SOUTHERN CAPE NEWS - Waves School of Surfing and the renowned Kenako Golf and Sports Academy have joined forces to offer an all-inclusive surf training camp.
Known as the South African Surfing Academy (SASA), the first of its kind, it will take place from 30 March to 2 April.
Kenako is based outside George, where the base will be set up. Surfing will take place wherever the waves are best in the area: Mossel Bay, Vic Bay and Herold's Bay.
"The camp will offer the Waves School of Surfing (WSS) coaching programme and much, much more," Llewellyn Whittaker of WSS said.
"It will be a full four days of surfing… of learning and improving surfers' skills and techniques.
"The goal is to expose surfers to what it takes to be a world-class surfer, an attitude that can be applied into all aspects of life," he said.
Whittaker, who has been involved in high performance coaching camps since 2008, has a dream and passion to increase the depth of junior surfing in South Africa and felt that this association with one of the top golfing academies in the world was the perfect evolutionary next step.
"With any business, you try to improve what you're doing and how you're doing it. I was looking into buying a house and setting up a surfing academy with the emphasis on education, so while [children] were doing their schooling their focus could be surfing and all the elements that make for a great surfer," he explained.
