Do you think you have reached your maximum surfing level?
You are wrong! The problem is that you can’t see your mistakes, so you don’t know how to evolve. I can give you a hand, I will help you to improve and enjoy even more the waves. A new surfboard can improve your surfing by 10%. Video correction warranties an improvement by 40%!!
Your level of surfing is not an issue, whether you are intermediate, advance, or competition, you will learn thanks to the video correction and the direct communication via walkie-talkie in each wave. Improve the quality of your manoeuvres, the selection of waves and the style.
If you are seeking to speed up the learning curve, with training, coaching, and corrections you will save up months of tries by:
Video correction allows the student visualise and understand the correct technique, focusing on their weaknesses
Visualising slow motion movements
Repetition of movements on the beach and in the water
Live communication via walkie-talkie (coach to student, vice versa) in each wave
Group or individual analysis
Personal and reachable objectives for each student
With an extensive experience of more than 10 years in the coaching world and more than 20 years in competition, you will have the chance to learn from the most basic to the most advanced of surfing. Surfing technique is not the solemn objective of my lessons, I also help with the psychology (block outs, demotivation, mistrust, fears, nerves, etc.).
If you are interested in the competition, I offer lessons oriented and including theory, tactic, competition psychology, etc. These classes can be even orienting parents in the competition theory (for more information, please contact me).
A class includes:
Selection of convenient beach where to surf, depending on weather conditions and group size
Visualisation and understanding of the break (peaks, currents, rips, waves, positioning, etc.)
Identification of personal objectives to work in the session
Video recording of the waves surfed by each student, for the correction
Direct communication through walkie-talkie in order to correct and enhance objectives
Finalisation of session, chat about the session and feelings
Analyse video, errors, corrections and further objectives to work in
Surfing is not my only focus, I also inculcate the love and respect for the ocean and our coasts by raising awareness, and the respect for the other surfers and users of the beach.
Surfing since:
1991
Competing since:
1993
Coaching since:
2004
Surf Coach Courses:
Surf Trips:
Canary Islands, France, Morocco, Portugal, Australia, Indonesia, Maldives, Chile, Mexico, Hawaii
I was 15 years old when I began surfing in January 1991, with the surfboard of a school mate. I was quickly hooked and with the savings of my first job, I bought my first wetsuit and surfboard. I was that hooked that hooked that I could be 5 to 8 hours in the water, every day. With consistency and determination, after one year surfing, I had my first sponsor, Natural Paradise, a surf shop in Gijon, Spain.
My first competition was in 1993, four years later I was competing in the European Surf Circuit.
In 2004, after several years competing and travelling around the wold, I started to work for Billabong as a sales rep, as well as a surf instructor and manager of the Rodiles surf camp of the Special Surf School in Spain for a period of 10 years. I also offered my coaching services to other surf schools in the Canary’s and Spain.
Currently I am working in the following projects:
Elite Surf Coaching, with my extensive experience of more than 20 years in the surfing world, I am starting this new project, with the objective of sharing my skills and values so that you can enjoy to the fullest, the amazing world of surfing.
The photos were provided by: Juan Fernandez, Jose Haya, Alex Postigo
" Personally, I’m extremely grateful to Ivan Villalba.
He was the person who helped me obtain my first sponsors. He helped me enter that small and closed elite of the national surfing trips, sessions with official photographers, sponsors and everything that is important, including the performance and efficiency in competitions.
Also, he has always been one of the surfing references in Asturias. Surfing with him, learning from his experience and his knowledge in and out of the water, helped me a lot. "
Guillermo Alonso (champion of Spain Sub 16 in 2006, sub 18 in 2007 and 2008, open 2009)
