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4-Day Performance Intensive · Lost Shore + Coast
Advanced
Performance.
Refine your surfing under the microscope.
At this level, progress isn’t about more waves — it’s about precision. Four days of wave-pool reps, coastal application and frame-by-frame Kaizen Surf Lab analysis.
From
£595
Per surfer · £200 deposit to secure your place
No dates are open right now — register and we’ll email you the moment a cohort is scheduled.
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Level
Advanced
Group
Max 6
Duration
4-day intensive
Location
Edinburgh & UK coast
Good to great
is all margins.
When you already surf well, the gains hide in the details — a few frames of timing on a bottom turn, where your weight sits at the top of a wave, how cleanly you engage a rail. You can feel something’s off without ever seeing what.
Advanced Performance makes the invisible visible. We use the repeatable waves of Lost Shore to isolate and drill one variable at a time, capture it in Kaizen Surf Lab frame-by-frame, then take the refined mechanics to the open coast to prove they hold up.
Four days, max 6 per coach, finishing with a written performance report you keep.
“At this level you don’t need more waves. You need to see — exactly, frame by frame — what your best surfing and your average surfing are doing differently.”
— Reubin, RSJ Head Coach
Who it’s for
- Advanced surfers performing turns confidently in 2–6ft
- Surfers chasing precision, power and consistency — not basics
- Anyone who wants data on their surfing, not just opinions
- Competitors and serious free-surfers refining signature manoeuvres
The Difference
Every session,
in Kaizen Surf Lab.
Your footage is broken down frame-by-frame with a pose overlay — body position, timing, rotation, rail — alongside your coach’s detailed read. It turns “that felt wrong” into precisely what moved, and when.
Frame-by-frame
Step through the exact moment speed is made or lost.
Pose overlay
See your biomechanics mapped over your own surfing.
Ranked priorities
The few changes that move the needle most — in order.
The Four-Day Intensive
Pool to coast to report.
Day One
Baseline & the wave-pool lab
We open at Lost Shore. Identical, repeatable waves mean we can isolate one variable at a time — something the ocean never lets you do. Every wave is captured for Kaizen Surf Lab and we set your performance baseline.
- ✓Repeatable wave-pool reps — control the variables
- ✓Full-speed and slow-motion capture
- ✓Kaizen Surf Lab baseline & pose overlay
- ✓Your ranked priority list for the week
Day Two
Bottom & top turn under the microscope
The turns that define advanced surfing, rebuilt at the level of compression, timing and rail engagement. We work the precise frames where speed is made or lost.
- ✓Bottom-turn line, depth & compression
- ✓Top-turn timing & rotation
- ✓Rail engagement & drive
- ✓Frame-by-frame correction between sets
Day Three
Take it to the coast
Precision means nothing if it only works in a tank. Day three moves to the coast to apply the refined mechanics to real, shifting waves — reading sections and executing under pressure.
- ✓Transfer wave-pool gains to open ocean
- ✓Section reading & manoeuvre selection
- ✓Cutback variations & flow
- ✓On-water video throughout
Day Four
Refine, report & repeat
A final performance day to consolidate, plus your written RSJ performance report — biomechanics, ranked priorities and a training plan you keep. You leave knowing exactly what to drill next.
- ✓Consolidation & signature-manoeuvre work
- ✓Written performance report & ranked priorities
- ✓Personal training plan to take away
- ✓Kaizen Surf Lab access to revisit your footage
What’s Included
- ✓Four coached days — wave pool + coast where conditions suit
- ✓High-performance manoeuvre refinement & bottom / top turn and cutback approach
- ✓Every session analysed in Kaizen Surf Lab — biomechanics & frame-by-frame
- ✓Written performance report & ranked priorities
- ✓Daily 1:1 video feedback throughout
- ✓Small group — max 6 surfers per coach
- ×Accommodation — Edinburgh & coast options shared on booking
- ×Travel to Edinburgh / the UK coast
- ×Lost Shore wave-pool entry where applicable (confirmed per date)
- ×Wetsuit & performance board — bring your own, hire on request
Your performance report
A written document — biomechanical breakdown, ranked priority focus areas and a personal training plan — produced from your Kaizen Surf Lab footage. It’s the deliverable that turns four days into months of directed improvement.
What you’ll leave with
Measurably sharper bottom and top turns — verified on camera, not by feel
Mechanics proven in the wave pool and applied on the open coast
A written performance report with ranked priorities
Kaizen Surf Lab footage and a training plan to keep drilling after the week
The level where
coaching pays for itself.
Past a certain point, surf trips stop improving your surfing — you just repeat what you already do, in nicer waves. The ceiling isn’t water time; it’s feedback precise enough to act on.
Advanced Performance is the investment that resets that ceiling: four days of controlled, measured, frame-accurate coaching and a report you’ll return to all season. It’s what separates surfers who get better from surfers who just get older.
Frequently Asked
Surf under the microscope.
From £595 · dates announced soon — register your interest below.
Coaching Notes
Progress you can
actually measure.
A monthly note on structured progression — what to work on, in what order, and how to know it is working.