Teach or enroll my youngfella

Can't find the right forum, then post your general surf-related remarks here!

Moderators: jimmy, collnarra, PeepeelaPew, Butts, beach_defender, Shari, Forum Moderators

Post Reply
adje
newbie
Posts: 25
Joined: Tue Aug 18, 2009 5:21 pm

Teach or enroll my youngfella

Post by adje » Mon Sep 12, 2011 6:02 pm

I was reading about the Vegemite sponsored surfgroms program.

http://www.surfgroms.com/

Seems that they have some classes coming up at the Bra. My youngfella has just turned 7 and I'm super keen to get him into surfing. I've been surfing for 25 years and I'm sure I can teach him but I was thinking that maybe he might be better in a surf school with other kids his age being coached a professional coach.

Anyone else have experience with this or the surfschool at the bra? Are the coaches good?

alakaboo
Huey's Right Hand
Posts: 22625
Joined: Mon Nov 09, 2009 3:33 pm

Re: Teach or enroll my youngfella

Post by alakaboo » Mon Sep 12, 2011 6:35 pm

adje wrote:Anyone else have experience with this or the surfschool at the bra? Are the coaches good?
Well, they may be alright at teaching surfing, but if it's the regular mob then they can't read the surf very well. They're regularly sitting inside the outside bank and getting collected by the sets.

I still say enrol them in the class, if only because you'll get some free time and they'll hang out with kids their own age.

adje
newbie
Posts: 25
Joined: Tue Aug 18, 2009 5:21 pm

Re: Teach or enroll my youngfella

Post by adje » Tue Sep 13, 2011 11:54 am

Thanks guys. With Owen winning $300k in NY this week maybe there is a financial future in surfing. I'd rather be a poor surfer than have to play tennis for a living!

User avatar
Chillin
charger
Posts: 821
Joined: Mon Nov 24, 2008 5:06 pm

Re: Teach or enroll my youngfella

Post by Chillin » Tue Sep 13, 2011 4:07 pm

Yep and Sam won $1.3mil for her win in the tennis.
Your opinion is worth as much as it costs.

carvin marvin
charger
Posts: 773
Joined: Tue Mar 17, 2009 5:37 pm
Location: 1/2 way between the perineum and the scrotum

Re: Teach or enroll my youngfella

Post by carvin marvin » Tue Sep 13, 2011 4:30 pm

Who gives a shit about money.
Surfing does not have a dollar value.
The greatest gift a father can give a son is to teach him to surf.
You know surfing is good for the soul so imprint it on your son.
I can still remember the first time my father took me out into the surf at Avoca beach on one of those yellow rubber surf mats with the handles on the front, you hired them at the beach back in the 60's, I could not swim so I was scared of the ocean, but getting pushed onto a wave and holding on tightly to those handles all the way to shore was such a buzz , then my father would body surf in and take me back out then push me onto another wave.
Little did he know at the time that he was opening the door to surfing for me.

saucy gibbon
barnacle
Posts: 1043
Joined: Fri Jan 22, 2010 10:18 am

Re: Teach or enroll my youngfella

Post by saucy gibbon » Fri Sep 16, 2011 9:48 am

carvin marvin wrote:Who gives a shit about money.
Surfing does not have a dollar value.
The greatest gift a father can give a son is to teach him to surf.
Boolshit, the greatest gift a father can give a son is wise him up on not getting married and having kids.
Uni is not the real world.

User avatar
Grooter
Duke Status
Posts: 11244
Joined: Mon May 08, 2006 12:37 pm
Location: Titan Uranus

Re: Teach or enroll my youngfella

Post by Grooter » Fri Sep 16, 2011 9:53 am

saucy gibbon wrote:
carvin marvin wrote:Who gives a shit about money.
Surfing does not have a dollar value.
The greatest gift a father can give a son is to teach him to surf.
Boolshit, the greatest gift a father can give a son is wise him up on not getting married and having kids.
Either that or teach him how to relate better to women :D
some cnut wrote:There are only two real problems that we face in life, knowing what we want but being unable to know how to get it and/or not knowing what we want
It's possible to hate the filthy world and still love it with an abstract pitying love

alakaboo
Huey's Right Hand
Posts: 22625
Joined: Mon Nov 09, 2009 3:33 pm

Re: Teach or enroll my youngfella

Post by alakaboo » Fri Sep 16, 2011 10:00 am

didn't think gay people could get married in this country?
or is your whole family just repressed?

Beanpole
That's Not Believable
Posts: 68233
Joined: Mon Apr 25, 2005 8:21 am
Location: Button Factory

Re: Teach or enroll my youngfella

Post by Beanpole » Mon Sep 19, 2011 6:45 pm

saucy gibbon wrote:
carvin marvin wrote:Who gives a shit about money.
Surfing does not have a dollar value.
The greatest gift a father can give a son is to teach him to surf.
Boolshit, the greatest gift a father can give a son is wise him up on not getting married and having kids.
I guess that would make him look up to you.
"Gee dad your a two time loser by your own standards. You must hate your life."
Put your big boy pants on
I mean, tastebuds? WGAF?

Post Reply

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 58 guests