Pre-surf hydration with five grams of essential amino acids and a balanced electrolyte profile. Sodium dosed for the surfer's sweat rate — not the desert runner's.
Shop Hydrating Aminos — R549/tub How it works →A two-hour surf loses around 0.3 litres of fluid per hour. A dose engineered for the Mojave or a Cape Town trail run is the wrong shape for that physiology.
Each grounded in published sports nutrition and hydration science. No marketing claims — just the substrate doing its job before you paddle out.
Around 400 mg per serve — inside the published 300–700 mg pre-exercise band for moderate-sweat-rate activity. Not the 1,000 mg dose engineered for desert endurance.
ACSM position stand · 2022The EAA fraction opens the SLC6 sodium-amino acid co-transport pathway — moving sodium and water across the gut wall faster, without the sugar that classical sports drinks rely on.
SupplySide SJ featureTwo grams of leucine in the pre-paddle bottle starts the muscle-repair signal before the eccentric load even begins. Useful for the 40+ surfer working against anabolic resistance.
Wall et al. · PMC 2015Zero sugar, low osmolality. The fluid empties from the stomach quickly. No sweet aftertaste. No sloshing as you punch through the first set.
Gastric emptying review · 2021EAAs deliver the complete amino-acid profile. BCAAs only deliver three of the nine — the assembly line stalls at the missing piece.
Wolfe · J Int Soc Sports Nutr 2017Plant-fermented amino acids. Made in Durban. SAHPRA-compliant manufacturing. No grey imports, no shipping waits, no exchange-rate maths on the label.
Bare manufacturingSurfer physiology is structurally different from runner physiology. A wetsuit at 16 °C dumps body heat into the ocean by conduction — roughly 25 times faster than the same body would lose heat to air at the same temperature. The thermoregulatory cascade that drives a runner's sweat onset at minute fifteen never properly arrives in the lineup.
The Caldwell (2022) study measured fluid loss in male recreational surfers over a two-hour session and found a mean rate of 0.3 L/hr — well below land endurance work. Most of that loss was respiratory and saltwater swallowing, not classical thermoregulatory sweat. The implication for electrolyte dosing is direct: less sweat means less sodium loss to replace.
Caldwell et al. · PMC9017998 · 2022Alarm goes. Cams checked. Coffee in one hand, steel flask in the other. The pre-surf hydration ritual is already there — it just hasn't been answered properly by what's on the SA shelf.
One scoop into the flask. Nine essential amino acids and a balanced electrolyte profile dissolve in cold water inside twenty seconds. No sugar. No grit. Goes in the bakkie with the board.
Sip on the walk in, finish on the paddle out. Sodium and water reach circulation via faster co-transport. Leucine pre-loads the repair signal. You come out feeling dialled, not heavy.
Plain-language breakdown of the EAA blend and the electrolyte profile. No proprietary blends. No fillers. Every milligram earns its place in the flask.
Stopped feeling heavy on the paddle out. That's the whole pitch and it works.
Doesn't taste like a salt lick. Drinks like water. Goes in the bakkie with the board, done.
Three sessions a week, second one used to feel rough. Doesn't anymore. That's the change.
No hedging, no marketing spin. Specific, science-led answers to the nine questions surfers ask most about hydration.
— Made to the SA regulatory bar
Three tubs of Bare Hydrating Aminos. R1,098 — the equivalent of R366 per tub. Mix the flavours: Citrus, Coconut Lime, Salted Watermelon.
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