Oceanside surf lessons for groups leads to great fun and learning for everyone. I only place people together who know each other which includes families, friends, and organizations. Groups are up to six people at a time to maximize learning and fun. Everyone loves to see how other people are doing. All lessons begin with…
Beginners surf on high volume boards to make learning the fundamentals of surfing easier. Beginners should surf on boards bigger than they would use once they are experienced. Like flying an airplane, an aspiring pilot would start with a small plane to learn the fundamentals of instruments and take offs. As his experience grows, he…
Overweight people can surf. People learn that size is not necessarily as big a problem as the time they spent not exercising. Surfing is physically very demanding and a full body sport. Surfing requires upper body strength, leg strength, core strength, flexibility, and stamina. Surfers may talk about power to weight ratio as the strength…
Obese people train to surf through a program of nutrition and exercise. Surfing is a physically demanding full body sport. The main problem beginners surfers have that are overweight is conditioning. Surfing requires upper body strength, leg strength, core strength, and stamina. People that put on weight are often not exercising. This is more of…
Are you in surfing shape? People don’t really understand what the physical demands are for surfing. They see experts in the movies that make surfing look easy and decide they want to give it a try. That’s good. What people learn in their surf lessons is there is more than meets the eye. Surfing is…
Many people wonder if being overweight is a problem for surfing. What is more interesting is that being overweight is a symptom and not a cause of the difficulty in surfing. The problem is why someone became overweight. People can become overweight because they eat more calories than they burn and that is a measure…
Beginner surfers can begin to carve riding foam waves. First they need to master the fundamentals so they can pop up into the right posture and ride straight to the beach. Once they are riding the foam wave, they can initiate carving techniques. Carving in foam waves can be a predecessor to carving in real…
Selecting the right surf board if you are not fit can make the learning experience much easier. Not being fit in surfing means lacking strength, flexibility and stamina. It might also include being over weight. Beginners need boards bigger than what they would select if they were intermediates. For beginners the right surf board will…
One wonders why obese people are surfing. I really mean why are they taking surf lessons? If they were to continue it would be life changing for their life style. With the pandemic there are few inside activities available other than staying locked down. People that are over weight to the clinical definition of obesity…
Many people make reservations to surf the first time they visit the ocean and Oceanside. The fact a person has not visited the ocean is not a problem in learning techniques, but would be a problem if a person is intimidated by waves. Teens and adults are rarely intimidated by waves to the point they…