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WINDSURFING HOLIDAYS AROUND THE WORLD

There is no better way to improve your windsurfing than at a clinic abroad. With daily tuition, ideal windy conditions and warm water,  you’ll see yourself improve far faster than the odd windsurf here and there back home. 

We select some of the best locations in the world for our windsurfing holidays. With the ultimate conditions, we deliver fully dedicated coaching and a truly fabulous time. Discover our holidays and accelerate your progression.

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COURSES AND HOLIDAYS

Proven professional coaching in six stunning locations.Join us on our next windsurf trip aboard!

ALL HOLIDAYS

Sat 22 Feb - Sat 1 Mar 2025
Tenerife
Style: Freeride + Freewave + Multi-sport
Level: Intermediate, Advanced
Fri 7 - Sat 15 Mar 2025
Bonaire
Style: Freeride
Level: Improver, Intermediate, Advanced
Sat 15 - Sat 22 Mar 2025
Bonaire
Style: Freeride
Level: Improver, Intermediate, Advanced
Sat 29 Mar - Sat 5 Apr 2025
Bonaire
Style: Freeride
Level: Improver, Intermediate, Advanced
Sat 5 - Sat 12 Apr 2025
Bonaire
Style: Freeride
Level: Improver, Intermediate, Advanced
Tue 27 May - Sun 1 Jun 2025
FeelViana
Style: Freeride + Freewave + Multi-sport
Level: Intermediate, Advanced
Sat 14 - Sat 21 Jun 2025
Alacati
Style: Freeride
Level: Improver, Intermediate, Advanced
Sat 21 - Sat 28 Jun 2025
Alacati
Style: Freeride
Level: Improver, Intermediate, Advanced
Sat 28 Jun - Sat 5 Jul 2025
Alacati
Style: Freeride
Level: Improver, Intermediate, Advanced
Sat 23 - Sat 30 Aug 2025
Prasonisi
Style: Freeride
Level: Improver, Intermediate, Advanced
Sat 30 Aug - Sat 6 Sep 2025
Prasonisi
Style: Freeride
Level: Improver, Intermediate, Advanced
Sat 27 Sep - Sat 4 Oct 2025
Prasonisi
Style: Freeride
Level: Improver, Intermediate, Advanced
Fri 10 - Sat 18 Oct 2025
Mauritius
Style: Freeride + Freewave
Level: Intermediate, Advanced

WHERE ARE OUR WINDSURFING HOLIDAYS?

We carefully choose our location based on their natural conditions. To cater to every level, we choose spots that are either perfect for getting blasting for the first time or an introduction to waves.

ALACATI

Nestled on the coast of Turkey, Alacati lives up to its reputation of being the Bonaire of the mediterranean. Like the Caribbean Island, this premier location offers reliable winds and perfect flat-water spots ideal for all skill levels.

With our Windwise Skills Training System, professional photo and video analysis, and dedicated 1-2-1 coaching, you are guaranteed to progress in a place like this.

We run 3 back to back clinics here and never get bored. Alacati’s stunning scenery and lively culture are a part of the experience, making it the ideal host of our engaging socials and adventures.

BONAIRE

We host our windsurf clinics in Bonaire because it’s simply stunning. The colours, knee-to-waist deep lagoon and super flat water creates the perfect place to get around those gybes. You’ll be surprised with how quickly you’ll waterstart and blast confidently when you’ve come to the right place. Our Warrior ethos pushes your turning, giving dry fast tacks and progressing in all levels of gybing.

Beyond the water, Bonaire’s has a welcoming social scene, fabulous restaurants, and  breathtaking sundowners. It’s the most beautiful and productive Windwise coaching location, offering the perfect environment for improving your skills and making lifetime memories. 

FEELVIANA

FeelViana is a multi-sport paradise on the stunning west coast of Portugal. The huge bay offers flat water and optional waves, perfect for our Windwise coaching experiences and pushing your confidence to the next level. 

Here you can enjoy Freeride blasting, wave sailing, and other activities like SUP, foiling, winging, eBiking, and surfing. FeelViana is much more than spot, it’s a luxurious eco spa hotel, with its gym, spa, sauna, and sunset pool; ideal if you have a non-windsurfing partner. 

MAURITIUS

Our most tropical location, Mauritius, is the ultimate windsurf holiday. We run our clinics in Le Morne, Mauritius, which boasts a perfect lagoon and optional small, medium, and large Indian Ocean waves.

Coming here as an intermediate or advanced windsurfer means you get to make the most of what Mauritius is so famous for offering. With targeting coaching and the Windwise method, you’ll develop, expand and challenge your skill set. 

PRASONISI

Prasonisi, Greece, is someone you have to see to believe. It is our top pick for windsurf clinics because it provides a fantastic Freeride windsurfing haven. With vast sandy flat water on one side and the choice of waves on the other, you can take your flat water skills into the waves in a matter of minutes. 

With complete coaching, high-quality analysis, and gauranteed progression, Prasonisi is ideal for improves, intermediates and advanve. The extremely flat water and slightly cross-offshore Meltemi winds ensure easy blasting and gybing.

