At Future Eco Surf School we aim not only to teach you how to surf, but we also want to share with you our stoke and connection with nature and especially with the ocean. This can be a life-changing and inspiring process if done in a conscious and committed way.
At Future Eco Surf School we believe we can make a difference.
That together we can do more and better to help create a healthier planet and a fairer society.
Being conscious that with small steps we accomplish a long walk, we are at this stage restructuring our internal and operational procedures and strategies. It will allow us to enjoy nature to the fullest with minimum impact.
Surfing due to several factors can be a sport in which evolution takes a long time. This factor can lead to frustration and even to give up the sport.
The slow evolution in the practice of Surfing is due above all to unavoidable factors (variables) of nature such as:
Wave size – sometimes too big, sometimes too small.
Tides – very low waves usually close in very quickly while at high tide they break too close to the sand.
Daylight – the impossibility of using artificial light, unlike other sports, greatly limits the number of hours available for this sport.
Praia da Rocha, Portimão
If, as in so many other sports, we could repeat the same technique several times, we would be able to optimize it and quickly improve it by watching our performance to develop rapidly.
However, this is not the case with surfing where you will never find two waves exactly alike.
Still, some tips can help you avoid the most common mistakes:
Wrong material
If you want to progress quickly, you’ll have to be patient and step by step from one board to another. This process allows you to get to that little board just like the “pros” but for which you are not yet ready.
This process can be expensive so you can buy and then sell used boards, rent them at a special price at a surf shop near you or invest in a local school that allows you to change boards as you progress.
Wrong beach
Here you can save a lot of time, money and energy. In an initial phase you should settle for a beach that has to deliver what you need most.
Conditions such as easier waves and less apparent danger, such as rocks, strong currents or many practitioners in the water.
Wrong time
If you don’t consult the tide table correctly, you run the risk of missing a big surf. Well, often only in a period of 3 to 4 hours the tide will be in the beach chosen by you.
Praia da Rocha, Portimão
Investing in knowing the beach where you will surf most often will guarantee those “happy hours”, so we advise you:
Talk to more experienced local surfers.
Learn to read a wave forecasting app like the Windguru platform.
When you hit the right board, beach and time, you will enter a rewarding cycle of evolution that will elevate your performance and confidence.
Until then, don’t despair and continue to do your “homework” and understand this phase as a screening to filter those who really overcome the adversities typical of the sport and will become serious surfers.
Many surfers when arriving at the beach do not perform the proper warm-up, underestimating the physical load that the activity itself requires.
First of all, ensuring a good “warm-up” allows you to get the most out of the activity, as well as greater performance at the motor and technical level.
The main goal of performing the “warm-up” is to prepare the body to adapt in the transition from a resting situation to an effort condition.
Praia da Rocha, Portimão
Warm-up exercises progressively increase your temperature, heart rate, and blood flow to your muscles. This habit prepares the body for more intense efforts, enhancing the performance of the entire body structure.
The “warm up” also has the function of reducing the risk of possible muscle and joint injuries.
Warm-up in 3 (three) steps:
General Phase
Specific Phase
Stretching Phase
The General Phase of the “warm up” should allow a more active functioning of the organism as a whole.
It should be performed through exercises that mobilize large muscle groups. Initially should be performed with a low intensity and gradually increase.
Slow paced running
Knee lift run
Side run
Fast paced running
The Specific Phase consists of performing specific exercises for the modality aimed at activating small muscle groups, which should technically resemble the typical movements of the modality.
In the case of surfing, the warm-up should be characterized by the performance of exercises that involve upper and lower limbs and trunk, through rotation, twisting and bending, performed smoothly.
Neck
Column
Pulse
Legs
Shoulders
Knees
Waist
Ankles
The Stretching Phase consists of performing static exercises, based on the stretching of various muscle groups and tendons, which are required in the technical exercises of the modality.
In this way, it is intended to develop greater flexibility, allowing the movement of muscles and joints in all ranges of movement.
