Families Progress in Surfing Together with lessons. In Oceanside, it is easy to learn on foam waves where students don’t have to go deeper than their waists to learn to surf. Surf lessons begin with a dry land portion to discuss safety and learn techniques. Students begin on soft top boards which are easy to…
Learning to Surf on Soft Top Boards is the fastest way to progress. The soft tops offer the volume that make catching waves, popping up, and riding easier for a beginner. The soft top boards are sufficient to learn the basic fundamentals and progress to catching real waves and riding them. New surfers should advance…
Anxiety Impairs Beginner Surfers as they try to learn something new. The oceans seems intimidating. Learning is intimidating. Learning to balance on a surfboard as a beginner is not easy and falling seems threatening. Most new surfers taking their first lesson are anxious. This anxiety goes away quickly with coaching and after their first day….
Many beginners wonder How New Surf Students Improve. There are many ways to learn and opportunities to improve personal conditioning to become a better surfer. Twelve years ago when I moved to the beach in Oceanside and began surfing every day, I also was learning everyday. I watched videos, read books, and watched surfers. I…
New students should Learn Surfing on Soft Tops in Foam Waves. This is the ideal set up to learn the techniques. The beginner techniques are the basis of advanced surfing so it is important to learn correctly. The soft top board gives the new surfer student more flexibility to make mistakes. It is also easier…
Often prospective students ask me Can Adults Learn to Surf. It is a great question. Age is functional more than conditional. Kids, teens, adults, and seniors can all learn to surf, but they all have different capacities based on more than age. Surfing demands flexibility. This is the one handicap that can be found at…
Many people ask me Can Adults Learn to Surf? Age is chronological but it is also functional. People who exercise and stay in shape have active lifestyles into their 70’s and 80’s. Why decide now you are over the hill? I have books on how to get fit to surf and it is also a…
The right beginner stance on a surf board is the key to riding and staying on the board. Many beginners trying on their own and even those in lessons manage to get up on the board but they can’t stay on. The right stance is necessary to ride straight to the beach, which should be…
Skateboarders and Snowboarders Love to Surf because it is another board sport. Wake boarders and skiers are also led to surfing, because there is something special about gliding over surfaces on a board. Surfing is different than other board sports because surfers begin lying down. It makes all the difference. Getting to the stance is…
Oceanside Surf Lessons Begin Surfing Life for so many locals and vacationers. Many people have surfed in their past but forget what they learned. Many have had it on their bucket list. Others are looking for fun outdoor recreation. Surfing is a great beach activity. People who don’t live at the beach dream about it…
Surfing is Great for Teens for so many reasons. This is frequently a difficult time for kids as they mature from adolescents to adults. More is expected of them and they have more anxiety about their future. They need something steady in their lives. Surfing is a great connection. It connects people to Nature through…
Catching Foam Waves with Soft Top Surfboards is where every beginner should start. The fundamentals learned in this process are the foundation for becoming and advanced surfer. However, if too many bad habits are formed, progress will be difficult. I see people who have rented soft top surfboards in the surf every day but they…
The techniques and skills surfers learn are important for advancing. Surfing looks so easy in the movies everyone wants to try it some day. Surfing requires the beginner to learn techniques which some have difficulty executing. Surf coaches will tell clients that surfing is not only learning the the right techniques, but the body has…
Surfing is timing and rhythm. When you look at a surfer in the movies it looks like one simple movement to get from lying down to standing up. When broken down, it is a series of movements including timing the wave. One of the first problems beginners surfers encounter is their nervousness and panicky mind…
Surfers have to ride in correct stance to remain on the surfboard. The surfboard is designed so that a surfers weight will be equal on both sides of the middle stringer. In this posture, the surfboard will go straight and the surfer does not need great balancing. For some reason, beginners and intermediates transition to…
Beginner surfers deal with anxiety mixed in with their excitement. The though of surfing is exciting, but entering the ocean and the pressure to perform seems to cause some anxiety. I give students a count for executing their pop up I want them to say out loud. Counting out loud slows down their brain and…
A great vacation idea is family fun learning to surf in Oceanside. When families decide a beach vacation would be great for summer, what better thing to do than learn to surf. After the first day, members are able to rent boards and practice on their own. It is an activity where everyone is together…
Oceanside surf lessons help beginners to progress and enjoy a new recreation. Beginner surf lessons are taught near the shore in small foam waves so even kids feel safe. When new students have mastered the fundamentals, they can start paddling further out for bigger waves. Surf lessons are great for learning because this sport is…
People often inquire whether overweight people can surf. It surely depends on a few things. The real issue is that overweight people often arrived at that condition by both eating too many calories and not exercising. It is the not exercising that is the greater problem for surfing. Surfing is very physically demanding. The surfer…
People often ask what happens in an Oceanside surf lesson class. There is a progression from dry land to learning in the water. The dry land explains everything the student has to execute in the water. The nature of lessons is that students often have a difficult time remembering each technique when confronted with waves….
Instructor are often asked how beginners progress surfing. It is a long road of patient and regular practice. First the surfer learns the fundamentals of catching waves on soft top boards and riding straight to the beach. Then the surfer begins paddling out through waves to bigger foam waves and then small real waves. If…
Beginners surf foam waves by learning rhythm and timing. Before beginners learn to surf, they don’t realize the timing of the steps to recognize waves, get in position, catch the wave, and then pop up on the board. They often try to do everything at once. Instructing beginners is mostly getting them to slow down,…
Beginners surf on the first day when they learn the basic fundamentals and follow a simple process for popping up. Surfing is about timing and rhythm and beginner surfers learning on their own do not understand this idea. The basic rhythm for beginners riding foam waves is to recognize a good wave. Roll over on…
The fundamentals learned in Surf Lessons in Oceanside will serve beginners as they progress to advanced surfers. The basics are the same for beginners in foam waves and advanced surfing in real waves. Surfing is about rhythm and timing. Each time the wave arrives, the surfer goes through the same techniques in a smooth sequence….
Catching real waves on soft top boards follows mastering foam waves. The process is very similar other than the timing. Foam waves can be seen coming whereas real waves peak in a few seconds. For foam waves, you just have to be between the wave and the beach. For real waves you have to be…