The World's Best Beginner Surf Destinations (8 Bucket List Spots)!! 

I’m really grateful.

awesome informative video. thanks

Dude! I've been waiting for this video and it comes at the perfect time. Doing a working holiday visa in AU starting next year and making stops in both CR and NZ along the way to mix in some surfing as well as find a spot in AU where I can work/surf. I learned to surf in Nosara, CR this year and became addicted, proabaly a more beginner friendly break than Santa Teresa. Good thing about Santa Teresa is you can go north to Playa Hermosa where I surfed for about a week, less crowded and more mellow waves. Rainy season brought some bigger swells to Santa Teresa that I couldn't handle as a beginner. You could also go a bit south to Playa Carmen, found it a bit easier there as well. Love your channel bro, the content and information you provide is superb. Keep on making videos because you are a great resource and giving real value to people. Cheers 🤙

Spot on. I started my surfing life in 1988 in Newquay. Surfed there best part of my life. Now live in nz papamoa just down from mount Maunganui. Long flat spells. I was on Gold Coast just this weeks and yes surfed D bar. Although 3 to 4 ft not a learners break nor is snapper due to the crowds really

You must come to Brazil and check Pipa and Itacaré!! :)

I would add some beginner destinations in my country, Spain, like El Palmar in the south and Somo in the north. They are intermediate spots as well, depending on of the season, for sure.Cheers!

Cool lil breakdown, living at the mount I agree a great place to learn to surf, but you forgot Wales! 😂

lol my surf school was my Dad telling us boogie boards are for little kids and to paddle out with the adults in the middle of nowhere Baja. Great surf spot tho and I won’t say the location lol. If ya know ya know

What do you think about Sagres? Do you think is suitable for a beginner/intermediate?

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Love the video, surfing/bodyboarding has always just been a holiday activity for me. I have had many ago in Cornwall (mostly Newquay) and never made it to st Ives. I have had a go in the Algarve also and would say that's also a great beginners spot (I think) we lovely beaches like Zavial on the south and arrifana on the west etc Would love to go somewhere more tropical, Costa Rica looks lush, might look in to Ecuador also. Sri Lanka also looks nice, tho I know that has some political issues recently. Is there a good option in the Caribbean as somewhere slightly closer? Unfortunately the likes of Oz and New Zeland are out for me, couldnt visit places like that with those Tyrannical dictators in place. (Our unelected PM isn't alot better is no he)

just be careful with this list. for many beginner beaches, you need PERFECT conditions or it's either dead flat or a bunch of messy chop, neither of which is surfable, not even as whitewater. important things to remember about lists like these: - "small town with hippie/backpacker vibes" almost always means drugs, bars, and sex workers. loud partying, puke on the streets, frat dudes running around until dawn, people having sex on the beach...pretty much zero law and order. be VERY careful in places like these, especially if you want to bring your kids. i've been to Sayulita (mexico), and it's a lot grimier than somewhere like Tamarindo (costa rica). - hostels are either amazing, or disgusting pest holes. i've seen hostels nicer than some hotels, and hostels that are literally crawling with bedbugs, cockroaches, mice, ants, termites, and critters of every description. sometimes the residents aren't much better...drug addicts, alcoholics, nutbars, thieves, creepos, just generally seedy types you wouldn't want to share a room with, and a lot of hostels don't have places to stash your stuff safely. be VERY VERY careful about hostels, and don't let the low price fool you. you know you can easily bring bedbugs home in your luggage, right? and you'd never see them until weeks after you returned.... - like above, be a little careful about "genuine" and "authentic" places unless you're a veteran traveler (at least outside of Europe), because that often means there's probably no nearby hospital, you probably can't drink the water, there may be angry or pushy locals, the ocean and rivers might be polluted with sewage (Sayulita), it can take many hours over rough roads to get to the hotel from the airport....just do a LOT of research before zipping off to middle-of-nowhere Ecuador. some places really are still "developing", and if you and your family aren't prepared, you can get really scared out there. you can feel very vulnerable, and you ARE vulnerable. - nothing ruins a good trip like Montezuma's Revenge. if you've never had it, you'll KNOW when it hits, because it'll feel like nothing you've ever felt before. you have about 10 seconds before disaster strikes, and it lasts for days, up to a week. be damn careful about what you eat and where. you can always try to research in advance online whether the food/water are safe. if you're going to a rough place, just be aware that you're almost definitely going to get the Revenge no matter how careful you are. plan accordingly, or avoid places that are too far off the beaten path. there's absolutely nothing wrong with staying in your comfort zone when you travel, especially if you're new to this and/or you're bringing the kids. most modern hotels have clean water and safe food, because they have their own purification system, make their own ice, etc. - stop worrying about sharks. seriously, like 4 people WORLDWIDE get killed by sharks each year. you're not going to see a shark, let alone become its dinner. i've known guys who've surfed central california and south africa for 30 years and have never, ever seen a shark out there, and those are some of the sharkiest surfing spots in the world. STOP WORRYING and have fun. and be careful about the seasons, certain beaches are huge in summer but tiny in winter or vice versa, and remember, the ocean is FICKLE. just because one spot is 1' today doesn't mean a swell can't hit and be 7' tomorrow. Pipeline is flat without swell too, but look at how big it gets when it's firing!!! with surf travel you gotta be realistic. be ready because someday, you're gonna book your dream trip and it's either gonna be breaking at 10' and gnarly, or it'll be pouring rain all week, or it'll be deadass flat the whole trip. remember the old saying: "you shoulda been here yesterday!!". the ocean is a living body, and it goes through changes. try to stay positive if the surf is dead when you get there, because there are always other things to see and do!!

Santa Teresa is NOT a good beginner place, and it is overrun already. Very hard to get to and get out. Rough and not comfortable for many travelers. Loud road in front. It is for Hardcore surfers not beginners. You could have picked many better places for beginners in CR. Most of the places you chose are expensive to travel to for USA people, your list applies to British surfers or EU surfers.

Way to blow it up smh