For new surfers, learning to surf can be a bit intimidating. If the crowd factor at your local break isn’t enough to keep you out of the water, the fear of getting in the way or angering the locals will surely keep you on dry land. While no surfer likes to see swarms of...

  The best surfers in the world have an uncanny ability to read waves and predict what the ocean is going to do at any given moment. If you watch a heat at a premier surf contest, like the Billabong Pipe Masters, you’ll notice the surfers scurrying around left and right chasing tiny bumps of swell...

If you’re a new surfer, you might not know how to tell if the waves are decent without physically going to check the surf. Whether you’ve learned with us at our Oahu surf school in Hawaii or are surfing elsewhere, checking the surf isn’t always a possibility. Sometimes we have to check the forecast using...

If you’re an intermediate surfer who has mastered the basics of popping up, riding cleanly down the line, and understands lineup dynamics, then it’s time to take your surfing to the next level with an Advanced Surf Lesson. During an Advanced Surf Lesson at Jamie O’Brien Surf Experience, our professional surf instructors act as surf coaches...

One of the reasons that surfing has such a gravitational pull on everyone who tries it is that no two waves are alike. Even if you’re surfing the same break every day in the same conditions, the waves you ride will all slightly differ from one another. If the dynamic nature of waves isn’t enough...