INSTRUCTION - OUR BRAZIL SURF CAMP & SURF SCHOOL

Beginners: The beginner program is tailored to guests who have never or rarely surfed before. To read more about this program, please check out our beginners section.

Intermediates: The intermediate program is designed to ensure that intermediate surfers optimize their technique, develop their style, and challenge their performance. At the beginning of the trip your instructor will assess your particular development needs and then work with you to achieve them. The goal of the surf school for intermediates is to refine your technique, maximize your confidence, and get you working on new skills and maneuvers. Intermediate surfers who would like to perform more radical maneuvers will be encouraged to surf more confidently and aggressively by taking full advantage of the waveface.

You will be taught to better control your board by performing drop-offs, precise bottom turns, and by working your boards through slow sections into fast pockets. Your surf knowledge will be enhanced through informal workshops on such topics as wave patterns, currents, tides, potentially dangerous situations, priority rules and surf report reading. Video coaching is also an important component of the surf school and this will be available in the evenings to help you solidify the skills you have learned during the day.

Advanced: For advanced surfers, instructors will develop individual surf lesson training plans aimed at developing your technique through specific exercises, individual instruction, video coaching and refined surf report reading. Special coaches with many years of competition experience will assist you with tips and advice.

WE BASE OUR SURF INSTRUCTION ON THE FOLLOWING POINTS:

* Individual attention: Most surf schools process so many clients each week, they cannot afford to give students the individual attention they deserve. Although the surf school lessons are group lessons, we make sure that the instructors treat each client as an individual & identifying their particular development needs and learning goals and working with them to ensure these needs are met.

* Low coach-to-client ratio: In order to ensure clients receive the attention they deserve, the surf school uses a much lower client-to-coach ratio than do most surf schools and camps. The client-to-coach ratio is a maximum of 5-to-1, whereas many other surf schools use a ratio of 8-to-1.

* Proprietary coaching program: The surf school team of expert instructors has worked hard to develop an instruction program that maximizes client learning and is tailored to the specific needs of our clients.

* Maximum flexibility & all-day coaching: Although the surf school bases their surfing instruction on a comprehensive plan, it nevertheless keeps it as flexible, relaxed, and tailored to the individual as possible. The atmosphere that is created is more one of surfing with friends than partaking in a lesson. Instructors will surf alongside you giving you tips and encouragement; they won't line you up in a large group and teach from a generic lesson plan as you find in a typical surf school experience.

* Highest quality instructors: The surf school works hard to select the best possible instructors. the coaches are expert surfers (many were professional or competitive surfers) who have extensive coaching experience. Perhaps even more importantly, instructors are fun, open and easy-going people who love to teach.

* Video coaching & workshops: To maximize your learning, the surf school uses video coaching and informal evening workshops.

* Long-term improvement: Surfing is a challenging sport and you may not master all the skills and techniques you desire during your short time with us. One of the goals of surf school, therefore, is to give you all the knowledge and advice that you need to be able to continue to learn from instructors months and even years after you've left us.

* An unforgettable experience: Although we want you to maximize your surf performance, our most important goal is that you have a fantastic time while traveling with us. For this reason we work hard to create a supportive, relaxed and fun atmosphere and to create an itinerary that is unique and full of variety.

OUR INSTRUCTORS

Our highest priority when running our surf camps and surf vacations is to recruit the best staff in the industry! In selecting our staff we not only look for accomplished athletes and instructors but also those who have the necessary personalities to make your trip unforgettable.

Click here to learn more about our team.