Surf competitions on the east coast on the world calendar

A first step

Spend a weekend at an east-coast surf point talking to the surf schools, the board-hire shacks and the guesthouse owners. Ask each whether they would put up prize money, rooms or a judges' tent for a small open contest in the high season, and write down what each offers. With 3 pledges in hand, contact the clubs whose surfers already come and ask for entries at a set fee.

Who pays first

Visiting surfers already on the coast in the season, who pay an entry fee, and guesthouses that want every room full for the contest week.

What leaves today

Surfers come anyway, but without results on the world calendar the coast has no proof to charge for, and the prestige goes to rival breaks.

The idea and the mechanism are from the book. The first step was written for this site as a suggestion; if you know a better one, say so.

The test

Does it keep value that now leaves the island, or build the proof that lets somebody else do so?

The only test any idea on this site has to pass. The four rules that go with it are here.

In the book

• Ch. ThreeWhat We Have Already Built
  Cricket among the things Sri Lankans have built

More from cluster 25

• 466Cricket academies for the children of Sri Lankans abroad and the world's, in the school holidays
• 467Coaching exports: Sri Lankan coaches contracted to clubs abroad through one agency
• 468Cricket tourism packages built around the international calendar and the domestic grounds
• 470Marathon and trail-running events in the hills and the ancient cities, with the medal worth keeping
• 471Sports-physio and rehabilitation clinics serving the touring teams and the visitors
• 472Equipment manufacturing: bats, balls and kit, which India does and we do not

All 10 ideas in this cluster