About Us



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Herman A. Hall IV
Surf Program Director
Kitty Hawk Kayaks Kayak and Surf School

          I have been working or playing in the outdoors all my life. I grew up surfing in Virginia Beach and the Outer Banks as a kid. As a teenager I worked for the Virginia Beach Lifesaving Service as an oceanfront lifeguard, which gave me basic first aid and safety skills and cultivated a deep awareness, respect and understanding of the ocean. After high school I started my surfing travels and have since surfed Puerto Rico, Mexico, Panama, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Spain, Morocco, Portugal, the Canary Islands, and Canada. I have also thru-hiked the Colorado Trail, a 500-mile backpacking trail across the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, and climbed many 14,000 foot peaks along the way. (http://www.coloradotrail.org/) I also enjoy swimming, spear fishing, camping, reading, and kayaking.

As an outdoor educator I worked for the Costa Rica Rainforest Outward Bound School (www.crrobs.org) for a year leading backpacking trips in the rainforest, volcano summit expeditions in Nicaragua, and 2 to 4 week long surf courses. The Outward Bound educational principles have profoundly impacted me as an educator, and I try to employ these principals in our kayak tours, surf lessons, overnight trips and Coastal Explorer Camps. Everyone can benefit from those principals of character development, compassion, community service, experiential learning, social and environmental responsibility, and of course challenge and adventure in the outdoors. These are a huge part of our school, tours, lessons and camps at the Kitty Hawk Kayaks Kayak and Surf School.
 
My educational and medical trainings are the following:

  1. BA in Spanish from the University of Colorado

  2. BA in English from the University of Colorado
  3. American Red Cross Lifeguard Certification
  4. American First Aid and CPR Instructor Certification
  5. Emergency Medial Technician: Basic
  6. National Outdoor Leadership School Wilderness First Responder
  7. Surf Instructor Certification: The National Surf School and Instructor Association
    8. www.nssia.org
Currently I am a high school Spanish teacher at First Flight High in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina. There I sponsor the Spanish Club, the Surf Club and the Global Help and Awareness Club. I volunteer for the local Surfrider Foundation Chapter as well to help protect our coastal environments for future generations. But best of all, I am married to my best friend and business partner, Heather, and we have two wonderful young children, Herman V and Nellie

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