Our Story
Sahara Surf is a registered surf company based in Taghazout (Tamraght) Morocco, specialised in organising surf trips to all Morocco’s best surfing destinations. Sahara Surf was set up in order to keep doing what we love – going on surf trips, looking for new surf spots, surfing the best waves, and mainly to give our guests with a truly Moroccan surf experience.
We have a reputation for surfing the best waves, qualities of surf that people don’t think exists in Morocco. With over a decade surf guiding and exploring Morocco’s coastline, the experiences and local knowledge of the Sahara Surf team give us the advantage to score the best waves on our coastline on any given day.
Sahara Surf was established by Abdelilah Yafi who has lived on the coast of Agadir from the age of seven. During his fifteen years professional experience as a surf guide and surf instructor he’s done everything from guiding pros, giving kids and adults their first experiences of surf, to coaching junior surf teams. Holding a UCPA International Surf Instructor qualification with a current Moroccan Civil Protection life saving certificate Abdelilah is fluent in Moroccan Arabic, French and English.
Sahara Surf is truly run by a local and works with local guides and businesses. To find out more about us and the places we go to with our guests log into our Facebook page Sahara Surf.
The Team
Abdelilah
Founder and Main Surf Guide
Morocco’s coast line has been Abdelilah’s playground since he moved to Agadir aged seven. During his fifteen years professional experience as a surf guide and surf instructor Abdelilah has done everything from guiding pros to giving kids and adults their first surf experience to coaching junior surf teams. He is a UCPA qualified International Surf Instructor and has a current Moroccan Civil Protection life saving certificate. He has done over 150 Sahara Tour in the past few years discovering new surf spots and places. Abdelilah is fluent in Moroccan Arabic, Berber, French and English.
George
Manager and surf coach
Born in the UK but has lived all over the world with a very varied history chasing waves all over the world. George visited Taghazout back in the mid 90’s. He is an ISA level 2 surf coach and level 3 Surfing GB coach as well as level 2 ISA Judge.
George has been coaching for nearly 10 years from beginner to Elite competitive teams, with a wealth of experience there’s nothing he can’t teach you. As an Elite surf coach he also deals with other aspects of training from physical surf fitness to proper diet for energy and surfing and will be able to take you all the way as far as you can go. George speaks English, French, Spanish, Arabic and a little bit of Swedish.
