Nuclear summer trades pin the queen wave event of the PWA World Tour to this lava-rock bay, drawing the planet's heaviest-wind wave-sailing cohort to push the discipline's limits.
The sailboard has two American beginnings. In 1964 Newman Darby of Pennsylvania built a rudderless board with a pivoting sail. The version that spread came from Santa Monica, California, where Jim Drake and Hoyle Schweitzer founded Windsurfing International in 1968 and were granted a joint patent for the rig in 1970; by 1984 it was an Olympic sport. The wing is newer. Tony Logosz of Slingshot tested his first wing prototypes in the Columbia Gorge in 2011, Flash Austin tried handheld wings on foils in Maui in 2018, and by 2019 they were on sale. Maui is where windsurfing is most alive today, and where the wing on a foil was made into a sport. At Ho’okipa the Aloha Classic closes the world wave tour each autumn; in 2025, its 41st edition, Marc Paré left as world champion for the first time.
Sail the heaviest wind on the tour, in the lava-rock bay that hosts the PWA queen wave event.
One school, and one world-tour week: the Professional Windsurfers Association's 2026 calendar puts a five-star wave World Cup on Gran Canaria from 4 to 12 July. ⚠ It names the island rather than this bay, so what is established is that the island is on the tour and that the company here assembles around it.
Living sceneRecord holderMeccaWho teaches itClinics: Javi Espin Loira, Valentino. their teacher page ↗
Pozowinds is a windsurf, wing-foil, SUP and surf school and rental center based at Pozo Izquierdo, Gran Canaria, running multi-day windsurfing courses and clinics for beginners through advanced riders on the Bahia de Formas flatwater and nearby wave spots.
Facts read on the school's own pages, 17 Sep 2026.
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