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About

Clayton Nienaber.

Head coach · Shaper · Gold Coast

Clayton's spent thirty years asking the same question every time he watches someone surf: why are they moving the way they are, and what would it actually take for them to move differently? Not because he's looking harder than other coaches - because he's spent three decades training himself to see the pattern underneath the movement.

Former professional surfer and national team coach. Co-developed Spine-Tek technology with SHAPERS. Shaped for some of the most respected surfers in the sport, and - just as often - for people who've never set foot on a competition heat sheet and never wanted to.

He built one of the most engaged surf-coaching communities in the world, not with production budgets or algorithm tricks, but because the coaching was real and the people who found it knew it. That platform was acquired and moved on without him. What didn't get acquired was the part that mattered - thirty years of watching, thinking, and refining a way of coaching that can't be copied, because it was never a method. It's a relationship.

Clayton Surf is where that continues. These days it's a small, family run outfit - by design, not by accident.

Credentials
Former professional surfer
National surf team coach
Co-developer, Spine-Tek technology - with SHAPERS
Founder, Clayton Surf

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