CLASS DURATION: 2 hours
SKILL LEVELS: Beginner, and intermediate surfers
PREREQUISITE: All beginner surfers taking a surf lesson with waves with us must take a Flat Water Intro to Surf clinic before. Intermediate surfers who wish to skip this requirement will be asked to supply photographic/video documentation of surfing experience to fulfill all requisites in our White Fin Skill Level in our classification system. (see information below). Our coaches will assess your photographs and will make a decision.

PRICING:

$215  

SKILL LEVEL CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM

• Knowing all parts of the board;
• Demonstrating board control and properly entering and exiting the water;
• Practicing board control in whitewater (i.e. paddling, turning, catching waves, accelerating and decelerating speed prone and standing);
• Shallow water dismounting from prone and from standing;
• Traversing left and right in the white water;
• Straight takeoffs;
• Having the awareness and basic understanding of what to do when you encounter a rip current;
• Independently catching broken waves;
• Understanding currents and being aware of your positioning (setting landmarks);
• Having basic whitewater etiquette for when it’s your turn, avoiding bumping into people, staying out of people’s way and safely catching waves.

• Paddling through broken waves;
• Being comfortable in the water, out of your depth, and in the impact zone;
• Demonstrating surf etiquette when catching unbroken waves;
• Unbroken wave selection (ie. Identifying lefts, rights, and closeouts)
• Surfing both forehand and backhand on unbroken waves;
• Trimming and carving left and right on unbroken waves;
• Pressing up on the board to get through white water, and performing turtle roll/duck dive;
• Generating speed and slowing down;
• Staying calm after wipeouts when underwater or when a large set is approaching;
• Performing angled take offs and bottom turns;
• Starting to perform cutbacks;
• Grabbing rail on steeper takeoff;
• Getting out of dangerous situations by yourself.

• Linking turns;
• Comfortable surfing overhead conditions and heavier waves;
• Fully competent at reading a set and predicting where and when it will break;
• Great understanding of wave selection, knowing which direction the wave is breaking, the turn that is required and when to generate speed or to stall;
• Performing the following:
• Popping up at the top of the wave before making the drop
• Snaps
• Floaters and completing into next turn or to finish off the wave;
• Closeout turns;
• Grab rail turns;
• Roundhouse cutbacks;
• Getting the board above the lip;
• Hang 5;
• Reverse entry;
• Cross step turns;
• Being comfortable at surfing over shallow reef or rocks;
• Getting out of dangerous situations by yourself;
• Being able to read when others are in dangerous situations and how to rescue them when it is required;
• Having enough knowledge and experience to teach someone how to surf and to coach other surfers.

• Competing in amateur or professional level surf competitions;
• Big wave surfing;
• Vertical surfing;
• Completion of a variety of aerials and progressive surfing maneuvers;
• Barrel riding;
• Lay backs;
• Fin releases;
• Coaching amateur and professional athletes for competitions. 

Terms & Conditions

COVID-19

The health and safety of our community members and staff is of the utmost importance to us at all times. In light of growing concerns regarding the spread of the COVID-19 virus, we want to assure you that we have been closely monitoring updates from The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) as they relate to COVID-19 and implementing appropriate additional health and safety recommendations as necessary.

What we’re doing:

• Reducing the number of customers at the shop and in our clinics at any given time
• Removing indoor seating at the shop until further notice
• Wearing face masks when interacting with customers and other employees
• Increasing the frequency of our shop deep cleans
• Continuing with our regular sanitation of surfaces
• Disinfecting all surfaces, door handles, rental equipment and shared areas regularly with Benefect—a hospital grade, non-toxic disinfectant
• Quarantining products and equipment that have been tried on or used by customers for a period of 48 hours prior to putting it back into circulation
• Adding sanitizing stations for all to use throughout our spaces
• Educating our staff and community members on best hygiene practices

What we’re asking of you:

• Use your own equipment for clinics and and workshops whenever possible
• Wear a face mask when coming into the shop or while attending our clinics
• Stay at home if you are feeling ill and unwell
• Washing your hands with soap for at least 30 seconds or using our hand sanitizer frequently
• Minimize person-to-person contact
• Cough into a tissue, your shirt, or the crease of your elbow
• Avoid touching your eyes, nose, and mouth 

CANCELLATION PHILOSOPHY

You can cancel your class online or through our app up to 24 hours before class start time to avoid losing the class. We do not accept email or phone cancellations. If you have not canceled your class, you will receive an email the following day to advise you that you have been late canceled.

LATE CANCEL PENALTY

Our late cancel policies are based on student feedback to help create a more fluid and relaxing sign in. If we hold a spot for you and you don’t show up it means that someone else could not get into the class and this is frustrating for people who have made the time to show up. 

NO REFUNDS OR CREDITS are given for classes missed. 

We cannot make individual exceptions. You have until 24 hours before class starts to add yourself in or remove yourself based on your schedule, so you can always wait until you know you can definitely make it to save your spot!

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