About us

Meet the team

**Mark Reeves (Owner Founder)**

Living and learning to Surf in Huntington Beach L.A. California and travelling to the best surf beaches worldwide, added to Mark’s natural love of surf and the ocean. This coupled with his work with the Wave-project, a charity helping kids and young adults Surf as a therapy for mental health, inspired Mark to create and launch Shaka Surf Branksome Beach Water-sports in 2015, with over 35 years Surfing experience.
Level 1 & 2 ISA Surf Instructor/Surfing England/ RLSS Lifeguard.
Mark is also a Teacher Assessor for Surfing England, He mentors and trains all new Surf instructors on the south coast.
Nick name **Owen Wilson or Rod Stewart**

**Alex Worrall**

Alex has been with Shaka for 2 years now and is a awesome new recruit. ISA Surf & Sup Instructor/ RLSS lifeguard.
His legendary Shaka Surf reports are a big hit on socials.
Alex has the most calming voice and a brilliant instructor. He also is amazing on a skateboard.
Nickname **‘Alex The Lion”**

**Jonny Tutton**

Jonny has been with Shaka on and off since when we opened in 2015. In between his travels surfing all over the world, Jonny is a ISA Surf Instructor & SLSGB Surf Safety lifeguard trained for over 10 years, One of the most experienced instructors at Shaka. Jonny is also fluent in Spanish.
Nick name Jonny Coral (formally Jonny Tree-Trunk)

**India Mccrudden**

India has been with Shaka for 3 years now She is a ISA Surf Instructor with a SLSGB Lifeguard certified. Great addition is India came from Branksome Lifesavers and we trained her to become a ISA Level 1 Surf Coach. India has incredible strength and swimming ability. She’s always happy to be teaching and in the Ocean, India has been teaching Surfing all winter in Byron Bay Australia in 23/24, she starts back at Shaka in June when she comes home.
Nickname “**India The Machine**”

**Daina Bosch**
Daina has been a SLSGB lifeguard at Shaka for 2 years and now has just passed her Surfing England Surf/Sup Instructor qualification Level 1.
Daina grew up and learnt how to surf on the coastline of South Africa. This really engraved her love for the ocean from a young age, she has been involved in lifesaving and water-sports for over 10 years. Daina holds a SLSGB Lifeguard award and Surfing England Surf Instructor qualification.
Nick name **Daina Mouse**

**Harry McPhee**

Harry has spent months doing nothing but surf. If he’s not teaching young and old alike to surf, he’s improving his craft at the closest beach with waves. Harry spent 8 months on the gold coast teaching Surfing /Sup at Snapper Rocks, Australia surrounded by some of the best and has worked for Shaka for 7 years now.
Harry is also a Postman Full time, so only teaches some Sundays when he’s available now.
Nick name “**Harry The Hammer”**

**Rupert Parkin**

Rupert has been with Shaka for 5 years now after coming back from coaching at Bondi Beach in Australia, As all of our Instructors he is a ISA Surf Instructor with a SLSGB Lifeguard certified. Great calm confident Surf Coach everyone likes. His nick name is “**Posh** Rupert” for his legendary “Posh Surf Report” He speaks the Queens English very well.. Lead coach at Shaka this season 2022, Rupert is going travelling in 23 so will be available when in the UK. Rupert is now in his final year at Uni studying Marine Biology. so only teaching rarely at Shaka this year 2024.
Nickname Posh Rupert

“Shaka Surf isn’t just any old surf school, we are the only accredited “Surfing England”Surf School in Dorset.
We offer a variety of water sports and we’re set up on the golden sands of Poole and Bournemouth Bay, on a seven mile stretch of beautiful golden sand. The award winning water offers great waves or great flat water fun - beautiful Blue Flag beaches, that are dog friendly all year round. All our instructors are ISA fully qualified with SLSGB lifeguards qualifications taken yearly , and all have a passion for the ocean, our customers, and our service.

I learnt to surf when living in Huntington Beach, L.A California many years ago. Having travelled the world surfing, I was inspired to create and launch Shaka Surf to help others enjoy the water as much as I do.

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