Find a Great Surf Camp for Your Kids this Summer
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Did you know going to surf camp is a great way for kids to learn to surf? With all equipment (including surfboards and wet suits) provided, all you have to do it grab your bathing suit, sunscreen, and show up for camp! Well, signing up for surf camp might be a little more involved than that, but it's safe to say that sending your kids to surf camp is a great way for them to experience the thrill of surfing! Many people say the best way enjoy the beach is on a surfboard. Learning to surf also provides many health and fitness advantages including strength and conditioning benefits, cardiovascular welfare, enjoying the outdoors and more. We encourage your child to try one of L.A.'s best surf camps this summer for a safe, fun and educational surf camp experience which can most certainly evolve into a lifelong affinity for surfing and the ocean they will enjoy again and again.
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Aloha Beach Camp
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Welcoming campers ages 4 to 15, Aloha Beach Camp is the only American Camp Association accredited surf camp in the Los Angeles area. Based at Zuma Beach in Malibu, kids and teens from all across L. A. have enjoyed Aloha Beach Camp for 21 years. With certified instructors, personalized surfing lessons, caring camp counselors, and its "learn at your own pace" philosophy, the camp is dedicated to making sure kids feel safe and comfortable on their surfboards no matter their age or ability. Yet Aloha Beach Camp isn't limited to just surfing. Boogie boarding, beach games, and field trips to lakes and water theme parks are included, too. Free transportation is available for Los Angeles kids. With all these fantastic benefits, no wonder so many campers return to Aloha Beach Camp every summer.
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Aqua Surf
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Aqua Surf has various L.A. surf camp locations including Malibu, Venice and Santa Monica. They offer a flexible surf camp registration feature with single day, by-the-week, full day, half-day and even drop-in options. Aqua surf is committed to delivering a safe and fun surf camp experience for all kids and teens and welcomes beginning, intermediate and advanced surfers to its camps. All equipment including surfboards and wet suits is provided. Aqua Surf is adheres to all COVID-19 health and safety guidelines. Ample shade is provided on the beach in the form of 10x10 canopy tents enabling campers enjoy shade from the sun in between surfing activities.
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Camp Surf
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When we were compiling information for this list of L.A.'s best surf camps, we spoke with Chris Brown, owner of Camp Surf, to learn more about his program. Chris was welcoming, patient, kind, and obviously cares very much about his surf camp and customers. It's always good to know and get a feel for the people behind the camp! You can expect outstanding customer service from this Manhattan beach surf camp, not to mention outstanding surfing instruction experience from what has been called "Los Angeles' Premier Surf School."
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Fitness by the Sea
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For campers who want full-immersion in a complete surf camp experience, Fitness by the Sea may not be the camp for you. Instead, they provide a more well-rounded beach camp experience with surfing as a smaller component. But if your child wants to learn to surf as part of an overall beach camp experience, this camp would be a fine choice! This camp has multiple locations and small, medium and large size camps in the Pacific Palisades and Santa Monica.
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Freedom Surf Camps
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Freedom Surf Camps, based in Marina del Rey, CA, provides everything campers need to learn surfing basics and additional techniques required to learn and improve their surfing skills. With experienced instructors and top-notch equipment, Freedom offers beginning, intermediate and advanced surf camps plus a teen surf camp, too. If you live in the Marina del Rey area and you're looking for a surf camp closeby, be sure to include Freedom on your short list.
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Learn to Surf L.A.
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Learn to Surf L.A. is a fine surf camp choice for campers with beginning, intermediate or advanced ocean and surfing skills who want to build their self-confidence and improve their crafts on their surfboards. Campers will learn everything from how to pop up on their surfboards, to wave dynamics, to ocean safety and more. With Santa Monica, Venice and Manhattan beach Surf Camps, The program has been operating since 2002. Flexible scheduling and extended care is available, an especially nice benefit for working parents.
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Malibu Longboards
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Malibu Longboards offers group and private surfing lessons as well as surf camps for kids.
The camp uses many of L.A.'s best beaches for its surf camp program including Venice Beach, Malibu Beach, and Santa Monica Beach, among others. Through in-the-water and on-the-sand surf instruction, surf campers will learn how to choose the best waves to surf, how to stand up on their surfboard, how to turn their surfboard in the ocean, how to get out of a rip tide, surfing etiquette, ocean safety and many other subtle components necessary to become a proficient surfer. Another amazing convenience is door-to-door pickup for campers whose families need a little extra help getting their kids to and from camp. Hot lunch program is available for surf campers, too. |
Malibu Makos
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As the name implies, Malibu Makos is located right on the beach on world famous Zuma Beach, Malibu. Campers ages 5 to 17 enjoy a top-rated surf camp experience taught by experienced watermen and waterwomen who have your child's safety in mind. Campers learn about ocean knowledge, wave judgement and selection, and how to navigate the waves and water with the help of their counselors and instructors. Campers even get to choose their own wetsuits each morning, a very exciting part of their day! Malibu Makos has been operating since since 1991 and consistently viewed among parents, kids and families as one of L.A.'s top surf camps for kids. They Transportation is available thoroughtout Los Angeles for an additional fee.
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Perfect Day Surf Camp
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There's a number of tremendous Surf Camps in Los Angeles, and Perfect Day Surf Camp is one of the best. A woman (and mom!) owned business by Robbie French, Perfect Day has multiple surf camp locations in Santa Monica , Torrance, Manhattan Beach and Redondo Beach. This is a very educational surf camp program with surf etiquette, ocean awareness and ocean safety all part of the program. Kids as young as four and teens up to 17 years old are eligible to sign up for Perfect Day Surf Camp. Perfect Day not only offers kids surf camps, but surf parties and events, too.
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Summer of Surf
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Teaching kids to surf is front and center at Summer of Surf. This camp primarily serves Pasadena, South Pasadena, La Canada, and San Gabriel Valley kids with transportation to and from camp on luxury buses and vehicles to their Santa Monica surf camp location available. The camp counselors ride the buses too, and the group watch movies on back and forth to camp making the bus ride fun. As they do at most surf camps, campers receive an introductory surf lesson on the sand before entering water with their surfboards and instructors. The Summer of Surf camp program operates early June through late August each year.
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L.A. families searching for the best summer camp fit for their kids can't afford to miss L.A. Camp Fair! It's greater L.A.'s biggest, best and FREE summer camp expo with 100's of camps on display. And with two convenient dates and locations at UCLA and in Calabasas in March, you're sure to find a convenient Camp Fair event nearby. Grab your free tickets to the L.A. Camp Fair today!
