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January 9 2019

Surf & Positive Psychology Week

Zoltán Bakró Blog, Costa da Caparica, Surfing

Have you ever thought of recharging your batteries with some physical and mental activities?

But really, not just going to a yoga class or a run along the river…
Something like a one-week detox program in beautiful nature.
Or for instance, a week with surfing every day for your physical well-being and workshops in the afternoon about positive psychology – to work on your mind and soul.

This is what we offer in the Surf & Positive Psychology Week the last week of June (23-30 June). We will start our days with 2 hours of physical activity out in pure nature. Then a healthy breakfast to recharge the batteries for the afternoon where we’ll have the workshops with our friend, Ruud Crijns. His main topic will be positive psychology.

What is Positive Psychology?

It is the scientific study that has our personal wellbeing as an object of study: what makes us thrive? It focuses on what makes us happy but also on how to deal with the negative things in life. Although it is a relatively new field of psychology, there is quite some research going on.

The goal of positive psychology is a lot different from the goal of traditional psychology: not just repairing and healing the person with problems but focusing on the positive aspects of a person as his strengths and wellbeing.

In this week, we will focus on the following topics:

Monday: intro positive psychology, positive emotions, wellbeing (PERMA-model)
Tuesday: strengths
Wednesday: relationships
Thursday: psychological capital: Hope, Efficacy, Resilience, and Optimism (HERO)
Friday: open / topics to be determined participants, but for example: flow, forgiveness, (self-)compassion etc.

June 7 2018

How to get to Costa da Caparica from Lisbon?

Zoltán Bakró Blog, Costa da Caparica, Culture, Lisbon caparica surf, caparica surf house, Costa da Caparica, hullámszörf, lisbon surf, lisbon surf house, Portugália szörf

Since many of our guests combine their city holiday with a visit to Costa da Caparica, we describe how to get to our Lisbon surf house from the other side of the river.

Lisbon airport to Costa da Caparica:

Magnet shuttle: we offer airport pickups and dropoffs for €30/one way. Call us when your plane has landed and we’ll give your a ride!
Public Transport: There are buses leaving from the airport to Areeiro. Once you arrived there you can take bus 161 which will take you to the center of Caparica. Our surf house is located about 10-15 minute walk from the center. Route: https://www.rome2rio.com/map/Lisbon-Airport-LIS/Costa-da-Caparica
UBER: Unlike in other Europeans cities UBER is still legal in Portugal and definitely cheaper than a normal taxi ride. A trip from the airport to Caparica will cost you €18-24, depending on traffic. Make sure to download the app on your smartphone. A little help for the pickup location: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFHrQG0r7Sw
By Taxi: Same as an UBER, it will cost you about €30. Line up in the queue (you will surely find it) and tell the driver our address: Avenida do Oceano 35, Costa de Caparica).

Lisbon town center to Costa da Caparica:

Cais do Sodré: ferry goes to Cacilhas (every 10 minutes) -> bus from Cacilhas to Costa da Caparica (124 or 135).
From Belém: from the central station of Cais do Sodré you can take a train to Belém. From here ferry to Trafaria and from Trafaria bus nr. 129 to our street, Avenida do Oceano.

https://www.rome2rio.com/map/Bel%C3%A9m-Tower/Trafaria/Costa-da-Caparica

If you can’t find your way to Caparica or you are lost in Lisbon, give us a call at +351 939 311 285.

The Magnet Projects Team

November 2 2017

Hungasurf x The Magnet Projects | October Sessions

Zoltán Bakró Blog, Costa da Caparica, Lisbon, Portugal, Surf spots, Surfing, The Magnet Lodge Costa da Caparica, hungasurf, octobersessions, Portugal, surf teaching, surfhouse, themagnetprojects

Last week we had our first edition of the Hungasurf Sessions. The week was blessed with decent swell, clean conditions and great weather. We also had a chance to watch the Surfing World Champs.

Sunny days and good waves

Our guesthouse in Costa da Caparica welcomed the Hungarian surfers. This week was for intermediate surfers. They improved a lot on their wave selection, take-off technique and riding sideways on the wave. Dawn patrol and sunset sessions made our days so after dinner everyone was easily falling in their beds for a good night’s rest.

RipCurl Pro Peniche

We also had the chance to have a look at the World Championship Tour event in Peniche, the RipCurl Pro Portugal.

After watching the opening and closing days live at the beach, we’ve seen all the pros getting barrelled and doing some great surfing. First day was about huge barrels, finals day was more about progressive surfing. Julian Wilson and Gabriel Medina were having a really tight final. Eventually Medina came out as the winner with a buzzer beater. This result keeps the Brazilian’s World Title dreams alive: http://www.worldsurfleague.com/athletes/tour/mct?year=2017

Medina_getting_ready — Medina getting ready for his quarter final heat. He was on fire!

Surfing Safari

Besides the drive to Peniche we also searched around for spots in the area. We found some nice waves in Caparica, Riviera, Carcavelos, Guincho and Praia Grande. Highlight of the trip though was the world famous right hand point-break of Coxos. At the peak of the swell the 3 of us paddled out to be a bit intimidated, watch the pros getting pitted but also to test our braveness in bigger surf. We all had some ‘smaller’ waves so at the end of the session came out happy from the water.

Peiman and Matyi are getting ready to jump in while Zoli is on the first wave of the day.

It was a great week with Hungarian surfers, we will continue with these type of events and intermediate weeks in the future. We’ll keep you updated about the next Hungasurf Sessions. See you next year!