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When did surf appear in Spain? Who were the first surfers in Spain?<\/strong> These a questiones that don’t have scientific or proved answers, although from what we can investigate it seems surf came to Spain between 1963 and 1965 in several places of Spain at the same time:\u00a0Asturias (1963), C\u00e1diz (1964), Guip\u00fazcoa (1964), Vizcaya (1964) and Cantabria (1965). It seems certain that surf also came and was regularly practiced in the Canary Islands since 1968.<\/p>\n

In 1970, Pepe Almoguera created his own surfboard in Pedregalejo (M\u00e1laga). Then, several kids from the area joined this new initiative:\u00a0Francisco Soria, Javier Gabernet, Rafael Garc\u00eda, Carlos Sauco, Pepi Almoguera,\u00a0the brothers To\u00f1o and Paco Guti\u00e9rrez Espejo, Joaqu\u00edn Fern\u00e1ndez-de las Alas,\u00a0and several others that in 1974 created the first active Surfing club in the Mediterranean: The M\u00e1laga Surfing Club.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 1973, islanders from Gran Canaria created the first surfing club in the archipelago: the Guanarteme Club and recently, the German magazine\u00a0Airberlin Magazin <\/em>compared the Canary Islands with Hawaii.<\/p>\n

Then, surfers and entrepeneurs saw a business in teaching people how to surf, and they were absolutely right. In 1991, two surfing schools opened in Spain. One is the Escuela C\u00e1ntabra de Surf and the other one is\u00a0Zarauzko Surf Eskola, the latter was disolved in 2016.<\/p>\n

Atlantik Surf was created in 2010 and has been teaching surf for 7 years. If you want to learn to surf properly and by the hand of professionals, come to the Surf School in Tenerife<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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