Here's what you'll learn each week in the beginner course :-

1

Surfing safely

2

How to choose your first board so that surfing becomes easy

3

How to choose beaches that are safe and make it easy to stand up straight away

4

Secrets to improving your surfing fast

5

Basic etiquette and manners in the water so you never get into trouble

6

Lying, paddling, turning, getting through waves effectively

7

Whitewash: catching waves & turning on your tummy for full control. Brakes.

8

Stretching & warm ups so you surf better and don't get hurt

9

How to stand up : slide technique / jump technique

10

Correct standing positions to make balance easy and get longer rides

11

Turning on your feet for full control

12

Rips - how to recognise them, handle them & use them to your advantage.

13

Dangers in the ocean and how to manage them

14

Taking the green drop - choosing an easy wave, getting to the correct position, catching it

15

Angling across the green face - 2 methods : drop to bottom turn or stand and turn

16

Angling across the green face - 2 more methods ; angled take-off or fade

17

How to trim, stall, speed up, stay on the wave and get off the wave

18

How, why and when to do a cutback

19

How to get around fast sections so you get a longer ride and have more fun

20

Turning - using your back foot

21

Turning - crouch and how to put your board on rail

22

Turning - how to use your body and forget your board

23

Turning - accelerating out of turns and finishing with speed

24

Travel tips for beginners - secret spots where you'll find perfect waves for learning

25

Common errors and how to fix them so you don't develop bad habits

26

Positioning yourself so you're in the right spot at the right time and catch more waves

27

How to catch the best waves of the day

28

Timing and the ocean - how to get in sync with the waves to make life easier

29

Going faster across waves

30

Maneuvers - general principles of starting to get a bit more radical

31

How to bottom turn - the key to all good surfing

32

Top turn - your key to speed and positioning

33

Roundhouse cutback - how to make the most of each wave and ride further

34

Floater - your first radical move made easy

35

Surfing rocky locations with ease - points, reefs, jumping off rocks, returning to shore

36

Coping in crowded surf so you catch some good ones and don't get in the way

37

Longboard specifics - speed, walking along the board, turning

38

How to practice for nose riding on a longboard

39

Keeping healthy - diet, sun, ptyregiums, surfers ear, back problems, first aid

40

Fitness - how to get fitter so you can surf longer and get better faster

41

Etiquette explained - drop ins, avoiding collisions, snakings

42

Etiquette explained - the 10 commandments of surfing

43

Weather - How to read when the surf will be up: winds, fetch, windswell, groundswell.

44

Weather - High and Low pressure systems, movement, fronts, trough, weather maps...

45

Weather - Winds (offshore/onshore) and swell directions - know where to go

46

Weather - Moon and tides. How to know where the best waves will be.

47

Board design - Planshape, tails, rocker - be able to order your own board

48

Board design - bottom designs, rails, fins - be able to talk to your shaper

49

How to repair your dinged board and save money

50

Localism - how do you give locals respect so they're friendlier to you ?

51

Equipment tips - know what to buy and how to look after it

52

10 steps to making it as a surfer