Current BSUPA Schools
School Name: X-Train
School Area: Sussex and Hampshire
School Category: BSUPA Instructor Training Centre, BSUPA Level 1 School.
School Phone: 01243 513077
School Email:
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School Address: West Wittering Beach, West Sussex, PO20 8AJ
School Website: http://www.x-train.co.uk
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School Licenses: AALS, RYA, BKSA, BSUPA
School Information:
X-train is an established watersports training centre run by Simon Bassett since 1991. X-train has full facilities including a club house, changing rooms and showers, rescue, shop/office, board and equipment storage onsite and a full rental centre. X-train offers beginners to advanced stand up paddle surfing courses, in flat water and in small surf. We have the latest beginners paddle boards from RRD and NSP, full rescue, changing rooms and hot showers. We also run paddle safaris in Chichester Habour, private tuition, advanced clinics, paddle surf events and paddle surf equipment demos. We also supply all the latest gear from NSP, SurfTech, Drops, GONG, Kialoa etc from our online store http://www.2xs.co.uk. BSUPA members get a 5% discount.
School Name: Harlyn Bay Surf School
School Area: Cornwall
School Category: BSUPA Instructor Training Centre, BSUPA Level 1 School.
School Phone: 01841 533 076
School Email:
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School Address: 23 Grenville Road, Padstow, Cornwall PL28 8EX
School Website: http://www.harlynsurfschool.co.uk/
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School Information:
Set on the golden sands of Harlyn Bay, there can be no better place to learn to surf or to discover the sheer exhilaration of paddleboarding, coasteering or sea kayaking.
We believe in offering you the very best customer service and the highest possible level of surf and watersports tuition. Passionate about the Cornwall surf, Harlyn Surf School is always at the forefront of the surf industry and so it’s no surprise we were one of the first in the UK to launch the world’s fastest growing watersport, Stand up Paddleboarding in 2009. This year sees the launch of our latest activity, coasteering, a fantastic experience scrambling across rocks, exploring nooks and crannies, diving into rock pools and seeing the local wildlife plus we have a great new shop in our unit on the beach and coming very soon online!
We also run amazing surf camps every summer which are incredibly popular with teenagers and children. These are surf courses running over five consecutive days, so you really get a chance to develop your surfing skills. Private, improver and group surf lessons and activities are available so there really is something for everyone! We are really proud to be the first surf school in the UK to be awarded an Adventure Activity Licence as a mark of our good safety management and we are an Academy of Surfing Instructors Accredited surf school --- ASI are the world leaders for surfing education and accreditation. What's more we are a Surf Life Saving GB Lifeguard training centre, one of only a handful in the UK -- so you can be rest assured you will be in safe hands!
So, whether you want to enjoy paddleboarding, sea kayaking, coasteering or surf, Cornwall is the only place to be. And Harlyn Surf School, Padstow, is your ideal choice for a truly amazing experience!
School Name: Crantock bay surf school
School Area: Cornwall
School Category: BSUPA Level 1 School.
School Phone: 0800 0231 404 or 07779584177
School Email: Use this online form.
School Address: 2 Lanherne Avenue, St Mawgan, Newquay, Cornwall TR8 4EL
School Website: http://www.crantockbaysurfschool.com
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School Information:
Crantock Bay surf school is based on the beautiful national trust beach at Crantock, just three miles outside the UK surf capital town of Newquay. Crantock beach is an ideal location to learn to surf, with plenty of empty waves for everyone, on its wide sandy bay.
All our instructors are qualified Beach Lifeguards and BSA registered surf coaches, to ensure you have a safe and enjoyable surfing experience with us. Weather just starting out or already an experienced surfer our lessons help you to build technique, confidence and ocean awareness for children from 8 yrs and upwards and adults.
As well as surfing lessons we also offer kayaking, stand up paddle surfing and bodyboarding lessons (check out are courses page) so why not try one of our multi activity days to keep you entertained on your holiday's. See you in the water.
School Name: Torquay Wind and Surf Centre
School Area: Devon
School Category: BSUPA Level 1 School.
School Phone: 01803 212411
School Email:
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School Address: Shop and Booking Office, 55 Victoria Rd, Ellacombe, Torquay, TQ1 1HX
School Website: http://www.kitesurfingtorquay.
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School Information:
Celebrating 30 years (2008), husband and wife team, Andre' and Dulce Shorland started out back in '78 with the existing shop then known as The Skate & Surf Centre, and have always been at the forefront of new sports in this country such as surfing, skateboarding, windsurfing, powerkiting, kitebuggying, kitesurfing and stand up paddle boarding.
The business has evolved over the years from the manufacture of surfboards, a very successful skateboard team which competed all over the UK, the RYA recognized Torquay Windsurfing School which taught a great many over the course of 25 + years, and the shop.
Andre' and Dulce were also founder members of the Windglider Class Association in the UK the first Windsurfing class to achieve Olympic status back in 1984, and both competed nationally and internationally, having won many competitions with brother Mark, the Shorland trio, Dulce became National Heineken Ladies champion in 1980.
In 1999 Andre' and Dulce became involved in Kitesurfing and Kitebuggying, the shop now called Torquay Wind & Surf Centre stocks a wide range of equipment, all tried and tested, everything we sell we believe in, Andre' was for a time the Flying Doctor, Powerkite's Magazine Dr Kite.
Andre' who is the longest qualified kitesurfing instructor in the UK as listed on the IKO website, runs the Torquay Kitesurfing, Kitebuggying and Stand Up Paddle Surfing School, originally Torquay Windsurfing School, one of the first Kitesurfing Schools in the country, if not the first, and is recognized by the BKSA.
