Great time surfing with Ivan!
I had surfed a few times before with previous lessons but never with this company. My boyfriend had never surfed before. We were picked up more or less on time by the driver, driven to the surf shop, and introduced quickly to our teacher, Ivan, a lovely man who has lived in Oahu over 20 years. He gave us our gear, including two massive boards that we toted to the beach. We then had a lesson on the sand for about 15 minutes, then out to sea!
We enjoyed the surfing, though I was a bit afraid of the waves and thus Ivan toned it down until I was confident. Once I was, though, he took us out to where regulars were surfing, and we did more or less okay!
Our lesson was 2 hours long, and we are both in 8 out of 10 shape, but were both POOPED by then end - so I recommend that you keep the lesson length in mind with your own fitness!
I absoultely recommend no more than 2 or at most 3 people to an instructor so that noone holds the group back.
Ivan was a nice man and I felt he was low k
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Extreme Parasail & Jetski FUN!!!!
We enjoyed the parasailing and jetskiing combination very much.
I have to say, though, that since you are riding tandem at both activities, you would want to go with either a partner, or someone with whom you like ALOT as you are with them the whole time!
The parasailing took us up higher than the other boats, and that was awesome - really worth the extra cash. Our boat had a little bit of a problem on the way back and had to be towed in, but the staff were friendly, calm and helpful and resolved what was not their fault at all in a professional and relaxed manner that did not deduct form our enjoyment - in fact we got more time at sea!
The jetskiing was fun, except that one is limited to running the jetskis around two pontoon-type floats about 2 football fields in length apart. This is okay, but a little boring. For that I docked a star from uniqueness and enjoyment as well as the overall rating.
It would have been more fun to be able to go somewhere other than around in circ
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