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Learn to surf with our team of experienced and passionate surf guides, while living an authentic travel experience with fellow travellers. We don't just teach people how to surf, we take them on the surf trips that changed our lives.

12/10/2024

This season in the Mentawai Islands 🌴

11/25/2024

Want to escape the cold and surf-quality waves in a tropical climate 🏝️? Our UPCOMING destination, Nosara, Costa Rica 🇨🇷 , is our favourite place to coach surfing from January to March. Here are the top 3 reasons why:

#1 Wave Consistency
November to March is the “small wave” season on the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica. Playa Guiones is a true “wave magnet,” meaning that surfers get at least waist-high waves even on the smallest of days. In more than a decade of operating on this coastline, we are yet to see a “flat” day! This season has very consistent and reliable quality surf for both beginners and intermediates, typically with quality waves from waist-to-shoulder high. Perfect for coaching & improving your skills.

#2 The Weather
Don’t like the cold or rain? Want to go somewhere that practically guarantees sunshine and hot weather? Costa Rica averages less than one rainy day per month during this time of year. Blue skies, sunshine, 30 degrees every day and tropical water. Leave your wetsuit at home!

#3 Reliable Conditions
Winds are great for surfing in the mornings, offering clean conditions for typically a 4-hour window, and it also often calms down in the evening for a magical sunset session! The sand banks at Guoines offer long, gently peeling waves, which are exactly what students need to improve skills such as catching green waves, angling, carving or cutbacks.

Why Nosara?
- Consistent, quality surf for beginners & intermediates
- Plenty of safe, sand bottom waves breaking over 7 km of majestic beach
- Gorgeous, private bungalows set in a tropical garden
- Fascinating jungle with sloths, monkeys, colourful birds & more
- Walk 6 minutes to waves, amazing restaurants & cafes

For any questions, don’t hesitate to contact us at [email protected]

09/22/2024

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09/21/2024

We’re currently offering 30% Off on the Annual Membership for 1 more day! 🚀
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🌍 Community: Be part of a supportive, knowledgeable community that’s all about surf progression.

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09/20/2024

Your chance to level up your surfing with Barefoot Premium is here—but it won’t last forever. Our 30% OFF discount on the Annual Membership is still running for 2 days ⏰
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- 🎯 Focused Practice Tools: Get access to tools designed to help you focus your practice and get results faster.

- 🌍 Community: Be part of a supportive, knowledgeable community that’s all about surf progression.

- 🎬 NEW: Pro Surfer & Community Video Analysis: Our coaches post weekly video breakdowns of pro surfers’ techniques and community surfers’ footage. Plus, we do group analysis of members' surf footage.

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09/12/2024

~ The Push Through ~

The “pushing through” technique, or “punching through”, is the optimal method to use to get passed small waves on a big surfboard. This technique uses the speed and flotation provided by a longboard in order to drive through the wave, instead of under it.

Take a look at the horizon. Start paddling when bigger sets of waves have passed & when the ocean looks calmer.

As you get closer to a whitewater wave, keep paddling hard straight towards it. More speed equals more control.

When you are about a surfboard’s distance from the whitewater, grab your rails & push up. There needs to be proper space between your body & the board for the whitewater to pass between you and your surfboard.

Lift one leg up in the air. This brings extra weight over your surfboard, preventing you from getting knocked back off on bigger waves.

When the white water hits you, your board should be facing straight towards the wave, totally perpendicular to it.

You can only do this on smaller waves. Don’t try to push through big whitewater waves, you will get pushed back. Instead, try the turtle roll.

09/08/2024

The Frontside Turn

When going down the wave, always look where you want to go to.

As you reach the bottom of the wave, compress your knees and lower body down to add extra weight onto your back foot, especially over the toes.

As you are putting more weight on your back foot, you want to drop the leading shoulder and lean towards the wave. You can touch the water with your backhand for balance. This position puts extra weight over your back toes to really engage the fins and the back part of the right rail.

