Barbadian sporting great Brian Talma described 2016 as the best year ever for the Bajan Beach Culture movement. Over the weekend Talma, known as De Action Man, showed his appreciation to those who supported him throughout the year. Specially mentioning the media and their support of his brainchild, the Organic Tourism Project. The Project was conceptualized by Talma to use …

BRIAN TALMA has described 2016 as one of his best years ever. Though placing 41st at the end of the Pro American Wind Surfing Tour Aloha Classic, the Olympic windsurfer felt it was a great accomplishment just to qualify for the competition in the Elite Pro Division. After competing in the American Windsurfing Tour pro division last month he advanced …

VETERAN ‘WATERMAN’, Brian Talma, and accomplished surfer, Chelsea Tuach are now official sports tourism ambassadors for Barbados. In a press briefing at the offices of the Barbados Tourism Marketing Inc. (BTMI), senior director, support services, Neville Boxill, commended both Tuach and Talma on their exploits and efforts to date in the surfing arena. These appearances and world-class performances around the …

The Beach Culture World Championship in Barbados presented by deAction Accommodation & Water Sports. Words by John Carter March 4, 2016, Barbados—You have to take your cap off to the visionary concepts of this legendary Barbadian waterman. Blessed by living in a Caribbean tropical windy paradise, Brian has utilized his incredible imagination to reinvent and promote his colorful career in windsurfing, …

Two-time Olympian Brian Talma (1988, 1992) has big plans for his native Barbados. The Olympic windsurfer, who has dedicated his life to tirelessly promoting his sport, is bringing a new event to the international water sports calendar with the launch of the Beach Culture World Championships in his beloved island home later this month. The inaugural championships, which will run …

Competition Director, Herbert Hamilton, rounds up the action from Brian Talma’s inaugural and groundbreaking event in Maui. Brian Talma held his first Beach Culture World Tour Pro Maui event in  March 2015, during the annual action & water sports industry photo shoots, he brought together the top pro sailors, the photographers and the competitors, to promote the sport, themselves and …

The 2016 Master of the Ocean will hit Cabarete, in the Dominic Republic, between February 23rd-28th. The only water sports competition featuring surfing, windsurfing, kiteboarding and stand-up paddleboarding (SUP) returns for its 14th edition. The event, which evolved from “Ironman of Watersports” to “Master of the Ocean” was founded by Marcus Bohm in 2013. It features 12 teams of four …