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🇺🇸 Est. 2015 by Veterans, for Veterans
🌊 Surf Therapy
🧘‍♀️ Yoga
🧠 Mental Health & Wellness
📍Charleston, SC

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You don't have to be a surfer to belong here.

Actually, plenty of people in the Warrior Surf community aren't.

Some come to yoga.
Some volunteer.
Some own a Charleston business that decides to get involved.
Some show up to an event with a friend.
Some stand on the beach and cheer.
Some help carry boards, serve food, take photos, or stick around afterward talking in the parking lot.

Surfing is one of the things that brings us together.

But belonging has never required a surfboard.

If you've been following along from somewhere around Charleston wondering whether there's a place for you in this community, there probably is.

Come as you are. We'll see you around. 🤙

#CharlestonSC #FollyBeach #Lowcountry #CharlestonCommunity #WarriorSurf #VeteranCommunity by @warriorsurf

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a month ago

Charleston, your Halloween plans just got competitive. 🎃🏐

For the first time ever, Warrior Surf is trading surfboards for volleyballs.

Spook & Spike Beach Volleyball Tournament is coming to Folly Beach on October 31, and we're teaming up with Nomad Fitness + Yoloha Yoga to make it happen.

👻 Costumes encouraged
🏐 5v5 beach volleyball
🤙 All skill levels welcome
🔥 Every team gets at least 3 games
🍻 After-party when we're done

Grab four friends, come up with a team name, make the costumes as questionable as you'd like, and meet us on the sand.

📍 Logan Hall Memorial Courts • Folly Beach
⏰ Check-in 8 AM • Tournament 9 AM–2 PM
🎟 $125/team • $25/player

Tag the four people you'd put on your team. 👇

Registration → link in bio.

#FollyBeach #CharlestonSC #CharlestonEvents #FollyBeachSC #BeachVolleyball #HalloweenCharleston #SpookAndSpike #WarriorSurf by @warriorsurf

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Somewhere along the way, being an adult started to mean being productive all the time.

And play became something we squeezed in. If there was time. If everything else was done.

But play isn't just for kids.

It's a chance to move without measuring performance. To laugh at yourself. To spend time with people without needing an agenda.

Sometimes it's surfing. Sometimes it's yoga. Sometimes it's five adults in Halloween costumes trying to keep a volleyball from hitting the sand.

Different activities. Same opportunity to connect.

At Warrior Surf, we see how powerful it can be to give people a reason to show up, try something new, and experience something together.

When was the last time you did something just because it was fun?

#WarriorSurf #CharlestonCommunity #FollyBeach #CommunityWellness #VeteranCommunity by @warriorsurf

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3 days ago

Charleston, we'd love to have you at the table. 🌊

On November 20, we're gathering at The Waverly for Tides of Hope — an evening of connection, generosity, and support for the Veterans and families who are part of Warrior Surf Foundation.

The evening includes a cocktail dinner, auction, and keynote from Dan Cnossen, retired Navy SEAL and Paralympian.

And while the event itself is one night, what it makes possible reaches well beyond it.

Every ticket supports free surf therapy, yoga, wellness coaching, and community for Veterans, active-duty service members, and their families.

We'd love for you to be part of it.

🎟️ Tickets are available now through the link in our bio.

📍 The Waverly, Charleston
📅 Friday, November 20

#TidesOfHope #WarriorSurf #CharlestonSC #CharlestonEvents #VeteranCommunity Lowcountry taken in Charleston, South Carolina by @warriorsurf

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4 days ago

Well, Charleston. That escalated quickly. 👻🏐

Our first-ever Spook & Spike beach volleyball tournament is officially SOLD OUT!

12 teams are coming to Folly Beach on Halloween morning for costumes, questionable volleyball decisions, and a whole lot of community.

Didn't get a team together? You're not off the hook.

Come watch. Cheer obnoxiously. Support your favorite team. Hang out with us at Pinky's afterward for live music and drink specials.

Because you don't have to be on the court to be part of this.

📍 Logan Hall Memorial Courts, Folly Beach
📅 Saturday, October 31
⏰ Check-in begins at 8 AM

Big love to Nomad Fitness and Yoloha Yoga for helping bring this one to life.

Charleston, we'll see you on the sand. 🤙

#FollyBeach #CharlestonSC #SpookAndSpike #BeachVolleyball #CharlestonEvents #WarriorSurf by @warriorsurf

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5 days ago

Twelve weeks looks different from the inside.
It's early mornings and sandy feet.

It's falling off the board. Getting back on. Trying again. And then coming back the next week to do it all over again.

It's surf sessions and yoga. Conversations on the beach. Laughing while boards get loaded up. Hanging around a little longer afterward.

And somewhere in all that repetition, something changes.
The faces that were unfamiliar in week one aren't unfamiliar anymore. The beach feels different. Showing up starts to feel like something you do together.