Now that the fins and rail are engaged, you want to lead the turn with your head and upper body.This twisting of the torso is what helps to pivot the longboard towards the shoulder. How much you rotate your shoulders and chest will affect how much you carve.

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09/02/2024

The Standard Pop-up

Step 1 - To verify if you’re able to do the Standard Pop-Up, lay on your belly on the floor, with your hands below your pectorals.

Step 2 - Push your upper body up. With only your hand and knees as point of contact with the floor.

Step 3 - As your thighs lift off from the floor, see if you can swing both knees up and forwards, without them dragging on the floor, and have your back foot land towards where your tail would be.

Make sure to swing your knees up and forward by using only your hands and knees as spots of contact with the floor or surfboard.

We often see surfers practicing this technique on land using their toes as points of contact on the ground, which is easier. If you are riding a shortboard or a fish, you need to avoid practicing this way. In the water, your feet will be hanging off the back of the surfboard, so you won’t be able to place your toes on the board to pop up.

Want to learn even more and level up your surfing? Join our Barefoot Premium online coaching! Get access to courses like “Take-Off Techniques” with a 7-day Free Trial. Comment ‘Premium’ below, and we’ll DM you the link to get started today!

07/13/2024

Styling with Jaimy in Nicaragua 💃

07/05/2024

Costa Rica surf retreat spots are selling fast 💨 don’t miss your chance to join us in 2025

06/16/2024

Surfing in the sun, in Costa Rica ☀️

05/07/2024

Excited to be back in Nicaragua for our summer season 📍

05/05/2024

Get some footage of yourself and look for Feedback.⁣
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The earlier in your progression journey you can get yourself filmed, the better. The first step to fixing something in your technique is to discover it in the first place. You have to be conscious of what you are doing wrong to start fixing it. When watching your surf footage in slow motion, pay close attention to every moment and try to isolate patterns.⁣
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Compare your videos to tutorials or footage from experienced surfers to understand how you should approach fixing your mistakes.⁣
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Asking an experienced surfer friend or surf coach to give you feedback on your technique can help you fix your mistakes more efficiently.⁣
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Surfers can keep making the same mistakes for years without noticing them if they don’t get proper instructions.⁣
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Once you have a clearer idea of what you need to change, try to remember and focus on fixing it during your next sessions.⁣
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The more you try, fail, get feedback and correct your skill, the faster you improve.⁣
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05/03/2024

Few spots remain for our ⭐️Intermediate Retreats in the Mentawais, November 2024⭐️ photo captured by

04/09/2024

The Last Paddle Strokes ⁣⁣
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Once you have the perfect positioning on the wave, it’s time to commit to catching it. The last few paddle strokes often make the difference between catching a wave or not catching it. Do not paddle two arms at a time, as you won’t continue gaining momentum when both your arms are up in the air.⁣⁣
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Find the balance between looking back to position yourself perfectly for the wave, and committing to it. Once you have done the hard part and positioned yourself at the peak, you don’t want to look back at the wave too much, especially during your last few paddle strokes. Once you are certain you’re at the right spot, stop looking back at the wave and paddle with all your heart.⁣⁣
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“Paddling with all your heart” doesn’t mean forgetting about the proper paddling technique. Lots of surfers try too hard. They want to catch the wave so much that all their technique disappears and they start doing short, inefficient paddle strokes right at the moment when it’s most important. You still need to do long, deep and powerful paddle strokes.⁣⁣
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When it gets critical to paddle, experienced surfers keep the same efficient paddle technique but they increase the number of paddle strokes per minute. They limit to the minimum the amount of time between the hand coming out of the water and re-entering the water for another paddle stroke. Kicking with your feet can also give you a little extra power to get into the wave.⁣⁣
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These are just a couple of tips for the last part of getting into the wave. Lots of intermediates underestimate how precise their position must sometimes be in to be able to paddle into a wave. Just being a few feet outside of the steeper part of a wave can make it impossible to catch it. Ten Tips to Catch More Waves is Coming Soon. Watch this space...⁣⁣
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03/29/2024

