Richmark Backs Ski Surf Champion in Hawaii

Well-known in South Africa for providing extensive funding to promising individuals and enterprises in business and in sport, Richmark Holdings, and its Executive Chairman Gavin Varejes, are proud sponsors of Oscar Chalupsky. The South African ski surf aficionado is set to take part in his 19th Molokai Challenge in Hawaii. Chalupsky has already succeeded in bringing home the title 12 times since the first time in 1983 when he was 20 and he is determined to make that 13 in 2013.

The Molokai is an arduous 51 km ocean paddle that runs across the Kaiwi Channel between Oahu and Molokai. Big swells, intense humidity and heat, and strong winds fight the efforts of the paddlers and their endurance is tested to the very limits. Oscar Chalupsky is experienced with the strenuous conditions and is preparing for it with an intense workout regime that involves running to the gym every day where he trains in the sauna, swims and does spinning sessions before running back home again. His training also includes regular long distance paddles that simulate the Molokai during which Chalupsky replicates the onerous weather conditions by wearing layers of thermal clothing and a raincoat.

Although in his fiftieth year, Oscar Chalupsky has not lost the impetus of his sporting career. His daily training has seen to it that he is a lot more fit than men half his age. After rigorous tests, the doctor responsible for the health of the Springboks, Craig Roberts, proclaimed that Chalupsky's measured fitness was at a level expected of Olympic athletes in their twenties. Roberts claims that seeing results of this degree in somebody at this age is exceptional and something he has not come across before. Oscar Chalupsky's enhanced level of fitness coupled with his harsh training program and the experience of many years of ocean paddling is what may be the perfect combination to help the paddling devotee secure his 13th victory in the Molokai Challenge in Hawaii.

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