Surf coach · Lisbon area

I was European champion. Today my job is making you surf better.

I was born on Margarita Island and arrived in Portugal in 1999 with a board and no Portuguese. Now I coach across the whole Lisbon area: Costa da Caparica, the Cascais line, Praia Grande, Ericeira and Peniche. Wherever breaks best that day.

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Route A · Surf coaching

I want to surf better. For anyone, at any level.

One-to-one or a small group, on video, and I tell you exactly what you are doing.

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Justin walking to the water with two young surfers

Route B · Performance

My kid wants to compete. I know what the tour demands.

Technique, contest preparation and a season plan built around the FPS calendar.

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The record

Twenty years on tour. Every result has its source.

European champion 2004, Portuguese national champion 2022, 12 national tour wins.

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Misión Espacial

A session designed only for you. You bring the goal. I bring the route.

Spot, timing, equipment and plan — made to measure.

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2004

European professional champion

EPSA/ASP circuit

2022

Portuguese national champion

Grand Masters, Costa da Caparica

12 · 6th

National tour event wins

6th most in Portuguese history

2013

8th in the world, ISA World Masters

Representing Venezuela

Two ways of working with me

For you, or for your kid?

Route A · Surf coaching

I want to surf better

For anyone, at any level. Your first whitewater, the two-year plateau or polishing surfing that already works: the format is the same. One-to-one or a small group, on video, and I tell you exactly what you're doing.

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Route B · Performance

My kid wants to compete

Technique, contest preparation and a season plan. I know what the tour demands because I did it for twenty years. And I know what you must not demand of a fourteen-year-old.

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The Lisbon area

Five spots, one rule

We train wherever the ocean is best that day. I check the forecast the night before and text you. I won't waste your morning on a wave that's no good.

01 Costa da Caparica HOME BASE Home of the ASCC and the beach where I won the 2022 national title.

02 Linha de Cascais NORTH WIND From Carcavelos to Guincho: a whole coastline of options, minutes from Lisbon. It handles what the ocean beaches can't.

03 Praia Grande SOLID SWELL Sintra's serious sandbar — it holds size, and the Junior Tour stops here for a reason.

04 Ericeira NW SWELL World Surfing Reserve. I won there in 2003 and 2004.

05 Peniche ALWAYS WAVES Supertubos and twenty more peaks. When nowhere else works, Peniche works.

From the archive

Twenty years in the water

Competition, trips and the ocean in between. Photography by the people who covered the career: ONFIRE, Liga MEO Surf and André Carvalho.

Air over the rocks, Venezuela — © André Carvalho

Liga MEO Surf, Guincho — © Liga MEO Surf / ONFIRE

Evening lineup, Parguito — © André Carvalho

“A very modern style of surfing, in many ways ahead of the rest of the field.”

ONFIRE Surf Mag · on his first year in Portugal, 1999

The Portuguese press has been calling me the same thing for over a decade: o antigo campeão nacional e europeu.

In May 2026 I put on a competition jersey again at Ribeira d'Ilhas, in the Quiksilver Heritage Heat, alongside João Antunes, José Gregório and Paulo Rodrigues.

Full competitive record

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The water, this week

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Where you surf, how long you've been at it and what you'd like to change. I answer — not a form.

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