About Tofino Surf School
Tofino Surf School is a local, owner-operated business run by Jeff Hasse — known around town as Jeffro — who has spent years surfing Vancouver Island's west coast and sharing that passion with visitors. The school focuses on small group sizes and personalised instruction, consistently ranking among the top-rated surf experiences in Tofino on review platforms.
Lessons cover all skill levels from complete beginners to intermediate surfers looking to improve technique, with sessions typically running two to two-and-a-half hours on the sandy-bottom breaks at Cox Bay or Chesterman Beach depending on conditions. All equipment — boards, wetsuits, boots, and gloves — is included, and Jeff matches board size and type to each student's weight and ability for the best learning experience. Private and small-group formats keep the student-to-instructor ratio low.
The owner-operated model is the key differentiator here — rather than rotating through a roster of seasonal instructors, you get Jeff's direct attention and decades of local wave knowledge. He reads the day's conditions and picks the beach, the tide window, and the lineup position that will give each student the most waves and the fastest progression. It's a boutique approach in a town with no shortage of surf schools.