Our final Warrior Surf class of 2026 is getting close to the end of its 12 weeks.

Graduation will mark the end of the program.
We're much more interested in what they carry with them afterward.

Almost there, crew. 🤙

#WarriorSurf #FollyBeach #CharlestonSC #VeteranCommunity #VeteranWellness SurfTherapy taken in Folly Beach, South Carolina by @warriorsurf

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8 days ago

We know what we see on the beach. Now we're measuring it.

For years, we've watched what can happen when Veterans spend 12 weeks surfing, practicing yoga, working with wellness professionals, and building relationships with one another.

But seeing change and measuring it are two different things.
That's why Warrior Surf is working with the College of Charleston to study what happens across our 12-week program. Researchers are looking at measures ranging from sleep, stress and heart-rate variability to mental health, quality of life, strength and balance.

The research is still underway, which means we're not here to tell you what the results say yet.

We're doing the work to find out.
Because if we're serious about helping people, we should also be serious about understanding how, where and why change happens.

We'll share more as we learn more.

#CharlestonSC #CollegeOfCharleston #VeteranWellness #SurfTherapy #WarriorSurf #CharlestonCommunity by @warriorsurf

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10 days ago

Halloween on Folly has always been a little different. 🎃🌊
We have the receipts.

This year, we're trading a few surfboards for volleyballs and adding something new to the Halloween lineup.
Spook & Spike hits Folly Beach October 31 with Nomad Fitness + Yoloha Yoga.

Grab four friends. Come up with a group costume of questionable judgment. And don't worry if your volleyball skills aren't quite as impressive as this bunny's surfing.

🏐 5v5 beach volleyball
👻 Costumes encouraged
🤙 All skill levels welcome
🔥 At least 3 games per team
🍻 After-party
💵 $125/team

Every team helps keep Warrior Surf programming free for Veterans, active-duty service members and their families.
Halloween on Folly. We wouldn't have it any other way.
Grab your team → link in bio.

#FollyBeach #CharlestonSC #CharlestonEvents #HalloweenCharleston #BeachVolleyball SpookAndSpike WarriorSurf taken in Folly Beach Pier by @warriorsurf

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12 days ago

Charleston is part of this, too.
Yes, our Veterans surf on Folly Beach. But zoom out a little and you'll see an entire local community wrapped around the program.

The volunteer carrying boards. The yoga teacher rolling out mats. The restaurant feeding everyone after an event. The business sponsoring a team. The person standing on the beach cheering. The friend who showed up once and somehow never really left.

None of those things are the 12-week program on paper.
But they're part of what participants experience when they get here.
Because community isn't just something that happens around Warrior Surf. It's part of what makes Warrior Surf work.

People come for surfing, yoga and wellness coaching. They also find familiar faces. Places where they're expected. People who notice when they show up. Reasons to come back.

Warrior Surf happens here because Charleston keeps showing up for it.
And that's something we don't take lightly. 🌊

#CharlestonSC #FollyBeach #CharlestonCommunity #WarriorSurf #VeteranCommunity by @warriorsurf

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14 days ago

Someone show this to @wsl ASAP 🏄🤘

Awesome time shredding with our crew the other day. Shoutout to @warriorsurf for the lessons! Appreciate everything you do... we’re getting there. 🤪 #localssummer by @warriorsurf

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14 days ago

Some of the best parts of the community aren't on the calendar.
Lately, some of the women in our Warrior Surf community have been gathering on the beach for full moon circles. 🌕

No surf lesson. No finish line. Just time outside, together. Because one of our favorite things to watch is what happens when the relationships formed here start creating a life of their own. People keep meeting. Keep checking in. Keep finding reasons to gather.

Programs can create the opportunity for connection. Community is what people build from there.

And Folly isn't a bad place to do it.

📸 @rittenhouse.photography

#FollyBeach #CharlestonSC #CharlestonWomen #Lowcountry #CharlestonCommunity #WarriorSurf by @warriorsurf

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17 days ago

What happens after the first wave?
A lot, actually.

Warrior Surf isn't a surf lesson with a wellness program attached to it. Over 12 weeks, participants move through surf therapy, yoga, wellness coaching, and a whole lot of time spent alongside people who keep showing up with them.

Each piece does something a little different. Surfing asks you to be present. Yoga creates space to notice what's happening in your body. Wellness sessions give you tools and language to take beyond the beach. And doing all of it alongside other people creates something that's harder to put on a schedule: connection.

The surfboard may be the most visible part of what we do.

It's just not the whole story. 🌊

#WarriorSurf #CharlestonSC #FollyBeach #VeteranWellness #SurfTherapy CharlestonCommunity taken in Charleston, South Carolina by @warriorsurf

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