Ability Level: Beginner

This morning our beginners group headed down the road to Padang Padang — our local beach — for their first session of private surfing lessons.

Watched on by the resident monkeys, time was spent on the beach getting accustomed to the perfect popup technique before moving into the water to put that practice to the test.

As you can see from the gallery, there were some impressive rides in the clean, knee to chest-high conditions — a testament to both the fast-learning of our guests and the teaching of our expert instructors.

This morning our beginners made the short journey down to our local break at Padang Padang for their morning group and private surfing lessons..

The wind resulted in the waves not being as perfectly clean as they often are but conditions — breaking softly around knee-high — were still excellent for learning, as you can see from the great rides in today’s gallery.

After a fun and rewarding session, our beginners headed back to camp to refuel before another session back at Padang Padang later in the morning.

This morning our beginner group took advantage of very light winds and surfed just down the road at Dreamland beach for their first session of the day.

The group lessons took place up the beach at the A-frame, which started working more consistently as the tide dropped, and there were others surfing the shorebreak further down the beach too.

After enjoying the beatiful sunrise session and working up their appetities our surfers headed back to the camp for their well-earned breakfasts.

Our beginner and intermediates joined forces to surf at Geger Left for their first session of the day where the sun was shining and the wind was nice and light.

As the knee to chest-high waves peeled down the reef, many great rides were enjoyed and everybody had a fun session.

After breakfast the group moved down the road to the centre of Nusa Dua to surf at Black Stone and on the way passed our advanced surf guiding group who surfed twice at Geger Right.

It’s been over a year since our last surf report from Mushroom Rock in Nusa Dua but that’s exactly where our beginner group headed this morning for their first session of private surf lessons.

There was a fresh offshore wind blowing up the faces of Mushroom Rock’s right-handers and a little current running which made the one-on-one attention of a private instructor even more valuable than normal.

Waves were breaking between waist and shoulder-high today and everybody caught their share of rides before hopping over to Black Stone — on the other side of the headland — for their second session of the day.

Black Stone in Nusa Dua was the location for our beginners‘ first session of group and private lessons this morning as they ventured out from surf camp in search of some learner-friendly waves.

It was a little windy, so the waves weren’t as clean as they might have been but the size — between knee and waist-high — was perfect for gaining confidence and working on developing a consistent popup.

After breakfast, the group surfed their second session again at Black Stone, before heading back to camp to enjoy our delicious weekly BBQ.

This morning out beginners group headed to Black Stone at Nusa Dua for a combination of group, semi-private and private surfing lessons.

The group experienced the full range of Balinese weather during their session — from bright sunshine to torrential downpour — but enjoyed every minute.

Elsewhere at the surf camp today our intermediate group are also surfing at Nikko and Geger Left in the Nusa Dua area while our advanced guiding group are off adventuring in the Keramas area.

It’s officially wet season as all four vans from surf camp headed over to Nusa Dua in search of great waves and favourable winds.

As you can see from the gallery, our beginners started at Black Stone where they will also surf their second session and waves were coming through in the knee to chest-high range with the offshore wind keeping everything nice and clean.

Our intermediate group started their day up the road at Geger Left before joining the others at Black Stone after breakfast and our advanced surf guiding surfed twice at Geger Right.