The ESA, a non-profit organization with IRS tax-exempt status, is the largest amateur surfing organization in the world. With a current membership of 7,500 surfers, it was founded in 1967 by East Coast surfers to promote, preserve and protect the sport of surfing on the East Coast. Our family oriented programs promote a healthy, active lifestyle, and it is not uncommon to find two or three generations of the same family involved as members of the ESA and actively competing in our program!
For over thirty years the ESA has been dedicated to the sport of amateur surfing, to the operation of a program of amateur competition for surfers of all ages and abilities, and to the establishment and preservation of free access to a clean shoreline and ocean environment.

Each year the ESA has over 150 competitions which are organized into a total of twenty-six districts, extending along nearly 2,000 miles of coastline, stretching from Maine through the Gulf coast of Florida and Alabama and also around the Great Lakes. Each district’s programs are developed and operated by volunteer directors and a staff of other volunteers who assist them in this task. Competitors advance from the local district level to Region Competitions, then on to the East Coast Championships and National Championships.

Hi Magilla! Greetings from the comp. dept. of the ESA to the Greak Lakes.

You guys are great.

Brian Broom who used to live in Peterbourgh, Ontario is the current ESA Competition Director. Here is another Canadian Great Lakes link to competitive surfing.

Brian come visit more often.