On September 15, Costa Rican pro logger Lía Díaz paddled out and took to the nose wearing traditional dress to celebrate the nation’s 205th Independence Day. Quite the streak for a nation with no army since the mid-19th century.

Díaz herself has been on something of a streak lately. A win at the 2025 Surfing For Hope Longboard Classic led to her becoming the first Costa Rican to make the QS tour this year, and she just took home a bronze medal from the ISA World Longboard Championship in El Sunzal, El Salvador—making her the first longboard from her country to win a world championship medal. That also qualified her for the Lima 2027 Pan American Games.

A latecomer to logging, Díaz committed to the longboard in 2023 and it has evidently served her well.…