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The Best Surfing Mindset For Improving
Recently we had an Amiga from Western Australia visit us for a week in El Salvador. She had quit her job and decided to embark on a journey around the world to surf and explore. You can read about the...
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Returning Amigas Show the Secrets to Improving
The secret to improving is to come on a retreat with us, then go home, practice, and come back again! Seriously though, the true secret to improving is having a great attitude. On our last couple...
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Learn How to Cross Step to the Nose on a Longboard
Jackie George is an instructor at Surf With Amigas and also a super stylish long boarder. We’ve been getting requests for more tutorials so here’s a video tip for you! Jackie talks about nose riding...
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Paddle Through Fear
Nikki Belcher is our gorgeous, spiritual, moon-loving, and fearless yoga teacher who recently went from nearly giving up her quest to learn to surf to absolutely charging on huge closeouts. How did she...
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5 Tips for Beginner Surfers
Learning to surf is tricky. There’s the physical part, the mental part, and the ocean part. The physical part you can practice. The mental part you can overcome. The ocean part you can learn. But all...
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Surf Completely – How to Turn (Use your boobs!)
In the first episode of our new series “Surf Completely” Holly Beck talks about how to turn your surfboard. This is the first step of learning to surf after the very basic part of standing up and...
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Overcoming Fear and Feeling Safe with Surf With Amigas
Continuing our theme of highlighting ladies who overcome fear, this is the story of Debbie Teng. Debbie Teng is a classic character with a big laugh and an awesome attitude. She came on her second...
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Surf Completely – Learn to Generate Speed on a Surfboard by Practicing on a...
After catching a wave and standing up, learning how to generate your own speed is the most important skill in learning to surf. The success of every turn relies on having enough speed. Unfortunately,...
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Surf Completely : How To Duck Dive
It’s been a long time in the making, but it’s finally finished – the Duck Dive Tutorial! Holly Beck, pro surfer and coach at Surf With Amigas explains how to do a duck dive and analyzes footage of...
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Surf Completely – How To Turtle Roll
If you surf a shortboard, you have the luxury of duckdiving to get under waves. If you ride a longboard, you want to turtle roll. We get a lot of Amigas who come down wanting to learn to ride a...
View ArticleSurf Completely – Learn to Do A Backside Cutback
Emily, a surf instructor at Surf With Amigas, talks us through how to do a backside cutback and shows examples of Amigas trying it and what they could do to improve. Come on a retreat with us to work...
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Surf Completely – How To Do A Frontside Cutback
When you’re surfing a wave that dies out in front of you and you need to get back into the fast powerful section, it’s time for a cutback! In our latest installment in the Surf Completely series,...
View ArticleSurf Completely – How To Takeoff at an Angle
The key to riding down the line on a “green wave” is taking off at an angle. Here Britney explains the best way to take off to assure you get a nice ride down the line along with some examples of take...
View ArticleSurf Completely – A Yoga Sequence for Duck diving
If you want to work on your duck dive on dry land, here’s a short vinyasa sequence to activate the core and mimic the duck dive postures in order to strengthen the muscles and get the movements into...
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How To Read Waves: Lesson 1 – types of breaks
The first thing a new surfer wants to learn (after they’ve learned the very basics of how to stand up on a wave) is how to “read” waves. While we wish there was a secret password to unlocking this...
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Release Your Spine – Advice from Physical Therapist Sofia Costa
Sofia Costa joined Surf With Amigas on a retreat towards the end of 2014. She is a Dr. of physical therapy originally from Puerto Rico, now living and treating surfers in Santa Monica, CA. Sofia has...
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How To Make Your Own Surfboard – By Alex Berning
The most exciting thing I have been doing on my vacation is working on my new surfboard. A friend of mine had been constructing a machine to make surfboards for a while now and he had finally...
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Don’t Check in the Surfboards – I’m Staying! – Alex’s story of making a new...
“Dont check-in the surfboards, I’m staying” These were the last words I told to my then boyfriend, when we were at the airport about to end a trip to Costa Rica for our home in Spain. It was one of...
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How to Make Friends and Catch More Waves: Surfing in a Lineup
By Surf With Amigas Surf and Yoga Instructor Carly Fox How to Make Friends and Catch More Waves: Surfing in a Lineup! The beauty of the Amigas retreat experience is that we take a group of radical,...
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What’s Wrong With My Pop-Up? – Video Coaching from Afar
One of my favorite things about Surf With Amigas is the chance to help ladies improve their surfing. But what if you can’t make it on a retreat? Can you still get some tips? YES! We have decided to...
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