all the system requires for being employed as a surf instructors is the accreditation. but they do not work together so to speak. you are made to a certain amount of coaching hours for free to gain full accreditation (20hours) if you were to do you course through Surfing Queensland you can not get you hours signed off by ASI. as Surfing Queensland would not accept this. not sure if it goes vice versa with ASI to SQ.
other places also run surfing instructor courses that are not affiliated through Surfing Australia.
i only employ instructors that have done there course through Surfing Australia.
they are the most professional course providers imo
there are about to have a stand up paddle course soon but it is pointless on the gold coast as gold coast city council have told all surf schools on the coast they are not to teach sup off open beaches. or so i was leaded to believe.
but rivers and creeks A ok

in QLD you need Surf Bronze, ARC, First Aid, Blue Card and the surf instructors cert.
I know in Vic second instructor on lessons after ratio goes over does not require surf instructors cert. but that is only in Vic i think.

IMO surfing australia and all there state groups are a bunch of ex surfers lining there pockets ,control freaks, accreditation is a course, they just want all the money, they direct people to you and you still pay after the course is complete, they just keep taking. , if they dont like you they dont give you work. Surely they can fit in with other acceditations to help the sport. SUP is so hard to teach, ha ha, --- andrew stark who is the main person of sa , make sure you dont bend over and pick up the the soap ! My daughter has the other course , the inferior one, she teaches for both sides.

Hey Brownie,

This is a tough one, there are so many things to consider and what will be appropriate for you in the future. I'm a surf instructor on the Goldie who gained accreditation through a private national training organisation that was using the national units of compentacy ( this governs all training institutions in Australia including Aus Surfing and ASI). I also teach SUP but without an accreditation because I'm still deciding on who would be best.

Things to take into consideration:
• Most councils take both accreditations if registering a business, but as Rollo pointed out not all surf schools except both accreditations.
• Australia's first SUP Governing body which is still being put together by some of our industry leaders in SUP have ASI as the educator on their website.
• Surfing Aus and it's state bodies already have a good association with councils, state governments and 99% of the surf schools that also run SUP.
• Jamie Mitchell helped design the ASI program.

I've nearly made my decision but I'm just holding off for a little while.

green menace said...

IMO surfing australia and all there state groups are a bunch of ex surfers lining there pockets ,control freaks, accreditation is a course, they just want all the money, they direct people to you and you still pay after the course is complete, they just keep taking. , if they dont like you they dont give you work. Surely they can fit in with other acceditations to help the sport. SUP is so hard to teach, ha ha, --- andrew stark who is the main person of sa , make sure you dont bend over and pick up the the soap ! My daughter has the other course , the inferior one, she teaches for both sides.

are you chanllenging me for the title of "most negative person on seabreeze" ???

the reality is you pay money and time and keep doing so to keep your accreditation to be an instructor for the the privilege of bugger all hours at a low rate and be responsible for peoples safety like in the fitness,skiing, diving whatever industry. it only kinda pays off if you have your own business
look long and hard at the reality and forget the 'glamour' before committing