Franco Lattanzio, wingfoil referent, joins the organization of IWO 2025

The specialist will provide support in the design of the course. Enrique Mas and Felipe Cornet, from CNSA, promote the competition on the coast of Cádiz.

The Sports Director of Club Nàutic Sant Antoni, Enrique Mas, and sailing coach Felipe Cornet are currently on the coast of Cádiz promoting the Ibiza Wingfoil Open (IWO). After meeting with Franco Lattanzio, one of the most renowned specialists and founder of Tarifa Wings, the leading Wingfoil training center in southern Spain with hundreds of students, they secured his involvement in IWO 2025. Lattanzio will contribute technical support in course design and during the event itself, in which he will also compete as a racer.

Lattanzio has already conducted clinics at his Tarifa school for several Es Nàutic coaches, and his presence in the competition guarantees high standards of organization, safety, and spectacle. Mas and Cornet themselves are currently taking an advanced Wingfoil course with Lattanzio to enhance their technical knowledge and pass it on to CNSA trainers. After their stop in Tarifa, the CNSA Sports Department delegation will travel to Lanzarote in the Canary Islands, another hotspot for Wingfoil enthusiasts, to continue promoting the event and encourage top national specialists to register.

Last year, the IWO set a participation record with 70 experts, and this year it is on track to match or even surpass it. The Bay of Portmany will once again host an extraordinary competition, in which athletes do not launch directly from the beach, as is common, but instead board boats to reach the area with the most favorable wind conditions.

Club Nàutic Sant Antoni, which organizes the event together with the Royal Spanish Sailing Federation, has been promoting this discipline for several years through training activities and regattas. The club’s new nautical center, scheduled to open in 2026, will become a benchmark on the island, continuing to promote Wingfoil and other wind sports. The event is sponsored by the Consell Insular d’Eivissa, Café del Mar, and Balearia.

Wingfoil, also known as wingboarding, was born in 2016 and is a spectacular hybrid between windsurf foil and formula kite, where the rider’s body channels wind energy through the wing to power the foil board. The equipment consists of three parts: the wing, the board, and the hydrofoil, which lifts the board above the water, reaching breathtaking speeds. Competitors, in fact, wear helmets and impact vests. Compared to windsurfing, it is not an easy discipline, but once airborne, it becomes highly attractive.

The wind range required also gives it an advantage over disciplines such as kiteboarding or funboard. In locations such as Tarifa, Fuerteventura, or the Bay of Roses, wings are beginning to outnumber other equipment, and the phenomenon has also reached Ibiza, where the number of practitioners grows year after year.