The top 3 beginner surf techniques are learning to balance paddling, catching waves, and popping to a standing posture. I assign counts that students say out loud to get the timing for executing each technique. Beginner surf students ride foam waves. They break on the outside and roll to the beach. New students should be…
Seniors can surf just like young people because age is functional. At any day on a surfing beach, you will surfers of all ages entering the water. Seniors surf short boards and long boards. Most of these seniors have been surfing for years. They have the advantage of having developed the skills and musculature and…
Teenage girls love surfing and one of the biggest age groups to start is the 15 year olds. Kids start surfing from 7 years old and lots of pre-teens make great surfers, but I am surprised by the coincidental amount of 15 year olds that start. The adolescents and teens make great learners because they…
Most adults are in condition to surf. At the beginner level there are a few techniques that have to be learned but adults are often better learners than adolescents and young teens. I have taught students 7 to 77 and the 77 year old got up the first time and most times after that. He…
A proper beginner surf board posture is different from the stance of most intermediate advanced surfers. Beginners need to balance differently to ride foam waves to the beach. An advanced surfer will catch the face of the wave and bottom turn into the pocket. He will look like he has his butt over one rail….
Beginner surfers like Oceanside because there are great foam waves that are easy to catch. Beginner surfers have to learn the fundamentals before they can ride real waves. The fundamentals learned are balancing on the board while paddling, positioning to catch a wave, paddling until in front of the wave, popping up on the board,…
Beginner surfers learn pop ups in Oceanside surf lessons after both a dry land practice and then being pushed into waves in the water. With the beginner pop up process, most people can learn in the first lesson. The pop up follows catching the wave. In a foam wave, the beginner student paddles for at…
One key to over coming fear of bigger surfing waves is not to jump up in class too fast. We can’t go from riding 4′ waves to riding 8′ waves. When I teach Surf Lessons in Oceanside, we learn the fundamentals on foam waves. There is a reason. There is no reason to go to…
Catching Waves on the Short Board Oceanside has excellent fast breaks for perfecting skills on the short board. In films we usually see surfers catching waves on short boards. It takes years to be an expert. When I teach students how to surf , they start on high volume surf boards. They learn to paddle…
Wave Timing in Catching Real Waves When I teach students how to surf in Oceanside Surf Lessons USA, beginner surfers have trouble learning wave timing. There are three steps for which you need timing. You need to lay on the board way before the foam wave arrives. Beginners should not start with real waves, but the foam…