There’s something truly extraordinary about the Aloha Classic at Ho’okipa: it delivers, every year, every time, and it delivers big. Today it delivered huge. Mast high waves were forecast, the whole windsurfing world was excited tuning into the live stream from all corners of planet earth, expecting a terrific opening day but it was even…

The IWT (International Windsurfing Tour) will host the annual Aloha Classic—the world’s most famous wave-sailing contest—right here on Maui, at Ho’okipa Beach Park! Riders will travel across the globe for the biggest event of the 2018 IWT season. Maui is where wave-sailing evolved, and it’s the place where wave-riding champions come to test themselves against…

We were expecting big things from the final day of competition here at Ho’okipa Beach Park, and we were not disappointed. The wind was blowing as soon as we got to the beach this morning and some mast high sets were still rolling through, so it was straight into the semi-finals and then finals of…

We had been waiting all week for the best conditions to come through, to complete this year’s Aloha Classic… and finally the wait was over. Mast high sets rolled through this morning, but the wind hadn’t quite appeared as everyone had hoped. After an anxious wait the rain started to clear and the wind came…