Cordoama beach, Sagres
After surfing, the surfer must do an active recovery with stretching and relaxation exercises.
In this way, it prevents muscle pain, due to the strong contractions to which it was submitted during surfing, facilitating the adaptation of the locomotor and cardiorespiratory system to rest.
The use of sunscreen is essential for the protection, hydration and prevention of skin diseases.
However, it is important to mobilize all the information to understand that they can have a major negative impact on marine ecosystems.
Over the last few years, the effect on marine organisms of different substances and chemical compounds present in creams has been studied.
Several of these compounds have destructive impacts on marine life, due to their toxicity and the presence of chemical agents harmful to living beings.
These effects, such as:
Decreased fertility in female fish
Damage the reproductive and immune systems of certain marine species, as well as causing deformities in juveniles
Harm the process of photosynthesis of seaweeds
Accumulation of toxins in the tissues of marine mammals (eg dolphins), with possible transmission to offspring
Coral bleaching (leading cause of death)
Every year, we release around 25,000 tonnes of sunscreen into the oceans, equivalent to around 1L per second.
It takes about 20 minutes of swimming for 25% of the components of a sunscreen to be released into the seawater.
To align our philosophy and vision with the preservation of the environment, we take into account the materials we use. For this, at Future Eco Surf School we adopted the use of the Eq-Love Sunscreen model.
This protector is more environmentally friendly and has a reduced impact on marine ecosystems:
100% made from natural ingredients
Non-toxic to the marine environment
Filters made from 100% natural minerals
Water resistant formula with low dispersion
Ideal natural (chemical) formula … respecting your Health and the Environment!
Surfing due to several factors can be a sport in which evolution takes a long time. This factor can lead to frustration and even to give up the sport.
The slow evolution in the practice of Surfing is due above all to unavoidable factors (variables) of nature such as:
Wave size – sometimes too big, sometimes too small.
Tides – very low waves usually close in very quickly while at high tide they break too close to the sand.
Daylight – the impossibility of using artificial light, unlike other sports, greatly limits the number of hours available for this sport.
Praia da Rocha, Portimão
If, as in so many other sports, we could repeat the same technique several times, we would be able to optimize it and quickly improve it by watching our performance to develop rapidly.
However, this is not the case with surfing where you will never find two waves exactly alike.
Still, some tips can help you avoid the most common mistakes:
Wrong material
If you want to progress quickly, you’ll have to be patient and step by step from one board to another. This process allows you to get to that little board just like the “pros” but for which you are not yet ready.
This process can be expensive so you can buy and then sell used boards, rent them at a special price at a surf shop near you or invest in a local school that allows you to change boards as you progress.
Wrong beach
Here you can save a lot of time, money and energy. In an initial phase you should settle for a beach that has to deliver what you need most.
Conditions such as easier waves and less apparent danger, such as rocks, strong currents or many practitioners in the water.
Wrong time
If you don’t consult the tide table correctly, you run the risk of missing a big surf. Well, often only in a period of 3 to 4 hours the tide will be in the beach chosen by you.
Praia da Rocha, Portimão
Investing in knowing the beach where you will surf most often will guarantee those “happy hours”, so we advise you:
Talk to more experienced local surfers.
Learn to read a wave forecasting app like the Windguru platform.
When you hit the right board, beach and time, you will enter a rewarding cycle of evolution that will elevate your performance and confidence.
Until then, don’t despair and continue to do your “homework” and understand this phase as a screening to filter those who really overcome the adversities typical of the sport and will become serious surfers.
Many surfers when arriving at the beach do not perform the proper warm-up, underestimating the physical load that the activity itself requires.
First of all, ensuring a good “warm-up” allows you to get the most out of the activity, as well as greater performance at the motor and technical level.
The main goal of performing the “warm-up” is to prepare the body to adapt in the transition from a resting situation to an effort condition.
