Be The Change

You Have the Power to Make the Surf Safer. 

Here are some examples how you can help:

• Fitness & Injury Prevention — Download the free Surf Injury Prevention programme, created by surfing physios to maximise your fitness and time riding on your board. 

• Emergencies — Sometimes you just need be prepared. Learn how to deal with challenging orunforeseen situations, injuries and critical moments in the surf or at the beaches with  our educational platform. With units ranging from “medical green horn” to “Experienced Team Doctor”. 

• Get Certified — You might want to go full hands-on and experience Surf First Aid, rescue techniques and more in the water and at the beach? We got you covered in one of our many live training formats ranging from our 1-day basic courses for the everyday surfer to full blown intense week-programmes for health care workers. 

• Become Active — Want to shape the future more actively? Become an affiliate or partner of Surfing Medicine International. Or become part of our unique global family of volunteers.

• Environment — Learn what you can do to help preserving the oceans, which are your playground and marina life’s habitat alike. We partnered with the Plastic Soup Foundation and hold membership of the Plastic Health Coalition  to help keeping our beloved oceans blue.  

Excellence in Surfer’s health & safety

 No matter if you are running a surf school, performance centre or remote surf resort in the tropics, you work daily on the frontline with surfers in your care, contributing to Surfer’s Health & Injury Prevention.

Working in the middle of surf community you have the perks of endless swell, SMI understands as well it also comes with a responsibility to safeguard the lives of Surfers.