Welcome to Mantra Surf Club!
Namaste. Welcome to the Mantra Surf Club. We made history as India’s first surfing club and are passionately dedicated to the pastime of surfing, introducing surfing in India, and introducing India to the international surfing community.
The Mantra Surf Club was started in 2004 by Jack Hebner and Rick Perry who as kids had begun surfing themselves in 1963 at Jacksonville Beach, Florida, USA. Back in the old days both Jack and Rick were members of North Florida's first surf club, Oceanside, and were among the pioneers of surfing on the East Coast of the United States. Later they pioneered surfing in India.
Surfing as a pastime, or as a way of life generally promotes health and spiritual well being and helps to make one a better individual. As they say, "Surfing isn't just about getting in the water and catching a few waves, it's about something much deeper than that. It's about a spiritual experience.” For many surfers, the spiritual experience of surfing led to seeking higher enlightenment, a type of surf yoga, and for some of us that search led us to India where yoga and spiritual enlightenment has been an all-encompassing way of life for thousands of years.