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.
In 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
He was 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 at the World Junior Surfing Titles held at Huntington Beach, California
2008 Australian Coach - Under 16 boy’s Australian team for the 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 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.