Mostly due to the dramatic event that happened recently in Chile, and also to avoid any conflict with the Pwa that was intending to launch a World Cup Wave event at the same time and at the same place, the Chile Wave Classic won't happen in Matanzas this year, but the organization is already working on another cool & radical destination where they can expect great waveriding around next October/November. The first 2010 "Wave Classic" event is planned in Essaouira's area from 10-20th of May, the riders' entry list is already full with a few cool names.

Stay tuned on www.waveclassicinvitational.com.

2007 Pwa Freestyle World Champion, Marcilio "Brawzinho" Browne (pictured) retires from the Freestyle discipline to concentrate fully on his quest for a Wave World Title. Over the last 4 years, there have been only a handful of sailors able to beat Gollito Estredo in the Pwa Freestyle Tour, Brawzinho has been the only rider to take a World Title in front of Gollito in the last 4 seasons. Brawzinho has also been developing his already impressive wave skills year by year, to the point where he has been able to challenge for podium positions in both disciplines. Brawzinho has also been at the forefront of pushing new manoeuvres in the waves, taking some freestyle moves over into the big waves of Hawaii, whilst at the same time raising the level in Freestyle with some very technical and inspiringperformances. After 4 seasons of successfully competing in both disciplines, Brawzinho has decided to fulfill his long term ambition of focusing on his favourite discipline, wave sailing. Brawzinho explains: "During the past couple of years I was focusing a lot on freestyle. Right now I really feel that I want to spend more time sailing portack, searching for good waves and improve my skills. I will work as hard as I can to improve my results and keep having fun doing it, my long term goal is definitely to win the PWA Wave Title in the future.”