🏄‍♀️ No work, just surf and turtle rolls on Kuta with a side of Point Break

👋 Happy Little Friday to you! Are you paddling out this weekend? Before you do, read the third issue (we’ll stop counting after five) of The Wipeout Weekly, powered by Girls Who Can’t Surf Good!

🏄‍♀️ Let’s surf:

• No work, just surf make for a better day

• Kuta Beach stays on the list

• Word of the week: Turtle roll

• Girl-Who-Does-Arctic-Surfing

• Surf science in Point Break

• Weekly popup ⚡🏄‍♀️🔥

• All-Things-Surf Directory

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😱 Surf more, work less—and jobs that let you chase waves

If you’ve ever looked at photos of your fellow Girls Who Can’t Surf Good on their tropical surf getaways or planning the next retreat and wondered, how do they do it?—we have answers. 😊

🌊 The art of financial minimalism
Work hard, save harder, and then disappear on a long surf trip. If you’ve got PTO, bank it for that one big, blissful surf escape each year. Also—credit cards.

💻 Freelancing: feast or famine, but worth it
Freelancing = flexibility. Christiana designs from her van. Jane surfed through winter in Mexico. Lisa runs her biz online while traveling full-time.
Remote worker? Set your hours like Claire (mornings = work, afternoons = surf), or relocate like Kamile, a UX designer who hops between surf towns.

🏄‍♀️ Move closer to the surf
Relocate to a surf town where your currency goes further—or just closer to your local break. Shari moved from Canada to Australia to live 50m from the ocean. Can’t move? Get creative: request coastal work assignments, surf on layovers, or sneak in surf stays around business trips.

📎🌊🏄🏻‍♀️ Pick a new career
Freelance. Remote job. Seasonal and gig work. All are surf-friendly. Longer shifts = more full days off—so if you’re a firefighter, nurse, EMT, you could actually surf more than someone in a 9-to-5. Pick a travel-heavy job: flight attendant, travel photographer, journalist, yacht crew, marine biologist. Need stability? Teachers and government jobs often come with solid PTO, holidays, and summers off.

Or—you know—credit cards 😂

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Kuta Beach: Bali’s not-yet-totally-crowded beginner break

Crowds. That’s what us beginners have to battle when we travel halfway across the world in search of better waves than our local ones.

But we checked the Surfline footage, and Kuta Beach looks no busier than Venice Beach on a hot summer day. 😜

Wherever you’re flying from, Lombok International Airport (LOP) is just about 20–25 minutes from Kuta Beach by car or scooter.

🌊 Waves:
It’s a beach break! But it’s a consistent, quality beach break. Best at high tide, when the faster sections are more makeable.

🚰 Water quality:
Clean, warm, and tropical. Just be mindful after big storms, when runoff can affect clarity.

👙 Wardrobe:
Totally bikini and boardshorts-friendly. The water is warm year-round—27°C to 30°C (81°F to 86°F). A rash guard is a good call for sun protection.

☀️ Best time to surf:
The dry season (May–September) brings the most consistent, beginner-friendly conditions.

⚠️ Hazards:
No major surf-specific hazards on Kuta Beach itself, but watch for strong sun, boat traffic if you paddle out, and the occasional coral fragment near the shore.

🏄🏻‍♀️ Surfboard rental:
Kuta town is the surf hub of South Lombok. You’ll find rentals, instructors, and friendly surf camps where you can gear up and catch a ride to the nearby breaks.

🎉 What else to do in Kuta:
Eat, shop, relax, and enjoy exploring on a scooter. Hit close-by breaks for some variety.

🏄🏻‍♀️ Solo traveling:
Yep. Kuta is safe, social, and walkable. It has a laid-back backpacker-meets-surfer vibe and is a great base for solo female travelers.

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Word of the week: Turtle roll—and how to improv(e) it

Turtle roll is officially the best-named surf technique.

To longboarders and high-volume foamie riders, turtle rolling is our duck diving.

It’s a method of getting a surfboard under an oncoming wave so we can get past the whitewater and reach the lineup.

Although the mechanics are rather different:

➡️ Paddle toward the wave.
Get as close to the breaking wave as possible—but not too close. About 6 ft away is good.

