Surfing Prerequisites
For your safety and enjoyment it is essential that you meet all the specified package criteria.
Beginner / Improver(Surf Lessons) | Intermediate(Guiding) | Advanced(Guiding) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Able to swim at least 25 metres. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Possess a reasonable level of fitness and be in general good health. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Able to take off un-aided on a green (unbroken) wave. | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Able to turn frontside and backside across the wave. | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Comfortable with surfing over rocks. | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Surf a “hard” board. | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Able to surf waves up to head high from the peak to the trough. | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Able to duck dive or punch through green waves with confidence. | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Know how to throw a Shaka.*** | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Able to perform cutbacks, re-entries and possess the ability to tube ride. | ✓ | ||
| Able to surf over shallow rocks or reef. | ✓ | ||
| Able to ride a short board or longboard. | ✓ | ||
| Know at least a dozen members of the current ASP top 44.*** | ✓ | ||
| Know how to throw a double shaka.*** | ✓ |
*** Not strictly essential!