In surfing the main obstacle to a quick learning success consists in the extremely short time a surfer actually spends upright on his surf board gliding down the waves, compared to the time he paddles and waits for them.
The time-ratio between pure surfing and paddling/waiting, for a professional surfer on a perfect, consistent, totally crowd-free day (and you don't get such days too often...) ranges somewhere between 4% and 8%
While this, for a beginner surfer trying to catch real (unbroken) waves in the outside, this ratio ranges below 1% of the time spend in the water.
In short, there's almost no time to practice...

Surfing involves plenty of complex techniques. Most of the body movements applied in our sport are completely strange to a "normal" human body used to walking on firm underground rather than on water...
This refers specially to paddling, but also to standing up on a board, and turning.
In consequence, beginners, especially adult beginners, generally get quickly used to wrong body movements while trying to learn how to surf auto-didactically.
Those wrong techniques in most cases over time develop into serious impediments to any further technical improvements. So those surfers mostly just miss the best part of surfing: long rides, speed and turning.

Due to the constantly and quickly changing behavior of each individual wave, the surfer needs to be able to react and apply multiple techniques very fast in order to "make" the wave.

Normally there is not much time to think about trying out something new during a ride.

Since the school was founded in 1997 and based on the official teaching program of the Australian Surfriding Association, EasyDrop has developed its own complete surf teaching program, always focusing on these main problems and their systematic compensation.

To develop our current teaching techniques, in first place we have been carefully analyzing all techniques involved in surfing. Then we split and organize them in easy to learn single steps.
Initially, these steps are taught independently one from each other, though in the correct didactic order.
Whenever possible we first teach each new surfing technique on land, as pure body movement, then on longboards in broken waves (white water), where the number of actually surfed waves is much greater than in the outside (unbroken waves).
And only once our students feel comfortable with those techniques in the white wash we start taking them out into the real surf where they now have a real chance to realize all previously learned techniques, with ease and the right timing required by a a real unbroken wave to be surfed gracefully.

The two very technical resources that in the 10 years of our school existence have shown the great importance are communication in real time and visualization of the executed techniques. EasyDrop uses therefore special gear making all the difference: camcorders and aquatic transmitter radios. The video filming allows for analysis and detailed revision of each wave surfed by a student. The radio guarantees perfect communication between students/instructors in the outside and instructors on the beach, allowing for immediate feedback after each surfed wave.

The instructors technical formation and the accumulated experience in training competitors and in the arbitration of surf championships is another strong point of the EasyDrop team. All EasyDrop instructors hold advanced surf technician certifications (level 2) of the Surfing Australia Inc program. We also have three judges certified under CBS (the Brazilian Surf Confederation).

EasyDrop is also involved in the main surf events in town, supporting competitions and sponsoring surfers. We are active in the Surf Association of Itacaré and the Itacaré Surf Club, developing training programs for surfers with the methods used in the school, mainly through the creation of individual goals, filming and analysis close to the athletes.