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ADVANCED SURF COACHING – GROM TEAMS

JOIN THE TEAM TO REACH YOUR POTENTIAL

Quick Details

Presented in 4 separate seasons:

☀️ Summer Season Program

  • 11-weeks (weekday morning practices)

🌊 September Intensive Program

  • 3-4 weeks (after school practices)

🍂 Fall-Winter-Spring Season Program

  • Rest of the year (practices when conditions are forecasted to be good)

🔥 June Intensive Program

  • 3 weeks (after school practices)

Member Evaluation

$50 Refundable Deposit Required for Tryouts

$ 50

Fall-Winter-Spring Membership

Reduced Practice Rate & Team Swag

$ 95

Intensive

1 Day/Week (3 sessions)

$ 165

Intensive

2 Days/Week (6 sessions)

$ 275

Intensive

3 Days/Week (9 sessions)

$ 360

Summer Grom Team Member

11-Week Season

$ 975

What’s On Now & What’s Up Next?

On Now: 🌺 June After-School Intensive

🔥 Grom Teams June Intensive Advanced Surf Coaching for experienced, independent surfers.  Summertime Grom Teams are for serious young athletes who want to make their surfing dreams into a reality.

Practice Info:

  • May 27th – June 12th
  • Tues-Wed-Thursdays
  • 4:15 pm – 5:45 pm

Pricing:

  • $360 for the full 3- week program
  • $275 for 2 days/week
  • $165 for 1 day/week

Coaching focuses on 5 pillars:

  1. Individual goal setting
  2. Forecasting & preparation
  3. Video review
  4. Body mechanics strength & technique
  5. Competitive heat strategy & scrimmages

Currently open to Level 3, & Level 4 surfers:

Surfers paired with coaches based on skill level. Check out our Program Guide to to learn more about levels.

If there is enough interest from level 2 (surf club) surfers, we may open up a spot for level 2s.

Because September often brings large surf & varied conditions, the final week of September will be reserved for any cancelled sessions.

The Summer season starts on  June 16th, where coaching sessions meet consistently on Mondays, Tuesdays & Wednesdays from 7:30 – 9am in Bradley Beach, Asbury Park & Point Pleasant. 

Email info@summertimesurf.com to schedule a phone consultation with one of our directors and find out if you young surfer is ready for the Grom Team.

Up Next: 🌊 Summer 2025 11-week Season! 

  • Who is this for?
  • What’s Provided?
    • Focused technique coaching
    • Personal progress tracking & periodic evaluations
    • Scrimmages & heat strategy objectives when conditions permit
    • Filmed surf sessions and video analysis
    • Range of boards & equipment to explore
    • Lasting camaraderie and commitment to respecting the ocean & each other
  • When do they meet?
    • 11-week Summer Season
      • June 16 – Aug 26
    • Practices 
      • 3 mornings/week 
      • 7:30 am – 9 am
    • Competitions 
      • Inter-squad contests throughout the summer 
      • Coaching at Big Sea Day, O.G. Gromfest, Sea Girt Surf Contest, + more TBD
      • End of year Contest series “Triple Crown” 
  • Where do they meet?
  • Surfers are placed on a practice team with other surfers of similar ability in one of the Summertime Surf Beach locations.
  • Asbury, Bradley, Point Pleasant
    • There is an opportunity during registration to indicate which practice sites you prefer or cannot attend.
  • How much does it cost?
    • $975 for the 11-week summer season includes:
      • Practices, Inter-Squad & end of year Contests, Uniform
    • A $50 refundable deposit is required for an evaluation session
      • Skills evaluation for program placement offered:
        • Tues May 27
        • Tues June 3
        • Tues June 10 
        • Hosted at STS Bradley Beach location

 

About the Grom Teams

Summertime’s professional coaching staff leads New Jersey’s best up-and-coming surfers to achieve their surfing potential.  Since 2008, the Grom Team program has provided the ultimate environment for rapid skills improvement under dedicated coaching.  Former Grom Team members have developed their fundamentals and fine-tuned their skills to become regional, state, and national surfing champions.  Some have gone on to become sponsored athletes, and others to become captains of collegiate surf teams.  Accolades aside, coaches are most proud of the hard work and resulting life lessons that grom team members take with them as they mature from stoked kids to responsible young watermen and waterwomen.

The Coaching Staff

Grom Team directors Mark Gilmartin & Shaun McGrath have over 25 years of surf coaching experience and worldwide surf travel expertise between them.  Together with Manasquan H.S.coach J.D. LaCarrubba and their assistant coaching staff, the Summertime coaching roster is made up of some of the area’s best surfers, many of whom were once team members themselves.

“It is an honor to work with your children, and you can expect a safe, professionally organized program that is, like our team members, in a continuous state of refinement.”Shaun McGrath, founder

 

Seasonal Info:

    SUMMER SEASON INFO

  • JUNE INTENSIVE INFO

  • SEPTEMBER INTENSIVE INFO

  • FALL/WINTER/SPRING INFO