BRIAN TALMA (de Action man)
Brian who is now just over 50, started windsurfing at the age of 17 and was the pioneer of the sport in Barbados. He finished a BA in business administration in 1988 and immediately opened up his deAction centre at Silver Sands the same year. He entered his first ever PWA event in 1989 and was instrumental in bringing the tour to Barbados in 1993 and 1994, both of which he won! In 1988 and 1992 he represented Barbados at the Olympics in Seoul and Spain, while over the next ten years competed all over the world on the PWA world tour. In 1998, alongside his best buddy Josh Stone, Brian played a significant part in launching the freestyle discipline and helped develop and promote the tour into what it is today. In 2005 he introduced the sport of SUP to Barbados and went on to be one of the key personalities to launch the sport into Europe. In 2007 he redeveloped his deAction centre in Barbados and started promoting his beach culture art, painting and writing his poetry and designs on canvases and wooden signs all over the island. In 2009, he formally joined the Naish windsurfing and SUP team and stocked his shop with all their goodies. The key to Brian’s success has been his ability to evolve, be creative with his ideas while always working closely with the media. He may appear to be a laid back Caribbean waterman, but when you get to know him you will soon realize that his mind never stops working on how to keep pushing himself and promoting his career.
“ Beach culture revolutionizes the mind! It is a way of life where your passion is driven by what happens on the beach and out on the water ”