The Cornwall Surf Academy works alongside schools, providing learning packages aimed at development for students and teachers alike. Whilst each course develops the students surfing ability, they also develop sea and water awareness and an appreciation of the surrounding natural world. Surfing is an immersive activity, promoting mindfulness and FLOW, encouraging the student to develop as a person. CSA can provide a course designed around any group of students/teachers, and can fit around the various time requirements of a busy school.
Course introduction (integral part to all courses):
A typical day begins with a meet and greet, warm up games and we discuss the outcomes of the course. Everyone learns in different ways and we perform a short learning profile questionnaire to gain more understanding how our students learn best.
Taster session:
One day lesson – 2 hour lesson.
Content
- Basic surf and beach safety – flags, equipment beach safety and water awareness, how to stop the board. Signals
- Introduction to surf equipment
- Body position on the board
- Paddling
- Catching broken waves (white water)
- Moving from prone to standing position
- Riding the board in a straight line
3 lesson Immersion Sessions.
Content
- Basic surf and beach safety – flags, equipment beach and water awareness, how to stop the board. Signals
- Introduction to surf equipment
- Body position on the board
- Paddling
- Catching broken waves (white water)
- Moving from prone to standing position
- Riding the board straight
- Reading waves
- Paddling independently for waves – paddling technique
- Catching green waves
- Reading surf reports
- Safely paddling out
- Ocean etiquette/priority
- Surf Science (why waves break and their origin?)
5 lessons (Immersion and Development)
The structure of these sessions are flexible and can change to reflect how the students are doing. We offer project based learning opportunities for the students, helping them develop associated skills out of the water. Typically pupils write about their time surfing, create videos and presentations. They could look at the Geography, History or Science behind what they are doing. We help motivate students by encouraging them to display write-ups/videos/presentations on our website.
Content
- Basic surf and beach safety – flags, equipment beach safety and water awareness, how to stop the board. Signals
- Introduction to surf equipment
- Body position on the board
- Paddling
- Catching broken waves (white water)
- Moving from prone to standing position
- Riding the board straight
- Reading waves
- Paddling independently for waves – paddling technique
- Catching green waves
- Rail to rail s-turns
- Reading surf reports
- Safely paddling out including rolling the board to get through breaking waves.
- Surfing and ocean etiquette/priority
- Positioning n the line up and finding the position to catch the wave
- Functional stances.
- Video Analysis
- Project based learning regarding their experiences
- Stretching ideas including warm ups and cool downs
- Surf Science
Safety and security
All our instructors are CRB Checked, have full life guard training and are qualified ISA instructors. We accommodate all group sizes, however when in the water we work to the ISA ratio of 1 instructor to 8 students.
If you have any questions or requirements, please feel free to get in touch
