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Different levels of surfing
What beginner, intermediate and advanced surfers work on, from softboards and safety to the outside, the duck dive and pre-competition.
Surf levels
When you are learning to surf, an individual extreme sport that means riding waves, there are different levels.
Beginner
Lessons with fewer students per coach, because students need to be separated by ability, for example whether they can swim, and whether or not they have mastered the technique.
These lessons use softboards (foam surfboards).
What you learn:
Surf equipment (surfboard, wetsuit, leash).
Safety rules. Reading the sea (currents, tides, the breaking zone and so on).
Basic surfing technique: getting used to the water, sitting, paddling, the take-off (standing up on the surfboard).
Intermediate
At this stage of progression, surfers have lessons to refine their technique and to ride their first waves with manoeuvres, and the lessons help them develop the ability to surf on the outside.
These lessons are for every student older than 10 who wants to improve their surfing, and their fitness as well.
At this level the student learns positioning on the outside, and safety. That means getting past the breaking zone, moving from the inside to the outside: the duck dive (bico de pato, used to pass the breaking zone underneath the wave).
In a surfer's progression, level two is the stage for learning to read the sea, the waves and the morphology of the beach. Techniques are introduced and refined: the duck dive, the drop, the take-off, trimming, the cutback and so on.
Advanced
This level can be split into two distinct groups: advanced and pre-competition.
At this level, each student's individual abilities are taken into account, such as performing high-difficulty manoeuvres with speed and control, and linking manoeuvres with fluidity and a finish.
It is for everyone aged 10 or over who wants to improve their surfing technically, whether or not they want to compete.
We build an individual plan from an initial analysis of each student, and a process of learning, developing and refining advanced manoeuvres.
There is information on the format and the rules of competition for anyone who wants to take part.
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