Family surf lessons are for fun for everyone and is one sport everyone can do together. When the ages are spread from seven years old to adults, the family can still be together.
Learning the Basics
Everyone has to learn the same basics in family surf lessons. Teens and adults have to be more precise to maintain the balance of the surfboard in the process. Teens and adults learn to catch their own waves whereas young kids have to be pushed.
All students have to lie on the surf board with their feet in the back and straight as a pencil. When they are pushed into the foam wave, they paddle three times and begin the pop up.
Kids Go First
Kids are instructed to stand up and assume a posture with the front foot in the middle of the board and the back foot shoulder width apart to the rear. They are told to get up carefully so the board does not tip over and wind up with their hands in front pointing to the beach.
Teens and Adults go through a more precise procedure and are given a count for each step. The steps are paddle, put hands on the board in a man’s push up position. Push. Put the back foot flat on the board under their butt and stand up on it. As they are standing up they bring their arms up and push the front foot to the middle of the board.
Everybody Uses the Same Posture
Teens and adults in family surf lessons have to wind up same as the kids on the surf board. They have to have their shoulders and hips squared to the front with their hands out in front pointing to the beach. If students get sideways on the board so their butts are over one rail and an arm is trailing like snowboarding, they fall off on the butt side.
An hour and a half is usually optimum for family surf lessons although kids are usually tired in an hour. Teens and adults can vary in stamina depending how active they are in their daily lives.
For Oceanside Surf Lessons, see the Home Page
For my Dry Land and in Water Demo video
For a video on Catching Real Waves putting the back foot on the board first.