8 Day Surf Camp for All Levels with a Relaxing Massage, Just 1-Hour from Santiago, Galicia, Spain

Surfhouse As Furnas always has nice and interesting guests and offers you a selected and homemade meal with mostly regional ingredients. You can spend your days on the stunning beaches in the neighborhood, then relax with yoga, afterward enjoy a massage, take part in surf skate lessons, and much more.

This is the ideal alternative to the usual party surf camps. It is a small camp with a maximum capacity of 16 people, which offers a family atmosphere. Your hosts always try to be as flexible as possible in order to respond individually to the needs and preferences of guests. It is the perfect place to relax, concentrate on surfing, and have fun.

Surfing

Galicia is undoubtedly the place with the highest probability of waves on Europe’s mainland. The region in the immediate vicinity of the surf house, with its miles of sandy beaches and coves, is still untouched by mass tourism and offers ideal conditions for surfing. Overcrowded lineups do not exist here. Due to the varied coastline and numerous beaches with different expositions, you will almost always find the perfect place for surfing, independent of waves and wind conditions.

Whether beginner or advanced, there are a variety of waves for every level. Within a 15-minute drive, you can reach all of the best surf spots in the area. They offer you a wide swell window, as well as numerous wind-protected alternatives and various alternatives for big or too-small waves, depending on surfing level and taste. These include Vilar, Ladeira, Balieiros, and two house spots, As Furnas and Rio Sierra. Most of them break on the sand.

Surf lessons

You drive with the surf instructors from the surf house to one of the surrounding surf spots, where you get between three and four hours of surf lessons per day. The surf house is surrounded by more than 10 different spots, all offering different wind and swell directions, wave sizes, and tides. They always align their surf lessons with the current weather and wave conditions.

Adapted to the daily forecast, spot guiding is included in the class to guarantee you the best possible surf for the day. Another way to improve your style and technique in surf lessons is through video analysis. It helps you to get to know your movements and habits while surfing better and to surf more consciously afterwards. In order to recognize mistakes and correct them, exercises in the water as well as on land are shown after the video analysis. Two analyses and one theory class are also incl. in the surf course.

Surf lessons topic

• Detailed theoretical and practical lessons
• Information about each surf spot, spot guiding
• The right surfboard and wetsuit, matching both your surf level and your body proportions
• Testcenter of surfboards
• Professional surf lessons with qualified surf instructors (licensed by the International Surfing Association ISA or the Galician and Spanish Surf Federation)
• Setting of personal goals and creating an individual training plan
• Out-of-water exercises
• Video analysis

Surfskate lessons

With surfskating, you can significantly improve your surfing technique in just a short time. The surfskate lessons usually take place in the afternoon after the surf courses. You can work on your surfing technique for one hour per day in a nearby sports facility. The surfskate lessons will help you improve your balance, coordination, and style when surfing in the ocean. It offers you the perfect opportunity to work on new maneuvers and train you how to build up speed in a wave.

Yoga

In recent years, more and more surfers have discovered yoga for themselves. For surfing, you need both strengths, endurance, balance, and coordination—properties that are trained in yoga practice. More flexibility and better body voltage can significantly improve your surfing. In addition, muscles and tendons are stretched and relaxed during yoga, and you are therefore automatically protected against injuries. The yoga classes, mainly Vinyasa yoga, take place in small groups on a beautiful and quiet yoga platform under the trees in the garden

They place much importance on the fact that their yoga teacher adapts the lesson’s level to the individual abilities of the participants and respects their preferences and limits. No matter how experienced you are, yoga classes are always designed so that you can join in at your own pace. Let go, relieve tension, reduce stress, and look forward to ending the evening recovering and relaxing.

Typical day

• Wake up in the morning after a relaxing night in our comfortable beds
• 08:30 - 10:00 Breakfast buffet. Offering a variety of food including lactose and gluten-free products. You can have breakfast either inside or outside on the beautiful sun terrace with views of the garden
• 10:30 Let's go surfing! Warm up, one over 2 hour surf session and then happily surfing out and going home
• 14:30 Snack time and afterwards chill at the pool or go on a little trip to see the surroundings
• 17:00 - 18:00 Surf skate lesson for those who want
• 18:30 - 19:30 Outdoor yoga
• 18:00 - 20:00 Massage
• 20:30 Dinner and sooner or later good night