White Water vs Unbroken Waves 🌊 ⁣
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Forward Push - When you first start surfing, you might be catching white water waves during your first sessions. White water waves are relatively easy to catch, as the power from the broken white water wave pushes you forward. You could catch most white water waves without even paddling.⁣
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Gravity - The first thing you must understand about catching and “sticking” on green waves is that there is no “push forward” from the white water. The force that lets you into the wave is gravity. You have to visualize yourself paddling down a “hill” that’s moving forward.⁣
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Long efficient strokes - This is especially important for catching unbroken waves. You have to give everything you have when paddling, especially when you feel your surfboard’s tail go up: that’s a key moment to “stick” on it.⁣
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Positioning is key - The correct paddling technique is not only done with proper paddle strokes, but also with the proper positioning of your body on the surfboard. The correct position on the surfboard is when your chest is perfectly centred on the width of the surfboard, and when you are at the right height. ⁣

Surfer A paddles with long, strong, deep strokes, and is properly positioned on his surfboard, with his nose about 1 inch out of the wave. Two seconds later, Surfer A has been lifted up on the face of the wave. When the wave “lifts” him, it would normally create more space between his nose & the water, but Surfer A keeps his head low at this critical moment, putting more weight towards the front of his surfboard.⁣⁣
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Surfer B paddles with short, shallow strokes, and is positioned too far back on his surfboard, making the nose pop out significantly. Two seconds later, Surfer B is lifted up on the face of the wave. The space between his nose and the water gets even bigger as he goes higher up on the wave. Surfer B is way too far back on his surfboard and doesn’t bring his head down closer to his board during this critical moment. ⁣⁣
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Your head and the upper part of your shoulders probably weigh 20 pounds or more! Imagine the difference it can make when you bring your head lower and closer to the surfboard as you are lifted up on a wave. This is really what helps you catch, stick and go down on this “hill” that’s moving forward. ⁣⁣
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03/25/2024

Passing the Break with the Push Through ⁣⁣
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The “pushing through” technique, or “punching through”, is the optimal method to use to get passed small waves on a big surfboard. This technique uses the speed and flotation provided by a longboard in order to drive through the wave, instead of under it.⁣⁣
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Take a look at the horizon. Start paddling when bigger sets of waves have passed & when the ocean looks calmer.⁣⁣
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As you get closer to a whitewater wave, keep paddling hard straight towards it. More speed equals more control.⁣⁣
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When you are about a surfboard’s distance from the whitewater, grab your rails & push up. There needs to be proper space between your body & the board for the whitewater to pass between you and your surfboard.⁣⁣
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Lift one leg up in the air. This brings extra weight over your surfboard, preventing you from getting knocked back off on bigger waves.⁣⁣
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When the white water hits you, your board should be facing straight towards the wave, totally perpendicular to it.⁣⁣
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You can only do this on smaller waves. Don’t try to push through big whitewater waves, you will get pushed back. Instead, try the turtle roll.⁣⁣
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03/17/2024

Some of our travellers waves from the past couple of weeks 🌊

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Your chance to level up your surfing with Barefoot Premium is here—but it won’t last forever. Our 30% OFF discount on the Annual Membership is still running for 2 days ⏰ 👉 https://tutorials.barefootsurftravel.com ! Here’s what you’ll get when you join: - 🎥 Exclusive Courses: Deep dive into premium tutorials designed to improve your surfing fast. - 💬 Personalized Feedback: Upload your footage, and our coaches will help you make targeted improvements. - 🎯 Focused Practice Tools: Get access to tools designed to help you focus your practice and get results faster. - 🌍 Community: Be part of a supportive, knowledgeable community that’s all about surf progression. - 🎬 NEW: Pro Surfer & Community Video Analysis: Our coaches post weekly video breakdowns of pro surfers’ techniques and community surfers’ footage. Plus, we do group analysis of members' surf footage. This is the best time to start your 7-day Free Trial while locking in the best deal forever! *P.S. The deal ends in 2 days!* ⏱️ #howtosurf #barefoot #surf #longboard #surftutorials #premium #surfschool #learntosurf