Alvin Bayona’s journey
Alvin Bayona (Álvaro Bayona, 1983) is an athlete with paraplegia, sports instructor and former mountain guide. Following an avalanche while snowboarding in 2010, he continued his sporting life through adaptive skiing and water sports.
Who is Alvin Bayona →
2010
The avalanche and continuing in sport
An avalanche while snowboarding changes his life. His biography explains how he continues practising sport with paraplegia.
Read the original article →2014
Early adaptive SUP experiences
The SUP article dates the start of these adaptations to April 2014. The 2025 retrospective recalls that year’s meetings in Noja.
Read the original article →2015
Bronze in San Diego
The championship retrospective describes competing alongside Aitor Francesena and winning bronze at the international ISA event in San Diego.
Read the original article →2016
Foundation campaign
The crowdfunding campaign presents the Alvin Bayona Foundation project and its aims for access to adaptive sport.
Read the original article →2017
Three ISA bronzes
The post ‘3×3 bronces en ISAWORLDS’ records his third bronze. This is the tally documented in the archive.
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Team gold with Spain
On 14 March 2020, Spain wins team gold in San Diego. The report describes a collective achievement.
Read the original article →2022
Parasurfing Camp in Zarautz
The May report covers a parasurfing day and shared work to help more participants access the sea.
Read the original article →2025
A decade of championships
A retrospective reviews Spain’s championships, from the 2014 meetings to international competition in 2015.
Read the original article →2026
SUP instructor training at CNB
The May post describes the course held on 25 April for instructors at Club Natació Barcelona.
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Publication archive
The archive is ordered by publication date. Some articles cover earlier events; the timeline above shows the dates of the documented events.
Publication archive (74)
- SUP ADAPT course for CNB sports technicians - Aquatic inclusion project
- 10 years of the Spanish Adapted Surfing Championships
- Alvin Aquatic Chairs — For Adapted SUP / Adapted Kitesurfing — ParaSurf
- Alvin Bayona Foundation Presentation
- Who Am I?
- The Pro Zarautz Open will be held from October 19th to 23rd!
- Pantin Classic PRO SURF 2022
- Success of the ParaSurfing Camp — Zarautz May 2022
- Surfing Reports — Beaches in Spain for Adaptive Surfing
- INTERESTING INTERVIEW AT ISA WORLD PARASURFING 2021
- Collaboration with Eninter
- Interview on SER
- Surfing with the Spanish selection of Adaptive Surfing
- Paddle To Move
- Invincibles Documentary - ISA World Championship 20
- The Pisuegra River without barriers — Valladolid — Adapted Paddle Surf
- Foundation Donations
- Coming soon: INVINCIBLES, the story of how the Spanish adaptive surfing team won a historic gold medal
- Quick guide to practicing Adapted Paddle Surfing
- Alvin Bayona Foundation
- Want to know what an Alvin winter is like?
- Bizitza etengabeko erronka bat da — Report in Hiruka
- Historic gold for the Spanish team at the AmpSurf ISA World Championships 2020
- UFEC Zone: Álvaro Bayona, a reference in extreme esports for people with disabilities (CAT)
- Neu Temps — 01/30/2020 (Video)
- Capacitats Program — TV3
- International Surfing Championship in the Basque Country
- THIS IS HOW TXAPELKETA ADAPTED SURFING WAS
- Sant Joan de Déu Hospital Palma de Mallorca
- Costa Rica 2019
- SuperLiga Siroko 2019 in Berria
- EMPOWERED — Alvin and Gallo
- Álvaro Bayona: "We are just as totterrenys as if not anéssim amb cadira de rodes"
- 3x3 bronze medals at ISAWORLDS!!
- Cabrera de Mar makes the dream of a paraplegic athlete come true
- Done! Here's the content of the campaign on Lanzanos!
- A day of dust and back to the battle!
- ISA World Adaptive Surfing Championship I
- Crowdfunding — Alvin Bayona Foundation
- Surfing knows no barriers
- Summer 2016 of Unbeatable!
- 24 SEP “ALVIN” BAYONA: A NEARBY, MULTIFACETED AND RESTLESS GUY
- Matins TV3 Personal Development
- Korobo Documentaries
- Coming soon… The short documentary
- Interview on "Raising Awareness"
- Interview on "New Code"
- Me in SurfCity - Telecinco News
- Adapted ski video
- PDF of Foundation Presentation
- Because limits only exist in our minds: Álvaro Bayona
- In Alaska you get fed up with life.
- Alvin's Fortress
- Interview with Extraordinary Anonymous Individuals
- Up Magazine
- Deep Race SUP
- Suocantabria.blogsport.com
- Trickon
- Stand-up paddleboarding breaks down barriers
- Europe KrK wakeboard
- Trickon
- Surfer Rule
- Ripping Magazine
- Intermundial.es
- THE VANGUARD
- Adaptive Skiing
- Adapted Wakeboard
- Adapted SUP — Adapted Paddle Surf
- Adaptive Surfing
- Alvin Extreme in pictures
- The foundation in pictures
- Action in Pictures
- Sweet 360º
- I traveled to Alaska