The 2025 GWA season is set to be bigger and better than ever with an expanded calendar in the FreeFly-Slalom and Surf-Freestyle disciplines that will travel to exciting new destinations on five continents worldwide.
The fan-favourite, the pure surfing Wave discipline is slated to enjoy three stops, returning to Sal island’s Ponta Preta break on Cape Verde in February, followed by Dakhla, Morocco, in October, with Ibiraquera, Brazil, again set to close out the season.
But the year will start with a bang with a new discipline, an Indoor World Cup that will showcase wingfoiling to a new audience at the world’s largest boat and watersports’ show in mid-January.
The boot Düsseldorf trade fair will host the first-ever invitational indoor wingfoil contest, featuring the world’s best athletes. The novel competition will be staged in an individual time-trial slalom format, with the wingfoilers powered by huge fans lining the 60 x 20 metres XXL pool.
The FreeFly-Slalom discipline is set to visit four new locations, out of the six stops scheduled. The season is set to open in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, in April, before moving to Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, a few days’ later.
Cancun, Mexico, and Dakhla are new stops on the FreeFly-Slalom calendar, set to join established favourites like Mondial du Vent, at Leucate, France, and Fuerteventura, in the Canary Islands.
The Surf-Freestyle calendar will follow a similar trail, but its five-event season will end the year in Tarifa, in October, before returning to the legendary Brazilian spot of Jericoacoara, in December, to close out the year.
It promises to be a bumper season. Stay tuned here to keep up to date with the schedule.
