Surf Level Chart |
Levels | What you should know already: | What’s next:
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Total Beginner | It is my first time surfing / I already surfed, but a long time ago | Learn the safety rules in the water, board basics and take off technique
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Beginner with Experience
| You should know the safety rules in the water, board basics and take off technique | Improving the take off in the white water and learning how to turn |
New Intermediate | The new intermediate is starting to paddle out, learning how to drop into waves and keep up with the green wall, so the take off should already be mastered! | Learning fundamental knowledge about how to paddle out, general behavior in the water and to be able to drop into green waves and do a bottom turn |
Intermediate | Fundamentals on how to paddle out and general behavior in the water, be able to drop into a wave and do a bottom turn | Learning positioning to catch the wave, how to keep up with the wall of the wave, the transition from bottom to top of the wave and the cutback |
New Advanced | The student knows the necessary skills to catch the wave, keep up with the wall of the wave and has an understanding of the bottom and top of the wave | Learning how to generate speed, improving the cutback and learning more basic manoeuvres such as the snap turn and the floater |
Advanced | All of the skills mentioned above! | Improvement and expansion of the manoeuvres repertoire, correction of positioning and of all the fine details which make a good surfer |