Improve your Surf Skills within a week! Join our 7-day Surfcoaching

Improve your surfing within a week!

GET READY FOR GREAT WEATHER, SURF & AMAZING TIME!
Join us for our bi-annual trip to Portugal where we will be staying with our good friends at the Santa Cruz Surf House and get ready for a unique experience with our 'Surf & Grow' week:
Grow in your surfing skills and in your knowledge of permaculture. This special week combines intensive surf coaching with practical regenerative lessons in agriculture so that you grow not only as a surfer but also as a person.

Be surrounded by fellow surfers, enjoy advanced surf lessons, free-surf sessions with your surf coach and discover some of Portugal’s finest surf spots, all along with the home grown healthy food that will be served fresh out of the garden!
Improve your Surf Skills within a week! Join our 7-day Surfcoaching
WHO IS IT FOR?
If you have been to a surf camp or have a few surf lessons under your belt, this is your week!
Get ready to take your own waves, learn to surf down the line and go left or right. Leave the white water behind you once and for all and enjoy the waves out in the back. This is the surf trip to improve your performance and grow in your surf skills!

DATES 2024
MAY 04 to 11
OCTOBER 05 to 12

Improve your Surf Skills within a week! Join our 7-day Surfcoaching

what it looks like

SURF COACHING
This week we will set certain objectives to improve your skills and bring your surfing to the next level.
Together with our experienced surf coaches you will improve your surfing, learn how to take more waves and make the most out of your future surf trips.
Intense and fun learning methods like video coaching, surf skate sessions, flexibility training and movement sequences help to visualise and integrate your new knowledge into your surf sessions.
Improve your Surf Skills within a week! Join our 7-day Surfcoaching
PERMACULTURE
In addition to surfing, our week also offers an introduction to permaculture and regenerative vegetable gardening.
The practical part is carried out on the land of Santa Cruz Surf House.
Whether you are interested in healthy food, syntropic food forests or just curious about sustainable farming methods, this program allows you to learn and get to work practically. Naturally, all evening meals are prepared
with greenery from our garden!

WEEK PROGRAM

• 4 Days of 2 hours surf coaching.
• In- water coaching: Surf together with our surf coaches and experienced guides.
• Surf inspired warm up and stretching: Gain flexibility to improve and speed up key movements.
• Video analysis: See yourself surfing and visualise motion sequences. Take out common errors and mistakes.
• Surf skate session: Train your surf moves on land and execute them in the water.  Generate speed and practice your turns. Create a surf related muscle memory.
• Personalised feedback from our surf coaches: Work on your own key points.
• Surf guiding: Enjoy Portugal's waves and surf as much as you can.
• In situ surf theory: Surf etiquettes, ocean knowledge, wave creation, and more.
• Permaculture: Introduction & practical part of the regenerative vegetable garden. Cooking with harvested vegetables.
• Make your own Pizza evening
• Visit to Ericeira.

Improve your Surf Skills within a week! Join our 7-day Surfcoaching

Improve your Surf Skills within a week! Join our 7-day Surfcoaching

SPOT

SPOT

Close to Lisbon between the world surf reserve spots Ericeira and Peniche, lays the picturesque village of Santa Cruz in the fantastic countryside of Torres Vedras.

The Santa Cruz Surf House has a nice variety of rooms and dorms with unique style based on surf legends.
Improve your Surf Skills within a week! Join our 7-day Surfcoaching
There are two cozy chill areas to hang out and and rest after your surf sessions and a huge garden with all amenities like a BBQ, fire pit, pizza oven, a swimming pool and much more.

The perfect set up to enjoy the surf life surrounded by like minded people and fellow surfers.

COACHING OBJECTIVES

• Get out to the line-up: Spot channels and rips, time your paddle out, how to duck dive.
• Positioning in the water: Find the right peak for you. Go left or right.
• Paddle techniques: Right posture, generate speed, efficient movement sequences.
• Ride your waves: Go down the line, angled take off, go left or right, generate speed, make turns.
• Ocean knowledge: read daily conditions, surf check, type of waves and surf breaks.
• Surf forecast: Read and interpret different surf forecasts.
• Surfboard clinic: Learn about different board shapes, designs and fin setups.
• Create independence, self confidence and awareness in the water.

TEACHING METHODS

• 4 Days of 2 hours surf coaching. 
• In- water coaching: Surf together with our surf coaches and experienced guides.
• Surf inspired warm up and stretching: Gain flexibility to improve and speed up key movements.
• Video analysis: See yourself surfing and visualise motion sequences. Take out common errors and mistakes.
• Surf skate session: Train your surf moves on land and execute them in the water.  Generate speed and practice your turns. Create a surf related muscle memory.
• Personalised feedback from our surf coaches: Work on your own key points.
• Surf guiding: Enjoy Portugal's waves and surf as much as you can.
• In situ surf theory: Surf etiquettes, ocean knowledge, wave creation, much more.

SURF & GROW PACKAGE € 699

• Stay, 7 nights incl. bed linen & towels
• Breakfast every day
• Dinner, 4 nights
• Surf Coaching, 4 x 2 hours
• Surf Material, 6 days
• Surf skate session
• Free-surf sessions
• City Trip Ericeira
• WiFi, Swimming pool
• Local Transport

ADDITIONAL OPTIONS

• Airport transfer (min. 3 pers.) € 25 p.p.
• 2 x Video analysis € 75
• Introduction permaculture € 25 

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