Maxime CASTILLO – the French Surfing Federation

Prize list
Junior World Champion 2012
World No. 9 IBC 2023
N.25 World Tour APB 2015
N.13 world tour APB 2016
N.16 World Tour APB 2017
N. 12 world tour APB 2018
N.11 World Tour APB 2019
2018 European Pro Champion
National ranking : N.3
Number of selections for the French team: 4

Organic express

Maxime Castillo was born and raised in the Paris region. Arriving in Arcachon at the age of 7, he immediately formed a strong bond with the sea. His uncle, Nicolas Padois (today coach of the French bodybaord teams), founded the Ocean Roots school there, and naturally young Maxime spent all his days in the water. Unlike many others, he first surfs, then switches to a bodyboard.
Max was 11 years old when he participated in his first French championships. He leaves Brittany with a second place. Two years later, in 2008, he was French champion. Another two years passed before he won his first French cap. Maxime won the continental title during the junior Eurosurf in Viana do Castello, Portugal, in 2010.
Everything accelerated since he then qualified for the World Championship and achieved 5th place among the juniors, in 2011 in the Canary Islands. The disappointment of losing his European title, in 2012 to Lacanau (3rd), was quickly forgotten since at the end of the same year he climbed to the highest step of the podium at the Junior WC in Venezuela.
After going through the Pôle France de Bayonne, which allowed him to combine sports and studies, Max gave himself the means to succeed. If he sails today on the world tour, where he finished 13th last season, the young man has thought about his back. He signed a future contract dedicated to high-level athletes, he received his instructor’s diploma to teach his passion at his uncle’s school.
World number 25 at the end of his first season in the elite in 2015, Maxime qualified for the APB world tour, the equivalent of CT in surfing, but for bodyboarding. He is thus one of three Frenchmen with Pierre-Louis Costes (N.1) and Amaury Lavernhe (N.2) who are part of this world elite. A quarter-final in Brazil and then in Portugal in September, the best results of his young career, notably allowed Max to climb into the Top 15 in 2016.
He confirmed his position by having the best season of his career in 2018, finishing 12th in the world. In the process, he won the first ETB European title of his career in early December after the final stage in Morocco. In July 2019, he signed the best performance of his career by reaching the semifinals of the Antofagasta Festival, 2nd leg of the World Grand Slam in Chile. He finished the 2019 season ranked 11th in the world, his best ranking. Finalist in the final stage of the ETB, he finished second on the European circuit.
After two years of interruptions and name changes on the world tour, Maxime Castillo takes 3rd place in the Arica Cultura Bodyboard in Chile and gets the 2022 season of the IBC World Tour off to a perfect start. He ends the year 2023 in 9th place in the IBC ranking, his best ranking to date.