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TONIC | SURF SCHOOL SPOTLIGHT WALKIN ON WATER SURF SCHOOL Name: Walkin On Water Surf School Services: Walkin’ On Water Surf School is the Gold Coast’s Premier Surf School. We are located at Greenmount Beach in Coolangatta and use the beautiful beaches of Rainbow Bay, Greenmount and Coolangatta, which are ideal beaches for all levels of surf lesson. We offer group and private lessons for all ages and abilities having taught people from 4 years old to those in their 80’s. We provide instruction and coaching to all level of surfing from the never ever beginners to those already surfing to a high standard and wanting to improve whether this be for competition surfing or purely for their own personal enjoyment and progression. We are a leading provider of the fantastic kids’ grass roots programs, the Vegemite SurfGroms Program. We also offer school surfing programs, children’s birthday parties, family surf lessons, corporate sessions, squad programs, Team Coaching and squad training. We are blessed with an amazing location for beginners and early intermediates especially having protected rolling waves, perfect for getting the basics and learning in gentle forgiving waves. It is renowned as the ideal learn to surf location on the Coast. Those with greater experience and skills also have fantastic wave opportunities to work on all levels of surfer.Combined with our comprehensive lesson plans, all our Surf Instructors are professional fully qualified Surfing Australia or International Surfing Association surf instructors that are handpicked for their skills, knowledge and experience and importantly are able to successfully pass on this knowledge and information to our surf participants in an extremely fun, friendly and nonthreatening environment. All our Instructors also hold a number of lifesaving/lifeguard and first aid qualifications to ensure as safe an environment as possible. Location: We are based at Greenmount Beach, Coolangatta, renowned as an ideal learn to surf location on the Gold Coast Instructors: All our professional surf instructors are fully qualified Surfing Australia or International Surfing Association Surf Instructors and also hold a number of lifesaving, lifeguarding and emergency care qualifications to maximise safety and participant wellbeing. We ensure all our lessons are comprehensively structured to ensure all our participants have a sensational time while surfing with us, learn a lot, have a heap of fun and do it all in a safe and non-threatening environment and relaxed atmosphere. Background: We take a holistic approach to our operation and teaching methodology. Our lessons have been comprehensively structured and the delivery tailored to encompass a large amount of information from a wide spectrum of fields and melded together so our participants can learn a lot in a very simple and easy to understand way. All of our lessons include verbal explanations, visual demonstrations and then practice firstly in a closed environment (for example on the beach for our beginners) before increasing the variables and pract