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25 October 2023
5 Essential Tips For Surfing Unbroken Waves
We’re giving you some game-changing techniques to enable you to catch and surf unbroken waves. Maybe it’s catching your first green wave or maybe it’s to get your wave count up. Either way, we can help with these important fundamental surfing skills.
25 October 2023
3 Critical Foot Movements To Improve Your Surfing
Let's dive into the art of movement on your surfboard. Surfing is a beautiful combination of weight shifts, rotation, and fluidity. Whether you're riding a small fish or a longboard, moving around is essential for every surfer. In this video, we'll uncover why moving on your board matters and provide you with drills to enhance your skills.
25 October 2023
3 Top Tips for Perfecting Your Surfing Pop Up!
The pop-up is the most important manoeuvre in surfing! Without dialling in your take-off it will massively hinder your progression! With years of experience during our coaching sessions, we know the common mistakes that ladies make and we know how to fix them. So we’ve created this short video to give you the top 3 tips for success.
25 October 2023
5 Top Ways To Improve Your Surfing!
Learning to surf is an incredible journey filled with rewarding moments and challenges. As your technique improves and your confidence blossoms, you might find yourself hitting a plateau. Don't worry, we've got you covered with five expert tips to help you break through that plateau efficiently. And stay tuned, because the final tip might surprise you!
25 July 2023
Dear Lily, What is the best period product to use whilst surfing?
Dear Lily, I’m going on a surf trip this weekend and I’ve just got my period. I haven’t tried surfing on my period before and have no idea what to do. I’m worried about getting leaks and just generally feeling uncomfortable in the water. What is the best period product to use whilst surfing?
07 July 2023
How to improve your style in surfing
As you progress on your surfing journey, you’ll soon realise that you don’t just want to surf well - you also want to surf with style. But what do we mean when we talk about style in surfing? Surfing style is all about how you choose to approach a wave. It’s in the way you move your body, the board you choose to ride and how you use that board to draw lines across the face of a wave.
07 December 2022
How to guide: Packing your board for travelling
Surf holidays are the best type of holiday - there’s no question about it. But packing for a surf trip can add an extra level of anxiety when you’re unsure how to pack your beloved board properly. There’s nothing worse than arriving at your destination with pumping surf and your board is in two pieces or has a huge chunk out of the rail!
21 July 2022
How to become a surf instructor
Do you dream of spending your day at the beach, chasing the endless summer while teaching people a new skill they will carry with them for life? The Level 1 ISA (International Surf Association) qualification is your entry into the wonderful world of outdoor instructing.
04 June 2022
6 Tips to Improve Your Pop Up
Teaching people to surf for a living has got to be one of the best jobs in the world. You’re paid to share your love for surfing and get your students as stoked as you are! Sounds like the dream, right?
05 April 2022
10 Ways to Get Yourself Out of a Surf Slump
It doesn’t matter what level you are, at some point in your surfing journey you will hit the dreaded surf slump. Maybe you’re just coming out of a long surf-less winter, or you might have just lost your spark. It’s inevitable that you’ll plateau for a while, but that’s not always a bad thing. It […]
22 March 2022
6 Reasons Why Your Surfing Is Not Improving
Teaching people to surf for a living has got to be one of the best jobs in the world. You’re paid to share your love for surfing and get your students as stoked as you are! Sounds like the dream, right?
18 February 2022
5 Tips to Perfect Your Paddle
If you’re new to surfing, paddling can be completely exhausting. Even when you’re a more experienced surfer, the wrong technique can still leave your shoulders and arms burning before you’ve even reached the lineup!
18 September 2021
How To Read A Surf Forecast
Understanding the future wave conditions by reading a surf forecast is one of the most important skills you should have as a surfer. Being on the right beach on the right day with the right conditions is the best way to maximise the number of good sessions you have – and those good sessions are […]
30 August 2021
Pro Tips On How To Noseride On A Longboard
So, you’ve mastered your cross-step and your toes are edging ever so closer to the nose of your board. That hang five you’ve been dreaming about is just an inch away, but it still feels so out of reach… Hang in there, because it sounds like you’re ready to learn the art of noseriding! What […]
22 August 2021
How to Cross-step on a Longboard – 4 Tips From Our Surf Coach Kirsty
You only have to look at a 9-foot log and you’ll know that a longboard is a totally different surf craft to a standard shortboard. With the extra length, weight and foam, it takes a lot more than just shifting your weight between your front and back foot to move a longboard around. To make the most of the wave on a longboard, you’ll actually need to move your feet. This is where the cross-step comes in - the best way to move your weight along the board.
24 June 2021
8 Ways To Build Confidence For Surfing
If I had a pound for every time, someone told me they’d lost their confidence in the surf – I’d be somewhere on a luxurious Maldives boat right now! 😉 Since starting Women + Waves I’ve been trying to understand why so many of us (myself included) have lost this trust in the ocean and […]
30 April 2021
How to Master a Cut Back Like a Pro
Women + Waves have teamed up with British professional surfer and surf coach Alan Stokes, to give you the pro tips on how to master a cutback. Don’t know what a cutback is – let me explain. What is a Cutback? For a normal cut back you do a bottom turn and come up the […]
08 April 2021
Waxing Your Surfboard
We’ve all heard the saying ‘Wax on / Wax off’ – It’s a never-ending cycle of waxing your board and taking the wax off to re-wax it. But the good news is, there’s not really a wrong way (unless you put it on the bottom of your board of course!) But here are our top […]
