Welcome to Port Macquarie Surf School

Meet the team from Port Macquarie Surf School.

Port Macquarie Surf School is locally owned and operated by the “Huddos”; the well-known father and sons team of Peter, Wayne and Grant Hudson. All born and bred in Port Macquarie, the Huddos are accomplished surfers in their own right with over 90 years of surfing and just on 50 years of coaching experience between them. They know the local beaches like nobody else are more than ready to pass on their experience and knowledge to all surfers, from beginner through to the high performance surfer.

Port Macquarie boasts some of the most the picturesque beaches on the East Coast. And, with a little help from Port Macquarie Surf School, it’s the perfect environment to quickly master all the skills you need to confidently take on the waves of your own local break. The thrill of riding a wave is an experience you’ll never forget and remember, you don’t have to be young to enjoy this great Aussie experience. We cater for all ages and abilities.

Peter, Wayne and Grant are all Level 2 accredited coaches.

Peter Hudson

The most senior member of the “Huddo“ family is Peter AKA: “the Grey Ghost”.
Peter started surfing at the age of 9 and has never stopped. That’s more than half a century of riding waves so you could say it is in his blood. Peter began surf coaching in 1981 and currently holds a Level 2 accreditation. He’s also a founding member of the Port Macquarie / Hastings Disabled Surfing Association.
Since his first surfing competition way back in the 70’s, Peter has travelled extensively around Australia to win numerous “short” and “long board” titles. From 1989 with his first NSW Open Longboard win, right through to 2008 when he was crowned Over 55’s NSW Longboard champion, Peter has dominated the NSW competition scene with titles and championships too numerous to mention.

Peter is also a five time Australian Champion.

• 1988 Australian Open longboard Champion
• 1988 Australian Over 35’s shortboard Champion
• 1997 Australian Over 45’s longboard Champion
• 1998 Australian Over 45’s shortboard Champion
• 2002 Australian Over 50’s shortboard Champion

Peter’s vast experience and boundless energy also sees him compile daily surf and weather reports for www.coastalwatch.com and he can be heard daily on local radio station 2MC FM with his comprehensive surf reports.

Wayne Hudson

Wayne has always loved the water, getting into swimming and nippers early on until the surfing bug took hold. In 20 years of surfing Wayne has travelled and competed in many surf events across Australia.

• 2000 NSW Open surfing champion
• 2006 Australian Surf Lifesaving Champion - Open Mens Surfboard riding and runner up in 2004 and 2005
• 2007 NSW and Australian Over 28 surfing champion
• 2008 NSW Over 28 NSW State surfing champion

Wayne also experienced success on the professional World Qualifying Series (WQS) for a number of years in Europe, Asia and South Africa.

Wayne has been the Mid North Coast Regional Director for Surfing NSW and was Contest Director for the NSW State Masters Titles held in Port Macquarie for the past few years. He has an Honours Degree Bachelor of Environment Science and is now busily involved in the family business venture of Port Macquarie Surf School as a Level 2 accredited Surfing Coach.

Grant Hudson

During his younger years Grant was actively involved in swimming and surf lifesaving, representing at both state and Australian levels and earning gold medals in both sports.

Grant has been actively involved in competitive surfing now for over 15 years and in his junior days was fortunate to be coached by some of the best in the world (Martin Dunn, Matt Grainger, Ian Portingale and Eddie Valedares). At only 14 years of age Grant obvious talent was rewarded when he was selected to be part of the NSW Institute of Sport’s surfing program in Sydney, which he attended for 3 years.

From the age of 17 Grant travelled overseas to Europe, Hawaii, Asia, South Africa, USA and South America and for the next 6 years competed successfully on the professional WQS surfing circuit .He then returned home to participate in the family business of Port Macquarie Surf School.

Just some of Grants impressive competition and coaching credentials include;

• 1996 Australian Surf Lifesaving Champion – Under 18’s Mens Surfboard riding
• Grant was a World Qualifying Series (WQS) competitor for 5 years
• 1998 -Runner-up of the Ocean & Earth Hot Buttered Pro Junior, 2nd overall in the Australasian Junior Series, 1st Quiksilver Pro Junior, 3rd Brothers Neilson Pro Junior
• Grant also went on to represent Australia in the World Junior Titles in Bali in 1998
• 1999 Grant earned the title, Hastings Council Junior Sportsperson of the Year
• In the initial stages of his Level 2 coaching career Grant attended Surfing Australia Casuarina Coaching Camp on a voluntary basis to obtain greater skills and guidance from Sasha Stocker, Tony Pope and Eddie Valedares
• Selected by Surfing Australia as assistant coach to Sasha Stocker for the 2004 & 2005 Mark Richards Camps as well as coach for all High Performance and SEP Camps in 2005
• NSW High Performance Coach for Surfing NSW – co-ordinates training camps
• 2005 Australian Coach - Under 16 boys Australian team World Junior Surfing Titles held at Huntington Beach, California
• 2008 Australian Coach - Under 16 boys Australian team - World Junior Surfing Titles held in France where the Australian team won gold!!!!
• 2009 Australian Coach – Team Australia for the World Junior Surfing Titles held in Ecuador where the Australian team won gold!!!!
• 2009 Australian Over 28 Surfing Champion
• 2010 Australian Coach - Team Australia for the World Junior Surfing Titles currently being held in New Zealand

If Grant can’t teach you to surf, nobody can.

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Port Macquarie Surf School is a Licensed Surfing Australia Surf School. Surfing Australia has been the national governing body for Surfing in Australia since 1963. It’s a non-profit organization, which closely monitors the safety and quality of coaching in its schools. If you don’t see the Surfing Australia logo at your Surf School – this means that their Surf School could not pass the high standards Surfing Australia requires.