Freedom Surf School (Weligama Bay) ★★★

Weligama Bay

Weligama, located on the south coast of Sri Lanka is a lively fishing town. You can experience local culture as well as finding a good mix of surfers and tourists.
Weligama is an excellent base to explore the South Coast. Beautiful beaches for sunbathing and swimming and good night life only 4KM away.
In Mirissa there is Whale watching all year round. Historical Galle Fort only 40 minutes away. As well as being a fantastic starting point for Safaris to Yala and Uduwalwe and other day trips.
Weligama is the best place to base yourself for an unforgettable holiday experience.

Surf Season

The official surf season is from the end of October until early April. Winds are off shore making clean waves, swells are good and rain is at a minimum.
From the end of April until October there is the chance of rain but there are still good waves for beginners. With the benefit of smaller crowds in the water, allowing you to have the waves to yourself.
There are waves for beginners to surf and take surf lessons all day long, but it is best to avoid the mid day sun. If you are an early bird and enjoy the sunrise, this is a perfect time to surf as it is very quiet. Watching the sunset from the ocean whilst catching waves is stunning.

We are really proud and excited to share with you the unique experience of staying and surfing with Freedom. We have created a slice of Sri Lankan life to show you the life we love to live. Being a locally run and owned business we support our local Sri Lankan community with everything that we do from our Surf lessons to our homely Surf Villa, weekly beach clean ups and all other tours and experiences we offer. We pride our Surf Camp experience on being completely flexible with how you want to structure your holiday time so you can surf when you want, eat when you want and sleep when you want - pure Freedom!

We are a relaxed and chilled camp with something on offer for everyone from being family friendly to having a hostel vibe where party nights out can be arranged if you wish.

Freedom Surf School is local owned and local run. Our instructors have the best knowledge of the wave conditions in Weligama Bay. At Freedom safety and happiness are key to a successful life and holiday. Our instructors are professional and lifesaving trained. We aim to please our customers in their surfing and stay in Sri Lanka.

We are extremely excited to have our own Freedom Surf Villa that opened for the 2017 season. Our Surf Villa is a home away from home with private rooms and a hostel vibe. We provide our customers with comfortable and quality accommodation in a peaceful setting.

Freedom Surf Villa is our homely guest house set in a beautiful green village 'coconut land' the villa is only a 10 minute walk from the main surfing beach. We have 2 luxury double rooms, 1 triple or twin room and 1 four-bed dorm room. Our lovely rooms come with AC, large comfortable beds, ensuite bathrooms, private balcony,s mosquito nets, quality linen, plush towels & free WiFi.

We include a healthy delicious breakfast (vegan & gluten free) Unlimited tea & coffee, water refills, and a self catering kitchen. There are also food delivery option available.

Our lessons are one hour long, and this is long and tiring enough for most people. As we teach privately our instructors work you really hard and you should expect to have no rest period during this hour. You will catch a wave, paddle back and get ready to catch the next wave almost straight away.

Depending on your level will depend on the structure of the lesson. Beginner lessons start with a thorough explanation on the sand of how the equipment works, safety and the pop up technique before heading not the water. All other lessons will give a brief outline and some practical warm up on the sand before heading into the water to put your newly learnt skills into practice. The instructors will guide you throughout the lesson giving constant feedback and tips on how you can improve.

We teach mostly private lessons - this means that you will be taught in your booking group, we don’t usually mix bookings together (unless you are happy to do this and would prefer to learn alongside someone else, and it works with timings). We define private lessons as one instructor to one student or one teacher to two students. We pay our instructors per person per lesson as they have to do more work for two people so our prices are the same. If you book as a group or pair of different abilities we can give the right amount of instructors to teach at the levels you need.

We offer surf lesson only packages as well as surf and sleep packages.

We have a wide range of surfboards for beginner and intermediate surfers. We have high quality soft top foam boards ranging in size from 9ft-6ft (the smaller ones are great for children) You can start your surfing journey on these boards and get your balance easily before either working down in size or changing to a hard board. We have NSP hardboards that range in size form 8”6-6”8 for beginner and intermediate surfers. The boards are designed to help you catch green waves easily so you can really practice perfecting your technique.

Surfboard rental is included in the surf lessons and we also offer surfboard hire for outside of lesson time.

We can recommend excellent yoga classes close by. We can also arrange tours and whale watching.