Parent of Luke Wyler (17-year-old junior competitor)
As the parent of a 17-year-old surfer who has been working with Matt for 7 years now, I have a deep appreciation for his many talents and qualities as a coach and mentor. There’s no one whom I would rather entrust the mentorship, development, support and guidance of a surfer from being a young unsponsored grom, through his adolescence and amateur surf career, and now into a young professional competitor. Having worked with a number of other great coaches, I will also share how rare it is to find someone who has combined expertise in both improving the surfer’s abilities AND success in competition. Coaches usually fall into one of those two buckets, but Matt is great at both. Everything from preparation, reading line ups, understanding scoring, priority tactics, energy and emotional state management, and the many other dynamics that are involved in performance is covered when working with him.