El Salvador Surfing

Surf Coaching is the best choice to learn how to surf or improve your surfing techniques and reach the next level of performance. You'll reach the surfing level you aim.

1. What does our coaching include?

A personalized surf training, depending on surfing level
Progress faster with photo & video analysis of your surfing, each day you'll get a video analysis of your surfing.
Post surfing technical analysis
Techniques practicing in land and water

2. Knowledge of surfing

Surfing history & Tradition
Ocean environment
Surfing Equipment and gear
Surfing Etiquete and rules
Choosing the right spot for your surf level

Basic Surfing Rules:

Stretching and warming up
Before paddiling out/ Check the line up
Not paddle out if overcrowded
Always paddle out around the break
Always paddle towards the white water
Never Drop in

What to avoid:

Dropping in
Snaking

3. Safety

Personal and surfing equipment
Surf and Weather conditions

We provide information and recommendations for surfing equipment.

Surf and Weather conditions

Weather patterns
Tides
Types of waves
- Spilling wave
- Plunging wave
Parts of the wave
Rips and sweeps
- When caught in a rip don't panic, just paddle across the rip on a diagonal angle

Sweeps: the body of water moves across the beach

Marine creatures

Bluebottles
Stingrays
Blue ringed octopus
Oysters and barnacles

Selecting a safe venue

Safe Surfing Zone/ according the surfers level

REMEMBER:

Localism/ Tolerance and Respect/ Nobody owns the ocean
We all have roles as environmental ambassadors

4. Equipment for beginners

Surfboards
Fins
Soft foam rails

Boards for intermediate surfers

Rounded square, Saquash tail, Rounded Pin, Swallow, Square, Rounded tail
Parts of the surfboard: nose, Rocker, Rails, Tail, Deck, Bottom, Legrope

Wetsuits/ We don't need wetsuit in El Salvador.

Steamer, Sprinsuit, long john, wetsuit top
Legrop, Surfboard wax, Deck grip, Storage

Warm up and stretch

Indicate Surf Conditions
Carrying board correctly
Clear Feedback

5. Definition of surfing level

Beginner/ To paddle properly, catch waves in prone position
- Perfomance/ too much to do and improve
Intermediate/ Take off, bottom turn, Cutback
Advanced stage/ Skills of taking off and catching challenging waves

BEGINNER SKILLS

Core Skills

Carrying the board
Entering the surf zone
Paddling the board
Catching white water waves in the prone position
Standing and riding white waters
Traversing right and left
Dismount

Standing up/ Errors

Legs too far apart
Legs too close together
Legs too straight, knees not bent
Feet not across the stringer
Front foot pointing forward to one side of the stringer
Standing too far back
Standing too forward

Standing and riding white water

Lying on board
Paddling strongly
Looking over shoulder
Push up (arch back) on tail lift
Jump to feet
Correct stance and feet placement
Practice on the beach
Traversing Right and Left and right
Dismounting the board

INTERMEDIATE SKILLS

Wave negotiation
Duck Diving
Surf Awareness
Basic Surfing Maneuvers:
- Takeoff
- Drop off/ Late and early drop off
- Bottom turn
- Riding the line
- Speed and direction
- Going off the lip