Category: Stories

At the Surfing Smiles Foundation (FSS), we recognize the fundamental role that teachers play in the lives of our participants, especially those who are part of our community of people with disabilities (PwD). Our instructors and staff are not only experts in their fields, but they also become mentors and role models…

This Saturday, October 15, we successfully add one more surf clinic to our history, but this time it not only helped us further cultivate our skills as surfers, but also to realize that people with disabilities can also help others.

In Surfeando Sonrisas we add a new water sport to our activities, with the help of the Fundación Don Bosco Sobre Ruedas and Carril 4tro we add swimming to our list of sports activities in the water, in addition to being able to reach the city of Guadalajara for the first time .

Kahuna Balance Boards is an allied brand of Surfeando Sonrisas that manufactures boards for balance and resistance exercises inspired by the sport and sensation of surfing. Become a true surfer from the comfort of your home regardless of whether or not you live near the sea.

After our social media contest in which Leo Pahua, Ángel Baltazar and Mateo Vázquez were the winners, we had a wonderful few days in Cancún thanks to Fundación Palace.

On September 13th and 14th, Surfeando Sonrisas, together with some allies, brought to Mexico (Nuevo Nayarit, Nayarit) the first Para Surf certification in the country's history.

On August 20th we held a surf clinic at "El Anclote" beach with 43 participants of different ages and types of disability, where they had the opportunity to practice Stand Up Paddle (SUP). .

This project is carried out by Arturo Tamayo (@elratamayo) with a group of members of the surfing community of Humboldt, California who seek to make a positive change in the lives of people in vulnerable situations. 

If you like what we do, and you have already participated with us, you probably already know some ways to support us, but, with the hope that new ways to join our cause will motivate you to continue collaborating with us.

Once again, with the help of our partner Sayulita Health, we organized a series of conferences on topics related to women's intimate health for adult participants, mothers, instructors and volunteers from our community.

We asked our founder, Daniel Gómez de la Vega, to tell us the story that inspired and how Surfeando Sonrisas began. We invite you to watch it in the video we share in this article.

For the first time in Surfeando Sonrisas' history, we were able to provide first aid courses to our community with the help of our partner Sayulita Health. Here are the opinions of some of the members of our community who participated in these courses.

On July 18th of this year, the fourth Para Surf clinic of the year, organized by Surfeando Sonrisas, was held at Varadero Beach in Nuevo Vallarta, Nayarit. Approximately 60 participants attended. We broke a record!

Thanks to the initiative of Iván Razo, who is dedicated to extreme water sports in the state of Guanajuato, our Adapted Paddle Board clinics have been replicated in some resorts of the state. The first Surfing Smiles clinic in Guanajuato took place just a few days ago at the Tarandacuao resort.

“Sometimes, what seems like a tragedy is actually an opportunity to find our superpowers,” says Daniel Gómez de la Vega, who, at 38, is already a champion of adaptive surfing, a speaker and director of the Surfing Smiles Foundation.

We are very happy to have the support of Mexican companies committed to the environment and the community.

The idea of a trip to impact more people with disabilities was born in 2021 as a new format and comes from the spirit of exploration and freedom that characterizes a surfer.