Our Story
Ride with the Wave is a Surf Project focused essentially on the happiness and well-being of everyone!
This project was born out of a surf trip back in 2014 to São Vicente, one of the Cape Verde Islands, of the coast of Senegal in Africa.
A beautiful story about letting yourself go with the flow!
Tania Laje is a certified surf instructor by the Portuguese Surf Federation. After some years working as a free lancer surf instructor, she decided to start her own surf project.
Living abroad between Portugal and the Canary Islands, where she kept developing her work with surf lessons, surf therapy and adapted surfing, giving more growth and knowledge to the project, until she decided to go back to the Azores in 2018, and promote her surf lessons on the island where she was born.
Living abroad between Portugal and the Canary Islands, where she kept developing her work with surf lessons, surf therapy and adapted surfing, giving more growth and knowledge to the project, until she decided to go back to the Azores in 2018, and promote her surf lessons on the island where she was born.
About Surfing
Humans are drawn to nature, and surfing is a sport that relies on Nature!
It is dependent on the waves, timing of the day, the ebb and flow of the tide.
Surfing creates the feeling of something greater then oneself, the power of the ocean, the vastness and the scenery around us, which connects surfers to the Earth and each other.
There is a sense of healing that comes from the Ocean, from the salt water itself or the peace one feels while in the vast blue Sea.
It is dependent on the waves, timing of the day, the ebb and flow of the tide.
Surfing creates the feeling of something greater then oneself, the power of the ocean, the vastness and the scenery around us, which connects surfers to the Earth and each other.
There is a sense of healing that comes from the Ocean, from the salt water itself or the peace one feels while in the vast blue Sea.
We believe on the Ocean´s natural therapeutic benefits, together with the practice of ridding the waves, provides not only an overall fitness to the body but as well an incredible happiness to each one.
Surfing is not only a sport, but a connection with nature and oneself!