➡️ Make sure you’re perpendicular to the oncoming wave.
If you hit it at an angle, it’s going to grab your board and you’re toast.

➡️ Grab the rails of your board.
It’s recommended that you place your hands about halfway down the board. But if that fails (and it most likely will), move them closer to the nose.

➡️ Do not—I repeat, do not—grab your board with your feet.
You’ll look like a koala. Be a mermaid instead.

➡️ Flip yourself and the board upside down, tucking underneath.
Your body and your board are now submerged, and you’re facing the waxed side of your board.

➡️ Hold on tight. Really tight.
The wave will hit, and if you’re loose with your grip, it can rip the board out of your hands. Bye-bye birdie.

➡️ Wait.
Let the wave roll over you and your board. It usually only takes a second or two.

➡️ Flip back over, get back on your board, and keep paddling out until you hit another set and have to do this all over again.

➡️ Enjoy.
Feel the wave breaking over you. There’s magic to it.

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🏄‍♀️ From arctic surfing to documentary filmmaking–Freia’s just starting out

Freia is a 25-year-old surfer living in Reykjavík, Iceland, drawn there by the promise of arctic waves.

Alongside her love for surfing, Freia became interested in the challenges women face in boardsports, leading her to create a documentary called New Ideals.

The film explores how gender inequality affects women in surfing and skateboarding, especially when it comes to visibility, sponsorship, and speaking out.

Read her story and watch the short film.

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We’d love to share your surfing stories—good, bad, happy and sad. Whether they are a one paragraph-short anecdote, a 10-page long essay or just a fun pic of you surfing. 👉 Reply to this email to get it going or tag @therealgirlswhocantsurf for a collab.

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Looks like a point break, feels like a point break—still not a point break 😂

As a beginner, you probably know pretty well what a beach break is. That’s the break where you don’t usually get shouted at. A point break? That’s a different kettle of fish.

It’s a type of surf break where waves hit a clearly defined point of land—a rock or bit of headland. The waves then peel along that point, creating long and predictable (so, the best kind of) waves.

Waves at point breaks peel neatly, giving you more time to practice and improve. And you can start exploring bottom turns, top turns, and trimming along the wave as you gain experience.

We thought we knew what the famous point breaks were… but quickly learned that many are actually reef breaks or hybrid spots with a point break feel.

And did you know there’s not a single point break in the movie Point Break? Scandal!

🎧 Discover more about point breaks and Point Break lore in this podcast episode.

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Three pop-up methods and none of them work 😱

Did you know some instructors teach the “knees on the board first” method because they want to guarantee you'll stand up during your first lesson?

That made me think—what other horrific pop-up habits do we adopt when learning, that stall our progress, and that could’ve been avoided if we were only told about their consequences?

Two-step, chicken wing, explosive jump…we’ve tried them all—and none of them seem to really work.

🐢 Two-step/step-up/push-up method
(The “classic beginner” method: push up, then step one foot at a time)

• Toes needed: Your toes need to touch the board, which doesn’t translate to shortboards, like, at all.

• Gets you on your knees: Results in popping up onto your knees first, which is beyond hard to unlearn.

• Slow: Not great for quick takeoffs or steeper waves.

🍗 Chicken wing/chicken leg method
(Back foot comes forward first, in a bent-knee “wing” position)

• Rarely used: You’ll outgrow it quickly—or worse, not at all.

• Makes you think: You’re trying to remember what a chicken wing is under pressure, while a wave is chasing you.

• Doesn’t scale: Slows you down as you improve.

💥 Standard/explosive/jump-up method
(The “ideal” method: fast push and legs “shoot” underneath you)

• Gotta be fit: Requires serious upper-body strength and flexibility—especially hip mobility.

• Coordination-heavy: Timing is crucial; so you either do it or eat it.

• Ego bruiser: Looks like fun when others do it, but can feel impossible for months, sorry, years.

Not to worry. That’s why we have this Weekly Popup. We’ll get there!

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Girls Who Can’t Surf Good thrives on idea-sharing and community recommendations—so it’s about time we built a central, searchable hub where all those gems can actually be found. 🥰

The all-things-surf directory from Girls Who Can’t Surf Good is finally happening!

If you have a business—in the loosest sense possible—that you’d like to promote, this directory is for you (and yes, it’s free!).

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