Your Base Camp for Adventure.
Ocean View, AC, private kitchen & bath.
Direct town access, 2 minute walk to the ocean.
7:00am-10am swimming pool & pickleball mini
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Oasis Pass to Replenish
surf yoga - sauna - ice plunge - carve board - 25 yard lap pool - apneic training area - breathwork - meditation - music - community - pickleball - Slackline
About Us
1. Surf Lab Suites
- Rent one of 7 fully serviced apartments with private bath and kitchen.
- Comfort - Modern ocean view air conditioned apartments.
- Clean & secure
- Walking local in town & beach
- Flexible Surf and Wellness Stays
- Concierge Service for transportation, tours, lessons, videos, fishing, boat trips, surf guide, surf lessons, surf coach, sight seeing, whale
- Rent one of 7 fully serviced apartments with private bath and kitchen.
- Comfort - Modern ocean view air conditioned apartments.
- Clean & secure
- Walking local in town & beach
- Flexible Surf and Wellness Stays
- Concierge Service for transportation, tours, lessons, videos, fishing, boat trips, surf guide, surf lessons, surf coach, sight seeing, whale turtle & dolphin watching.
- Health Oasis - Passes to health & wellness amenities and available training for all levels at Surf Training Lab
- Culture - We focus on hospitality. **we focus on clean top notch hospitality, and direct access to town. And concierge you directly to "All Local Partners" for your truest cultural experience**
San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua receives 300 days a year of all day offshore conditions, culture, music, and a friendly local community.
We also offer packages for groups, and longer term packages for elite, novice, & rehabilitative surf conditioning & coaching.
We regularly support the local and national surf community. Surf Coaches and Pro Surfers from around the world are welcome to visit, with or without their students.
3. Health Oasis & Surf Training Lab
Non- surfing and surfers of all levels love our full range of health and wellness amenities. Whether you are a Surf Lab Suite guests who just wants some pampering, or you are looking to program a more intense or longer experience, and work directly with our experts, you will leave feeling refreshed.
Surf Training Lab unleashes your potenti
Non- surfing and surfers of all levels love our full range of health and wellness amenities. Whether you are a Surf Lab Suite guests who just wants some pampering, or you are looking to program a more intense or longer experience, and work directly with our experts, you will leave feeling refreshed.
Surf Training Lab unleashes your potential to be your best. You will feel supported as we love to work together and push each other to train our strength, flexibility, stamina, mobility, breathwork, meditation, balance board, carver board, ice plunges, sauna, pool trainings, breathwork and other recovery and meditation techniques, creativity, playing music, yoga, etc.
The power of the group unleashes all of our potential.
Our Health Oasis "Surf Training Lab" started when a retired professional athlete/physiologist/bio-mechanist/yoga instructor developed an individual intensive surf fitness regime, then shared it with locals for half a year (3 hours/day 5 days/week). The Locals (all senior members of San Juan del Sur's surf community, Surf Coaches & Surf Judges for the national circuit) who give so much to our Nicaraguan juniors and surf community got in the best shape of their lives. Receiving the gift, their own bodies and surf stoke returned, they continue to pay it forward to our community and with you.
We all love to watch surf movies, have a salsa class, spend time at the beach, see live music and eat out. But when we add in some pickleball, a swim, sauna or ice plunge, practicing yoga , play, surf, skate, recover, and even playing music, we just feel better. And we want to share that with you.
Our Clients become lifelong Friends in & out of the water.
3. Our Credentials, Expertise
Claudia from Nicaragua keeps everything going. When you don't see her at Surf Training Lab, you can find her on the beach filming. If you are lucky enough to get one of her edited videos, its a wonderful share for your family and friends back home.
Jason's Credentials/Expertise:
As a 55-year-old surfer who started surfing at age 10, my res
Claudia from Nicaragua keeps everything going. When you don't see her at Surf Training Lab, you can find her on the beach filming. If you are lucky enough to get one of her edited videos, its a wonderful share for your family and friends back home.
