Surf vacation Fuerteventura
Go on a surfing vacation on Fuerteventura.
Experience an unforgettable time on the Canary Islands.
Surf vacation Fuerteventura: Surfing with addictive potential!
A surfing vacation on Fuerteventura will make you fit, sexy and beautiful. It helps you to actively relax and is great for body and mind. Surfing also teaches you humility, brings new meaning to your life and boosts your self-confidence. But be careful, surfing is addictive!
1st surf vacation Fuerteventura: Surfing improves your health and surfing makes you fit & beautiful
Surfing trains your flexibility, endurance, strength and balance. The continuous full-body workout keeps you at a very high fitness level and keeps your body in top shape. As soon as you learn to surf, you will notice how many different muscle groups are used when surfing and how much strength and stamina you develop through extensive paddling. After just one week of learning to surf in a surf course, you will notice that your fitness level will improve considerably. The great thing is that you won’t even notice that you’re training, because surfing just feels easy, relaxed and fun. Time goes by super fast and you’ve already trained for a few hours and done something good for your body and mind.
Surfing definitely makes you fit and once you’ve had your first surf lesson, you’ll agree with me. Because the sore muscles that greet you the next day with your arms stretched out wide are – to put it mildly – super intense! You feel your muscles in all the places where you always thought you didn’t have any. You get to know muscles that you never thought were there. Surfing is a complete full-body workout. Whether you’re carrying your surfboard through the water at the beginning, paddling into the line-up, paddling into a wave, practicing your take-off or finally surfing along the green wave. All of this demands a lot from your muscles and stamina! The good thing about it? You usually don’t even notice it during the session because you’re so distracted by all the new experiences and fun in the water. You’ll notice the effects and your increasing fitness level over time.
In addition to the fitness mentioned above, which will positively change your body with regular exercise in the water, surfing also makes you beautiful from the inside out in its very own way. You’ll soon realize that the fun and small successes in the water that await you with every new session will put a bigger and bigger smile on your face. It may sound a bit trite, but it really is true that smiling and happy people radiate a very special beauty! You can also prepare for your surfing vacation on Fuerteventura at home with these exercises!
A happy surfer who comes out of the water after surfing simply looks and feels good.
2. surf vacation Fuerteventura: Surfing clears your head and is good for your mind
Doing something good for your mind happens all by itself when learning to surf. When learning to surf, you switch off your mind completely. You are completely in nature and only focused on how you need to behave in the water. You are completely in the moment.
How you fight your way through the white water, how you catch the next wave or that wonderful warmth that spreads through you when you sit in the line-up and stay there for a few moments – just looking at the sea!
You relax on your surfboard and let yourself be gently rocked by the sea. The sand beneath you, the sparkle of the clear water – you feel at ease here and think of nothing.
Whatever was bothering you before is washed away and a pleasant emptiness spreads through your mind. Nothing else has room in your head anymore.
3. surf vacation Fuerteventura: Surfing brings a new meaning to your life
Learning to surf can challenge you spiritually and inspire you to think. Many people feel inspired to think deeply or to let go simply by being in nature and in the element of water.
When you look at surfers sitting calmly on their boards in the sea, being lifted by the waves in a steady rhythm and gazing into the endless expanse of the ocean, it really does have a lot in common with meditation.
Surfing gives you a lot of time to think about yourself. You will automatically start thinking about yourself, life, nature and your purpose in this big picture. Big waves will make you realize how small you are and the constant coming and going of the waves will show you that nothing stays in this life and everything is constantly changing.
Learning to ride waves invites you to let go and can make you realize that the only true meaning in your life is the moment you are in.
4. surfing on a surfing vacation in Fuerteventura boosts your self-confidence
When surfing, you are confronted with yourself and your own abilities, strengths, limits and fears. As a result, you develop a very intensive relationship with your body when learning to surf and engage with it intensively. Not only with your body, but also with your mind.
During your development as a surfer, you will always experience moments when you think “I can’t do this” and are afraid of something. Fear is generally not a bad thing, but it shouldn’t paralyze you. In many of these moments, however, you will also learn to conquer your fear and convince yourself otherwise. So if, despite your fear, you try to learn to surf and thus laugh in the face of your fear and break your shackles, you will realize that you are also growing personally through this challenge. It will boost your self-confidence and give it a push! Fear and paralysis will disappear more and more and your self-confidence will take their place.
“Strengthen yourself mentally by surfing on a surf vacation”
Even out of the water, you will always remember this feeling of outgrowing yourself. Maybe the wave or the problem in everyday life wasn’t as big as you thought it would be and with your newfound self-confidence you surfed the wave all the way to the beach or solved the problem in everyday life.
When learning to surf, you will quickly notice where you have physical and mental deficits, what you can still work on and also what your strengths are. Surfing together with others shows you your own strengths and weaknesses. You can learn from others and you can help each other to grow. You increase your self-confidence and become stronger. This feeling of strength and courage remains even when you return from your surfing vacation. You take this newfound courage with you into your everyday life and that is one of the best feelings of all.
