Cornwall · November to March · Season 2026/27

The Winter
Performance Lab.

Most surfers lose four months a year to short days and onshore wind. This is where you don't. Indoor sessions in Newquay built around one idea — that the turn you can't do in the water is a movement you can rehearse on land until your body stops arguing with it.

Why train
indoors.

Because repetition is what changes movement, and a Cornish winter does not hand out repetitions. In a two-hour beach session you might ride fifteen waves and attempt a turn on eight of them. In ninety minutes on a hall floor you will rehearse that same turn two hundred times, filmed, with someone correcting you between each one. Then you take it back to the water and it is already there.

Every session here is filmed, and every clip goes into Kaizen Lab — our own frame-by-frame analysis tool — so you can see the difference between week one and week six instead of taking our word for it.

The programmes

Six ways into the winter, for adults and for groms. Kit is provided on all of them. RSJ members get their membership discount on every one.

Adult1h 30mMax 8Weekly

The Dojo

Six weeks rebuilding one turn at a time, indoors.

  • 6 × 90-minute coached sessions, max 8 people
  • Surfskate provided, or bring your own
  • Every rep filmed, clips in Kaizen Lab within 24 hours

Dates announced soon

Details

£150

per 6-week block

Adult + Youth2 hoursMax 6FortnightlyFlagship

The Launch Pad

Learn to leave the water and land on your feet. Indoors.

  • 2 hours, six people, air track and kicker setup
  • Progression ladder from first pop to first grab
  • Every attempt filmed and played back on the spot

Dates announced soon

Details

£45–£160

per session

Adult + Youth2 hoursMax 10Monthly

The Proving Ground

Concrete teaches what a flat floor cannot.

  • Exclusive private hire — no public session to work around
  • Transition, pump and off-the-lip coaching on surfskate
  • Filmed from two fixed angles, clips to Kaizen Lab

Dates announced soon

Details

£55

per session

Youth1h 15mMax 10Weekly

Grom Dojo

Keep them improving through the months they'd otherwise lose.

  • 6 × 75-minute sessions, 1:10 coaching ratio
  • All kit provided — nothing to buy
  • A weekly clip of your child sent to you

Dates announced soon

Details

£96

per 6-week block

Youth1h 30mMax 8Weekly

The Whetstone

Arrive at the spring season sharper than the kids who waited for waves.

  • 6 × 90-minute indoor performance sessions
  • 1 × Launch Pad air session built into the block
  • 1 × coached beach session with live in-water feedback

Dates announced soon

Details

£180

per 6-week block

Adult + Youth5 hoursMax 12School holidays

The Hangar

Everything, in one day.

  • 5 hours, four stations, full rotation
  • Air track session included
  • Video analysis block with individual feedback

Dates announced soon

Details

£85–£110

per day

Remote · Anywhere in the world

The Loop

Four waves a month, reviewed frame by frame in Kaizen Lab against the same six markers, returned inside 48 hours with one thing to work on.

Position, movement, speed, rail, timing, flow — the same six every time, so progress is comparable month to month. Nothing to buy, nowhere to be, works from anywhere in the world. This is the product that keeps earning when it is dark at four and the forecast is onshore for a fortnight.

Sharpen

£39per month

  • 4 clip reviews per month
  • Annotated video reply in Kaizen Lab within 48 hours
  • One focus area set per month
  • Season archive, side by side
  • Cancel any month

Forge

£79per month

  • Everything in Sharpen
  • 20-minute coaching call each month
  • Written monthly development plan
  • Priority review turnaround

The Loop is a monthly membership, not a one-off booking. It opens to RSJ's existing members first — register your interest and we'll tell you the moment it's live, or see the current membership tiers.

What 90 minutes looks like

The Dojo, week three — the week we take the cutback apart.

  1. 0–15 minMobility and activation, week's cue introduced
  2. 15–50 minSurfskate arc work, filmed, played back between sets
  3. 50–75 minStrength block — rotational and leg drive
  4. 75–90 minVideo review as a group, homework set

Where

The hall, Newquay

Home for the weekly programmes and the air work. Warm, dry, lit, and fifteen minutes from most of the town. Exact venue confirmed on booking.

Mount Hawke Skatepark, Porthtowan

The largest indoor park in the South West, hired privately once a month for The Proving Ground. Transitions and banks a flat floor can't give you.

The beach

Where it all has to work. Whetstone athletes get a coached water session with live in-water feedback inside their block.

Before you book

Not sure which one?

Tell us where you're stuck and we'll tell you honestly which of these will move it — or whether none of them will.

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The Winter Performance Lab is RSJ's indoor and dryland surf training collection for November to March: six-week surfskate blocks for adults (The Dojo) and children (Grom Dojo), an indoor air-training session (The Launch Pad), private skatepark hire at Mount Hawke (The Proving Ground), a selective youth comp-prep block (The Whetstone) and school-holiday intensives (The Hangar). Every session is filmed and analysed in Kaizen Lab. Newquay, Cornwall.