To learn to paddle, you have to paddle It may sound like a truism, but it's impossible to improve your paddling other than by paddling. Swimming just isn't enough, because the surfboard position calls on other muscle chains than the crawl. Stroller...
The art of dodging, from surfing to martial arts Once again, I'd like to draw a parallel between surfing and martial arts such as aikido or tai chi chuan. We find the same approach to objectives, which is not frontal but takes circuitous routes,...
Prerequisites for learning longboarding: being able to follow the wave’s trimline and vary your trajectories to alternate between upstrokes and downstrokes at the bottom of the wave. Indeed, the longboarder shifts their weight on the board during the upstroke – which shifts it to the front – and must return to a standard stance before the board dips.
A person’s buoyancy index is not proportional to their weight; other additional parameters must be taken into account.
Pour simplifier, nous parlerons tout d’abord d’une personne sans planche de surf. Une personne de 90 kg, par exemple, aura parfois un indice de flottabilité bien supérieur à celui d’une personne de 50 kg.
The importance of a good warm-up With the exception of top-level athletes, most regular surfers wait until they injure themselves or develop neck or joint pain to start warming up. Indeed, we don't immediately realize the stresses to which surfing...
At Ki Surf School, I’ve chosen to believe in exchange, sharing, and keeping one’s word. Here, it’s not an algorithm or an automated platform that takes bookings, but your surf coach.
Learning to surf, and this is an integral part of the teaching at Ki Surf School, means being able to surf without posing a danger to the public, to others and to oneself.
Learn to find your bearings and space out on the beach As soon as you move away from the more concreted-in areas, the beaches of Capbreton, Hossegor and Seignosse offer vast expanses where it's good to get lost, far from the crowds, with sandbanks,...
Why surf early in the morning?
At Ki Surf School, when the tide allows it, I prefer
Capbreton-Hossegor-Seignosse : un terroir surf incomparable /
Quelle que soit la taille des vagues — sauf houles hivernales énormes — il existe presque toujours une plage abritée de la houle, parfois du vent, offrant des vagues de dimensions modestes.
Mission surf : tout savoir sur le passage de barre.
Surfing and the elements: the role of wind on the quality of surfing conditions.
The unwritten rules of surfing, advanced level, the rules within the rules, part 4.
Priority rules, advanced level, rules within rules, part 3.
Surfing lexicon: the take-off.
A few mistakes not to make for safe surfing.
The use of strollers in surf teaching, advantages and disadvantages.
Surf coaching: the bamby stance, the surfer’s basic posture.
Mistakes that cause the apprentice surfer to regress or stagnate.
One of the secrets of learning to surf: the adaptation of homo-sapiens to the ocean environment