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We help you surf better, faster. Welcome to a different introduction to the world of surfing.
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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.

09/22/2024

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09/21/2024

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🎥 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.

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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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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.

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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.

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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 🌊

03/08/2024

Textures of Costa Rica. Captured by

02/24/2024

capturing some surf moments in Costa Rica.

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This is your final reminder—there are only 12 hours left to take advantage of our 30% discount on the Barefoot Premium Annual Membership ⏱️ Start my 7-Day Free Trial at 30% off: https://tutorials.barefootsurftravel.com Why join now? - 🎥 Immediate Access to premium tutorials and feedback. - 💸 Big Savings you won’t see again anytime soon. - 🎯 Focused Practice Tools: Get access to tools designed to help you focus your practice and get results faster. - 💬 Commitment to progressing your surfing with guidance from the best. - 🎬 NEW: Pro Surfer & Community Video Analysis: Weekly video breakdowns and group surf footage analysis to keep you improving. Don’t wait until it’s too late—hit the link, and we’ll see you inside! See you in the community, *P.S. This discount expires in 12 hours—don’t miss it!* #howtosurf #barefoot #surf #longboard #surftutorials #premium #surfschool #learntosurf

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

100,000 Youtube Subscribers! It has been quite the journey. Only 1 year ago, Covid-19 put a full stop to our surf coaching retreats, and we shifted all our focus on building the ultimate online platform to help beginner & intermediate surfers progress & have more fun. It's hard for us to believe the response we've had; we have just reached 100k subscribers on YouTube. Every 30 minutes, a beginner or the intermediate joins our online coaching platform. We want to say THANK YOU for your support. We're super stoked to see you guys commenting on our Youtube videos, tagging friends on our Instagram posts to let them know about us, etc. A special thanks to our Premium Members; thanks to you guys, we're able to keep creating premium tutorials.

Meet Kari, Marcel & Hernan, 3 students from our Costa Rica coaching retreats. Did you know you can learn to surf with us online, from anywhere in the world? In addition to premium surf tutorials, you can now get personalized video coaching with us online. Get quality feedback from the same experienced instructors that teach hundreds of surfers on our retreats & bring your surfing to the next level! Check the links in Bio for more info.

What We Do - Surf Coaching Retreats

Want to learn more about our Surf Coaching Retreats? 🏄🏼‍♀🌴🏄🏼‍♂ Surfing is a difficult art to master. The process of learning to surf can sometimes be frustrating and take quite a long time. Our specialty is to help you get better, faster, in a safe environment. Because the better you get at surfing, the more fun you have! We go beyond the typical “how to pop up class” and we make sure to provide clear technical advice that will help you continue to progress for years to come.

Surf Coaching Retreat in the Mentawais, Indonesia

The Ultimate Surf Coaching Playground 🌴 Are you an intermediate surfer? It has always been a dream of us to have intermediate surfers experience our unique surf coaching program while practicing in some of the most perfect waves on earth. Since the first time we traveled to the #mentawai islands off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, we’ve had a hard time choosing a different destination for our team surfing vacations. We keep going back, year after year. We thought it was time to invite a few intermediate surfers to experience this incredible surf trip. Uncrowded perfection, turquoise tropical waters, dreamy landscapes and the feeling of being in one of the most remote locations in the world are some of the feelings that make this surf destination so special. Next year from November 20th to 29th we will be running our first surf coaching retreat in the Mentawai islands. We only have 8 spots available in total. We will have 2 fast boats to reach 15+ world-class spots and 2 guides per boat, helping small groups of 4 surfers ride some of the best waves of their lives. Follow the link to learn more about it: https://barefootsurftravel.com/surf-trips/info-mentawai

What our travellers have to say | Surf Coaching Retreats

Ever wondered what it’s like to learn to surf with us? Here’s what our travellers had to say about their last trip in Bali.

Surf Coaching Trips | Bali, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Nicaragua

NEW SURF TRIP VIDEO 💥 Has a Surf Trip experience ever changed your life? We believe nothing compares to the experience of a surf journey. The feeling of gliding down a clean, turquoise wave. Meeting new people and discovering new ways of life. The excitement of the unknown. We’re on a never-ending quest to deliver better surf trip experiences for beginners & intermediates, year after year. Join us in #Bali this August (2 spots left) or this October. Planning on a surf trip next winter? Check out our surf trips to #Ecuador and new adventure to #Costa Rica starting early January 2019!

Surf Etiquette

Our latest Surf Tutorial is here; 🏄‍♂️ "Surf Etiquette | Top 9 Surf Rules you need to know" ! We had so much fun producing this video for you guys. Learn the important unwritten rules of surfing. As a beginner, your first experiences in the water can be quite intimidating. Not only are you in a new environment, there are also other surfers around you on the spots, with different skill levels. The 9 rules in this video will clarify what we call a "Code of conduct”: A number of unwritten rules made to keep surfers safe 👷‍♀️, to be respectful 🙏🏼 of one another and to keep a good vibe 🤝 in the water. We hope it helps !! 📋 For more of our Surf Tutorials, check out our YouTube Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvOh9i-BOFzu51rpj33fGag

We are very excited for Thursday! Are you in #Montreal on June 28th? Our team will be raising funds during the outdoor Projection of “Andy Irons: Kissed by God” organized by OuiSurf This is your chance to get amazing gear & services from some of our favourite organizations in Quebec’s surfing community. Here’s a taste of what will be available: - A brand new “fish” surfboard shaped by our friend Etienne Gagné - A private surf class at h67 for 2 with Barefoot Surf Travel surf coaches, in collaboration with KSF - Surf bikinis from June Swimwear - Framed professional photos by Alex C.D Photography , JcLemay Photo & Jeremy Le Chatelier - More gear from Boutique Archive , OuiSurf, Agence Nic Picard , Billabong & more! 100% of the profits will go to the Community Support Campaign “Stand by Nicaragua” on GoFundMe. OuiSurff is donating 2$ for every ticket sold online. For more information about the event and to buy tickets online Here: https://www.facebook.com/events/173305646854169/ 🙌🏼 Thank you for the support.

How to Angle your Take Off & Draw your Line on a Wave

📋An other Surf Tutorial is out: 🏄How to Angle your Take Off & Draw your Line on a Wave 🏄‍♀️ Want to have more Fun Surfing? Watch this to learn how to start angling your Take Off and riding the Wave’s Face. Doing Your Pop Ups with a slight Angle will help you get the Momentum you need to Ride on a Wave’s Face, to either go Right or Left. Subscribe to our Youtube Channel. Don't miss out on our new Tutorials. Subscribe Here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvOh9i-BOFzu51rpj33fGag?sub_confirmation=1 Watch our other Tutorials: - How To Paddle: https://youtu.be/3M7Ko0ZxIh0 - How To Pop Up: https://youtu.be/KCLWvAcPcPk - How To Catch an Unbroken Wave https://youtu.be/k_Vd9SYg4wI #surf #progression #surfprogression #surfbetterfaster