Surfing Waves

Hello

I've surfed in various places, but still qualify as a beginner and always go with an instructor as I'm not experienced enough just yet to go out alone. So far, I've had one outstanding instructor, two good ones and a few mediocre to outright bad ones. Unfortunately, the bad ones were in Bali - where I am planning to go again for a week or two before heading on an extended SEA trip.

I was wondering if anyone here had first-hand experience with a surf camp on Bali that fulfills the following two criteria:
- good instructors
- not too much of a party place

Now, what I mean by good instructor is someone who actually teaches and helps you improve. I'm saying this as some of my previous instructors were a) more interested in surfing themselves rather than anything else, b) explained very little or nothing about the surfspots and c) did no teaching whatsoever, and who, once they realized you managed to stand on the board properly, just generally threw you into waves way too big and left you there to survive (and went further out to surf themselves). I'm not willing to pay for such "lessons" anymore. I've made massive progress with the one instructor that was really good, but that was not on Bali, unfortunately.

I would also be OK with just booking surf lessons and staying wherever, i.e. not in a surf camp, if the instructor is really good.

Any thoughts and ideas are appreciated.

Thanks & cheers, S.

Hi welcome Samaire, it has been a long time since I needed a surf school , in fact they hadn't been invented when I started.

I think I can help but maybe for everyone you could tell us the school with which you had the bad experiences. Bali is surf kook central and a lot of people want to party and think they want to surf.
Not your style well,so if you don't want to put the names of the camps up PM them to me. I have a couple of possibilities for you and I have another trip to Bali ( non surf) coming up so I can check, and hopefully help!
Jaffa

Thanks a ton jaffa, I'll send you a PM with the name (don't want to trash the place as apart from the mediocre instructing, it's actually a fantastic camp )