Intermediate Surfing in Bali

This morning our intermediate group made the trip from Padang Padang across the Bukit peninsular to Mengiat Beach at Nusa Dua — just along from Black Stone where our groups have been surfing the past few days — for their first surfing lessons of the day.

Conditions were a little messy and it wasn’t the brighest of days but everyone had plenty of opportunitues to practice trimming along the waves and making their first turns.

After a break for breakfast our intermediates joined with the beginner groups to surf Black Stone while our advanced guiding group surfed twice at Geger Right.

Four vans full of excited surfers left from camp to spread themselves across the breaks of the Nusa Dua area again this morning. The first to stop were the intermediate and advanced groups who surfed Geger Left with the beginner groups continuing on to Black Stone for the second day in a row.

Waves were coming through this morning in the waist to shoulder-high range and, although the faces were a little choppy and closing out some of the time, everybody made the best of the conditions and took advantage of the increasingly uncrowded waves.

This morning, our intermediate and beginner groups joined up the same location — Dreamland beach — for their first session of group and private surfing lessons.

It’s clear from the photos what great progress everyone is making and they all had a great session enjoying the clean and learner-friendly waves that were breaking in the waist to shoulder-high range on sets.

After breakfast back at the surf camp, both groups met again to surf at Padang Padang, while our advanced guiding group caught the boat to Middle Reef at dawn before surfing Uluwatu for their second session.

It was the turn of our intermediate group for a boat ride today with their first session of morning lessons and surf guiding scheduled at surf camp favourite Toro Toro.

Waves were super clean and breaking in the waist to shoulder-high range as they peeled right into the channel.

Elsewhere at the surf camp our advanced guiding group surfed at Temple again, while our beginner and other intermediate groups surfed at Dreamland.

After an overnight downpour the skies cleared to reveal a beautifully clear and still mornining which resulting in some perfectly glassy and clean waves at Dreamland beach.

Our beginner and intermediate group were all making some great progress in the waves which ranged from waist to head-high on sets. Everybody caught lots of waves and fun times were had by all.

Elsewhere at surf camp the advanced group caught the boat to Temple for their first session and our intermediate/advanced group surfed at Geger Left over in Nusa Dua.

With the very low tide coinciding with dawn — our favourite time of the day to be in the water here at the surf camp — Dreamland was the spot of choice for today’s intermediate surf lessons and guiding.

The swell predicted overnight hadn’t quite arrived at the start of the morning but it certainly filled in during the session and there were fun and challenging waves on offer for all of our intermediates to test themselves against.

After stopping back at the surf camp for breakfast our intermediate group surfed their second session at Balangan. Elsewhere at surf camp, we had our beginners surfing at Padang Padang and the advanced group started their day at Greenbowl.

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