🎥 Make the Most out of Each Wave

Boost your Surf School with Next-Gen Video

Effortlessly add video selling and coaching offers to get new revenue streams and provide a premium experience for your students. Surf Buddy Station & Tags track, film and upload automatically all the waves surfed.

Beta testing with select schools • Limited spots available

Why Surf Schools Love Surf Buddy Film

It's a win-win: you get more students and your students get more fun!

Improved Offering

Boost your surf school offers by adding video selling and coaching to your packs or as options.

Student Delight

Students love getting their surf videos for memories and social media sharing.

Premium Visibility

Make your school more premium with appealing videos offers and get visibility from videos shared by students.

Easy Setup

A simple app controls the entire system - no complex configurations needed.

Additional Revenue

Create new revenue streams by upselling videos and coaching offers to your students.

No Time Lost

Automatically records and sells videos to your students so you can focus on teaching and growing your school.

How It Works

Surf Buddy Film focuses on ease of use: simple setup, automatic operation, professional results!

1

Setup the Station

Setup the Surf Buddy Station on the beach. Pair your phone and position it on the Station. If the surfers are far away, install the provided x18 objective as well. No endless and error-prone calibration needed!

Setup the Station
2

Give Armband Tags

Give each student a Surf Buddy armband Tag. These lightweigt and waterproof Tags will let the Station identify and record individual surfers automatically.

3

Just Surf & Teach

Let your students surf freely and focus on teaching and safety while Surf Buddy automatically detects and records all the waves.

4

Sync Videos

Videos automatically upload to the cloud when connected to WiFi. No manual transfer needed.

5

Share & Sell

Students can preview their surfing videos and purchase their favorite clips in high quality. You can also easily do video analysis directly on Surf Buddy website.

Surf Buddy Film Package

Discover the 4 key components that make the full Surf Buddy Film experience a reality!

Station Tripod

Tripod-mounted device placed on the beach and equipped with an objective to enhance your phone camera.

Armband Tags

Small waterproof GPS devices to strap around the arm of each of your Students.

Mobile App

Uses Tag data to detect waves, control the Station to track the surfer and record the ride automatically!

Web Platform

A School interface helps you do video analysis. A Student interface handles the video sharing and payment.

Already have a Photographer?

Surf Buddy Share let's you automate your footage management: sorting, grouping, sharing, selling, sending, ...

What Our Testers Say

Surf Buddy Film is a life changer for Surf Schools and Camps! Our testers lived this revolution and talk about it better than we do!

Austin J.
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Austin J.
Surf Camp Owner
USA

"Students love having video coaching and get their own videos for memories or social media! Big boost for the camp, thanks!"

John D.
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John D.
Surf School Director
Nicaragua

"Adding the video analysis option in our packs and being able to easily sell videos to students are great additional 💸💸💸"

Pedro R.
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Pedro R.
Surf Instructor
Portugal

"With Surf Buddy, I can focus on teaching and not on filming! No need to have someone filming all day, it just works."

Mehdi H.
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Mehdi H.
Surf Academy Manager
Morocco

"The automatic video collection and sending saves me so much time! No more running around with USB or sending WeTransfer links and Paypal requests."

Emma S.
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Emma S.
Surf Coach
Australia

"Surf Buddy team is incredibly responsive and helpful! Great pleasure to be part of the testing and get the project to the next level!"

Austin J.
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Austin J.
Surf Camp Owner
USA

"Students love having video coaching and get their own videos for memories or social media! Big boost for the camp, thanks!"

John D.
🇳🇮
John D.
Surf School Director
Nicaragua

"Adding the video analysis option in our packs and being able to easily sell videos to students are great additional 💸💸💸"

Pedro R.
🇵🇹
Pedro R.
Surf Instructor
Portugal

"With Surf Buddy, I can focus on teaching and not on filming! No need to have someone filming all day, it just works."

Mehdi H.
🇲🇦
Mehdi H.
Surf Academy Manager
Morocco

"The automatic video collection and sending saves me so much time! No more running around with USB or sending WeTransfer links and Paypal requests."

Emma S.
🇦🇺
Emma S.
Surf Coach
Australia

"Surf Buddy team is incredibly responsive and helpful! Great pleasure to be part of the testing and get the project to the next level!"

Project Timeline

Surf Buddy Film is reaching its last stages of development. A few last spots are available for the Beta Test:
Join us as a Pioneer to get early access, massive discounts and tailored support!

Proto

2024

Completed

Alpha

H1 2025

Completed

Beta

H2 2025

In Progress

Launch

2026

Upcoming

Prototyping Phase

Building and testing core technology components with early partners.

Alpha Testing Phase

Closed alpha testing with select partners to validate and improve the system.

Beta Testing Phase

Currently testing with more Surf Camps for final optimizations. Interested? Become a Pioneer!

Commercial Launch

Product refinements, production setup and official market launch!

Ready to Elevate your Surf School?

Join our exclusive beta program and be among the first to experience the future of surf filming.

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Priority given to Surf Schools and Camps

Frequently Asked Questions

Got questions? We've got answers!

Equipment & Setup

We recommend having enough Tags for your maximum group size. For example, if you run classes of 8 students, you should get 8 Tags. You can also share Tags between students and order more Tags later!

Tags are robust and waterproof. Tags straps are designed to stay in place during a surf session. However, for added security, a safety tether can be provided and attached to the wetsuit zipper. In case of loss, contact us to order a replacement Tag at a discounted price.

The Tags can communicate with the Station up to 600 meters (2000 feet). The Station comes with an optional x18 objective for distant waves.

The Station is weather-resistant and can handle light rain. For heavy rain or storm, we recommend bringing it (and your phone) inside. The Tags are fully waterproof and can handle any weather condition.

Usage & Technical

No! The Station works offline during recording. You only need internet connection later to upload the videos, which can be done when you're back at your school, camp or home.

You can upload the videos whenever you want. However, we recommend uploading them as soon as possible to avoid losing them and reducing the storage load on your phone. Besides, until you upload them, you can't do video analysis on the website and students can't access their videos. However, the upload itself is done automatically when your phone is connected to WiFi.

When we onboard your Surf School or Camp on Surf Buddy Film, we will provide you with a custom link. Once shared to students, it will allow them to preview their surfing clips (we store them for two weeks). They can then choose to purchase and download their videos in high quality.

Yes you can! During the onboarding, you can provide us with a logo and any text or watermark you want. We will add them to the videos. This will help you leverage your students social media presence.

Pricing & Business

The product is not in its final version yet. To reflect this, we sell them at a low price to Alpha and Beta testers. The Station is currently $299 and Tags are $99 each. We also do a Bundle with a Station and 4 Tags for $499.

This depends how many students you have each week. However, conservatively, for 10 students with 50% (usually most of them do) buying video packs at 30$ (with some Schools and Camps selling them up to 50$ so far), it makes $600 per month that will be split evenly between us. With increased students, conversion rate or prices, this can go above $2000 per month. This lets you quickly cover the cost of the product and make money from it onwards. Besides, in addition to the video sales, providing video analysis and video packs can also help you increase interest and prices for your Surf Camp.

Specifically for Pioneers testers, we provide a leasing model. This means you pay monthly (30$ for the Station and 10$ for each Tags or 50$ for the Bundle) over a 12-month engagement and then the products are all yours. This is a great way to test Surf Buddy Film and see if it's worth it for you. You can cancel anytime as long as you return the products.

If you are not satisfied with the product, contact us to organise the return. We will fully refund your purchase. This "satisfaction guarantee" is available for 6 months for our Pioneers testers. Pioneers testers also get free repair for 24 months.

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