How to Protect Your Skin from the Sun While Surfing
Discover essential sun protection tips for surfers from Peña Txuri experts. Learn about sunscreen, UV protection clothing, and best practices to keep your skin safe while surfing.
Welcome to the Peña Txuri Surf Eskola blog, where we share everything you need to know to improve your surfing and enjoy the waves to the fullest. Here you will find tips, guides and useful resources for surfers of all levels, from beginners to advanced.
Discover essential sun protection tips for surfers from Peña Txuri experts. Learn about sunscreen, UV protection clothing, and best practices to keep your skin safe while surfing.
Wondering what your surfing level is? Learn to identify if you’re a beginner, intermediate, or advanced surfer and discover tips to improve your skills.
Discover how waves are measured in surfing using different methods and tips to better interpret their size.
Perfect your surfing take off with tips, exercises and technique. Learn with Peña Txuri Surf Eskola and improve your style on every wave.
Learn how to read the waves to surf and anticipate their movement. At Peña Txuri Surf Eskola we teach you how to identify them.
At Peña Txuri Surf School, we know that improving your surfing requires consistent practice, dedication, and the right tools.
Discover the key techniques to generate speed on a wave: compression, projection and use of edges. Learn with Peña Txuri Surf Eskola.
In surfing, practice makes perfect, but we can’t always be in the water to improve our technique. That’s why dry simulations are an excellent way to train movements and develop
If you’re starting to perform your first maneuvers in surfing, this article is for you. At Peña Txuri Surf Eskola, we know that mastering these basic techniques is essential to
Discover how tides and wind affect your surf sessions. Learn how to interpret the sea with Peña Txuri Surf Eskola.
You’ve been surfing for a while and you’re riding waves to your feet, but your surfing feels stuck. Peña Txuri Surf Eskola’s intermediate classes in Sopelana are designed for surfers who have the pop-up dialled and want to sharpen their trim, learn basic manoeuvres and improve their ocean reading. We use video analysis and targeted drills for fast, visible progress.
The intermediate level is where professional feedback makes the biggest difference. Our instructors film your waves and give you personalised corrections in the Cantabrian Sea.
You’re intermediate if you catch green waves standing up, can do a gentle turn but still struggle to generate speed consistently or execute controlled manoeuvres. If you’re unsure, contact us and we’ll advise you with no commitment.
Yes. Video analysis is a core part of Peña Txuri’s method for intermediate surfers. Watching your own stance and mistakes on screen speeds up technical correction far more than verbal instruction alone.
It depends on how often you practise. With consistent training (2–3 sessions per week in summer) most intermediate surfers see significant improvement within 1–2 seasons.
Discover surfing in Sopela and turn the sea into your new personal challenge.
At Peña Txuri we understand surfing as a way of life, a passion that we want to share with you.
