Serving San Diego, Del Mar, Solana Beach, Cardiff by the Sea, Encinitas, Leucadia, Carlsbad and Oceanside Since 2002
We are closed for surf lessons temporarily, but that does not mean that you cannot surf this summer. HERE IS OUR BEACH LESSON, SO YOU CAN TRY TO SURF ON YOUR OWN : HOW TO SURF GUIDE Surf schools have only been around for 20 years or so, and we were one of the first. … Continue reading Learn to surf without a surf school during the covid times.
Surf Camp from summer of 2011! At Moonlight Beach. We used to make a video of every week of summer surf camp.
Above: Early hat logo, country-western theme, for no good reason, other than I always liked the skull and cactus icon for the desert. Below, our first rack card, made on a home computer and cut out with scissors.
This was an article in the Coast News, the local newspaper for north county coastal.
Leucadia Surf School owner Gerry Kantor and his brother Phil Kantor in this early contest at La Jolla Shores. Shot originally in 8mm, from the collection of Kantor family home movies.
My father, standing on the right. Airforce bomber crew during WWII, was shot down over Germany during the war. He jumped out with a parachute, was captured by the Germans and put into in a POW camp, and lived to tell the tale, and take me and my brothers to the beach and teach us about the ocean and waves when we were little kids. Born into it because my father survived WWII.
Dwain Kantor, father of Leucadia Surf School owner Gerry Kantor, in 1946 San Diego Lifeguards Group photo.
People often ask me where is my favorite place to surf. And I have to say, that I have a favorite place AND TIME to surf, which is the Bay of Biscay, a spot called Boucou, in the 1970's in France. Boucou means (phonetically anyway) "very much." This place we called Very Much. It was … Continue reading Way Back in Time at the Bay of Biscay
We have been in business a long time. We used to make a video of every surf camp. We don't anymore, but we have all the videos still of years gone by. This one from way back in the summer of 2011 when we had just moved our camp from Grandview, to Moonlight Beach.
Sid Madden grew up right up the street from Swamis, and was a super star of local surfers, though a very humble guy, and always friendly to all.I have been getting surfboards from him since the 1970s, and now have three. (In the 1970's, I used to get rounded pintails from him. I probably got … Continue reading Sidney Madden – Encinitas original