Ki Surf School is one of the first schools to join the Eco-Safe Surfing association.
Eco-Safe Surfing brings together surf schools under a quality charter that promotes eco-responsible values and high standards of quality and safety in the supervision of surf lessons.
Its tools: communicating with the public via the eco-responsible quality charter, publishing educational materials and organizing events.
Few people are aware of the technical and regulatory prerequisites required to teach surfing in France: a long and costly “brevet d’État” or “Brevet Professionnel” is required of French surf instructors. This diploma is undoubtedly the highest quality in the world, since in most countries, only a fortnight’s training is required to acquire surf instructor certification (ISA). Elsewhere, all you need is bleached hair and a surfboard to become a surf teacher (baby carriage teaching).
Ki Surf School surf and taichi lessons take place on the beaches of Capbreton, Hossegor and Seignosse.
As part of its quality approach and in line with its environmental conscience, Ki Surf School keeps up to date with eco-responsible innovations in the world of boardsports, using technical equipment that respects the environment: leachs made from recycled materials, beeswax wax, more durable boards, etc.
Unless we go back to the original wooden board, the high-performance, chemical-free board has yet to see the light of day.
Every year, however, research brings out innovative solutions for surfing with minimal impact on the environment. For example, some wetsuit brands are replacing petrochemical products with natural materials such as hevea, or more recently, oyster shell powder derived from horticultural waste.
And we’re well aware that a quality charter doesn’t do everything, just like the labelling of everything by everyone. But it does enable us to express common values, with no other claim than to provide quality courses that respect the environment.
