Ant Brodowicz

Surf Instructor in South Africa

1978 World Champ
SA Masters Team Coach
Former SA Team Coach
National Team Selector

Ant lives to surf and one session with him will change your outlook forever. Ant has been surfing for over 40 years and honours include a World Title in 1978.

Ant has since turned his focus to coaching and as the South African Masters Team Coach, he led them to victory at the 2007 masters Championship in Puerto Rico. He has also worked with the Springbok National team and remains one of South Africa's most upstanding and highly regarded surf personalities. He has recently been appointed to the national selection panel for the World Surfing Games.

Together with his son Byron, himself an up and coming South African surfer and national competitor for Kwazulu Natal, he continues to offer professional and inspirational coaching for anybody looking to get a kick out of their surfing.

Bevan Langley

SPA Lifeguard
SSA Surf Coach
Theta Qualified Surf Guide

When it comes to running tours in South Africa they don’t come much more qualified than Bevan. Not only does he boast over five years experience of guiding surf groups along the coastline, but he has also had three seasons working as an overland tour guide throughout Southern and Eastern Africa.

Hailing from Durban, Bevan was brought up in and around the infamous heavy beach breaks. Originally learning his trade on a body board he soon realised that standing up on the board was the way forward, and has travelled and surfed South Africa’s East coast extensively.

He is a reputable photographer, and gets equal pleasure when he’s shooting subject matter in the oceans, or out on the African planes.

David Malherbe

1986 SA Open Champ
1990 World Pro/Am Champ
1992 European Champ
1999-2003 & 2006 SA Masters Champ
Member of 2007 World Title winning SA Masters Team
Former Italian Team Coach

Older brother of Andre and one of South Africa's most successful surfer's, Dave's past honours make impressive reading! Dave has 26 years of surfing experience and won his first surfing title in 1986, winning the South African Open. He then went onto win the 1990 World Pro/Am crown, the 1992 European Championships and dominated the Masters Series winning from 1999 - 2003. He regained his master's crown again in 2006 and was a member of the South African Masters team that went onto win the World Master's Competition in Puerto Rico in 2007.

His coaching experience is equally impressive, working as the South African Junior team coach, the Italian team coach and has worked with current World Tour competitors Greg Emslie and Royden Bryson.

Deon Woodley

1988 - 2000 Durban Pro Lifeguard
1991 - Present Lifeguard Trainer / Assessor
1,200 Lifeguards Trained

Etienne Venter

Level 3 Instructor
Former SA Team Coach
SA Future Stars Coach

Etienne boasts one of the most complete coaching C.V's of any surf coach worldwide and is lucky enough to ply his trade on the legendary waves at Jeffrey's Bay. Etienne is a level 3 accredited instructor and is a former South African Team Coach.

To this day Etienne continues to coach at the highest level grooming the up and coming stars of the South African surf scene as the "South African Future Stars" coach. Etienne is an exciting addition to the Ticket to Ride coaching staff as riders will have the chance to sample some of the world's best waves with one of the world's most experienced surf coaches - a mouth watering opportunity for any surfer!

Jon Henry

Pro Surfer 1986 / 1987
SA Big Wave Pioneer
Vice Chairman Atlantic Surf Club
Head Contest Director Atlantic Surf Club
Jon started surfing in the late 60's at Llandudno in Cape Town and began competing in 1975, participating in events both locally and abroad initially as an amateur and finally in 86/87 as a professional. In 1978, Jon was one of the first crew to regularly start surfing Dungeons, Cape Town's now famous big wave venue. In 1986 he became the vice chairman and contest director of the Atlantic Surf Club in Cape Town.

In 1999, together with his Wife Donna, he moved to the warmer waters of Plettenberg Bay where he established The International Surf School (I.S.S) which Ticket to Ride are privileged to attend.

Klee Strachan

Nikita Robb

ISA Level 1 Qualified Surf Coach
Professional Surfer

Hailing from East London Nikita Robb grew up surfing some of South Africa's best waves. Given the size of East London and the number of surfers there compared to Cape Town or Durban, 'Slummies' has produced South Africa's best competitive surfers, with 4 of the last 5 world tour surfers coming from their tight knit community. Nikita is one of those four, fulfilling her dream of making it onto the world tour, but with a lack of sponsorship for women's surfing has moved on and is looking for new ventures, especially in coaching.

Ticket to Ride fitted perfectly into her portfolio and having travelled up and down the South African coast all her life it really is a natural extension of what she has done all her life. Nikita is always up for a laugh and amped to surf. She surfs better than most guys and for anyone coming on a trip she is someone they can really look up to. Having been coached by many different coaches through her years as a top South African and world tour surfer she has learnt a lot and is ready to start sharing that wisdom.

