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)
What’s On Now & What’s Up Next?
On Now: 🔥 June After-School Intensive
🔥 June Intensive:
The June intensive helps surfers “jump start” their summer season with a focused practice schedule. This 3-week program is a great preparation for the 11-week summer season and is the first experience many “rookie” Grom team members have with the Grom Team.
*NEW MEMBERS: Tuesday practices serve as evaluation days for surfers who do not have an “STS Level” established.
When do they meet?
- May 28th – June 13th
- Tuesdays / Wednesdays / Thursdays
- 4:15 pm – 5:45 pm
How much does it cost?
- $360 for 3 days /week
- $275 for 2 days/week
- $165 for 1 day/week
What’s provided?
- Individual goal setting
- Forecasting & preparation
- Video review
- Body mechanics strength & technique
- Competitive heat strategy & scrimmages
Who is it for?
- Open to Level 3, & Level 4 surfers
- Limited slots for Level 2 surfers
- Surfers are paired with coaches based on skill level.
- Check Program Guide to to learn more about levels.
Kindly email info@summertimesurf.com to schedule a phone consultation with one of our directors and find out if your young surfer is ready for the Grom Team.
Up Next: 🌊 Summer 2024 11-week Season!
Summer 2024 season:
- Who is this for?
- Experienced, independently surfing boys & girls
- Interested in competitive surfing and/or surf travel
- Identify as Level 3 (advanced) or Level 4 (performance)
- 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 17 – Aug 27
- 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”
- 11-week Summer Season
- 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 28
- Tues June 4
- Tues June 11
- Hosted at STS Bradley Beach location
- Skills evaluation for program placement offered:
- $975 for the 11-week summer season includes:
About Summertime Surf 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:
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More info to help you understand how we adapt to NJ’s changing seasons:
🔥 September is NJ’s favorite month to be a surfer, and grom team offerings are at their peak. After the conclusion of the Summer Season, motivated surfers join the September Intensive After-School program. For performance surfers, this program is great preparation for competitive surfers before the ESA Easterns Surf Championships. For non-competitors, or those who are interested in year-round surfing, the September Intensive is the perfect bridge between Summer Teams & the Fall-Winter-Spring participation.
🍂 Fall-Winter-Spring Teams begin in October where sessions are called on when favorable conditions align after-school and on the weekends. The boots come on, and the surf gets bigger!
🎃 After Halloween, practice opportunities become more challenging due to limited after-school daylight. Please expect more weekend practices and local indoor training sessions.
❄️ The Winter season is both incredibly challenging and rewarding. Daylight is scarce and temperatures make surfing suited for only the truly dedicated. However, winter possesses incredible potential, as some of our most memorable practices come during those months for the more advanced surfers.
✈️ Surf travel is an important part of grom development. Summertime Grom Team Trips in the past have included the Outer Banks of North Carolina, Costa Rica, and to wavepools and other indoor facilities. We are looking forward to trips booked to Nicaragua and the pointbreaks of Southern Mexico in 2023 & 2024.
🌦️ When Spring returns, the daylight after school does as well, and Grom Team members can expect more opportunities for after-school and weekend practice sessions as we approach summer.
☀️ The Summer season begins a new year for the Grom Team and a return to the regular morning practice schedule. This will also mark the “graduation” of some team members who are given the opportunity to apply to become workers at Summertime Surf School.
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Summer Team Practices:
- 11-week season runs during school’s summer break
- 3 mornings a week from 7:30am to 9 am
- Surfers paired with coaches according to skill level
- Practices offered in Bradley Beach, Asbury Park, and Point Pleasant Beaches
Summer Team Competitions:
- Regular inter-squad competitions held during the summer
- Coaching provided at local competitions
- Surfers participate in end-of-year contests in August
Summer Team Cost:
- $975 for the summer season
- Sibling discount available
- Includes team uniform & Swag bag
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2024 Important Dates
Open Skills Evaluation:
Can’t make it? Please email info@summertimesurf.com if you cannot attend evaluation dates, and we will do our best to work with your family.
- May 28th @ 4:15 – 5:45pm
- June 4th @ 4:15 – 5:45pm
- June 11th @ 4:15 – 5:45pm
Summer Season:
Practice starts the week of June 17th and runs through August 28th.
*Note: The first week of Grom Team will be condensed to Bradley Beach. Starting June 24th all locations will be open for Grom Team practices the rest of the season.
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The “skills evaluation” sessions serve as the most important dates for placing surfers with the best coaches for the various ability levels.
All team members from previous seasons are required to attend one, not both.
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- Can’t make it? Please email us if you cannot attend the tryout & we will do our best to work with your family.
WHERE:
- Bradley Beach North End Beach
- GPS Address – Intersection of Lake Terrace & Ocean Ave.
WHAT SURFERS DO AT THE EVAL SESSION:
- Beach Run
- Ocean Swim
- Ocean Paddle
- Free surfing opportunity
- Coaches may leave out any part of the session if group safety is at risk.
Every aspect of the evaluation sessions are supervised by coaches for safety.
NOTES: The Kids Surf Club is a great program and perfect stepping stone for kids who are not fully independent surfers. More info on the Kids Surf Club can be found here.
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🔥 Grom Teams September 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:
- September 5th – 21st
- 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:
- Individual goal setting
- Forecasting & preparation
- Video review
- Body mechanics strength & technique
- 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 Fall-Winter-Spring season starts in October, where coaching sessions are called on based on the surf forecast. (We practice when the waves are good)
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.
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At the conclusion of the Summer season, surfers are left to make a decision, “are they dedicated to developing their surfing skills year-round?” If the answer is yes, signing up for the FWS Grom Team is the best way to further their path of surfing excellence.
We do our best to call our FWS sessions ON during times when we think the conditions are ideal for the kids to learn and for us to coach. We use video review as much as possible as a tool to help the kids see what they are doing correctly and where their technique can be improved. Before the start of each session we talk with the team members to identify things for them to work on before the hit the water.
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Grom Team Membership – $125
- Team backpack
- Winter hat
- Reduced rate of $45 per practice
Not ready to commit? Drop-in to try a session at $60 per session.
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- Open to members & non-team members 18 & under
- $100 per session
- 2 hours and 15 minutes
- 1 hour and 15 minutes of surfing
- 45 minutes of video review immediately following our surf session, to occur at the STS office (404 Ocean Ave in Belmar).
- Group size of 6 surfers or less to maximize the ability to record and review waves in a group setting. Video clips can be made available to the kids at the end of each session.
- We found the most efficient & effective way for rapid skill development is with immediate feedback and video review sessions
- Surf + video review sessions will be designed for specific surfer skill sets (advanced-intermediate)
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During the Fall-Winter-Spring season, the Grom Team offers a “rolling admissions” approach to joining the team. That is, we accept new team members throughout the seasons on a case-by-case basis.
FWS Grom Team practices may serve as an opportunity to try out for the team. Interested members arrive early for an in-person consultation with coaching staff so that we can take the time to prepare each surfer and set their expectations for what skills we will be looking for the surfer to demonstrate.
If your surfer makes the team, they’ll have the opportunity to register as an official team member. See membership information below.
How to Join the FWS Team:
- Above-average physical fitness is imperative.
- Independent surfing ability required. Must have experience catching waves without assistance to qualify for tryouts.
- Questions? email info@summertimesurf.com to schedule a phone consultation so that we may schedule a tryout for Fall-Winter-Spring Team placement.