Praia da Rocha, Portimão
Warm-up exercises progressively increase your temperature, heart rate, and blood flow to your muscles. This habit prepares the body for more intense efforts, enhancing the performance of the entire body structure.
The “warm up” also has the function of reducing the risk of possible muscle and joint injuries.
Warm-up in 3 (three) steps:
General Phase
Specific Phase
Stretching Phase
The General Phase of the “warm up” should allow a more active functioning of the organism as a whole.
It should be performed through exercises that mobilize large muscle groups. Initially should be performed with a low intensity and gradually increase.
Slow paced running
Knee lift run
Side run
Fast paced running
The Specific Phase consists of performing specific exercises for the modality aimed at activating small muscle groups, which should technically resemble the typical movements of the modality.
In the case of surfing, the warm-up should be characterized by the performance of exercises that involve upper and lower limbs and trunk, through rotation, twisting and bending, performed smoothly.
Neck
Column
Pulse
Legs
Shoulders
Knees
Waist
Ankles
The Stretching Phase consists of performing static exercises, based on the stretching of various muscle groups and tendons, which are required in the technical exercises of the modality.
In this way, it is intended to develop greater flexibility, allowing the movement of muscles and joints in all ranges of movement.
Cordoama beach, Sagres
After surfing, the surfer must do an active recovery with stretching and relaxation exercises.
In this way, it prevents muscle pain, due to the strong contractions to which it was submitted during surfing, facilitating the adaptation of the locomotor and cardiorespiratory system to rest.
The use of sunscreen is essential for the protection, hydration and prevention of skin diseases.
However, it is important to mobilize all the information to understand that they can have a major negative impact on marine ecosystems.
Over the last few years, the effect on marine organisms of different substances and chemical compounds present in creams has been studied.
Several of these compounds have destructive impacts on marine life, due to their toxicity and the presence of chemical agents harmful to living beings.
These effects, such as:
Decreased fertility in female fish
Damage the reproductive and immune systems of certain marine species, as well as causing deformities in juveniles
Harm the process of photosynthesis of seaweeds
Accumulation of toxins in the tissues of marine mammals (eg dolphins), with possible transmission to offspring
Coral bleaching (leading cause of death)
Every year, we release around 25,000 tonnes of sunscreen into the oceans, equivalent to around 1L per second.
It takes about 20 minutes of swimming for 25% of the components of a sunscreen to be released into the seawater.
To align our philosophy and vision with the preservation of the environment, we take into account the materials we use. For this, at Future Eco Surf School we adopted the use of the Eq-Love Sunscreen model.
This protector is more environmentally friendly and has a reduced impact on marine ecosystems:
100% made from natural ingredients
Non-toxic to the marine environment
Filters made from 100% natural minerals
Water resistant formula with low dispersion
Ideal natural (chemical) formula … respecting your Health and the Environment!
Surfing due to several factors can be a sport in which evolution takes a long time. This factor can lead to frustration and even to give up the sport.
The slow evolution in the practice of Surfing is due above all to unavoidable factors (variables) of nature such as:
Wave size – sometimes too big, sometimes too small.
Tides – very low waves usually close in very quickly while at high tide they break too close to the sand.
Daylight – the impossibility of using artificial light, unlike other sports, greatly limits the number of hours available for this sport.
Praia da Rocha, Portimão
If, as in so many other sports, we could repeat the same technique several times, we would be able to optimize it and quickly improve it by watching our performance to develop rapidly.
However, this is not the case with surfing where you will never find two waves exactly alike.
Still, some tips can help you avoid the most common mistakes:
Wrong material
If you want to progress quickly, you’ll have to be patient and step by step from one board to another. This process allows you to get to that little board just like the “pros” but for which you are not yet ready.
This process can be expensive so you can buy and then sell used boards, rent them at a special price at a surf shop near you or invest in a local school that allows you to change boards as you progress.
Wrong beach
Here you can save a lot of time, money and energy. In an initial phase you should settle for a beach that has to deliver what you need most.
