Our surf school

Our surf school is located on the North Shore of Dominican Republic at "Playa Encuentro, Cabarete

Our shack at the beach in Playa Encuentro offers a surfpool of 80 boards in all sizes and shapes in epoxy and fiberglass. Boards for beginners, intermediate and advanced surfers; we have surfboards for any skill level.

We also offer individual surfboard rentals and surfing lessons at the rates below, including free ride on our daily surf shuttle

Our Surfing lessons go 3 times per day and are open to male and females of all ages.
We also offer private and childs lessons.

You can take the complete course in a raw or you can spread it over your entire vacation. Every Surfing lesson includes board rental, rash guards, surf boots, 30 min theory and 2 hours of actual practice.

After each morning lesson and in the afternoon, our students have the chance to take part of our supervised surfing practice to go out on there own in an safe and supervised environment
Most of our students manage to stand up and surf there first wave during their first lesson

Playa Encuentro - one of the most famous reef-breaks of the North-Coast - is located only 10 minutes from the Surf Camp.
The North swell of the Dominican Republic is Atlantic ocean. Wintertime we get North swell and summertime EAST and N/E Swell.

Enjoy surfing in warm water and safe conditions.

Our Surfing lessons

Beginner Lessons

Day 1

• Land and ocean knowledge
• Practice on simulator to learn position, paddling, and take off
• Learn to ride the white water. Go with teacher in the water using a larger beginner board and practice positioning, paddling, takeoff and surf

Day 2

• Learn how to evaluate the wave conditions. We will discuss wave size, direction, and second periods
• Practice on the board simulator. Learn to take off and turn in frontside
• Go in the water and practice
• Surf, surf, surf

Day 3

• Ocean knowledge
• Go in the water with 7.2 malibu board
• Learn to sit on the line up selection of waves
• Learn the rules of riding

We offer also 5 days and 1 week and refresher surfcourse, see the rates below.

Advanced Lessons

We will evaluate each student depending on his physical and skill level. You will go surfing with one of our professional instructors with whom together you will work on improving your level of surfing knowledge.
You will learn to fine tune your skills and we can teach you some tricks as maybe a floater or how to throw some airs or other radical maneuvers, or even the simple things like how to improve your duckdive.

We offer Stand Up Paddle Board(SUP) lessons and rental. You can practice in the lagoon or at our surf school at Encuentro Read and see more about SUP>>>

Surflesson rates

prices are in US$ and per person

Surfboards rental (surfpool)

Fish, shordboards, guns, funboards, foamboards, longboards, SUP and boogie board. we have a collection of 80 boards in excellent condition

prices are in US$ and per person

For the actual Surf conditions just click here !
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SURFBOARDS JET FREE! Now through February from New York to Puerto Plata!

Once a week we organize a surftrip to other spots on the Northshore

Playa Caleton: 45 min from here, small and very nice, romantic Caribbean, crystal blue water, fish specials, lobster and typical fresh Surfer-Cocktails........

Playa Grande: the most famous, around 1 hour drive, beautiful bay, big beach, nice water and waves, fresh fish.

Playa Preciosa: 2 min from Playa Grande. You have to see the beautiful Caribbean nature at it´s best ! outside reef (left), inside el Barco(right)

To see more photos from the surftrip please click here