About surfer Jonny

Phone Jonny +6427 379 0877 Write to me Please mount@surf.co.nz

I was born and raised in Los Angeles, California, and have also lived and worked in Hawaii, U.S.A. I am now a New Zealand Citizen, and live at Mount Maunganui. I like to keep fit, and enjoy surfing, fishing, Digital Cameras and working with computers. I have developed successful diving . game-fishing and Surfing Instructor businesses. In Hawaii I was a tour co-ordinator for wholesale tour groups in conjunction with overseeing management of my diving . game-fishing and Surfing Instructor businesses. My entire working career has been in marine-related industries: I have developed skills in Surfing Instruction, marine salvage, engineering and business management.

	Lessons focus on technique, safety rules, surf break etiquette, ocean waters familiarity, and the chance to try it all with the continued guidance of an instructor.
	As a professional surf instructor I have at least 30 years of surfing experience, Iam Red Cross Certified lifeguards, CPR, and first aid.
	Jonny carries a State of Hawaii Surf Instructor's license.
	Phone Jonny +6427 379 0877

Learn to hang ten with the pros at Mounts best surf beaches. My surf lessons will teach you the fundamentals of surfing and surf safety and you'll be standing up in no time.

My lessons are held at one of 2 different beaches on east coast, which ever has the best learning conditions on the day. The main destination is The Rock because of the consistency of waves .

It is very important that you understand the dangers at surf beaches. You will learn the fundamentals of surfing, surf safety and surfing rules.

Finding a Partner.

one of the most important things to have in learning to surf is someone to surf with. Aside from the obvious safety reasons (it cuts your chances of being eaten by a shark in half :-) ) a partner will give you moral support, keep you stoked when you get frustrated, keep you from sleeping in when its good, talk you into paddling out when its big, and mostly be a friend.

There are two schools of thought here:

Find someone good to teach you to surf. and
Find someone else who wants to learn and teach each other.

I subscribe to the First approach, because that's how I learned and because when one person is better than the other, someone is usually not having a very fun session. Don't get me wrong, I really enjoy teaching people. But if its cranking on the outside, either I'm gonna be bored on the inside with the beginner, or he's gonna be in over his head on the outside.

Your friend you must choose carefully. He will become your brah, and over time will mean more than anyone else on this planet. Besides surfing, you will drink copious amounts of beer, smoke pounds of pot, and chase boxcar loads of women together. You will lend each other money when times are tight. You will never ask each other for gas cash. You will inform him when his ass crack is showing over his pants. If he doesn't like the woman you are seeing you will drop her like a hot rock. Conversely, if your new woman thinks your brah is a jerk, that's a sign that she's a bozo and should be avoided.

Boards and wetsuits will be shared. You will hoot for each other on fine days. You will badmouth anyone who drops in on him. People will come to view you as a team. Surf nazis will avoid you because they know that to fight one of you is to fight both of you.

And, years later when you are 40 years old and you and your brah are sitting on a break somewhere listening to the younger guys yacking it up, you will smile and know deep in your soul that there is nothing finer than surfing and the people you do it with.

in the Background you can see the ROCK