Levels
- A complete beginner or someone that has surfed a few times but is still catching unbroken waves.
- What will you learn?
- The absolute basics in a fun, safe and encouraging environment.
- Safety on the beach and in the white water, how to handle your board and how to negotiate your way through breaking waves.
- We’ll introduce you to your equipment and explain the basics of a surfboard and what that means to you as a surfer.
- How to catch forgiving waves and how to understand the basics of controlling a surfboard whilst laying on your belly in the prone position.
- The techniques to get to your feet and how to maintain stability and build on consistency.
- Basic manoeuvres in the white water such as speed and control as well as turning right and left on a wave.
- Your success will come from your willingness to learn new things and not being afraid to fall.
- You’ll be an improver or a low-end intermediate, someone that has had some lessons, is catching white water waves on a regular basis and can perform basic turns left and right. You will also show that you can surf in a safe manner.
- You may have even caught a couple of unbroken waves and are experienced trimming down the wave.
- What will you learn?
- Advanced safety, specific to the spots we surf as well as the waves that you may surf at home.
- We will get specific about your stance, your body position and how it will affect your rides.
- We will work with you to improve your Pop-Up technique.
- You will improve the efficiency and techniques paddle strokes enabling you to build on your endurance as well as explosiveness.
- You will learn how to negotiate the inside breaking waves and how to paddle out to unbroken waves.
- You will learn the difference between white water waves and unbroken waves and learn how to catch a wave before it breaks.
- You will understand the difference between forehand and backhand or frontside and backside as well as understanding the basics of trimming along a wave.
- We will use video feedback sessions to help you take your surfing to the next level – looking at and analysing your surfing. Video analysis is the best way to see your surfing, to look at the positives and to see how to correct any mistakes and improve on techniques.
- You will be a high-end intermediate surfer, proficient in the water, able to paddle through waves unassisted and able to negotiate your way around a line up. You will be able to catch head-high waves and can trim left and right on a variety of different waves.
- What will you learn?
- We will help you to maximise your wave count and learn how to find the fastest trimming line as well as what type of manoeuvres to perform and when.
- We will work with you to help improve techniques, body positions, position on the wave, carving turns, cutbacks and floaters.
- You must be able to swim as a basic requirement to attend our lessons.
Lessons
Despite its position in the Atlantic, the Algarve has more of a Mediterranean feel, keeping it warm during the day and slightly cooler as the sun goes down, with a very low chance of rain. On average the Algarve receives 6mm of rain per month. Just so you don’t tempt fate, bring a waterproof and a warm jumper or two for the cooler evenings. For surfing, you’ll be needing a wetsuit. A 4/3 or a 3/2 are both good for those Atlantic rollers, depending on the time of year and how comfortable you are in cooler waters. The wetsuit hire is included in the price of the lesson, we only need your height for the size.
We all head to the same beach together, however that doesn’t mean you’ll all be having the same lesson. We separate into levels 1-4 you can read more about our levels on add link. You’ll head to the water after a bit of theory and warmup.
We love south coast waves, so if there’s murmur, we are at Porto de Mós beach, but equally if the west coast brings us some bangers, we head to Bordeira.
A lift to the beach, your hire of board and wetsuit, 2 ½ hours of coaching and water time.
Booking
Towel, water, sunscreen or zinc, and maybe a hat.
We have 3 pick up points where we meet you at 2.15pm:
• Lagos Aparcamiento Explanada
• Praia da Luz Parque de Estacionamento
• Our base location of Quinta Agave in Almádena: Quinta Agave – Holiday Apartments Algarve Portugal
Yes, we are taking bookings all year round!
Here is our kids policy:
• Under 7 — we cannot accept on surf guides or lessons.
• From 7 to 12 — lessons are available if you can demonstrate your child’s swimming ability. Please note however that we require one parent or guardian to be in the water supervising each child at all times, since our instructors will have other guests to attend to. The guardian can not join the same lesson while they are supervising the child.
• From 12 – 16 — lessons are available with a parent or guardian supervising at the same beach. The guardian may join the same lesson if they wish.
Either call us, drop us an email, or use our contact form. If you would like to book last minute we would recommending texting us on WhatsApp.
Equipments
This is only possible if you are coming to the lesson by your own car and dropping back the board to our Almadéna location. We have an additional hire fee of €25.
Yes, you can rent a board + wetsuit for 25 EUR per day by signing a rental agreement. We will ask for an ID for deposit to ensure the safety of our equipment. If you are planning to stay longer, get in touch for longer term delays that we can offer.
We have a range of soft top boards, from 9ft down to 6’8 available for hire.