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Take Your Surfing to the Next Level Within 30 Days, Using the 3 Most Misunderstood Technique Principles From Top Professionals

Core Surf Academy is built for intermediate and advanced surfers ready to become genuine experts — not just competent. Speed, power, and flow, leveraged with the most progressive biomechanical techniques in surfing, built to put you in the top 5% of surfers in the water.

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Here to take you to the next level within 30 days.

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01 // Who This Is For

This isn't a beginner's course.

If you're still finding your feet, this isn't your starting point — go catch more waves first. Core Surf Academy is built for surfers who can stand up in critical waves, do basic turns, and pump down the line to generate speed, but who've stalled out somewhere past that.

That's a technique problem, not a skill problem — and it's fixable fast, once you can actually see what you're doing wrong. That's what this fixes. Everything revolves around three things: Speed, Power and Flow — the same principles I use myself every single surf, or breaking down your session from Saturday morning.

02 // How We Teach

Three pillars. Every module ladders up to one.

01

Speed

Generating it off the bottom, carrying it through a section, not losing it in a turn. Speed is the raw material every other move spends — without it, nothing else on this list works.

02

Power

Committed, driven turns — using rail, body weight, and timing to hit a section with real force instead of just going through the motions. The difference between surfing a wave and styling on it.

03

Flow

Linking moves together, reading the wave a section ahead, making the whole ride look like one continuous idea instead of a list of separate tricks. This is what separates good surfers from great ones.

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03 // Your Coach

20 years in the water, and I'm still addicted to improving every single surf.

Founder of Core Surf Academy surfing a wave
Founder of Core Surf Academy holding a surfboard in a surf shop
Ed Waters

I've been surfing for over two decades, and for most of that time the surf has more or less run my life — where I lived, what I did for work, how I planned every trip I took. I've chased and ridden some of the best waves on the planet, competed along the way with a run of wins I'm still proud of, and spent over six years working inside the surf industry itself — selling thousands of boards, helping surfers at every level find the right dimensions for how they actually surf, and personally riding pretty much every shape, brand, and volume combination out there.

Here's the honest version: I'm a reasonable surfer, and very far from being at the top level — I've never pretended otherwise. But I've dedicated my whole life to surfing, and I know what separates being competent from being truly good. And what I've found is that it's never based on talent. It's the right technique that nobody has ever broken down for them properly.

I've coached a lot of people since then, from surfers just past the basics through to genuinely advanced surfers chasing that last 10%. Core Surf Academy is the system I built to do that properly, for people serious enough to put the work in. This is deliberately built for a small, committed group who want to reach their real ceiling and go surf the best waves on the planet with the skill to actually do them justice. I'm in this with you personally — not running you through a script.

20+ YrsIn the water
6+ YrsSurf industry, board sales
1000sBoards sold & fitted
GlobalWaves chased & ridden
Train under someone who's spent 20 years doing exactly this.
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04 // What's Inside

11 Techniques. 5 Disciplines. One System.

Every discipline follows the same breakdown: the mechanics, a slow-motion walk-through, the common faults at each level, land and in-water drills, which waves the move actually works on, and a spot to submit your own clip for feedback. No filler — just the technique, broken down properly.

01

Bottom Turns

The foundation every other move is built on — speed generation, rail engagement, line selection.

Foundation
02

Snaps

Weight transfer, pivot point, and finishing position under the lip.

Foundation
03

Carves

Rail-to-rail flow — drawn-out, powerful turns instead of a hard pivot.

Foundation
04

Roundhouses

Full-rotation cutbacks that connect one section of the wave to the next.

Intermediate
05

Floaters

Timing the section and flat-basing across whitewater and closeouts.

Intermediate
06

Down Carves

Coming off the top with control and setting up the next turn, not just surviving the last one.

Intermediate
07

Re-Entries

Reading the lip and using closeout sections instead of losing them.

Intermediate
08

Going Vertical

Approach angle and rail-to-rail transition while staying connected to the wave face.

Advanced
09

Laybacks

Commitment, hip drop, and hand placement on a fully committed rail move.

Advanced
10

Layback Snaps

The hybrid move — a layback entry finished with a snap.

Advanced
11

Getting Barrelled

Take-off positioning, stall technique, line through the tube, and exit timing.

Advanced

Bonus: Buying the Right Board

A standalone, five-unit course most surf brands never teach in this depth — length, width, thickness, and volume; rocker and concave; rail and tail shape; matching a board to your bodyweight, local waves, and skill level; and a capstone worksheet to bring specs to. Included free for every Core Lord.

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05 // The Offer

Everything you get as a Core Lord.

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Founding Core Lords keep this price locked in for as long as they stay members — even after it goes back to $97/mo.

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06 // Questions

Before you join.

I'm not that advanced yet — is this still for me?

If you can stand, angle a takeoff, and link a basic turn, yes. If you've never stood up on a board, start there first — this is a technique academy, not a beginner course.

How is this different from watching free surf tips on Instagram?

Free content gives you one fix for one fault. This is the entire system, in order, with drills, fault-spotting, and a place to actually get feedback on your own surfing — not just watch someone else's.

Do I need to be near you to get feedback?

No. Submit your clips inside the community and they get broken down there — wherever you surf.

Can I cancel?

Anytime, no contract. The launch price stays locked in only while you remain a member.

What if I'm already an advanced surfer?

Good — the later modules (Going Vertical, Laybacks, Layback Snaps, Getting Barrelled) are built exactly for the gap between advanced and expert.

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