Surfing
A dedicated surf school with professional surf instructors offers escorted surf sessions and clinics for experienced surfers as well as lessons for beginners.
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Four Seasons Resort Maldives at Kuda Huraa Surf School
Adopt an entire ocean lifestyle at our Surf School, run by professionals from Tropicsurf of Noosa, Australia. Learn in the pristine lagoon with courses for guests aged six and older, or let loose on six uncrowded quality breaks within a stone’s throw. Enjoy easy take-offs and long rides in some of the world’s most consistent and warmest swells. Then head to the Surf Shack to store your board, watch the latest surf movie or just hang out. The best waves occur all year round for beginners and from April to October for experienced surfers.
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Tropicsurf courses
Dream program for beginners
Learn the essentials in the calm waters of Kuda Huraa’s lagoon before hitting the waves. No prior experience is required, though reasonable fitness is important. Progress to level one, which qualifies you to venture onto the breaks – and hopefully experience the thrill of gliding across your first wave.
Daily surfs
Two different boat trips each day take surfers to the biggest, hollowest waves in the morning, followed by smaller, easier waves in the afternoon. Your guide is also an expert coach so please ask if you’d like some tips to get yourself ripping sooner.
Ride clinic (coaching)
For those serious about taking their surfing to the next level, Tropicsurf’s 10-step program will increase knowledge, confidence and wave count. Twenty years in the making, this is a world-class improvement program. Combined with some perfect Kuda Huraa surf, you’ll never get a better opportunity to start ripping it up.
Stand-up paddle
This course is an enjoyable, subtle workout that improves balance, endurance and core strength. View marine life and golden sunsets in the calm lagoon. Suitable for all; no experience required.
Perfect Wave: one-day seaplane "surfari"
Discover incredible secret spots and surfing nirvana aboard a private seaplane charter to the outer atolls. This is the ultimate ride.
Four Seasons Explorer
A seven-day Tropicsurf "surfari" aboard luxurious liveaboard Four Seasons Explorer is the fantasy surfing trip of a lifetime. Departing from Kuda Huraa and visiting rarely surfed breaks in the outer atolls, each tour – shared or privately chartered – is accompanied by two Tropicsurf guides, allowing group members to split across different breaks in keeping with their individual abilities.
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Top surf sites
Four Seasons Resort Maldives is located only a few minutes' boat ride from some of the best surf breaks, described below.
Sultans (Thamburudhoo Right) – Located on an uninhabited island on the eastern reef of North Malé Atoll, this is one of the most consistent waves of Malé Atoll, and never closes out, even on the biggest swells. The takeoff is a steep outside peak called Phantoms, which slingshots into a very long, walled, super-fast section called the Pinnacles, over 1 metre (4 feet) high. All three sections can be thrilling tubes. Rides are 91–137 metres (298–449 feet).
Honky’s (Thamburudhoo Left) – Adjacent to Sultans on the eastern reef of the North Malé Atoll, this break starts small and increases in size and intensity as it wraps 90 degrees around the island. A 1.8-metre (6-foot) wave on the takeoff ends up at least 2.4 metres (8 feet) on the end section, called Fred’s Ledge. There are long rides and tubes through all sections – best on low tides unless the swell is huge. The best months for this wave are February, March and April (it is affected by strong currents in the southwest monsoon from May to October).
Chickens – Named after a poultry farm on the island, Chickens is located at Villingilimathi Huraa (Kuda Villingili), another uninhabited island on the eastern reef of North Malé Atoll. When conditions are perfect, it is a pleasant thin, peeling, racing lip.
Daily boat rides to surf breaks are available for the competent surfer. Your experience can also be recorded on video for posterity.
