Credits Cooperations, references and thanks

Thanks for providing simply beautiful open-source icons. This website uses selected Feather Icons for clean and functional interface details.

Thanks for providing beautiful hand-crafted SVG icons by the makers of Tailwind CSS. This website uses selected Heroicons for interface details.

Thanks for providing open-source web fonts that make good typography accessible for independent web projects.

The language picker uses country flag SVGs sourced from Wikimedia Commons.

This website would not exist without the open web, open-source software and the many people who document, discuss, test and improve code in public.

Resources such as MDN Web Docs, GitHub projects, public documentation, developer forums and countless shared solutions have helped me understand HTML, CSS and JavaScript well enough to build and maintain this website myself.

Especially when using AI tools for code, it can be easy to underestimate the human work behind the answers. The foundation is still made of standards, documentation, examples, bug reports, discussions, libraries, tools and years of public problem-solving by developers around the world.

A lot of this work is done quietly, often voluntarily, and often without much recognition. Still, it forms the basis for much of what keeps the modern internet, websites and software development working every day.

freeCodeCamp helped me learn the foundations of web development and build this website independently.

Thanks to the OpenStreetMap community for creating and maintaining open geographic data that makes maps, routes and location-based services accessible far beyond a single platform.

OpenStreetMap data is used by individuals, websites, outdoor apps, navigation tools, public services, humanitarian projects and many other applications. Like much of the open web and open-source world, this work often stays in the background, even though many digital services depend on it every day.

This website uses OpenStreetMap embeds to show meeting point orientation for surf and surfskate lessons.

Thank you to everyone who has joined a lesson, trusted my coaching or returned over the years. Some of you came once, others have followed Take Off from the beginning, and some encouraged me to open my own school before I finally did.

Every student comes with a different background and different goals. That is one of the reasons why teaching never becomes boring. Thank you for helping Take Off keep developing by bringing your own way of learning into the lessons.

The best surfers and the best teachers have one thing in common: they share an attitude of continuous development, always wanting to learn from every day and every situation.

Thank you to all the people who have had an influence on my surfing and surf coaching along the way. Some of you might not even have noticed the impact you had.

One example is a comment during a training session with fellow instructor trainees: “Man, if you always paddled with the same effort you show when trying to reach the lineup before a clean-up set, you’d catch any wave.”

That one stayed with me forever. When you paddle away from a clean-up set, you give everything instinctively. When paddling into a wave, you sometimes have to flip that switch consciously.

For its work in promoting surfing as a sport and developing training programs, certification pathways and ongoing professional development for current and future instructors, coaches and judges.

I completed part of my required practical training with Tim’s surf school in Famara. For me, that meant learning from someone who helped shape surf coaching on an international level and was respected far beyond Lanzarote — and I am grateful to him and his team for giving me one of my first real steps into professional surf coaching.

Even though I only had a few brief conversations with him, one short talk about my own technical surf development changed a lot for me. It moved my thinking away from simply “spend as much time in the water as you can” towards a much more useful question: why and how does something work — or not work? Random trial and error leads to random progress. Turn it around.

What I admire even more today is that Tim was not only a surf school owner, but still a coach on the beach. When he was there, he taught. For me, that says a lot. His work was not just about running a surf business; it was about the sport, the teaching and the people in the water.

Tim sadly passed away in 2022. He is still remembered by many, and his Surf Insight content remains valuable for surfers and coaches who want to understand surfing better. In great memory.