Bali Surf Lesson Reports

At the far end of the Uluwatu line up, under the shadow of the famous 11th-century temple perched on top of the 70m high cliffs lies its namesake wave — Temples. This spot is a favourite with our guests thanks to its long glassy walls and its crowd-unfriendly location.

It’s possible to access the wave by walking along the reef at low tide but our favourite way is to travel in style by taking the boat from Padang Padang, which is what our intermediate group of surfers did today for their morning lessons.

Waves were coming through in the shoulder to overhead range and everyone enjoyed a fun and uncrowded session before heading back to camp for breakfast.

It was another beautiful morning for learning to surf here on Bali’s Bukit peninsular as our two beginner groups headed off to Balangan beach for their surfing lessons.

The knee-high waves — expertly selected by our instructors — were the perfect beginner-friendly introduction for our surfers building their confidence and skills in the water.

For their second session of the day, our beginners groups will either surf at Balangan again or the surf camp’s local break at Padang Padang.

Today our intermediate group ventured to Balangan for both of their morning surf lessons. Palm-fringed with white sand, Balangan is one of the most beautiful beaches on the west coast of the Bukit peninsular and just being there is an experience of its own.

There was a little wind but waves were still clean and all of our surfers were making great progress riding along Balangan’s green faces as waves were arriving in the waist to shoulder-high range.

After their surf lessons, everybody headed back to camp for our delicious weekly BBQ which was well deserved!

It was all aboard the boat to Temples for our intermediate and advanced groups this morning as they headed out at dawn to one of our guests’ favourite spots.

Always thin on crowds due to the long walk or even longer paddle, Temples is just a short boat trip from Padang Padang and a fun way to start the day — enjoying a view of the Uluwatu coastline from a different perspective as the sun rises.

This morning the crowd was as thin as ever as waves were coming through in the shoulder-high to overhead range and everyone had their fill of long lefts before heading back to camp for breakfast.

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.

This morning our intermediate surfers were up at dawn and out on the boat to Toro Toro for their first session of surf lessons and guiding.

As you can see from the gallery, it was the girls who were on fire this morning, catching all of the best waves of the session!

Wave height had increased overnight as the new swell filled in and our expert guides and instructors once again made the perfect pick to score the ideal combination of fun, glassy, and uncrowded waves.

This morning our beginner group headed to Balangan for their surf lessons — one of the most picturesque, palm-fringed beaches on the Bukit peninsular.

As you can see from today’s gallery, you’d be forgiven for thinking this was our beginners’ group as they’ve all already progressed from the whitewater to riding along Balangan’s open faces.

Today’s waves were coming through in the chest to shoulder-high range and providing the perfect balance of challenging but safe conditions to help our surfers progress as quickly as possible.

This morning’s dawn patrol saw our intermediate and advanced groups of surfers heading to Uluwatu where the swell height had increased slightly overnight. Waves were coming in clean and glassy on both the main peak and Racetracks sections and everybody enjoyed some long rides.

As well as a few who joined us for surf guiding the majority of today’s group were taking advantage of either private or semi-private lessons and benefitting from the years of knowledge reading the waves and lineup that our expert instructors have to offer.

After a breakfast refuelling stop back at the surf camp, these two groups both joined up with our other intermediate group to surf at Balangan for their second surf session of the day.