Conditions such as easier waves and less apparent danger, such as rocks, strong currents or many practitioners in the water.
Wrong time
If you don’t consult the tide table correctly, you run the risk of missing a big surf. Well, often only in a period of 3 to 4 hours the tide will be in the beach chosen by you.
Praia da Rocha, Portimão
Investing in knowing the beach where you will surf most often will guarantee those “happy hours”, so we advise you:
Talk to more experienced local surfers.
Learn to read a wave forecasting app like the Windguru platform.
When you hit the right board, beach and time, you will enter a rewarding cycle of evolution that will elevate your performance and confidence.
Until then, don’t despair and continue to do your “homework” and understand this phase as a screening to filter those who really overcome the adversities typical of the sport and will become serious surfers.
Many surfers when arriving at the beach do not perform the proper warm-up, underestimating the physical load that the activity itself requires.
First of all, ensuring a good “warm-up” allows you to get the most out of the activity, as well as greater performance at the motor and technical level.
The main goal of performing the “warm-up” is to prepare the body to adapt in the transition from a resting situation to an effort condition.
Praia da Rocha, Portimão
Warm-up exercises progressively increase your temperature, heart rate, and blood flow to your muscles. This habit prepares the body for more intense efforts, enhancing the performance of the entire body structure.
The “warm up” also has the function of reducing the risk of possible muscle and joint injuries.
Warm-up in 3 (three) steps:
General Phase
Specific Phase
Stretching Phase
The General Phase of the “warm up” should allow a more active functioning of the organism as a whole.
It should be performed through exercises that mobilize large muscle groups. Initially should be performed with a low intensity and gradually increase.
Slow paced running
Knee lift run
Side run
Fast paced running
The Specific Phase consists of performing specific exercises for the modality aimed at activating small muscle groups, which should technically resemble the typical movements of the modality.
In the case of surfing, the warm-up should be characterized by the performance of exercises that involve upper and lower limbs and trunk, through rotation, twisting and bending, performed smoothly.
Neck
Column
Pulse
Legs
Shoulders
Knees
Waist
Ankles
The Stretching Phase consists of performing static exercises, based on the stretching of various muscle groups and tendons, which are required in the technical exercises of the modality.
In this way, it is intended to develop greater flexibility, allowing the movement of muscles and joints in all ranges of movement.
Cordoama beach, Sagres
After surfing, the surfer must do an active recovery with stretching and relaxation exercises.
In this way, it prevents muscle pain, due to the strong contractions to which it was submitted during surfing, facilitating the adaptation of the locomotor and cardiorespiratory system to rest.
The use of sunscreen is essential for the protection, hydration and prevention of skin diseases.
However, it is important to mobilize all the information to understand that they can have a major negative impact on marine ecosystems.
Over the last few years, the effect on marine organisms of different substances and chemical compounds present in creams has been studied.
Several of these compounds have destructive impacts on marine life, due to their toxicity and the presence of chemical agents harmful to living beings.
These effects, such as:
Decreased fertility in female fish
Damage the reproductive and immune systems of certain marine species, as well as causing deformities in juveniles
Harm the process of photosynthesis of seaweeds
Accumulation of toxins in the tissues of marine mammals (eg dolphins), with possible transmission to offspring
Coral bleaching (leading cause of death)
Every year, we release around 25,000 tonnes of sunscreen into the oceans, equivalent to around 1L per second.
It takes about 20 minutes of swimming for 25% of the components of a sunscreen to be released into the seawater.
To align our philosophy and vision with the preservation of the environment, we take into account the materials we use. For this, at Future Eco Surf School we adopted the use of the Eq-Love Sunscreen model.
This protector is more environmentally friendly and has a reduced impact on marine ecosystems:
100% made from natural ingredients
Non-toxic to the marine environment
Filters made from 100% natural minerals
Water resistant formula with low dispersion
Ideal natural (chemical) formula … respecting your Health and the Environment!