Intermediate Lessons

Progressing with skills learnt in the beginner stages including turning, traversing the waves, catching green waves, starting to perform and then advancing bottom turns and top turns, linking turns, catching bigger waves, learning, understanding and developing surf awareness, surf skills (different from surfing skills), and surf safety are a priority.

The stage of an intermediate surfer can be mixed with excitement but then also frustrations.

Most of the basic techniques are learnt, understood, and mastered.

It becomes a stage where much practiced is required to keep improving.

A lot of time can be spent practicing without formal lessons but there is also a lot of benefits to having follow-up surf lessons to ensure the techniques being practiced are correct and to get professional advice and feedback to ensure efficient improvement and progress.

It should be a period of plenty of fun and plenty of time spent in the ocean catching as many waves as possible in as many varied conditions as possible.

The love of the sport should be getting more and more.

The surfer who only surfs in perfect conditions, will only be a partly abled surfer and not a well-rounded consistent surfer in all conditions.

This is important and so the surfer should be excited to surf in all conditions from perfect glassy light offshore conditions to small, weak onshore windy conditions.

The intermediate surfer must not allow frustrations to cloud their enjoyment or their development.

They need to begin to learn how to self-analyse their surfing performance and understand how they can improve mistakes they may be making.