TENERIFE

The Canary Isands is the perfect escape from bitter winter cold. For us windsurfers, there is one destination in mind:Tenerife’s El Medano. The large freeride bay is ideal for warming up and training over the winter. This intermediate to advance spot builds confidence and essential skills. 

With plenty of friendly waves, learning to wave ride is what El Medano is made for. After all that on-water fun, nothing hits the spot quite like tapas and a cerveza. Book your windsurf trip with us.

FAQS

About Windwise

You get an unparalleled experience

You’re getting the knowledge, expertise and enthusiasm of one of the worlds most experienced coaches, Simon Bornhoft.

Simon has personally coached well over 6,000 windsurfers. He’s seen, tried and coached just about every single windsurfing style, tip and technique out there.

His intuitive ability to instantly identify where things are going wrong, is matched by the ability and desire to give you the exact solution, skill set and the quickest progression path to match your level, style and aspirations.

The Windwise system has been published in articles all over the world. But there’s nothing better than getting it live on the water with Simon and his team.

Check out more about Simon and his team here.

 

Which course is right for you?

Beginners to Improver

If you’re new to the sport or you’re looking to lock down the real basics, these courses are perfect for you. 

Run by our trained Windwise coaches, they can assist you through the beginning and early stages of the sport using proven Windwise windsurfing coaching techniques to speed up your learning curve. We have 1 to 2 day windsurfing courses and our very popular overseas windsurfing holidays.

  • Good Locations: Bonaire / Alacati
  • UK Course: Any Hayling Beginner-Improver Courses 
 

Improvers to Intermediate Freeride Courses

Introducing, explaining and building the essential windsurfing skills using the Windwise coaching system. 

Simon Bornhoft we’ll help you develop and improve all areas of your windsurfing.  Quick beach and waterstarts, relaxed stances, quality control, the earliest of planing, controlled harnessing and blasting in the straps, better upwind sailing, quicker tacking and learning how to gybe.

  • Good Locations: Bonaire / Alacati / Prasonisi
  • UK Course: Any Hayling Improver – Intermediate Courses 

 

Intermediate to Advanced Freeride Courses

Want to break that plateau, extend your wind range, increase speed and consistency in those gybes and learn other achievable short board skills and moves? Then this is the course for you.

Simon Bornhoft will guide you through sailing smaller boards, tacking in stronger winds/lower volume boards, cranking up those carve gybes, control-jumping over chop, or having some fun with optional feasible freestyle like flat water wave riding, duck gybes, helitacks, up and downwind 360’s etc.

  • Good Locations: Bonaire / Alacati
  • UK Course: Any Hayling Intermeediate – Advanced  Courses 

 

Freewave, Wave & Loop Courses

If you’re looking to get into waves or develop existing wave sailing skills you wave then our Freewave & Wave courses are the perfect environment to take you to the next level – which is far more accessible than you might think.

We run through high wind control, sailing sub 100L boards, uphauling, tacking and hovering on semi submerged boards.

  • Good Locations: FeelViana / Mauritius & Prasonisi (has optional wave beach)
  • UK Course: Any Hayling  Freewave Courses or our West Cornwall Daymer & Gwithian Experiences

Common questions

If you’re new to the sport or you’re looking to lock down the real basics, these courses are perfect for you. Run by our trained WINDWISE coaches, they can assist you through the beginning and early stages of the sport using proven WINDWISE windsurfing coaching techniques to speed up your learning curve. We have 1-2 day windsurfing courses and our very popular overseas windsurfing holidays.

Booking conditions

Terms & Conditions

Windwise will do their best to ensure your safety and enjoyment on the water. There will be times when you’re being coached individually and in a group. There will also be times when you are freesailng by yourself, just like a regular windsurfing holiday-resort.

Windsurfing is, potentially, a dangerous sport and you must agree to sail in a responsible manner and in the designated areas outlined to you in resort.

In the event that Simon Bornhoft is not able to make the clinic/holiday or course due to illness or unforeseen circumstances, your Windwise booking and holiday are still valid and the course/holiday/adventure will still go ahead and another Windwise coach will be provided for you.

  • It is compulsory that you have third party windsurfing insurance
  • It is highly recommended to take out holiday insurance in case you have to cancel your holiday for any reason
  • Any disputes between Simon Bornhoft Windwise and it’s clients will be governed by UK law
  • Windwise balance payments for all holidays must be made 12 weeks prior to your holiday date.

Holiday Cancellation & Refund Policy

Being a small operation we have to pre-pay hotels and centres to get rates, plus there are associated costs for putting these courses on overseas.

So if for any unforeseen reason you’re unable to attend the clinic or experience holiday cancellation, airline cancellation, personal health issues, injury or any other personal reason or unforeseen circumstances that prevent you from joining the course, you will still be required to pay for your holiday. You can transfer your place to another person, but if you need to cancel and cannot find a replacement we will offer compensation under the following guidelines.

  • If Holiday is cancelled 3 months before departure a full refund is possible.
    (If we have pre-paid for a particular hotel or centre in your name and we cannot get a refund from them, then this amount will still be due)
  • Loss of full deposit if holiday is cancelled 2 months prior to departure.
  • 75% of holiday cost is still due if holiday is cancelled within 8-4 weeks before departure.
  • 100% of holiday cost is due if holiday is cancelled within 4 weeks before departure.