Cross Training for Surfers

With the muscular demands of surfing there are many ways to enhance your surfing performance by doing other sports and weight bearing exercises! Listed below are a few of my personal favorites!

Tennis 

Tennis increases your hand eye coordination. Why is this important? The surf is ever changing, you need to learn to react quickly in many different scenarios. Just like reacting quickly to a ball coming at you, you need to react quickly when a wave is coming, or when you want to do a turn and the waves is starting to offer up a nice section!

Yoga

Yoga increases flexibility. Surfing is a demanding sport that requires putting your body in a lot of different bending postures. Yoga will not only allow us to put our body in the bending positions, it will relax our muscles after a long hard surf session.

Weights

Lifting heavy weights to develop your back, arms, and legs will help you last longer when you want to surf for hours at a time. When you have strong muscles in the right places, you’ll be able to surf longer sessions without feeling tired afterwards.

Swimming

Surfing requires a lot of paddling; and swimming helps develop your water skills and endurance. Regularly doing laps in the pool or the ocean will do wonders for your surfing!

Keep these tips in mind and apply them to see an increased ability in your surfing!!

-Hans

SUP Lessons (Waikiki)

Stand-up paddling is a fun sport that requires minimal skill. Come try it out with a Waikiki SUP lesson from our expert instructors. Stand up on the board and build your core strength.

Body Board Lessons (Waikiki)

The warm, inviting waters of beautiful Waikiki are the perfect place to take a two-hour bodyboarding lesson with Hands Hedemann Surf School! Learn to carve the waves like a pro!