About

Hi, I’m Giles. I’ve devoted my entire life to Adventure sports... I’ve spent years living on Skydiving Drop-zones as a professional skydiver and I love Snowboarding, Motorcycling, Paragliding and Scuba. When I moved to California in search of adventure I met my good friend Mateo. He’s a BIG adventure sport enthusiast and has been Surfing, Skateboarding, Motorcycling, Paragliding, Free-Diving and Racing Cars for most of his life.

Throughout our lives we’ve met both world-class adventure sports champions and weekend warriors. We’ve worked with hundreds of instructors, some of whom were amazing and others who were awful… by this we mean schools who just want to take your money and instructors with BIG EGOs and poor judgement.

In fact, most people’s experience of learning an adventure sport is often down to chance… you either get lucky and are guided in the right direction or you're unlucky and end up wasting hundreds of dollars with instructors who have BIG EGOs and poor judgment.

The New York Times recently published an article stating that 40,000 adventure enthusiasts a year get injured as a result of poor judgment and that most of these injuries could have been avoided.

… and the news gets even worse, this trend repeated in the world of Scuba, Surfing, Paragliding and a multitude of other adventure sports.

The philosophy behind The Real Heads Up is to save you a ton of drama, a ton of money and most importantly allow you to have way more fun while learning an adventure sport. Imagine a method to shortcut the process of learning a new adventure sport by giving you specific insider knowledge in hours rather than years.

We will help you identify Bad instructors from Good ones. In fact you'll not only be able to pick the best instructors, you'll learn how to choose the best schools, get the best deals on equipment and learn how to properly care for your gear. You'll also receive tips from the pros and secret psychology insights from the world’s best athletes!

We cover the following sports:

Surfing, Stand Up Paddle, Motorcycling, Skydiving, Paragliding and SCUBA.