We are excited to have her on board!

Chad Schwab

Hailing from The Bluff, Durban, Chad and his surfing family grew up at the beach. Unsurprisingly his best friends are all surfers including Rudy Palmboom (WQS pro surfer). No longer a grom, Chad has really stamped his mark on the powerful waves on the Bluff.
 
Chad is no stranger to Durban’s Piers – the hotbed of pro surfing in Southern Africa.
 
As a youngster Chad was a regular competitor on the Pro Junior tour.
 
In looking for more ways to make a living from his surfing talent, Chad found Ticket to Ride Surf Tours, his application was quickly accepted, and Chad is now an asset to our South African team.

Christopher Bond

• ISA Level 2 Surf Coach
• BSA Level 2 Surf Coach
• SLA Beach Lifeguard
• 2007 SA University Surfing Champion 

As a local from Cape Town, Chris was brought up in the huge surf culture there, and became addicted to the sport and the ocean from an early age. He has worked as a beach lifeguard, and his passion for surfing has taken him around the world. It was in England that he proved himself as a top class surf coach working for the British Surfing Association, impressing all those around him with his enthusiasm for coaching, professionalism, and highly approachable manner.

Chris has also generated a huge reputation for not only his coaching, but also for his surfing, and represents Western Province at the South African Championships, and can often be seen in the local South African surf magazines.

As an all round sports enthusiast he has also represented Western Province at volleyball, and played a lot of cricket, hockey, tennis, and basketball to a high club standard. Chris has done a Business Science degree at the University of Cape Town where he ran the surf club. Chris brings invaluable local knowledge to the South African team, he runs trips with quality and control, lives life to the full, and will always be the first up in the morning on the hunt for waves.

Dave

Dave has been on just about every Ticket to Ride course we have got - he now works in the office and is definately worth chatting to before you decide on the most suitable ticket to ride course for you.

Julian Price

Linley Lewis

Linley co-founded the company in 2005, off the back of a business plan written at Birmingham University in 2003 having gained inspiration from him own travels around the world which have taken him surfing around South Africa, Costa Rica, Panama, Guatemala, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, Morocco, USA, Ireland, France and Portugal.

He knows what makes for a great surf trip, and is able to share this enthusiasm with others.

Tom Allport

Tom went on a the 10 week TTRide South africa course and liked it so much that he is now part of the Ticket o Ride Head Office team! His lifestyle revolves around his passion for snowboarding, surfing and playing guitar. He's a great team member and he's always putting smiles on faces! 

Will Hayler

George Solh

BSA Level 3 Surf Coach
Swedish Surf Team Consultant Coach
Level 2 ISA Surf Judge
Costa Rican Surf Federation Judge

George has over 20 years surfing experience. He first visited Costa Rica in 1991 and after travelling much of the world has decided to call it his home from home.

Before making a fulltime living out of surfing, George spent three years in the Parachute regiment and a further 2 years in the Foreign Legion serving active duty in Chad. Other career paths have included professional Photography for both surfing and fashion.

George and his family have happily turned their lives into one endless summer spending half their year living in Santa Teresa and the other half over Europe.

George's involvement in Ticket to Ride Costa Rica gives us a fantastic local knowledge as well as unparalleled expertise and genuine enthusiasm for those lucky enough to be coached by him.

Linnea Solh

Linnea is our certified Yoga teacher, she did her training in India in 2002. Since then she has been teaching in Wales, London, Sweden and Costa Rica, incorporating several styles of yoga that have inspired her during her quest to perfect her own ever evolving practice.

Linnea is also a dedicated surfer out in the waves at every opportunity. Through her work with surf camps as well as her own surfing, she has come to understand the special needs of surfers and has created surf specific yoga programmes that would suit all levels.

Pete Abell

BSA Level 2 Surf Coach
NARS Surf Coach

Pete is a true character who has committed himself to the ultimate season lifestyle. During the Summers he runs one of Cornwalls most prestigious surf schools, King Surf in Mawgan Porth, and will spend his Winters either in the Mountains hunting for powder, or travelling the globe searching for perfection in the water, sometimes doing both!

We first spotted Pete in 2005 whilst working for another Surf School on the same beach as him. We were simply blown away by the level of energy and enthusiasm he threw into his lessons; and no matter how hard we tried ours never looked as fun. So if you can't beat them, you've got to join them, and that's why we're so excited to have him on the Ticket to Ride team.

Ryan Ribbink