5. surfing is a stress killer and helps you become more patient
Surfing is more than just a sport, it’s a way of life. Hardly any other sport manages to captivate people as much as surfing. This is probably mainly due to the close connection between people and the element of water. You move forward in the water using pure muscle power and experience the concentrated power of the waves up close. Sitting outside in the line-up makes you forget all your exertions. You sit in the water and feel the gentle rise and fall of the swell. You hear the sound of the surf, feel the sun on your skin, the salt water in your eyes and the wind blowing through your hair. With a view of the horizon, you wait for the next set. A moment of calm, relaxation and slowing down sets in. It is not without reason that surfing is also referred to as a meditative sport. On the water, all worries and stress seem to disappear and all that matters is the here and now. Surfing therefore has a calming effect on your body and mind and reduces your stress levels.
But why does surfing help you become more patient, you ask?
Well, contrary to the assumption that as a surfer you spend most of your time on the board, in a session you surf perhaps just 5% of the total time you spend in the water. That sounds a bit sobering, doesn’t it? But relax, that’s part of it. You have to observe the sea and the waves and learn to read them. That takes a lot of time and patience. But you’ll soon realize that waiting for the next set and the next wave is an essential part of surfing and that these quiet moments in the line-up are something very special. Enjoy them and embrace the moment!
6. surfing is addictive
Surfing is addictive! … you should be aware of that. If you’ve had a few nice wave rides while learning to surf in the morning, you’ll definitely want to get back in the water after a short break in the afternoon!
Many surfers spend 4 to 6 hours a day in the water learning to surf without it feeling like strenuous training. Many surfing students even lose several kilos of weight during their surfing vacation and are amazed at the muscle growth and the new, sexy body feeling that comes with learning to surf. As soon as you get back home, you want more.
You’re looking for new travel destinations, focusing more and more of your vacation on surfing and your life is also starting to change more and more.
You’ll be looking for ways to surf on dry land – like surf skating or river surfing – and the surfer style will also find its way into little things in your home.
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7. a surfing vacation on Fuerteventura teaches you mindfulness and brings you back to nature
Mindfulness is almost a buzzword these days and is used in every context. Everyone wants to be mindful, but very few manage it. It is not so easy to be in the moment and to gather your thoughts completely in the here and now, as I have already described above.
Because that’s exactly what you’ll find when surfing! Here you are in the now. You experience the nature around you, the element of water very directly and become a part of it yourself with your surfboard. While waiting for the next wave, your thoughts are completely with you and in the moment.
You gather yourself and need exactly this concentration to move safely in the middle of the water and be in the right place when the next wave breaks.
Your everyday problems fade and fade into the background and the view of the horizon simply makes you stay with yourself and be mindful.
8. surfing teaches you humility – even on a surfing vacation on Fuerteventura
Surfing shows you how small you are! Surfing teaches you that you cannot control nature. Even if it sometimes seems to you that you can control nature, it will quickly show you who has the upper hand. Once in the washing machine please, once held under water for so long that you think you can’t breathe and you’ll know “where your place is!” again.
“You can’t stop the waves, you can only learn to surf them.”
It’s not up to you what happens, you have to let it happen and give up control. You have to accept the game with nature. You have to let go and trust that it will work. Take in all the magical beautiful moments and celebrate them appropriately, if you have had a bad day, don’t dwell on it, chalk it up to experience and start the next day with an open heart and look forward to what nature has in store for you. Realize that you are only a small part of a big whole, even if everything in your life seems to revolve around you.
9. surfing makes you flexible
Surfing helps you to become more flexible. No two sessions are the same, the ocean never shows the same face twice. When surfing, no two sessions are the same. Every ocean is different, every spot and ultimately every day is different and always produces new conditions and different waves. That makes you flexible!
Because you have to constantly adapt to new circumstances and adjust your behavior accordingly. Restricted thought patterns and ingrained routines won’t help you here.
By accepting the constant change in surfing, you can also react much more agilely in other situations in your life and face them flexibly.
Surf training also offers you the opportunity to become more flexible. Be it with yoga or certain breathing exercises. Let yourself be inspired!
10. on a surfing vacation in Fuerteventura you get out of your comfort zone and broaden your horizons
They say and science also proves that the power and energy of the ocean have a healing effect on the soul and spirit. Hardly any other element is as attractive as water. No wonder, since we ourselves are made up of over 70% water. A natural, innate feeling of connection with water is therefore only natural.
In addition, there is the magical interplay of nature, on which we as surfers are dependent – the state of the tides and thus the effect of the moon, the influence of the wind and the currents. And you are right in the middle of it all – as part of the whole.
11. surfing shows you new places and leads to new acquaintances
We know that traveling is often not about the place, but about the people you meet. At a surf camp, you can expect to be surrounded by like-minded people who all want the same thing: Surfing and having a good time together.
Meeting all kinds of different people is incredibly enriching. Everyone has something interesting or funny to tell or a special or new way of seeing things. In the surf community in particular, very relaxed and cosmopolitan people miraculously wash up on the same beaches time and time again. Here you are often on the same wavelength with many people despite their different backgrounds. At the end of your surfing vacation, you’ll share memories and perhaps make friends. You’ll always meet up twice in some line-up around the world!
“People who surf together, stay together.”
Besides the fact that you meet great people, surfing offers you another great side effect, namely that this passion takes you to many great and interesting places all over the world. Many surfers have only discovered and traveled to some of their favorite places because they heard or read somewhere that there are good surf spots there. That’s what surfing here on Fuerteventura could be like!
In addition to the scenic discoveries and the people at the surf camp, you will get to know many new cultures and people at the respective destinations.
We wish you lots of fun learning to surf and hope to welcome you on your surfing vacation in Fuerteventura soon!