A Trajetória do Surfe no Brasil sob percepção dos gestores da modalidade

Abstract

Surfing was confirmed as an Olympic sport in August 2016 with its first appearance at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, which was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Surfing also made its first appearance at the Pan American Games in Lima 2019, Peru. With these inclusions, interest and investment in sports research tends to increase, due to the large audience and influence that these events have. The aim of this study was to describe the perception of federation managers about the evolution of Brazilian surfing. The research was of the quanti-qualitative type of phenomenological typology. Where content analysis is aimedat using a questionnaire. The sample consisted of subjects representing the surfing federations of Brazilian states and their regional representativeness. The variables investigated within the descriptions about the perception of federation managers aboutthe evolution of Brazilian Surfing were: media, growth of the sport worldwide, mass dissemination by major media and acquisition of the sport by groups of the social elite. Being measured by the following instrument: questionnaire created for the research. The data were analyzed qualitatively through content analysis. At the end of the study, it was possible to understand which perceptions about the evolution of Brazilian surfing through the interviewees' point of view. So I intend to leave it as a consultation document for future studies and to help deepen the field of research in the area.