Read it before you drive

Fistral is a different beach at every state of tide.

What the beach does through the tide
Tide	Beginners	Improvers	Notes
Low	Poor	Fair	Long walk out, waves break hard on a shallow bank.
Low to mid	Good	Good	The best two hours of most days.
Mid	Good	Very good	Cleanest shape. Busiest, for the same reason.
Mid to high	Fair	Good	Waves get fat and close to the wall.
High	Poor	Poor	Backwash off the sea wall. We do not teach on it.

What we look at

Two to four feet at twelve seconds is the sweet spot for a lesson. Anything over five and beginners are not going out.

Offshore or nothing. A cross-shore wind of more than fifteen knots ruins the shape whatever the swell is doing.

See the table. Low to mid is what we book around, which is why lesson times move every day.

Nine degrees in March, eighteen in September. It decides the suit, not whether we go.

Someone is in the shop from eight. We would rather spend two minutes on the phone than have you drive down for nothing.