Surf Coaching Retreats
Do you love surfing but feel like you’re not making real progress? Do you sense that your own mindset is holding you back from becoming a better surfer? Then it’s time to join our surf coaching retreats! Our intensive retreats focus not only on refining your surf technique but, importantly, on overcoming mental blocks and building mental strength. With experienced surf coaches and sports mental trainers, we’re here to support you.
We offer retreats tailored to different levels in Portugal and other parts of the world. Check it out!
Below, you’ll find an overview of all retreats organized by skill level!
At Fearless Surfer and Concrete Surfers, we specialize in a powerful combo of surf technique coaching, surf skating, and mental training. What we think influences our emotions, and how we feel in our body, in turn, impacts our thoughts!
During our intensive weeks, you’ll receive personalized coaching on both your surfing technique and mental topics.
Check out our video from the recent “Experienced beginner” surf coaching retreat in Aljezur, Portugal, and see what a typical training day looks like!
Interested in a team-building surf retreat for your company or team? Explore our team-building offer HERE.
Retreat overview by level
INTERMEDIATE & ADVANCED
Aljezur, Portugal: Intensive surf coaching with Australian top coach MARTIN DUNN. He’s one of the worlds best surf coaches! Surfcoaching & video analysis & surfskating & mental training, all genders (max. 8 spots).
Dates: Training 1 & 2: Intermediate /// Training 3: High Intermediate & Advanced /// Training 4: Competition Training on request /// DATES: OCTOBER 2025
Duration 5 days per training course (arrival day, three coaching days, departure day).
Level: You surf a shortboard or mid-length and you can duckdive. As an intermediate surfer, you mainly want to improve your take-off, your bottom and top turns, and how you generate speed. Why? Because you still wipe out often when the waves get bigger and steeper. Or, you often lose speed after the take-off and ride the wave slower than you want to. As an advanced surfer you want to work intensively on your surfing technique, or learn a new maneuver, and better use the wave’s potential. It’s about getting those key moments in a maneuver right for more powerful turns and more success in landing a maneuver. As a pro surfer, you train specifically for your next competition goal. You want to become more consistent in your performance and score higher.
“EXPERIENCED” BEGINNER
Aljezur, Portugal: Surf coaching & video analysis & surfskating & mental training & breathwork (Coaches: Vasco Rodrigues & Kim Chareonbood), only women (maximum 8 spots per retreat)
May: Sat, 17.5. – Sun, 25.5.2025
September: Sat, 20.9. – Sun, 28.9.2025
Level: You are still surfing a beginner board (Foamie or Minimalibu or Funboard). You have been surfing green waves for a while and you can paddle to the line-up alone. You want to improve your take-off and practice riding the wave to the left or right.
FIRST-TIME BEGINNERS
Aljezur, Portugal: Retreat 1: June 21-27, 2025 (women only), Retreat 2: September 2025 (dates to follow, women & men), surf course, mental training and surprise event (coaches: Lara Noser & professional surf school). Maximum 6 places per retreat.
Level: You have never surfed before, but you really want to learn. “Get out of your comfort zone” is this week’s motto. Learn to surf in the company of your mental coach Lara Noser.
TEAM-BUILDING RETREATS IN PORTUGAL
Portugal (dates on request): Mental training and surfing for optimal team development. Surfing with a professional surf school and mental training led by Lara Noser.
Experience an unforgettable team-building retreat in Portugal, focused on personalized mental training and personal development tailored to your needs.
The ocean and surfing mirror the dynamics of life, offering a powerful tool for developing your potential, gaining deeper self-awareness, and learning how to navigate challenges.
Surf level: From “never stood up on a board” until “wave champion”.
Retreat info booking
Thank you for this week and for putting that smile on my face! I cannot put into words how grateful I am for the things we talked through and the strategies and methods I‘ve learned 💛 Surfing is so much of a mental game (I think most sports are) and if your struggling with anything in that regard, it being fear, motivation, trauma, big waves, mindset for performance improvement, pressure or frustration, @fearless_surfer should be your go to! Kim has such a broad understanding of the mental game in sports and whatever I came up with I never felt judged, she took so much time for uncovering underlying issues with me and it really felt like she’s enjoying her work. There is so much more I could say but I just want to put it out there that I’m grateful for the work you do and I hope you will have a lot of success, a lot of waves and to see you again in the line-up some day 🌊
I was totally blown away from this retreat. The whole setting was so great, professional but really familiar as well. The daily Video analysis helped me to see what I have to change in the water. And on top of it learning the movements on the surfskate first and than try to make the transfer in the water really helped me to improve in just one week. The mental training put me in the right mindset and I learned more about me in general. Also I now know how I want to feel in the line up and how I can accomplish this with my mental warm up. This week gave me a lot of tools with which I can keep on working now and improve even more in the future.
I wished the week would never end. 😁
I was nervous when I arrived in Aljezur, assuming that in the following next days, I’d be forced to face anxieties and fears. But hello, this super warm welcome, the friendly atmosphere within the group made me calm down so fast, that I didn’t even remember what I was scared of. In contrary I was warmly invited to face what hold me back, never pushed or forced to go beyond my borders. Kim, Vasco and Marta’s kindness and caring attitude made this retreat unique. I’m so grateful that I had the chance to meet this beautiful souls and yes, on top of everything I even did progress in Surfing and Skating. Thank you so much for this amazing time. With love, Betül
Your results:
You have the confidence to surf faster and steeper waves.
You remain calm even in challenging situations.
You have overcome your fears and gained more courage and self-confidence in the line-up.
You can position yourself for the good waves and paddle for them without hesitation because they are your waves.
You can concentrate on what’s important and keep your focus, no matter what!
You have a positive mindset, and you can identify which surf conditions offer you the best opportunities and possibilities.
And last but not least – these techniques can also be used in your everyday life! That’s awesome, right? It’s not only about surfing, you are also learning for life!
Join our surf coaching retreats – for more waves, more fun and a strong mind!
