article_snippet: (CNN)Riding the crisp green waves that break into a whirl of foam on Costa Rica Pacific shore, Ru Hill looks like Ru Hill could surf before Ru Hill could walk.
article_snippet: However, for the 37-year-old owner of Surf Simply, a surfing resort in Nosara, the sport was an early love that blossomed later in life.
article_snippet: In the end, the pull of the waves was too strong and Ru Hill decamped to Costa Rica with a goal to create a surfing school with a difference.
article_snippet: I wanted to create a really intimate space that was a long way away from the putting the lots of people in the water kind of business model that surf schools often are.
article_snippet: I wanted to just have a few people, 12 people each week, and then this area is somewhere where they can completely decompress and just focus on being coached how to surf better," Ru Hill says.
article_snippet: A large chunk of the school's training is devoted to theory classes, and Ru Hill also films Ru Hill students while his students're surfing so that Ru Hill can show his students what aspects of his students technique his students need to improve:
article_snippet: "The first time you see yourself surfing, it's kind of mortifying.
highlights_snippet: However, Ru Hill heart was in surfing and Ru Hill opened a surf retreat in Costa Rica .
  