"Surfing shouldn't be a guessing game. It should feel like the 45 minutes after a session — fresh, focused, and clear on what to fix next."
RideGuide is a surf-coaching app that turns any clip you upload — a phone video, a GoPro chest mount, a friend's drone shot — into a maneuver-by-maneuver breakdown. Bottom turn. Cutback. Snap. Floater. Re-entry. Air.
We built it because every other coaching app makes you review the footage yourself. Which is, uh, the hard part. We flipped that: you hand us the clip, we hand you the notes.
Because watching your own surf footage is brutal. And nobody has time to re-watch a 90-second wave thirty times before sunrise.
Specific, timestamped notes (what we do) vs. squinting at your phone screen (what you do at 6am). Backed by 40 years of motor-learning research.
Drop the wave, get a full breakdown in under a minute. No more "I'll look at it tonight."
Three sessions a month forever. $9 if you want unlimited. No "trial" nonsense.
You upload. We watch. You pick a mode. We analyze. You surf better.
Three surfers who kept reviewing the same waves with their friends and eventually built a way to do it without arguing. (Honestly, we spent more time building this than we did surfing. But our cutbacks are sharper now, which feels like a win.)
Used to make zines in high school. Now makes interfaces. Longboard kook. Lives on cold-brew and sunrise checks.
Built his first app at 14. Pre-med dropout turned full-stack engineer. Writes all the vision bits. Can't catch a left.
Turned her local surf crew into a 200-person Discord. Now does the same at scale. Speaks four languages, three badly.