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Surf Academy
Surf Academy (surfacademy.com) is the Santa Monica and Manhattan Beach, California surf school founded by 1972 US surfing champion Mary Setterholm; now led by Marion Clark and Jamie Marcellus, it runs camps, lessons, school surf teams, and the Surf Bus Foundation.
Surf Action
Surf Action names several unrelated surfing entities: a surf shop and school in Margate, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, owned by 1978 ISA World Champion Ant Brodowicz; a Cornish military charity (Combat Surfers, no. 1140191) offering surf therapy to veterans; and a German surf-travel tour operator in Oberhaching.
Surf Area
Surf area: the coastal or artificial zone where rideable breaking waves form, defined by surf breaks of reef, point, beach, or rivermouth type, rated and forecast for surfers.
Surf Berbere
Surf Berbere is a surf camp and surf school on the seafront at Hash Point, Taghazout, Morocco, founded by James Bailey and Tudor Watkins; week packages from £270-£470, instructor courses, apartments.
Surf Break
Surf break: a seabed or coastal feature (rock, reef, sandbar, headland) that makes waves break consistently for surfing. Types: beach, point, reef break; mechanism is wave refraction; examples include Mavericks and Pipeline.
Surf Camp
Surf camp: accommodation-based surf holiday or day program combining instruction, lodging, and activities. Began with the 1977 Blambangan Surfing Club at G-Land, Java; now a global tourism sector with youth, adult, and women's formats.
Surf Company
Surf Company is a name shared by unrelated surf schools and shops: The Surf Company windsurf school at Banter See, Wilhelmshaven (VDWS school VS13980), plus surf school and retail businesses in Wales, California, Hawaii, Fiji, and Florida.
Surf Dojo
Surf Dojo (Playa Venao, Panama) is a beachfront surf school and high-performance training center with skate ramps, pump track, and trampolines; a same-named nonprofit runs youth surf programs in Playa Hermosa, Costa Rica.
Surf Easy
Surf Easy Surf School, Currumbin Alley, Gold Coast, Queensland; Australian surf school run by Ann and Pat since January 1994, offering group and private lessons, board hire, and a women's program; distinct from SurfEasy VPN and Surf Easy detergent.
Surf Harmony
Surf Harmony is a surf school founded in 2009 by Morgan Ménez at Plage de Longchamp, Saint-Briac-sur-Mer, Brittany; the first surf school of the Côte d'Émeraude and Ille-et-Vilaine, FFS-labeled, offering surf, SUP, bodyboard lessons and rental.
Surf lifesaving
Surf lifesaving: volunteer beach patrol and rescue movement founded at Bondi, Sydney, in 1907, using the bronze medallion, red and yellow flags, and surf sport; governed internationally by the International Life Saving Federation since 1993.
Surf Pro Cold Hawaii
Surf Pro Cold Hawaii is a Danish surf shop and water sports school in Klitmøller and Vorupør, Thy, at the heart of Cold Hawaii's 31 surf spots; it teaches surfing, wingfoil, windsurfing, and SUP, rents equipment, and runs webcams.
Surf Rentals
Surf rentals: commercial hire of surfboards, wetsuits, bodyboards, and SUPs by the hour to week, from beach shops, surf schools, wave pools like URBNSURF Sydney, and app-based services like Fin, with deposits and damage fees.
Surf School Blue Wave Llanes
Blue Wave Escuela de Surf, a surf and paddle surf school in Llanes, Asturias, based at Playa de Vidiago; small groups, lifesaving-experienced instructors, equipment rental, environmental beach-cleanup initiatives.
Surf Shack (osm node/10262390314)
Surf Shack, OSM node 10262390314, is an indoor FlowRider surfing venue at 13208 Touchstone View, Polaris Point, Colorado Springs; a $3.8 million, 12,000 sq ft facility that soft-opened July 2026. Distinct from the Windansea landmark and other namesake businesses.
