School Holidays Surfing at Manly, Sydney
School Holidays Surfing at Manly, Sydney - programs have been developed for children to learn skills in a safe and nurturing atmosphere on Manly Beach. Teaching your children how to be safe and have fun in the surf by the very best surf instructors in the country. Welcome to KAOS the Kids Academy of Surf
Kids Academy of Surf (KAOS) School Holiday Programs
book online for summer holidays
If you have already experienced our surf and beach programs with your school, you will love our KAOS School Holiday Programs, which will further enhance your ability to enjoy the surf
Half day courses are available every week day during the NSW School holidays at Manly Beach from 9am to 1pm
or Book in to one of our 2hr KAOS Surf School lesson (Saturdays, Sundays and Wednesdays
The half day course provides a range of surfboard and body surfing skills in the surf, and also includes a still water orientation from Shelly Beach. Kids will break for a snack and a drink before finishing with some advanced skills. The program will finish at 12.30pm and the kids can then enjoy their lunch with the group under our supervision.
Cost is $65 per child
To book online or call us on 
02 99077650
Where are we? Meet at the Manly Lifesaving Club
School Holiday Program Dates 2009
December/January: Every week day
April: Every week day
All program equipment provided - including wetsuit, 6ft foam surfboards with handles, and sun protective rash vest.
Parents are to supply lunch and drinks
Children are to apply sunscreen and bring swimming
gear, towel, hat, and a change of clothes
Learn:
Surf board skills:
Paddling
Negotiating the surf
Catching a
wave from out the back
Using rips/current and sandbanks (dependant on surf conditions)
Cornering a wave
Body Surfing lessons:
Negotiate the surf
body surf in whitewater
Body surf from out the back (dependant on surf conditions)
Surf Education
Identification and demonstration of safe and potential risk areas. Practical skills on correct use of these areas
School Vacation care programs at the beach or in-house with KAOS.
KAOS can design a Vacation Care Program at the beach to suit School Goliday group or provide them group with KAOS surfing skills, surf education and beach activitiy programs.If your group doesn't want to challenge the kids in the water, why not bring them down for a surf education lesson and Surf Lifesaving presentation and some fun Surf Lifesaving event and rescue scenarios on the beach
KAOS is a program of SEA Australia, SEA Australia" is a "performance authorized within the Performances for Schools Program managed by the NSW Department of Education & Training.”
The KAOS theory on "how to Surf"
We teach over 50,000 students annually
Most surf schools teach surfing lessons – by lining 10 ft long boards on the beach, showing you how to jump to your feet on the sand and then taking you into the broken waves – just metres off the shore line. Instructors leave you in the white water so you can try to stand up - most do not work with the client – rather they go off free surfing, which can be very intimidating for those learning, non educational and a waste of money.
Surfing is not all about learning how to stand up.
It is about learning how to catch a breaking wave as it transforms from a swell to a wave. If you can master this – standing up is a mere formality.
The surfing skill comes from watching and understanding a wave as it breaks so as you can position yourself in the perfect area to catch the wave, and then accelerate your paddling at the correct time to move down the face of the wave. Once you have mastered this you have a split second to move your hands into the correct position to adjust your weight back - without falling off the wave.
Surfing is also an intimidating sport to learn, if you don’t understand the surf – then you will have to deal with local surfers trying to run you out of the water.
SEA Australia has carefully selected venues
These are in protected Southern corners along the East Coast of Australia, these a
reas are predominantly away from intense surfing areas, and dangerous surf breaks.
By starting your lesson on a smaller foam surf board – and progressing to a longer one if required, this allows SEA to teach surfing skills within all surf areas – including swimming areas if the waves suit (surf boards over 6ft are not allowed in or near swimming areas on Australian beaches). Using a smaller board also forces each individual to use chore muscle groups to paddle, balance and negotiate the surf, without this - there will be
NO ability to further develop surfing skills.
Other surf schools are restricted to “surfing only” areas.
Understanding the Ocean
KAOS teaches you how to understand the surf, paddle correctly and negotiate the surf safely - so
you can get out the back of the surf break easily. By using predominantly safe rips (outward flowing currents) found in Southern corners of the beach. SEA instructors - usually swim along side clients, to be literally “hands on” during critical lesson stages.
From here you learn how to catch the wave as it breaks (the thrill of coming down the face of a wave is unforgettable). Using a rip - you are quickly transported from the shore - back out to the surf break for your next go. Advancing skills by learning how to surf the
wave across the face is the next step, finally - body surfing and surf negotiation without a surf board
Through learning all these skills – you have naturally progressed to a stage where you understand how to safely stand up at the crucial stage of “catching a breaking wave”. Your hands are positioned correctly, your weight is distributed correctly and you then notice that due to the downward angle of the surf board, standing up and surfing will become anmuch easier prospect.
With these skills plus extra skills learn't including body surfing – you have developed the required confidence to allow you to continue learning to surf within your own comfort zone.
Happy Surfing - Craig Riddington
