Intermediate & Advanced Surf Lessons
If you are starting to paddle out back, catching unbroken waves and riding along the wave face, bottom turning, top turning or starting to learn how to cut back then INTERMEDIATE AND ADVANCED CLASSES are for you.
We can guide you ‘out back’, show you where to sit once you’re there, teach you how to use rips, duck dive, turtle roll and select waves correctly. We can also work on specific manoeuvres; bottom turns, top turns, cutbacks, floaters or re-entries – especially in 1 to 1 lessons.
This is what you can expect from Intermediate and Advanced lessons.
1. MEETING: We’ll meet you at the Fat Face store in Bude and accompany you to our mobile unit at the beach.
2. HEALTH AND SAFETY CHECK: We’ll check the Health & Safety form you have filled out and talk about what areas of your surfing you’d like to work on.
3. KITTING OUT: You’ll be kitted out with a wetsuit and accessories, (if you don’t have your own), surfboard, (you may use your own board or one of our custom boards although this must be arranged in advance), and high visibility identity vest. CHANGING: Personal belongings can be left in our secure mobile unit.
4. WARM UP: We’ll then walk down on to the sand where you’ll be taken through a gentle warm up and surf safety information.
5. DRY LAND COACHING: We’ll then move on to a dry sand coaching session with explanations, demonstrations and student practice guided by our coaches. Exactly what we teach you will depend on what you hope to get out of the lesson and whether or not you want to work on specific manoeuvres. On some sessions we may get you in the water first to get an exact idea of your ability.
6. WHAT YOU’LL LEARN: There are so many areas we can cover with intermediate & advanced surfers. These include specific manoeuvres like bottom turns, top turns, cutbacks, floaters or re-entries. We can also offer advice on any part of your surfing - from surf fitness to nutrition and mental fitness and fine tune your manoeuvres.
7. VIDEO COACHING: We can also video your surfing and then go through it with you to build on your strengths and overcome your weaknesses.
8. FINAL TIPS: Towards the end of the session we’ll leave the water for a debrief where we can discuss next steps and things to practice. Then it’s time to change into your dry clothes and head off for a coffee or a beer!
All intermediate and advanced coaching sessions are run by British National Team and Surfing GB Level 4 Coach Jon Price, or Big Blue’s Senior Coach Rob Wood.
INTERMEDIATE & ADVANCED WORKSHOPS AND WEEKENDS
These are held regularly throughout the year and usually include classroom based sessions where we spend time analysing your surfing using frame by frame video replay. We also run through the theory behind certain aspects of surfing to give you a deeper understanding of what you should be doing and why.
GENERAL INTERMEDIATE WEEKENDS
These include video analysis and lectures on ‘choosing the right equipment’ as well as board design.
LONGBOARD WORKSHOPS
Want to learn nose riding, cross stepping, hanging ten, drop knee turns, island pull-outs? Let us show you how!
See below and Contact us for more details.
EQUIPMENT
Custom made shortboards, mini-mals and longboards are always available but please talk to us first so we can make sure you have the right board for you. However, for your safety and that of those around you, we will only offer the use of a ‘hard board’ when we feel confident a student has sufficient expertise to use it safely.
Got the bug? Great. Now it’s time to think about buying your own board. We are always stoked to be able to offer advice on what to buy, where to buy from and pass on our discounts from local suppliers.
SPECIALIST WEEKENDS - examples
Getting out back & Catching unbroken waves - Sat am & pm, £60
Suitable for: Advanced improvers & intermediate surfers; check our How’s your surfing guide.
A shortened version of our normal day & a half long course that will explain through practical and theory based sessions the easiest ways to get ‘out back’ and which waves to catch for longer and better rides.
• What rip currents are & how to use them to get out back
• How to time lulls in the surf and take advantage of them to et out back
• Techniques for getting through waves
• How to select the best waves for longer and better rides
• Video analysis of your surfing*
Turning - Sat am & pm, £60
Suitable for: Advanced Improver, Intermediate & Advanced Surfers; check our How’s your surfing guide.
Speed, power, longer rides, radical manoeuvres; it all comes down to good turning technique.
We’ll start with a classroom-based theory session and then spend the afternoon putting the theory
into practice. This will be complemented by video analysis*, so you can see exactly what you are
doing & how and you can improve.
Getting Out Back & Catching Unbroken Waves
Sat am & pm, Sun am only, £85
Suitable for: Advanced improvers & intermediate surfers; check our How’s your surfing guide.
Discover the easiest ways to get out back with in depth theory and practical sessions. We’ll start off on the beach looking at rip currents where they occur and how to use them. We’ll then put this into practice along with techniques for getting through waves in the safety of Summerleaze harbour. In the afternoon we’ll head for the classroom for a theory based session. On Sunday morning we’ll find out just how much that theory has paid off with an in water video analysis* session.
During this course you’ll learn:
• What rip currents are & how to use them
• How to time lulls in the surf and take advantage of them
• Techniques for getting through waves
• How to select the best waves for longer and better rides
Improve your knowledge, increase your confidence & take your surfing to the next level!
Intermediate & Advanced Surfers Workshop - Sat am & pm, £60
Two in-water surf sessions with coaching from British & English National Team Coach Jon Price,
each followed by video analysis*. We’ll build on your strengths and overcome your weaknesses by breaking down individual manoeuvres and explaining what’s going right & what’s going wrong.
This course is guaranteed to improve your surfing!
*Video analysis subject to weather conditions
Contact us to get booked in or for more details.
