Longboard Gliders Surf School
Longboard Gliders is one of the very few dedicated longboard surf schools out there.
“My name is Niccolò, I was born in Genova, a city in the North of Italy where the winters are soft thanks to the Sirocco wind that blows from the southeast. And with that wind come the waves…
I fell in love with surfing when I was 14 years old, after watching a cult movie called “Big Wednesday”; a story about surfing and friendship between a group of friends in California in the 60s/70s.
I remember getting my first surfboard (a yellow longboard) the next day from a guy that used to surf at the beach where I would hang out with my friends after school… From that day onward, surfing has never left my life.
In those days surfing wasn´t as popular in Italy as it is now. There were no surf shops, or surf schools, so to learn how to surf my friends and I had to sit down at Bogliasco beach and watch the older guys who already knew how to surf. Later they would give us advice and that is the way we practised… So much falling, laughing, and frustration! But I can still remember the first time I stood up, how exciting! Incredible… more than 30 years have passed and I still have a vivid memory of that day.”
“In the year 2012 I decided to radically change my life and to pursue my dream, to surf and to make a living from it, so I left my job in Italy and moved to Lanzarote.
My love for surfing and travelling brought me to incredible places: Portugal, northern Spain, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, and Australia, where I worked in some of the best surf schools and met people who taught me a lot about surfing and the surfing philosophy.
After many years of experience, I developed my own teaching method and decided to start a new adventure by setting up Longboard Gliders, my own surf school for adults at Famara Beach.”
Famara Spain