The shape of the weekend
You arrive Friday evening, we eat together, and we go through what everyone wants out of the weekend. That conversation matters — a group of eight can have eight different goals, and knowing them lets the coaches split the sessions usefully.
Saturday is two sessions with a long break between them. Sunday is two more, and the last one is deliberately unstructured: no drills, no video, just surfing with coaches in the water if you want them.
Why the long break on Saturday
New surfers almost always overtrain on day one. Your paddling muscles are not conditioned yet, and by the fourth hour your arms simply stop working, which means every rep after that teaches you bad technique.
So we build in four hours between sessions. Some people nap. Some walk out to the lagoon. We use part of it to review video from the morning, which is the single most useful thing in the whole weekend for most people.
Video review
A coach films each person for a few waves from the beach. What you feel you are doing and what you are actually doing are usually different things, and the gap is very hard to close with verbal feedback alone. Ten minutes of watching yourself is worth an hour of being told.
Where you sleep
A converted ranch house twenty minutes inland — bunk rooms, shared bathrooms, a large kitchen and a lot of drying space for wetsuits. It is comfortable but it is not a hotel. If you need a private room we can point you at places in town instead and adjust the price.
- Bunk rooms sleep four; couples can request a shared room.
- All meals from Friday dinner to Sunday lunch are included.
- Vegetarian and vegan are standard; tell us about allergies when you book.
- There is no reliable mobile signal at the house. Most people decide this is a feature.
Booking early matters
We run eight weekends a year and they fill three to four months out, mostly by returning campers. If your dates are fixed, get in touch early.
