Salt Shack Surf School - Salt Shack Surf School

All Surf Camps are currently sold out.

LEVEL: Complete beginners and progressing beginners. All inclusive.

( surfing, yoga for surfers, equipment, food, 2 x nights accomodation, transport, professional photos )

COST: $685

We are amped to host our next round of Gizzy surf and yoga camps for women!. This weekend is all about having fun, building your confidence in the waves and improving your surfing fitness and skills!. Gisborne is one of NZ’s most consistent surf spots with heaps of different breaks for beginner surfers. You’ll have 2 professional surf instructors and a group max of 8 so you are guaranteed to get all the tips you need. You’ll stay in style in a 4 bedroom house with a swimming pool and all fresh healthy meals are catered for you. There will be plenty of beach action, Video analysis, professional photos, stretching and time to relax by the pool!

SURF: Holly Quinn

Holly Quinn grew up in Gisborne with surfing as a way of life. She was a competitive junior surfer representing NZ over 10 times. These days she’s a freelance designer, mum of two, and owner of The Salt Shack Surf School. She froths more than all the groms and surfs twice a day, She loves to teach all levels to surf and encourages everyone to get out there in all conditions, cackles like a maniac in howling winds and revels in risking her own life and limb and maybe yours. Her confidence and joy in the ocean is contagious and she is super excited to share her knowledge and passion for surfing and show you all the best kept Gizzy secrets.

YOGA: Kiri Sutherland

Kiri Sutherland has taught and practiced yoga for almost 20 years. She randomly decided to start surfing at 40 (did someone say midlife crisis) and really appreciates the resilience and strength yoga gives her while learning to surf as an adult. She will take you through selected yoga poses and sequences to improve your mobility and strength, make you feel more confident and present in your body and ready to get back out there!

Accomodation & Food

You’ll have your own private room in a 4 bedroom house which will be used exclusively for our surf and yoga camp needs during the weekend from dining to yoga. We also have 4 places in the weekend available to anyone who prefers to arrange their own accommodation. Food It’s important to fuel up on something delicious and nutritious so you will be catered for by local chef Amy from the Black Fig catering co. At our camp house for most of your meals. This includes both breakfasts, lunches and one dinner during the weekend. On Saturday night we can head into Gizzy town to dine at one of our fav local restaurants.

BYO coffee, snacks and wine etc.

The Levels

Beginner: For surfers who have never surfed or have had a few lessons over the years, need a total refresh, require all gear supplied and lessons to be from the very beginning in the whitewater.

Progressing Beginner: For surfers who have a reasonable amount of experience, 12 months or who have been surfing seasonally for years. These surfers attempt to surf unbroken waves, but surfing is inconsistence and still need lots of basic surf knowledge and guided coaching sessions in the water. Or maybe a late starter to surfing wanting work on catching the right waves.

Intermediate: For surfers who are consistently catching unbroken waves, can perform basic top turns, can enter the lineup confidently and catch waves without any assistance form our coaches. May need work on generating speed and core technique.