Surf Spot Sealinks
Surf Spot Sealinks (Little Buddha beach) is a year-round beginner beach break near Mui Can Giay, Mui Ne, Phan Thiet, Vietnam, at 10.93683 N, 108.1839 E, with monsoon-driven swell, 27-31 C water, shore entry, and A-frame waves.
Surf Wala
Surf Wala, the first surf school in Goa, founded 2011 by Jonathan "Jono" Young on Arambol Beach, North Goa; ISA-certified, merged with the Surf Club guesthouse in 2020, teaching beginners on gentle seasonal waves.
Surf Welle
Surf Welle (German, "surf wave"): artificial surfable wave, usually a standing wave ridden in place. Landmark example: UNIT Surf Pool at Surf Langenfeld, world's first standing lake wave, opened March 2018, 8 m wide, up to 1.60 m high.
Surfana Vlieland
Surfana Vlieland, also Surfana Beach Hostel Bed & Breakfast, is a surf school and surf camp founded 2011 on Campsite Stortemelk, Kampweg 1, car-free Vlieland, Netherlands, rated 8.6 on Booking.com.
Surfari Surf Shop
Surfari Surf Shop (surfari.ch) is a Zürich surf shop and online retailer at Badenerstrasse 18 near Stauffacher, run by Surfari GmbH and owner Roman Hartmann; over 20 years online, with Surfwise travel agency and an Urbansurf wavepool outlet, distinct from unrelated Surfari shops in Swanage, Gloucester, Florida, and San Diego.
Surfbussen
Surfbussen is a Swedish water sports company at Kungsholms strand 181, Stockholm, offering SUP rental, IKO-certified kite courses, electric hydrofoil, and gear retail, with a Gothenburg store; the name also denotes surf buses generally.
Surfcentrum
Surfcentrum: Dutch term for a surf/windsurf center. Main subject is Surfcenter of Steendam, Groningen (founded 1976), a windsurf and wingfoil shop, school, and rental on the Schildmeer; distinct from Zeil- & Surfcentrum Brouwersdam.
Surfeinstiegstelle Rohrdommel
Surfeinstiegstelle Rohrdommel: windsurfing launch beach at Rohrdommelweg, Hüde, on the Dümmer lake, Diepholz, Lower Saxony; one of two public surf entry points, with Robin's Surfcenter and seasonal boating ban.
Surfescapade
Surfescapade is a surf break in France near Biarritz, about 12 minutes from Biarritz-Anglet-Bayonne Airport (BIQ), with several surf schools and surf houses within 5 km; distinct from the Surfescape hotel group.
Surfing Point
Surfing Point, Kaafu Atoll, Maldives: a mapped surf spot (OSM node 9062848502) at 3.90339°N, 73.4756°E, a point break with A-frame waves rated intermediate, near Kandoma Corner reef and Kandoomaafushi islet.
Surfing Pool
Surfing Pool (サーフィンプール) is the artificial surfing pool of La Reyes Shonan in Oi, Kanagawa, Japan; a beginner-oriented, patent-pending wave pool opened in limited form in December 2021, distinct from generic surf pools elsewhere.
Surfing Spot
Surfing spot (surf break): a coastal location where seafloor shape turns swells into rideable breaking waves. Types: beach, reef, point break. Physics, tides, safety, and conservation.
Surfnery
Surfnery (서프너리) is a surf shop, surf school, and pension at 91-1 Ingujungang-gil, Hyeonnam-myeon, Yangyang, Gangwon, South Korea, in front of Jukdo Beach; renamed from Ebonnebi Surf Shop in 2022, offering lessons from 80,000 won and lodging.
Surfpoel
SurfPoel was a crowdfunded indoor wave pool in The Hague's Binckhorst district, Netherlands, built by 24/7Waves around Steven Schmied's hull-and-foil wave generator; planned at 120-149 waves per hour, it closed and is listed out of commission.
Surfschule
Surfschule (German for surf school): a commercial operation offering formal surfing instruction. Traces from Waikiki Beach Boys (1901) and Biarritz 1966 to global schools, ISA/DWV certification, and instructor standards.