How we coach
Most surf camps teach a syllabus. We coach a person: the week is built around the one thing you came to learn, and every session, clip and evening is pointed at it.
- Coach to surfer
- 1 : 3 at most
- In the water
- Two a day
- On video
- Every session
The week, step by step
Six things happen, in this order
From the questionnaire before you fly to the folder of clips you leave with — chronology rather than a list of features, because “how we coach” is a question about what actually happens.
It starts before you fly
A short questionnaire — where you have surfed, what you can do on a wave, what you want to be able to do — and a prep pack of drills and reading so the first morning is not spent finding out.
One goal, set at the Sunday dinner
You tell the coaches what a good week would look like: a first green wave, a take-off that repeats, speed down the line, a first cutback, the walk to the nose. That sentence is the syllabus.
Small groups, sorted by level
Levels are drawn up over the same table, so nobody is held back by the group or thrown in ahead of it. The coach knows your name, your goal, and which of the two waves suits you today.
Coached in the water, not shouted from the sand
The coach paddles out with you: positioning in the line-up, wave selection, the timing of the take-off. Corrections arrive one at a time, while the last wave is still fresh.
Filmed from the beach, reviewed after dinner
Every session is filmed. In the evening your clips go up on the screen and you watch yourself surf — and fix the things you cannot feel from the inside. Style, stance, the moment you look down.
Theory in the evenings, progress you take home
Short sessions on reading the forecast, choosing a board, and the etiquette of a crowded point. On Friday your progress is read back against Sunday's goal, and your clips and notes leave with you.