Bodysurfing is plain fun with absolute freedom in the ocean! Surfing and Bodysurfing go together great with improving strength, endurance and ocean knowledge. Bodysurfing teaches us to feel the ocean’s energy and will help us stay calm in stressful situations. While surfing & bodysurfing, your mind and body have to be very poised and react in the moment by living in the moment. This will help our students remain calm in the ocean during camp and outside of camp time with picking up valuable ocean knowledge and ocean confidence. Summa Love includes a bodysurfing clinic each week with “Long Branch Bodysurfing Club” and ocean discussions with Bryan each week with campers to help prepare them for any situation the ocean may bring including rip tide safety, beach flag warning system, currents, bodysurfing history and techniques. These talks and clinics can also help students remain calm in stressful situations in the future with not only in nature but also in life. We are proud to be one of the only surf camps on the entire east coast to include bodysurfing clinics in our weekly surf camp program. All bodysurfing hand planters are included during camp.
Duke Kahanamoku introduced bodysurfing to New York and New Jersey in 1912. He gave several swimming and bodysurfing demonstrations along the east coast after returning from the Stockholm Olympics. East coast surfers used to also body surf to their surfboard after they fell due to leashes not being invented until years later. It is a sport that has gained massive popularity and will hopefully be a new olympic sport in the not too distant future.
