A collaboration camp · North Shore, Oʻahu
Five days of performance coaching with Rainos Hayes and Shayden Pacarro, out of our house on the North Shore. A maximum of six surfers, grouped by level rather than age. You leave with your technique rebuilt, a way to think in the water, and your boards dialled.
The camp
Most surf camps put you in the water and hope. This one is built the way a coach builds a season: work out what is actually holding you back, give you something specific to do about it, and film it so you can see it change.
You get two coaches, not one. Rainos Hayes has coached far beyond this coastline — Championship Tour surfers including Italo Ferreira, Gabriela Bryan and Seth Moniz, and more besides, around the globe. Shayden Pacarro coaches alongside him all week: a professional surfer who competes on this stretch of coast and reads it better than anyone. Both of them are in the water with you, every day.
And we cap it at six. Not because six is a marketing number, but because it is how many people two coaches can actually watch, film and correct in a session.
The mechanics — where you stand, how you load, what your rail is doing. Coached from the beach and from the lineup, filmed every session, and broken down the same day while you can still feel what you did.
Every session comes with a task. Not “go surf” — a goal that belongs to you and where you are right now. It can go as far as small competitions and heat strategy: wave selection, priority, reading a clock. Train the way surfing’s top athletes actually train. This is the part almost nobody teaches, and it is usually what separates two surfers of the same ability.
Board talk starts before you fly. What you ride and what it is doing to your surfing — and if you want, Shayden and Rainos will help you order a small quiver built for this trip and these waves. Sorted in advance, so you are not losing camp days to the wrong equipment.
Your coaches · 01
Hawaiian surf coach. A career spent developing surfers here and on the world tour.
Rainos coaches the way very few people do — technically precise, but mostly about how a surfer thinks. He will give you something to work on that is yours, and he will keep you honest about it for five days.
He over-delivers, every time — he stays in the water long past the point where most coaches would call it a day. That is simply who he is, and it is the reason we wanted his name on this.
Your coaches · 02
Professional surfer. Hawaiian waterman. Island-raised, and at home on this coastline.
Shayden coaches every day of the camp alongside Rainos. He reads a lineup the way most people read a room — which break is working at seven in the morning, where to sit, which one of the set is the one to take. He competes on this coast through the winter, so what he is teaching you is what he is doing himself.
He is also the one calling the days, running the water safety and getting the group to the right place at the right time. And he is a father building a life here on purpose, which is the reason a week with us feels like a family rather than a booking.
Film coming soon
The film
Two and a half minutes inside the house you would be staying in.
Shayden walks you through it — the rooms, the gym, the quiver on the rack, the garage where the bikes live and the video gets reviewed. No drone reel, no stock footage. Just the place, as it is, on an ordinary morning on the North Shore.
The last thirty seconds are the part worth staying for: what the week actually does to your surfing — your training, your board, your breathing, and the footage you go home with.
Shot vertically, so it plays best full screen on a phone.
Who it’s for
We build each camp around ability, not birthdays. A fifteen-year-old and a forty-five-year-old who surf at the same level will get more out of a week together than two people who happen to be the same age. Mixed ages in one camp is normal here, and it is deliberate.
Parent and student is an option. If you want to do this alongside your kid — same camp, same coaching, same water — tell us when you book and we will build the group around it. For a lot of families that week ends up being the point.
Tell us honestly where you are when you book. We would rather place you correctly than flatter you into a group that doesn’t suit you.
The format
Monday lands and Saturday leaves, which gives you five days of actual experience rather than a week that starts on Tuesday and ends on Thursday.
We start on your equipment before the camp does. What you ride now, what it is doing to your surfing, and what to bring. You arrive already sorted.
Land in the morning, settle into the house, and get in the water the same day. First session is as much about us watching you surf as it is about coaching — that is how the rest of the week gets built.
Dawn conditions call, session with a task, filmed. Back to the house, food, video review. Second session when the ocean gives one. Both coaches are in the water with the group daily, and neither of them watches the clock.
Communal dinner at the house. Board talk, contest stories, and the part of a coach’s knowledge that never comes out in a lesson.
One last surf and the final review, then flights out from the afternoon. You leave with your footage and a written plan for what to work on next.
The dates
A maximum of six in each. October is when the North Shore starts to wake up — real waves, without the winter circus that arrives a month later.
Book your flight to land at Honolulu (HNL) around 8–9am on the Monday. That timing is what makes the first afternoon a surf instead of a transfer. We take it from the airport.
Book your return for any time after 2pm on the Saturday, so you get the final session and the last review. Check out is that morning.
Please don’t book flights outside those windows without talking to us first — the camp is built around the whole group being in the water at the same time, and an odd arrival costs you a session you paid for.
The base
Three bedrooms, two baths, and a full personal gym on site. It sits directly across the road from Velzyland, so the ocean is a barefoot walk and the whole coast — Pipeline, Sunset, Waimea — is inside twenty minutes.
Lodging, food, transport and all the coaching are in the price. Beach cruisers in the garage. You bring boards and a wetsuit top if you feel the cold; everything else is handled.
It is our family home, not a rental we manage from a distance. That is the difference you feel on the third evening, when the week stops being a trip.
What’s included
Rooms & rates
Everything above is included at every rate — the coaching, the week, the transport, the food. The only difference is where you sleep. Same for both camps.
Two shared rooms, four beds between them — four spots available. The usual choice, and the one that fills first.
The master bedroom to yourself for the five nights. One per camp, so it goes to whoever books it first.
The master shared by two people for the five nights — whether your partner surfs the camp or comes along for the island. One room, one price.
Six surfers maximum: four shared beds plus the master. Not included: flights, board bags and excess baggage, travel insurance, and anything you book off your own bat while you’re here.
Pay in full to hold your place. We’ll be in touch within a day to talk boards, level and travel — the camp starts with that conversation, not on the Monday.
The master is one room — solo or shared, whichever sells first takes it, and both buttons close when it goes.
Same camp, same coaches, a week later. Six places, and the master again goes to whoever takes it first.
The master is one room — solo or shared, whichever sells first takes it, and both buttons close when it goes.
Every place sells until it is gone — when a camp fills, its buttons close on their own. Paying by bank account rather than card saves roughly 2.9% in processing; both options appear at checkout. Questions first? Talk to us.
Imua Ohana × Rainos Hayes
Danielle Zirkelbach & Shayden Pacarro · Haleʻiwa, North Shore Oʻahu
808.308.4660 · daniellezirk@gmail.com · imuaohana.org
