TECHNICAL IMMERSION SUMMIT – 3 DAYS

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APNEA SURVIVAL™ TECHNICAL IMMERSION SUMMIT

12–14 February 2027

Surfing Australia High Performance Centre — Casuarina, NSW

THREE DAYS AT THE CUTTING EDGE OF TECHNICAL SURFING.

This is not:

• Another breathwork retreat.
• Another recycled strength and conditioning clinic. Or,
• Another surf-coaching seminar built from the same parroted playbooks.

The Apnea Survival Technical Immersion brings together a cheery picked, select group of world-class athletes, coaches and educators known for challenging convention, out of the box thinking and pushing their craft to levels far beyond the mainstream.

There will be:

No cookie-cutter programming.
No generic gym work.
No recycled coaching language.
No staying inside the box.

For three immersive days, participants will move between the pool, river, gym and classroom, exploring the systems that underpin performance in the surf, Apnea, breath control, paddling, technical surfing, rotational movement, conditioning, recovery, decision-making and emergency response.

THE PEOPLE BEHIND IT

JASON RICE — SURF APNEA™ / PERFORMANCE UNDER PRESSURE

Creator of Apnea Survival™ and Surf Apnea™, Jason brings several decades of lived experience performing under pressure, in and out of the water. Coupled with a decade of specific research, development, coaching and lived experience exploring apnea, breath control, stress physiology and human performance under pressure.

The Summit opens with the complete Surf Apnea™ Course, followed by further water-based apnea and performance sessions across the three days.

MICK DIBETTA — ALL PADDLING™ – PADDLE TECHNIQUE AND PERFORMANCE

One of the true OGs of prone paddling, Mick DiBetta is a multiple time World and Australian Paddleboard Champion and surfing hell man with decades spent at the highest levels of paddle sports. This is not generic surf fitness disguised as paddle training. Mick brings an extraordinary depth of understanding around paddling mechanics, efficiency, endurance and moving a human body over the water.  An unprecedented level of knowledge forged through decades of competition, experimentation and performance at world-championship level.

MIA HUPPATZ — TECHNICAL SURF PERFORMANCE / WAVEKI™

Professional WSL surfer Mia Huppatz brings a completely different lens to technical surf performance. Mia was personally coached and trained for 9 years by legendary surfer and coach Brad Gerlach in his WaveKi™ methodology and is Australia’s only accredited WaveKi™ Coach.

WaveKi™ is a proven method to learn surfing, allowing you to connect with your body and the waves, and fine-tune your surfing skills, from beginners wanting to learn a takeoff to advanced surfers who are fine-tuning specific habits and making their surfing as efficient as possible. WaveKi™ is a unique land-based approach that precisely targets what you’re wanting to achieve in surfing.

Mia brings a competitor’s precision to everything she teaches, with a love for making surfing beautiful and appreciating the art of surfing and also holds a Bachelor of Osteopathic Medicine, giving her coaching an added layer of precision and efficiency with movement and the body, not just technique.

Her workshop will dig beneath the visible manoeuvre into a unique perspective on the movement that creates it.  Rotation, sequencing, force transfer, body position and the subtle mechanics behind powerful, efficient surfing.

Less instruction by cliché. More understanding of how the body interacts with your board.

BEN “THE WANDERER” WATSON — ROPE FLOW / ROTATIONAL POWER / COILING

Former two-time Australian professional MMA bantamweight champion, Ben Watson brings an approach to physical preparation that sits well outside conventional linear strength and conditioning. As Australia’s only Weck Method™ rotational movement Instructor Trainer, Ben has trained directly and in person with Weck Method™ creator David Weck (inventor of the BOSU ball), bringing those concepts back through his own background in combat sport, movement and athletic performance.

Expect rotation loading. Core coiling. Fascial integration. Spinal Locomotion. Coordination. Elasticity. Spiralling force transfer. And a very different conversation about what training for surfing can actually look like.

TOM HASSALL — SURF SPECIFIC EMERGENCY RESPONSE

Registered paramedic, educator, adventure athlete and Deep Breath Institute founder Tom Hassall takes emergency medicine out of the classroom and puts it back where it matters. Tom’s experience spans frontline emergency care, professional whitewater kayaking, freediving, paragliding, aviation and remote environment operations.

His half-day practical workshop will focus on surf-related injury, resuscitation and emergency first response. His workshop will give you a First Aid Cert and develop the capability to think and respond outside the box when a normal day in the water suddenly isn’t normal anymore.

THIS IS A HANDS ON HIGHLY INTERACTIVE SUMMIT.

Participants will not spend three days sitting in chairs. They can expect to be fully engaged, mentally and physically across the following:

Surf Apnea™.
Pool training.
River paddling.
Technical surf movement.
Rotational conditioning.
Specific gym sessions.
Breath control.
Recovery.
Mobility.
Injury prevention.
Decision-making under pressure.
Surf specific emergency response.

Each discipline feeds the next. Because surf performance isn’t just about strength,  fitness, breathwork, paddling, or technique. It is what happens when all of these variables collide.

ONE PLACE. ONE TIME.

What makes this Summit a rare opportunity is who will be standing in the room together.

• A multiple World and Australian Paddleboard Champion.
• A professional surfer and coach personally trained by previously #1 ranked surfer and sensei Brad Gerlach.
• A rotational movement specialist trained directly by the worlds RMT guru David Weck.
• A paramedic trainer with a lifetime of lived experience bringing real emergency medicine into the surf specific environment.
• And more than a decade of Surf Apnea™ research and performance-under-pressure training, coupled with 3 decades of front line operational first responding.

Different worlds. Different disciplines. Different ways of seeing the same athlete. For three days, they converge at the Surfing Australia High Performance Centre. That’s never happened before.  And that’s the point.

The presenters have been selected because they don’t simply reproduce what already exists. They question it. Pull it apart. Test it. And look beyond it. This isn’t about teaching surfers what has always been done. It’s about exploring what’s beyond it and what comes next.

APNEA SURVIVAL™ SURF PERFORMANCE SUMMIT
12–14 February 2027
Surfing Australia High Performance Centre — Casuarina, NSW

NO BOXES. NO COOKIE CUTTERS. NO RECYCLED THINKING.

THREE DAYS IMMERSED AT THE EDGE OF SURF TECHNIQUE AND PERFORMANCE.

BE YOUR OWN DOLPHIN™ – BE HARDER TO KILL™