Initiation and Beginners Surf Camp

Surfing for beginners in the Canaries (Lanzarote, Famara) – Initiation camp.

Calimasurf recommends STRONGLY our“Surf healthy” package for beginners.

Calima Surf offer the healthy surf camp fully recommended for adults, throughout the whole year. In this camp we offer surf lessons in the morning from 10.00 to 12.00 and in the afternoon other activities and functional exercises, oriented to a fast progress in learning. You will learn with new techniques and an advanced teaching system, therefore we have a gym with a projection room and the latest in surf teaching (The Drysurf system balance and Gyroboards), so you will progress quickly and feel your evolution on a daily basis. You just have to choose the time and duration of your stay and let yourself be led by professionals, from 3 to 14 days with accommodation included. Can you think of a better plan?
During the morning the surf course takes place from 10:00 to 12:00. To ensure proper learning and safety, there is a maximum of 8 students per monitor, also qualified in aquatic lifeguarding.

During the afternoon session (17:30 to 19:00) Tuesday and Friday we will do different healthy activities in the gym of Calimasurf or outdoors nearby, exclusively for our students. We will do exercises totally oriented to improve your surfing, as well as a photo analysis with correction of errors with the photos of all the group of that week, including yours!

We open all year, you can come any day you want to and you will start the program the day after your arrival.

The Healthy Surf Camp, includes:

• Accommodation within the nature reserve just 100 meters from the beach of Famara. Private room with 1 or 2 beds in the Surf House (for 1 or 2 people)
• Daily cleaning in common areas of the surf house and bedding (sheets, blankets and bath towels)
• 2 hours each day of surf lessons for beginners
• Maximum 8 students per instructor
• Monitor with surf instructor qualifications (Canarian Federation & B.S.A.) and aquatic lifeguard
• Transportation from our sports centre in Famara to where we do the surf classes
• Theoretical and practical lessons
• 2 FREE photo sessions for 2 hours on Tuesdays and Fridays
• All the material for surfing is free after the third class
• Tuesdays and Fridays healthy activities in the evenings
• Tuesdays and Fridays Drysurf sessions and photo analysis with correction of errors (*5 days of classes)
• Liability insurance
• All the necessary material (wetsuit, board, lycra, leash)
• Informative dossier of the island, upon your arrival
• FREE Wifi in the house

Plus… All material for freeto surf on your own!  If you are one of those wanting more, from the third day of the course, you can use all the surf material (softboard, wetsuit, lycra and leash) after the lessons, during the rest of the days you have booked, you can keep surfing on your own! This material must be left in the surf school before 6:00 p.m.

The Healthy Camp, includes in the evenings:

Tuesday & Friday: We will start the classes with theory on the tips of the most common mistakes in surfing, which will help us to understand and progress in your surfing from the first day. Next we will start with physical activity in our gym, with a series of exercises designed to work to improve your balance and strengthen the core, for this we will use special Drysurf System Balance boards, a great complement to improve surfing. In addition to the Gyroboards, that will help us simulate the turns on a board, TRX and Bosus, will reinforce the take-off, the paddling and finish with a good stretc.

After a few days of learning, and with the photos taken throughout these days, we will make a correction of errors through the photos takenof the whole group.This is a dynamic and fun way to learn, observing both your mistakes and those of your classmates,as well as the details that you do correctly.We will make a personalised photo-analysis and will be able to correct postural errors and timing.