Drifters Surf Club

Description

Drifters Surf Club consists of ISA certified instructors with years of experience in surfing and teaching surfing. Our instructors are Santhosh an Ajith, who have gained quite a reputation in Indian surf community for thier talent.

Santhosh from Mahabalipuram, is a fisherman who picked up surfing through watching other surfers. He used his fisherman skills to stand up and ride waves in his backyard. He picked up surfing well enough to win a sponsorship from Temple Adventures which gave him his first board. After a point he started shaping surfboards with Dave Hearn in Temple surfboards, making him the first Indian shaper ever. He quit his stone carving job to become a surfboard shaper. Santhosh having won quite a few competitions in India and is now an ISA qualified instructor now looking to spread the stoke of surfing to others.

Ajith, from Kovalam near Chennai, is from a humble fishing background who picked up surfing early on. He has been working for Covelong Point surf school in Kovalam, where he picked up the craft of surfing and more. Now he is an ISA qualified instructor, with a knack for teaching surfing and having more fun. He is certainly one of the energetic surfer to look forward to.