Volcom Fiji Pro Opening Ceremony

The ASP World Tour travels all over, taking professional surfers from various parts of the globe to surf some of the best waves on earth.  With each stop on tour the surfers find themselves in new cultures and part of the tradition of ASP tour, is to acknowledge and participate in many of those cultural rituals and traditions from each country they visit to show their love and respect for the people that are hosting them. As the tour has recently landed this week in Fiji, the boys are all participating in a Kava ceremony to get things started.  

Here are some photos from the ceremony.

Mick Fanning and Travis Logie enjoying this unique moment

The boys from the ASP help the global world of surfing localize with each culture that they come in contact with including, Fiji, Hawaii, France, Brazil or Indonesia, they take the time to understand and appreciate at least a small part of the traditional culture. Not that these surfers will understand the Fijian culture because of this ceremony but it will help them to understand one another and will bond these two worlds through a common ceremony.  As a professional surfer, they are transnational athletes  not staying long in one place or another soaking in the best parts of each culture and experiencing the worlds finest waves at the same time.  The transnational surfer lifestyle doesn't seem so bad.

Click here for the rest of the photos of the opening ceremony, Kava Ceremony of the Volcom Pro Fiji