Surf Coaching
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About Surf Coaching in Morocco
Coaching is what comes after lessons stop working. It assumes you can already surf — catch unbroken waves, make a bottom turn, get back out — and addresses why you have stopped improving, which is usually two or three specific habits rather than a general lack of practice.
The tool that makes it work is video. A coach films your session from the beach or the water, and the review afterwards is where most of the value sits: almost nobody is doing what they believe they are doing, and the gap between the two is invisible from inside the wave. Typical findings are unremarkable and hard to self-diagnose — late pop-ups, a back foot too far forward, looking at the board instead of down the line, paddling with the chest flat instead of the back arched.
A coaching week is structured differently from a camp week. Sessions are shorter and more deliberate, with a single thing to work on each time, and there is usually dry-land work on pop-up mechanics and paddling technique. Morocco suits it because the long right-hand points give you a rideable wall for hundreds of metres — enough time on one wave to actually attempt a correction, which a short beach break does not allow.
Who it suits
Intermediates who have plateaued, surfers with years of self-taught habits, and anyone who can already surf but cannot see why they are not getting better.
What to check before you book
- How long it runs door to door, not just the time in the water or on the road.
- Group size, and whether the price is per person or for the whole group.
- What is included — equipment, entry fees, lunch — and what is paid on the day.
- Where it starts, and whether pick-up from your accommodation is part of it.
- What happens if the weather stops it: a refund, another date, or nothing.
Where to find this in Morocco
The coast this marketplace covers runs from Mehdia in the north to Sidi Ifni in the south. These are the places to start looking:
- Taghazout — The village that turned Moroccan surfing into an industry
- Tamraght — Quieter than Taghazout, and where most first lessons actually happen
- Agadir — Where you land, and a long city beach that works when the coast is huge
- Imsouane — The longest, gentlest wave in Morocco
- Essaouira — Wind city — a walled medina with world-class kite and windsurf