Open Water Training

  • Discussion of Group Management in inlet

  • Practice ferrying to buoy and back

  • Circles in eddy

  • Taking turns landing group through surf

  • Demo of proper technique

  • Beach Dynamics, launching landing

  • Practice launching group

  • Establishing a launching & landing drill

  • Head out to reef

  • Towing in swells

  • Rescues in rough water

  • Return back through inlet with incoming tide

  • Practice surfing Inlet waves on way in   NEW – Video your Rolling” and de-brief

Surfing Component

  • Launching & Landing

  • Discussion of Different Wave Types

  • Discussion of Beach Topography

  • Discussion of Signals, from the “Beach Boss”

  • Discussion of “Leveraging the Rip”

  • Low Bracing / High Bracing

  • Practicing Staying Up WITHOUT a Paddle

  • Rolling or Self- Rescues in Surf Zone

  • Safety Considerations in the Surf Zone

  • Catching the wave (max 4 strokes)

  • Trim, how we control our speed

  • Stern Ruddering using the full body

  • “Bongo” Surfing, why we DON’T like it

  • Surfing Perpendicular to the Wave (Straight)

  • Exiting the Wave, Low Brace Turn (Shed the Speed)

  • Back Surfing…..WHAT !!!

  • Surfing with paddle in One Hand / Then No Paddle !!

  • Just in case ” Towing in the Surf Zone”

  • Surfing with Eyes Closed, feel the Environment

  • Emergency Procedures for Pending Crash

  • Position of Boat / Body / Wave , if out of boat , if Helping in a Rescue

  • End with some Video Taping