Costa Rica Surf Central Pacific Jaco

Central Pacific of Costa Rica Surf : The best season is also during September to March. Even if is a little smaller you will get the best conditions. The waves can be very powerful in some places like Playa Hermosa. This region catches swells from north to south and rarely flat. The rainy season is usually a lot bigger. The waves in the Central Pacific region are consistent especially during the rayni season. All kinds of beach brakes and reef breaks can be found along this area.

JACO BEACH:

Jaco Beach is the mecca for surfing in Costa Rica for so many reasons. For tourists, the town is only 2 hrs drive from San Jose, making it fast and easy to hit the water. Even with its long beach and reef brakes located on the edge of a community boasting a wide range of tourist attractions, surf shops, ding repair facilities, hotels, beach condos, cabinas, campgrounds and restaurants for all budgets, Jaco is a strategic point for surfers to launch closeby excitement, challenging and consistent surf spots. For that reason, most of the country's proffessional, champion and aspiring notable surfers have made their homes here. In addition, the town boasts a dynamic party atmosphere to compliment its reputation as one of Costa Rica's most visited surf towns.

Jaco Beach and Hermosa y Diego Naranjo.

Diego Naranjo is the owner of Surf Camp Jaco Beach, part of the Costa Rica Billabong camps where he gives class to beginers up to prffessional surfers, of all edges from 5 to 65 years old.

Also 2006 National Champio 2007 runner up at mixed pipe in Puerto Escondido Mexico.

Central Pacific:

The beaches to surf around here are Hermosa, Jaco, Herradura, Escondida, Punta Leona, Roca Loca, Isla Damas, Esterillos este, Oeste and Centro. The best season for all this spots goes from May to mid October, in all the central pacific. At low tide the best beaches are Roca Loca, Herradura, Punta Leona and Damas.

As all these spots are beach brakes the depend on the rayni season, during which you can surf in high and low tide.

"Jaco is a beach that only work with south swells that you can surf at middle in high tide. It os for all kinds of levels from beginers to proffessionals, and the size ranges form 1 feet to 6 feet".

"Playa Hermosa is of intermediate level and proffessional depending of the rain and of the tme of the year you can surf it all day, low tide middle and high, and there are from 1 to 10 -12 feet. It s very sensitive to south swells west and a little from the North".

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Jaco City:

Jaco Beach is a small city slowly expandinf where you find all kind of services: supermarkets, restaurants, banks, cash machines, drugstores and many other facilities.

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Costa Rica Surfing Tips

COSTA RICA SURF LESSONS

Basic Surfing Tip #1: SurfboardsLet's start with the obvious: Surfboards are made to float on the water. They have a natural center of gravity. If you were to lay any surfboard in a swimming pool, it would come to rest the same way every time. This is what we want to do when you lay on a surf board. That is to have the board remain in the same relation to the water as it was without your weight on it, just a bit lower in the water. A good tip is to find this balance point and lay on your board then make, a mark right at your chin. This is a spot is best made with a bit of wax or a magic marker. It is a reference point that enables you to put your chin on the same spot every time so the board will react to your weight the same way every time.
If the board's nose digs into the water it is called pearling and you must move the location of "your chin" back. To adjust, just slide back an inch from the mark and make a mental note.
Too much weight in the back and the board will cork the board. This is a common mistake amongst beginners. You cannot catch a wave if you are corking your board. Move up an inch at a time till the board lies in the water naturally. This will provide you with the maximum hull speed and minimum drag from the water displacement that you are causing with your weight.

Basic Surfing Tip #2: Paddling your SurfboardDo not paddle with both arms simultaneously because this will cause the board to speed up and slow down in the water and you will not be able to maintain constant hull speed through the water.
Always paddle with the crawl stroke; one arm and then the other alternatively. This will provide you with a constant speed so you can catch that wave.

Basic Surfing Tip #3: Sitting on your SurfboardOk, so now we know how to lie on the board and paddle the board. Now it's time to learn how to sit on the board. The first time try this you may be quite wobbly. The key to doing this well is being calm, or trying to be still. The less movement that you make the easier you will find it is to do this. All the other skills of surfing will improve as you learn to be "calm" while surfing.

Basic Surfing Tip #4: Standing on your SurfboardNow it's time to learn how to stand up. This is something you have been doing all your life. Lie on your chest, your head up, looking ahead. Put your hands on the board beside your shoulders palms down like you were going to do a push up. Push your upper body up while at the same time you sweep your feet under you, laying them on the stringer, the line down the middle of the board, so your weight is centered along the stringer.
When you come up, remember to keep low. If you stand erect you will fall. Assume a position of a sumo wrestler. Press your feet shoulder width apart and "grip the board in your feet", opposite of the way you would press your thighs together on a horse. Have your hands a bit higher than your waist and just in view of your vision. Always look up! If you look at your feet, you will fall down. I promise!
Practice this for hours. Have someone watch you and have them critique your performance. Practice jumping up without making a sound on the floor. Calm and controlled is the smoothest way to approach this so practice doing it quietly. If you have a surfboard, lay it on a large bed or in the sand and do this exercise. This is a way for you to judge your ability to be controlled.