Surfing is hard.
How it started
Surfing Is Hard started the way most surf businesses actually start — fixing mates' boards in a shed because nobody wanted to wait three weeks and pay for a patch job. Word got around, the shed got busier, and eventually it became a proper workshop in Tweed Heads West.
Surfing background
Decades in the water between Snapper, Duranbah, the Tweed bars and the beaches south of the border. Good days, flat weeks, a lot of dawn patrols and a lot of broken boards to show for it.
Boards and repairs
PU and epoxy, dings through to snapped boards and full restorations. We'll tell you honestly when a repair is worth doing and when your money is better spent elsewhere. That's not salesmanship, it's just how you'd want to be treated.
Local knowledge
We surf here. We know which bank is working, when the Tweed is a mess and where to send someone who's had three surfs in their life. That knowledge is free — it comes with the board.
The philosophy
Surfing genuinely is hard. Learning it, finding waves, dealing with gear, fixing the thing you just snapped. None of that should stop you getting in the water. Our job is to remove the annoying parts so you can go surf.
We know surfing.
We know boards.
We know the local area.
"And we reckon getting into the water should be the easy part."