Jason's Credentials/Expertise:
As a 55-year-old surfer who started surfing at age 10, my resume includes degrees in exercise physiology/biomechanics and a lifetime of coaching. At age 11 I was training horses and giving riding lessons to adults and children (developing my skill to see body positions and verbalize corrections). Later, I was a sponsored elite cyclist, runner, yoga instructor, and enveloped many other sports in which I competed and coached. I worked in physical rehab with athletes and lay persons; and as an athlete and later career firefighter I had my share of personal injuries which I rehabilitated myself. As I watched professional surfing evolve, I noticed more and more top surfers were prioritizing their surfing fitness by integrating the training modalities which I had been using for years. I combined many resources to create a surfing training routine to surf at my optimal level with guys half my age. My formal studies and personal experience of feeling sports movements in my own body, is supported by a natural aptitude for understanding the bodies anatomy, physiology & biomechanics, and being able to communicate that position and feel to others. Returning to my roots of coaching, I enjoy training others and sharing these techniques. I enjoy watching those I coach get Stoked. I enjoy building friendships and a community of students and participants who become friends and return often.
4. Our Vibe
Welcome to Surf Lab Suites & Surf Training Lab.
It’s the surfer’s journey — your way.
Roots
I didn’t grow up surfing to make a living at it. Surfing wasn’t a business, a competition, or a way to get sponsors. For me, it was health, friendship, and freedom. It was being in nature, sharing waves with friends, playing at the beach, and just be
Welcome to Surf Lab Suites & Surf Training Lab.
It’s the surfer’s journey — your way.
Roots
I didn’t grow up surfing to make a living at it. Surfing wasn’t a business, a competition, or a way to get sponsors. For me, it was health, friendship, and freedom. It was being in nature, sharing waves with friends, playing at the beach, and just being in the moment.
In the 70’s and 80’s surfers weren’t stars or jocks. We were outsiders, kids with skateboards and boards strapped to old cars. We didn’t film ourselves or chase likes — we just surfed. Maybe our athleticism carried us more than polished technique, but it didn’t matter. It was about style and fun. That was our surf culture — the art, music, parties, skipping school, warm summer nights, sun kissed skin and sun-bleached hair. Trips to baja, fish tacos, and camping on the sand. Those are my surfing roots.
Why Flexible Surf/Wellness Stays
Today, the surf world is filled with packaged camps, rigid itineraries, and people who come for the experience but miss the essence. Most camps bus you out, surf you for a couple hours, feed you at a buffet, and then repeat — all for a small fortune. It can feel less like a journey and more like a transaction.
Surf Training Lab was built to be the opposite. This is not a typical surf camp; it started as lifelong surf and travel friends who also aged and stayed fit. It’s more your perfect base camp you can return to annually. We built it for ourselves and then to share with you.
Here, you can stay in comfortable apartments with friends and choose add-ons like yoga, road trips, or surf video analysis, and move at your own rhythm. If the waves are firing, surf right here. If you want to explore, we pack up and road trip, sleeping over on the road, scoring different breaks, and sharing meals together.
It’s flexible, personal, and real — like surfing should be.
What We Offer
At Surf Training Lab, you’ll find:
• Accommodations: First-class, laid-back apartments where you feel at home.
• Wellness & Recovery: Sauna, ice bath, pool, yoga, and space to recharge.
• Surfing: From daily local sessions to three-day road trips with locals who know the spots.
• Training: Optional biomechanics, physiology, and surf-specific coaching rooted in decades of expertise.
• Culture: Food, music, community, and time together off the water.
You choose your path. Whether you’re here to push your surfing with top-notch coaching or simply relax into the ocean lifestyle, your experience is yours to shape.
Our Philosophy
Surfing comes in seasons. Some years my best friend Jason and I live out of cars, surf dawn to dusk, and push ourselves into peak condition. Other years, like when he brought his kids, it’s about family, barbecues, parties, and mellow daily sessions. Both seasons are equally valid. Both are part of the journey.
That rhythm is what Surf Training Lab honors. Here, you can come for the intensity or the ease, the training or the culture. You can go as deep or as light as you want.
Because at its core, surfing is not just about waves. It’s about living. It’s about freedom, culture, music, friendship, and joy. That’s what we’re protecting and sharing here.