seen and I NEED to go check Costa Rica!! Aloha!!
I went there 2 years ago with my family and stayed in casa de la luna, which was a couple of minutes by walk away from the beach. My favourite place to eat was at an argentinian's restaurant by the beach because of the great food and because im from argentina too! I usually surfed in santa teresa, wherver i found a good wave breaking and not much crowd. Had a grat time and cabt wait to go back there!
haha, entertaining Shred show...
My internal patriot wants to say JBay all the way, but would have to agree - that place looks rad.
Chris in my opinion a sleeve of subscribers names would be incomplete without a back tat of me shredding while rocking a new pair of sanuk thongs. Can email photo if your tattoo artist needs a reference point
I like the premise here but please tread lightly with regards to hyping up underground or off the beaten path spots (I know santa Teresa is not secret or anything)
Looks like a much better option than the tamarindo area.
Great review! It would be awesome to have more of this from all over the world. If you ever plan to make one of Ecuador or the Galapagos islands I would be happy to help you!
Good vid men , make a video like this of Puerto Escondido Mex aka:MexicanPipeline ;)
Shred nation for life. Your videos get me inspired. Your videos on surf boards have made me start shaping my own board. Give me more on travel and I might get into that more too;)
There are several workable, quite breaks here near San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua. At half the price, it was a better option for us.
You should make a video about going to a cold water surf destination, like Washington or other northern states. That would be sick!
I like this whole travel videos, just take your gf here to Hawaii lol
I wanna see a travel video to Bali.
And you should get the full sleeve for sure!
Arugam bay is another great place with endless rights and some untouched spots. the hide away is a great place to stay with really friendly staff that would be happy to tell you those secret spots but if you want something a little smaller and cheeper there are tons of little shacks about. Most of the resturants are on one street
Can you please review the pumpkin seed by santa cruz surfboards:)
The first rule of fight club is You Don't talk About Fight Club!!!!
Awesome info to pass on to a friend in Coffs Harbour NSW who is headed to Costa Rica in the next few months.
i live in aruba so costa rica is like a second home for me
i love the perfect waves i get each year i go ,but for me my favorite surfspot has to be playa hermosa infront off the almendra tree
id love it if you will pin point in the end of every video the boards - best conditions to be surfed on , what style does it fits etc.
thank you i love your chanel.
more vids like this would be rad! Very useful info!
Always good to hear about new spots. Where are you thinking next?
Nicely done! May have to add this to the (never ending) list of places to visit!
Great Vid. Very helpful. Please keep em coming! 👍
Hey nice tips
The link "for everything else mentioned in this video" is down could you fix it?? The info could be usefull to me ;) ty
Love it! Always nice to hear reviews of surf destinations from other surfers.
playa hermosa it is a 15 20 minute drive from jaco
great serf
cool beans chris. although it seems a little pricey for that part of the world
Awesome vid! Costa Rica was on my surfing destination list but now it made to the.top thx! :-). This destination looks couple friendly but is it also family friendly? Got 2 young girls that would love to play with the monkeys ;-)
+FrenchSurferLostInCA Yes, CR is family friendly in general. It's the most developed of the Central American countries in my opinion, and one that I would consider bringing my two young girls along on. I should say, when they are in middle school or older, I fully intend to use CR as their gateway to adventure travel and latin american culture.
I really like this, keep these going. Great new content for your channel
Morocco- at killer point there is a nice platform and great waves!
Very good video!!!! I am a Longboarder, how about for it??
Second view!!!!! First comment, first like!!!!!1
Like it, a good addition to your channel. Thanks!!
Great overview Chris, Thanks for the heads up on the locale. Definitely adding this to the list.
instablaster.
this is absolutely awesome. i would love to get more vids like this! really opens my options. Muah mahalos.
New one coming in the next few days
Holy crap yes. Next destination. Great vid
Been a fan for quite a while, love where this is going!
Been to chicken joes and habeneros so sick love that place. One of the most consistent surf spots in the world. Love what your doing on this channel brotha
@datskush thank you
Good stuff I would love to see more surf trip reviews...