Meet Your Instructors
Surf tips and coaching are typically only as good as the coaches themselves. It's true the old saying that "those than can, do, and those that can't, teach." However, we believe that those that teach should also be able to do. We put a lot of energy into building an awesome team of female coaches who are great surfers, great teachers, but are also empathetic, always improving themselves, and modeling that willingness to put in the time and work to become not just better surfers, but better humans. Here's a little intro to some of our team members.
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Meet Surf Therapist Natalie Small
Natalie Small is a licensed therapist who can attest to the benefits of surf therapy. She is also a SWA surf instructor and the founder of the Groundswell Community Project. Here she shares her own story of learning to surf, using the ocean for healing, and her philosophy of surf. For more inform...
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Meet SWA Founder Holly Beck
Holly grew up the oldest of five sisters with a mother that believed in traditional gender roles. A "repressed tomboy", she eventually got a surfboard and wetsuit and never looked back. Holly shares stories of her path to being a pro surfer, a bit about what that life was like, how she transition...
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Meet Costa Rican Surf Coach Angie Medina
Angie is an SWA surf instructor who was born and raised, wild and in the sea, in Costa Rica. She is one of nine siblings who grew up in a remote part of southern Costa Rica and shares her story that starts with her birth in a boat out to sea, losing her father at age 19, and how finding out she w...
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Meet Mexican Surf Coach Alexia Ceballos
Alexia was told surfing is not a sport for girls. On a surf trip to Puerto Escondido, her aunt facilitated her learning to surf, then her dad got her a board behind her mom's back. She fell in love with the feeling of riding a wave and never looked back. In this video she shares some stories of b...
