Aloha Classic

The Aloha Classic is a yearly windsurfing competition at Ho'okipa Beach Park on the north shore of Maui, Hawaii, United States. Often it is part of the PWA Windsurf World Cup tour and of the American Windsurfing Tour (AWT).

The surfspot Ho'okipa is one of the best wave riding spots of the world. Therefore, the Aloha Classic is the wave riding world cup with the highest reputation. It takes place in fall, the time with the best waves. For a long time the Aloha Classic was a Grand Slam offering competition in all three of the PBA/PWA windsurfing disciplines wave riding, slalom and course race. Due to lack of sponsors the event could not always offer all disciplines or get the status of an official PWA world cup. Recently, only waveriding is performed, partially only running a competition for the men. In recent years, first the competition of the AWT took place, whose winners qualified for the open starting positions of the succeeding world cup.

For a long time a second competition was held in Ho'okipa, the Maui Invitational. 1994-1995 there was a third competition, the Chiemsee World Cup Maui.

With eight victories, Robby Naish is the most successful competitor in the wave contests at Ho'okipa, followed by Jason Polakow (4) and Mark Angulo (3). For the women this is Angela Farell (Cocheran) with seven victories in a waveriding, before Iballa Ruano Moreno (4) and Debbie Brown (3). (Status of 2015)

Competitions shaded grey were not counted as windsurf world cup.

In contrast to the Aloha Classic, the Maui Invitational takes part in spring time, when the trade winds are more reliable. This event was most of the time sponsored by the wet suit brand O'Neill.

At the heights of the windsurfing boom a third Worldcup took place at Ho'okipa, the Chiemsee Worldcup Maui. It took the time slot of the Maui Invitational, which in exchange was move to early summer.

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