Bali Surf Lesson Reports

This morning our beginner groups headed to Balangan beach for their group and private surfing lessons.

Waves were typically coming through in the knee to shoulder-high range with a couple of larger sets, which the future big wave surfers among the group confidently took advantage of!

After a break between sessions, the groups stayed at Balangan for their second session of the day as it remained the ideal place to surf today based on the tide, wind and swell conditions.

This morning our beginners made the short journey down to our local break at Padang Padang for their morning group surfing lessons.

Waves were breaking in the very beginner-friendly knee to waist high range — perfect for building confidence and finding your feet on the board for the first time.

After a fun and rewarding session, our beginners headed back to camp to refuel before another session back at Padang Padang later in the morning.

Our intermediate and advanced surf guiding group headed to Uluwatu at dawn today for their first surf session of the day and were delighted to be greeted by clean, glassy conditions and relatively thin crowds.

It’s a common misconception that surf lessons are mainly for beginners but the positional advice and coaching is hugely valuable at breaks like Uluwatu where the benefit of local knowlege equals a much higher wave count.

Swell height was similar to yesterday with waves ranging from chest high to overhead on the larger sets and everybody caught plenty of waves — especially those having lessons and benefiting from the guidance of their expert instructor.

When there’s not quite enough swell for surf camp favourite Toro Toro, the next wave up the reef — Airport Rights — is usually the next stop and that’s exactly where the surf lessons and guiding took place this morning for our intermediate groups.

Not quite as clean as it was yesterday, waves were breaking in the chest to head-high range and the lack of crowds ensured that everybody caught loads of waves.

After breakfast our beginners and intermediates surfed at Dreamland and our advanced guiding group — who surfed the dawn session at Uluwatu — surfed at Greenbowl

Among all the guests who stay at Padang Padang Surf Camp, Toro Toro must be the wave most commonly found at the top of their ‘favourite surf spots’ lists and today it was our intermediate surfers who got to experience it for themselves.

Our intermediates headed out on the boat from Jimbaran alongside the airport runway for their surf lessons and guiding where the waves were breaking in the chest to head-high range on sets.

Everybody had a great session and loads of fun in the glassy morning conditions as the sun rose over Bali.

This morning our beginners group continued to improve their skills and have fun while having surf lessons at Padang Padang beach. Conditions are nice today, fresh offshore wind in the early morning and waves are waist high to chest high or shoulder high on some sets. With detailed guidelines and assistance provided by our surf instructors together with passion of our learners about surfing, their skills improvement will not keep itself waiting. That is why our surf lessons is the most practical and effective way to learn surfing.

Our intermediate and advanced groups were back at Dreamland at low tide for their first session this morning.

Swell was slightly smaller than yesterday but still providing waves in the chest to overhead range which provided a challenge for some but were fun and rewarding for all.

After breakfast our advanced group surfed at Uluwatu and the intermediates joined the beginners at Padang Padang for their second sessions of the day.

With a very low tide to start the day and an increase in swell size overnight, Dreamland was always going to be the spot of choice for the first session of the day for our intermediate and advanced group of surfers.

With almost no wind, the conditions were beautifully glassy and waves were breaking between shoulder and slightly overhead for the group lessons and surf guiding.

After a breakfast refuel back at camp the second session of the day took place at Uluwatu for our advanced surfers and at our local break of Padang Padang for our beginners and intermediates.