What is a longboard festival?
This weekend come back the Salinas International Longboard Festival, in its XVII iteration. A festival where there are different competitions in the longboard category. Also, this year during the Salinas Festival, the Spanish longboard Championship and Asturias Championship will be hosted.
Next we´ll tell you the details of the Festival and all the activities that you´ll be able to enjoy this weekend.
What activities are there during the festival?
Apart from longboard competitions, in Salinas Longboard Festival you can find stands with all types of material and surf clothes, food trucks, and free concerts for all.
For all the people registered in the competition, a parking and camping zone will be made ready where you can leave your vehicles and mount your tent. Careful! To access some camping zones you need to register previously through email. Due to the great quantity of people, these free camping zones are overcrowded quickly. In our case even though we registered for the camper zone, once we got there we couldn´t access the zone due to it being totally full. Despite the organization being able to locate another space for us, this was a generalized problem.
Our tip: if you have a friend that can reserve a spot, ask him please. If they still let you do this, it’s a life saver. If you don´t have that luck, the next plan is to get to Salinas as soon as possible.
Here is a map of the distribution of the stands of the surf market, the stages and camping zone.
Where is it hosted?
Salinas is a small locality situated 34 km from Gijon. It has one of the longest beaches in Asturias with more than 2.5 km of sand divided into two parts; San Juan de Nieva beach and Salinas beach. Together known as El Espartal Beach. A privileged place where the beach goers can enjoy spectacular scenery.
When is it?
The XVII edition of Salinas International Longboard Festival will be from the 26th to the 29th of July in 2018. Next we´ll leave you an information pamphlet with all the activities available during the surf festival.
How can I participate?
Everyone that wants to participate in the different competitions can do it with an online inscription. There are different categories: pro, Spanish championship, popular – sub 18, kahunas, single and retro classics Salinas and expression session. Each one of these categories has a different price.
For example, the Single and retro Salinas is obligatory to bring retro or single fin boards. The register can be done through the website of the event.
Requisites for participating
Would you like to participate but don´t have a 9 foot board? Don´t worry, in Single Quiver we have a selection of the best longboards in the market. And if you don´t know what size is best for you, check our surfboard recommender out.
Salinas Longboard Festival Competition Categories
Pro and women
Register cost: 45€
Scoring: 70% Classic and 30% Modern
Surfboard limitation: 9´and above
Prizes: 1st 1,000€; 2nd 300€; 4th 100€
Spanish Championship (Men and women)
Register cost: 25€
Rules: Surf Federation, judged by a panel
Prizes: n/a yet
Popular-Sub 18
Popular
Register cost: 30€
Scoring: 50% Classic and 50% Modern
Surfboard limitation: 9´ and above
Prizes: n/a yet. Pass to Senegal Surfcamp
Sub 18
Register cost: 18€
Prizes: na yet
Kahunas
Register cost: 15€
Age: 50 years old as of 2017 or more
Prizes: n/a yet
Single and retro – Classic Salinas
Single and retro
Register cost: 15€
Surfboard limitation: singles and retros with less than 7´
Prizes: n/a yet
Classic Salinas
Register cost: 15€
Requirements: Have participated in the festival between 2002 – 2007
Prizes: n/a yet
Expression session
Register cost: 20€
Scoring: 33% Complete wave, 33% Best radical, 33% Best Classical, 1% Best Wipe Out
Prizes: In cash 80% of the registers
Novelties for 2018
In this new edition for the Salinas International Longboard Festival there are a few new things:
- All the participants will be asked to be insured. It´s enough to be federated but in any other case you should pay the 7€ insurance for the whole championship.
- The Pro Women category will have the same economic prizes.
- The mens, womens and juniors will be celebrated in the Spanish longboard Championship.
- Also included, the Asturias Championship.
The best of the 2018 festival
Great atmosphere, good music, tasty food and spectacular scenery. What more do you want from a surf festival?
We did have good forecast for waves, but reality didn´t live up to the forecasts. Friday the sea was beautiful. Glassy with different peaks throughout the beach. But Saturday, apart from rain, there was wind. The sea was choppy and those that had to compete had to use their creativity to get something out of it.
Here we have a few photos with the best from the festival.
If you don´t know what to do this weekend, and you like surf, music and good atmosphere, come to Salinas! You won´t regret it.
If you can´t assist this festival, stay tuned to our social media where we will show you the latest of the festival and championship.