Private Surf Lesson Newport Beach, California

Fun clean place, great patent instructor. Very helpful with recommendations of were to eat after the lessons. I will definitely go again.

Hunter, our instructor, was excellent! He got is up on the board and surfing! He began with the basics from safety to practicing the pop-up on land before we got into the water. The waves were choppy and very close together so we had to turn our board and line up quickly. Great experience!

Pros: The instructor was pretty good - very typical surf pal, waiting for my twin 12 year-olds in a van on the street that does not move. Boards and wet suits were fine, and he spent a fair amount of time with them prior to hitting the water and reviewing basic surf skills. They have had many instructor-led surfing experiences in Cocoa Beach, FL, so the Pacific was a little different and this instructor spent time teaching them a few new things no one had ever mentioned. He was a pretty cool cat. Cons: The water was a little rough and more than they had experienced in FL, even following a hurricane. They caught a few good waves, but it was hard for us to see them because the instructor took them pretty far away and across an inlet that they had to swim through prior to entering the main ocean, so we could not follow them all the way. This was a little frustrating, as we had to trust that he would keep his eye on them (which he did), and we couldn't really get any great photos or videos because they were little dots in the water. Don't look for a shop or school, as one would find in FL, there isn't one. GPS takes you to a dead-end road and you have to look for the van parked on the street, that the instructor advised had not been driven in years. It was ok, but just felt sketchy - not unsafe though, it is a nice neighborhood. The restrooms are pretty far away, so if anyone needs to go, do that prior to hitting the beach. I would probably book this again, it's just not what we are used to. There were no lifeguards to speak of when we surfed, but I felt ok with the instructor in the water with them.