Surf
Camp
Los Angeles
Get a full week in July or August for $375!
Call, text, or book the deal online!
We offer full weeks, half weeks, and half days. Check below for all prices.
Check around. We are LA's least expensive summer surf camp option!
What you should know!
All this info is in more detail below, but here's a quick summary if you don't feel like scrolling.
Prices: all charted here at the bottom of the page.
- please meet us by our vehicle (VW bus or big red utility pickup, each say Badass Surf School on them)
- we will have two marked tents on the beach close by!
- handy to know in case you're running late
- find a pin on the map below on this webpage!
All surf gear; boards, wetsuits, leashes. Zinc/ sunscreen. Plenty of shade under our tents, snacks.
Lunch, towel, bathing suit (or something tight to wear underneath wetsuit) full + cold reusable water bottle, hat or bucket hat (optional but recommended).
surf (duh), swim, play sports, playground games, beach activities, art, ocean education & safety, etc. Find more in the next section--we are plenty imaginative!
Why Surf Camp LA for your kid's summer camp?
BASS Founder Jake McNulty here. I am a surf therapist for A Walk On Water, Life Rolls On, Pure Stoke, and The Jimmy Miller Foundation. I am also a high school surf coach at local Pacifica High School in Santa Monica; I coach kids each year under the guidance of the Positive Coaching Alliance. At this summer surf camp, I am not just a typical instructor.
At my summer surf camp in 2024, your child is getting more than a conglomerate cookie-cutter experience. With 12 years experience teaching, coaching, and healing, you are getting the best from my teammates and me that you'll find at any summer camp at the beach, period.
We are not some day care like other summer surf camps at the beach. Surf Camp Los Angeles put surf education FIRST, preparing your child for the real deal.
With this in mind, we came up with the perfect, fun, and loose structure for our summer surf camp.
Perfect Structure? Elaborate.
Surf Camp LA = surf coaching + surf therapy. Plus tons of extras. That's it!
Surf Coaching: What we do for adult surfers, we also do for kids, because we know children are smart and capable. This is the main aspect of our equation that separates our surf school's camp from our competitors. We're a surf SCHOOL. Ocean education is at the top of our platform for kids—we want each person prepared and passionate to take on this sport for life, no matter what age.
Surf Therapy: One of the greatest strengths at Surf Camp LA is the experience we have teaching surfers with unique needs. We have developed extra patience, love, compassion, and care that you won't see at other camps. We go at your child's pace, encourage them at every step, and even when they struggle, become their biggest cheerleaders while they take on the challenges of surfing head-on.
Our summer surf camp approach? It's just different.
We develop personal relationships at our beach camp first. We discover your child's abilities, learn their inhibitions, and coach them up to THEIR fun, unique style of surfing.
Our summer camp gives power to kids through surfing. We stride to foster inquisitive, curious, imaginative, creative, logical, vulnerable, proud, and self-assured children, who learn to just love this damn sport.
Besides with surfing, your child's favorite activities are just as important; we are a summer camp, too! We have countless games, sports, and activities ready to go, and so many(!) to make sure we've got your kiddo's favorite things at the beach covered. Just in case you didn't see them on the about page, here they are again!
Boogie boarding, countless sports, like wiffle ball, hand-beach basketball, ultimate frisbee, spikeball, kickball, touch football, beach soccer, bowling, sports we make up together with a beach ball, freeze tag, relay races, beach board games, trivia contests, pickleball tournament, card five-minute-best-sandcastle contests, making reels, musical towels, beach legos, beach cleanups, floating surfboard bridge on smaller surf days, scavenger hunts, pretend adventure world with toys for the smaller kids, beach tug-o-war, watercolor painting in the shade, surfboard wax art, and more.
Our summer surf camp at Venice Beach will get your child EXCITED about surfing. For. Life.
BASS instructors and are all certified by the ISA, LACO Lifeguards, or another similarly respected organization to make sure your child is not only safe, but learning how to grow into a real, talented surfer. And not just that, their personalities are perfect for being mentors for your child. I promise your grom will have fun, develop love and respect for the ocean, and seriously learn the steps to ripping on a board at Surf Camp LA!
Close to LACO Lifeguard
Tower #19 @ Venice Beach
Right at the end of Venice Blvd, between the Venice Fishing Pier and the Breakwater! Close to LACO Lifeguard Tower #19
Have questions? Contact Us.
Here are some FYI's
Surf Camp LA: Times
Full Weeks
M:F, 9am-2:30pm
Full Days
M-F, 9am-2:30pm
Week of Half Days
M-F, all 9am-11:45am or all 11:45am-2:30pm
Half Days
M-F, 9am-11:45am or 11:45am-2:30pm
*note: we can be flexible on pickup & dropoff times with notice!
Surfboards, wetties, rashguards, leashes provided. The only surf school to custom-shape our boards!
All staff CPR + first-aid. Our #1 job? To keep you safe! We also never operate without liability insurance.
Our camp goers are educated while the fun goes on with guest speakers, daily lesson plans, etc.
We use as many instructors as necessary, sometimes even 1:1 or 2:1.
We know the LACO guards personally, and we never teach without them on site.
We offer half-day, full day, weekly, and a number of other packages that fit your busy schedule.
BASS Price Guide
We are a permitted surf school
All surf camp prices include required fees and surcharges (20% all gross) we pay to the city of Los Angeles as per our 2024 summer camp use permit.
Quality snacks daily, and lunches on the days we provide, are also included.
