№ 001Chair · founder
Sergio Gasull
“Eighty percenter”
Economist and the driving force behind the whole project. A board lover professionally involved in board sports for over thirty years.
Community. Sport. Fun.
A non-profit association with a place of its own in Vitoria-Gasteiz. This is who we are, how you join and who is behind it.
SurfAndGrindGasteiz.org · Surf & Grind Gasteiz kirol elkartea
We are eighty percenters. Surfers, skaters, snowboarders and anyone who loves a board.
We are a non-profit cultural and sports association promoting surfing and its board-sport variants across Álava, above all among young people: events, meet-ups, clinics, demonstrations and travel talks.
We started in 2018 with one clear idea: to build community in and out of the water.
To keep a surf, skate and board-sports community in Gasteiz with a place of its own to practise, train and spend time together; and to use these sports to pass on consistency, respect and belonging to anyone who needs role models and a safe place.
It makes no difference whether you are five or seventy, twenty years on a board or none at all. There is room here for a surf trip, a session of slappies, a skin-track climb up a mountain and, above all, a very good time.
From 2018 to today
- 2018Founded
A group of surfers and skaters is entered in the Basque Register of Associations (AS/A/21412/2018). The first surf and board-sports association in Álava.
- 2019A place of our own
After hours upon hours of work, thousands of screws and no shortage of effort and enthusiasm from members and friends, the doors open in the Uritiasolo estate. First clinics for kids and adults.
- 2020Pause
The world stops. The community holds together over WhatsApp. We come back with a new bouldering wall.
- 2021-2024Community and workshops
Whole groups of close friends come out of the association. We gain floor space with a new fitness area and an open room. We keep running plenty of workshops: sk8, surfskate, camps and a long et cetera.
- 2025Consolidation
Six disciplines, 600 m² of our own and a social impact project under way.
- 2026Relaunch
We are relaunching the association: new membership types, an open calendar, wider junior learning and a place filling up again. It starts over, and this time with more people inside.
Our place
Six hundred square metres under cover on the Uritiasolo estate: bowl, street, bouldering, training room and a common area.
The team
Real people. Real nicknames. Combined years on board, water and snow, and a passion for passing knowledge and values on to others. All of them are part of the association and help out regularly or now and then: if it is good for the community, it stays in the community.
№ 002Shaping · founder
Jon Delgado
“Foam & rails”
Full-time shaper and glasser. A traveller settled halfway between France, the Canaries and the Basque Country. Skater, snowboarder and surfer. Brings the know-how, and is one of the founding members.
№ 003Training · founder
Raúl Moya
“Surf training”
Fitness and surf training. Snowboarder and surfer. Coordinates sports activities, training, trips, talks and events.
Projects & growth
Rafael Martínez
“Inside the barrel”
Surfer and skater. Drives the association’s projects —new activities, partnerships, communication— and keeps things in order so the house can grow without losing what makes it itself. Also designed and built this website and the panel it is run from.
Skate & scene
Brigo Saez
“Skating as a way of life”
Stands for skating and the scene. Tied to the skateboard since a childhood in Galicia: the perfect combo of experience, love for passing it on and the extra edge of a whole life spent around skating.
Motivation
Jorge Lozano
“The motivator”
Twenty years on a board, part time. The chair’s right hand, in love with board sports and carrying a contagious kind of optimism: he always comes up with ideas that are good for everyone.
Teacher and multidisciplinary artist
Fernando Iglesias
“Our own Rodney Mullen”
Owner of the Atlantic Surf school, university lecturer and art teacher, with more than forty years on boards enjoying surf, skate and snowboard. He shares the passion and the will to keep board culture alive.
Craftsman and artist
Dabid Madinabeitia
“Art in the DNA”
He and his family carry art in their DNA: from music to wooden surfboards and metal craft. He shares his time here with his kids, tied to the community by a love of skating and surfing.
One to look up to
Andoni Cossio
“BBBearings”
In love with skating. A passion for teaching. Founder of BBBearings.
Applied method
Damien Saurel
“The method”
A chemist, French by origin. From building his own kayaks and surfboards to helping with the surfskate sessions, always with the analytical, methodical streak the rest of us often lack.
Upkeep
Alberto González
“Mr. Resins”
A cornerstone, and none of this would exist without him. The man who finds everything easy, a genuine fix-anything Swiss army knife: he helps whenever he can with the upkeep of the place.
№ 005Skate coach
Rubén Jorrín
“30 years on a board”
Draughtsman. Skater and snowboarder. Helps with board-sport activities and passes his experience on to beginners.
Audiovisual
Jaime de los Cobos
“3-2-1 action”
Maker of videos and short films, and an audiovisual artist in general. Passionate about skating and the camera, and always there to lend a hand with the little ones whenever asked.
Skate
Igor Olalde
“Pick and shovel”
Only a few years on a board, with meteoric progress and a level worth admiring. Persistent, with a motto —keep at it and you get there—: enjoys training and skating with and without their son, and helps us with the little ones whenever possible.
Thanks
To everyone who has lent a hand along the way, asking for nothing, and made all of this possible.
Antxon Arconada (Antxonetis) · Jose Félix (Txefo) · Óscar (Primo) · Kike (x el Norte BMX) · Kroma (Kroma Presas) · Fernando Odigie (Ferdi) · Dani Rodríguez (Piolín) · Ibon Mariño · Estela