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Surfing A Thumpy Beach Break

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We get a mixture of levels on retreats usually, but it is not often that we have Amigas bringing their own shortboards and ready to pull into tubes. At a retreat at our Central Nicaragua location we had an Amiga named Cat who is a shredder. She was working on refining her turns and trying to learn to get barreled. One morning a few of the instructors took her out to a thumpy hollow beach break. While the surf wasn’t quite as good as they were hoping, it was still tons of fun

Surf Completely – A Yoga Sequence for Duck diving

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If you want to work on your duck dive on dry land, here’s a short vinyasa sequence to activate the core and mimic the duck dive postures in order to strengthen the muscles and get the movements into muscle memory so that once you’re in the water it all feels natural.
Ieva Aldins, one of the yoga instructor at Surf With Amigas, describes and demonstrates a short flow to help improve your duck dive.

El Salvador October Highlights

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Here’s the highlight video for our second retreat in October 2015 in El Salvador. The waves were a bit smaller but still had plenty of size and we had some serious shredders. Watch the girls handle well overhead waves with style. Plus pool antics, ping pong, and plenty of dancing.

Super Cute Surfwear by Nikki Poulos

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Nikki Poulos is a fashion designer better known for her resort wear. But inspired by learning to surf a couple of years ago, she has designed a new line of super cute, super functional swim and surf wear. Her designs stay on in the surf while looking great! On a recent trip to El Salvador, the Surf With Amigas instructor team had a chance to test them out on some really fun waves.
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Advice from Marilyn on Surfing Past Age 60

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At Surf With Amigas we are always inspired by ladies who consider surfing and adventures to be lifelong pursuits. At 62, Marilyn Edwards is hot, fit, and very stylish on her surfboard. She published a womens surf magazine called Wahine for a few years in the late 90s and is very knowledgeable on the sport. In this video she gives some advice on staying young and shares some of her personal philosophy. Very inspiring!
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