An idea, a start...

After being a Surfing coach in the two Surf schools that exist in the district of Viana do Castelo and being a regular surfer from this area, the founder of ABC-SS (Rui Sá) realized the difficulties which the people face when they want to start Surfing, especially the younger ones. In fact, even having an excellent coastline for Surfing, the risks and dangers inherent to its practice are undeniable and going to the beach all year round is not that obvious and easy around here.
Another aspect that he soon faced himself as a surfer was the lack of guiding when he decided to go on a competitive career. Observing well this district, until now we lack athletes  of that stand apart in the Portuguese Surf Scene, even though we posses excellent training spots. We have some cases of excellent local surfers that never stood higher than that, even though they’ve showed the willingness to launch themselves in “higher flights”, first of all because they didn’t have the support of the local entities that regulate Surfing and, when they would go out there by themselves, they faced enormous difficulties, as much at the preparation level as financial one.
Therefore, the ABC-SS project, surfaced from the idea of a Surfing athlete in giving to its successors, the opportunities he didn’t have himself and to the other surfers in general the ability to practice their sport using to advantage and maximizing all the excellent resources for Surfing that the coastline of this district has to their disposal.