Lessons
The Surf school is based on your experience, you and the best materials available. The school is open to people of all ages, skill levels and nationalities. You will be taught by highly qualified and experienced surfers and surf teachers who also are life guards. Each week you will have 5 days of teaching with 2 surf sessions a day.
Everyday you will be on the search. Peniche has so many waves that it is possible to surf several surf spots on the same day. We just have to be on the right spot at the right time. At the same time you are surfing you are visiting different beaches. You'll never get bored. In the evenings we do informal seminars, watch and comment on the video filmed during the day time classes.
Beginner classes
You‘ll be given a surfboard and wetsuit best suited to you. Your classes include all the basics from learning how to deal with a wetsuit and laying on a board to surfing the green part of the wave. Then, according to your development, you may change to the advance group and learn other techniques. On Tuesday and Thursday all surf practice is filmed for later comment and discussion
- Basic knowledge of surfing material and Peniche surfing geography
- Recognition of the beaches and currents
- Wave shapes and approaches
- Safety rules
- Paddling techniques
- Sitting on and turning the board
- The "duck-dive" or "eskimo-roll"(diving through the waves with the board)
- Getting to your feet – Standing up Surfing broken waves
- Surf history
- Priority rules
- Learn how a surfboard is made
- Position on the line up to catch unbroken waves
- Surf the green waves – bottom turn
- Advanced manoeuvres
- Class championship: understand how a surf championship works and be part of one. (This activity will be done if there are enough participants in a class)
- Plus 15 hours of surf practice
Advanced
To be on this group you don't need to be world champion. You just need to know the basics. We developed this group because many people came to us and had surfed sometime before. If you are one of them you don't have to go through all the basics again. We created for you the advance group.
The focus of this group is on your individual surfing. After you learn how to take off on a wave and start to develop your own style, your specific surf problems need to be pointed out immediately so that you develop fast and properly through individual advice. The 2 weekly video analysis sessions will be invaluable at this stage.
Class program:
- Brief surfer diagnose
- Review surfing basics
- Paddling and turning for the wave techniques (tricks and details)
- Priority rules (review)
- How a surfboard works
- Distinguish types of waves and which surf you must apply on each one of them
- The “Bottom turn” and its importance for wave riding success
- The importance of the upper body for the bottom turning.
- “Duck dive” techniques
- The “off the lip”
- The “cut – back”
- General surf manoeuvres
- Ding repair workshop (learn how to repair your own surf board)
Twice a week, on Tuesdays and Thursdays, the classes get filmed and we organize a video session in the surf camp, usually followed by a barbecue.
In the video session you get to see yourself surfing, which is the best way for you to understand where you can improve.
Surf/Accomadation packages
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