Learn Windsurfing & Wing-foil in Maui (Ho'okipa & Kanaha)

Honest level: Beginner -> Instructor — ask the school exactly how far that goes in the time you have.

Masters & lineage

• Robby Naish (lineage)
• Alan Cadiz (HST)

Why Action Sports Maui

• ★ 4.8/5 · 138 reviews on TripAdvisor ↗

— don't take my word, check it yourself

Reviewers repeatedly name specific instructors like Martin Verrastro as patient teachers, and praise the school's beachfront setup at Kanaha's sheltered morning bay where instructors can stand in the shallow water to coach beginners directly.

Schools in Maui (Ho'okipa & Kanaha)

Checked by hand against each school's own course pages. No school paid to be listed.

• HST Windsurfing & Kitesurfing School
  Three-Day Learn-to-Rip kitesurfing course covering kite setup, launch, landing, waterstarting and harness use; progressive multi-level windsurfing lessons also offered
  Founded by Alan Cadiz in 1985 and based at Hi-Tech Surf Sports in Kahului, HST teaches windsurfing, kitesurfing and wing foiling for beginner through advanced sailors.
  https://hstwindsurfing.com/
• Action Sports Maui
  Private and group beginner windsurfing lessons at Kanaha Beach Park, beginning with a land-based safety and wind-theory briefing followed by on-water instruction
  Established in 1996, Action Sports Maui runs daily windsurfing, kiteboarding and wing lessons at Kanaha Beach Park using stable beginner boards and sails matched to the student's size.
  https://actionsportsmaui.com/
• Hawaiian Sailboarding Techniques
  Progressive windsurfing lessons from beginner shortboard fundamentals to intermediate waterstarting, harness, footstrap and stance training
  Hawaiian Sailboarding Techniques, established by Alan Cadiz in 1985, is the same operation that now trades as HST Windsurfing & Kitesurfing School at hstwindsurfing.com.
  https://hstwindsurfing.com/

The credential

VDWS Windsurf / Wingfoil Licence & Instructor Certification · Certifying body: VDWS / IWO (International Windsurfing & Wingfoiling Organisation)

A recognised qualification an outside body stands behind is not the same as a certificate a school prints itself. We name which it is — you should ask the school the same.

Also for Windsurfing & Wing-foil

What I check before I send you anywhere

I'm Arnaud. I cook for a living, and I've spent fifteen years on the water — so I know the difference between a real school and a good-looking website. I built the Atlas because I got tired of the second kind. Here is what a place has to clear before it goes on here, and what I'll tell you straight when it doesn't.

• The craft is actually alive there. A working scene, with people who do this every day — not a demo put on for visitors.
• There's a real teacher behind it. Named, still practising, and certified where the craft has certificates.
• The credential is what it claims to be. A state diploma and a certificate a school prints itself are not the same thing. I check which, and I say which.
• I tell you how sure I am. Most pages here are verified by hand. A few say "still checking" — I'd rather admit that than pretend.
• Nobody pays to be here. No commission, no selling the trip. The order on this map is the strength of the community, never the size of the wallet.
• If I wouldn't send a friend, it isn't on the map.