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If this year felt like a blur, you're not alone. So much happened in the wave pool world that our heads are still spinning 10 days before 2022 comes to a close. And this surf park sphere in which we live is only going to accelerate more rapidly with each subsequent trip around the sun. Our minds are blown in
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It’s the technology companies that power the surf parks we know, love and dream to build. These engineering institutions are constantly evolving, growing and making better surf. WavePoolMag reached out to a handful of wave makers this year with a simple question; “What was your biggest accomplishment in 2022?” The answers varied. Some were technical. Others were more business-minded. Each
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A new partnership between KSM Realty and Wavegarden will see a string of surf clubs created. The first will be a massive Cove with 62 modules, spanning 27,000 m2 and opening in 2025. Wavegarden says this will be the first in a series of specialized centers delivered throughout the world. The announcement comes on the heels of Endless Surf's partnership
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The Rip Curl Pro Urbnsurf QS1000 presented by Pirate Life has wrapped up in pumping waves and sunshine in front of 1,000 spectators at Urbnsurf Melbourne with local Victorian Xavier Huxtable and Lennox Head surfer Nyxie Ryan claiming wins. This is the first WSL event held outside of the Surf Ranch, and part of the WSL's expansion to include wave
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WavePoolMag recently toured through Japan to scope out the mechanically generated wave scene in the land of the rising sun. We discovered a thriving surf culture not only along the coast but also within the world’s largest city, Tokyo. Most urban surfers travel out to the coast at Chiba or Shonan or make the trip to the Surf Stadium wave
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This week a new wave park called The Seahive hit the British news cycle. The surf park is looking at a location in Betteshanger County Park near Deal in Kent. If all goes well, the £40million project (another report quoted the price tag at £50million ) will stand on a 15-acre site in a popular park which attracts 200,000 visitors
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On February 26th and 27th, 2023, the SurfAid Cup Surf Ranch competition returns for its third year. Teams of four to five surfers, of all ages and abilities, will be raising funds for SurfAid’s global work. Teams will compete for awards, including the top fundraising team and the champion surfing team. All teams get to enjoy world-class Surf Ranch hospitality with
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The Swedish Champs went down at Waco Surf last month crowning several new national champions. The field was made up of six men and six women who had qualified through previous events and at specialty comps at Torö in early October 2022 As a peninsula, Sweden gets swell on three sides, in the east Knäbäckshusen is the main draw, while
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Work is set to start on a solar and energy storage array at The Wave in South Gloucestershire to kick out solar-powered surf by June 2023. The Bristol surf facility says that planning, funding and contracts are now all in place for the solar installation, which will produce more energy than the wave pool and its surrounding facilities use every
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The Tejasurf Waco Pro/Am went down at Waco Surf on November 19, 2022. This was the second time the Texas Gulf Surf Association ran an event in Waco. The post-COVID return was due in large part to competitors’ excitement about surfing the PerfectSwell pool. To make it all come together Tejasurf signed on as the title sponsor and with the help
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Mark Occhilupo, aka “Occy” makes a living at surfing. Which is good because it’s really hard imagining him doing anything else. You could envisage fellow Aussie Parko maybe doing marketing for a surf brand or Mick Fanning doing WSL play-by-play. But Occy coaching CT talent or delivering the post? No. He’s one of the few surfers who can be called
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Ka’ana Wave Co., creator of award-winning CM7-Series surf attractions, announced it has successfully entered into an exclusive distribution agreement with global waterpark manufacturing giant, Polin Waterparks. Signed last week at IAAPA Expo, the agreement helps Ka'ana extend its reach in the Middle East and Southeast Asia, markets where Polin has a large presence and an experienced sales team. The agreement
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The Cove in Southport made another push in the media last week. A local news outlet posted new architectural renderings, information and quotes from the people involved. Renderings show an Endless Surf pool central to a multi-use facility that includes a hotel and thermal spa. The Standup for Southport platform reported that The Cove organizers had paid a visit to
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Wave pools are hard on surfboards. And this goes across all wave-generating technologies, some more than others. If the technology doesn't have concrete walls, there is still shallow concrete floor and lining. The wall in a Wavegarden Cove and at a Surf Loch set-up get the worst rap, but personally, we've crushed the nose of a rental in a PerfectSwell
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The surf scene in Korea has steadily grown, going from zero to booming in the last 10 years. But scoring surf is difficult here on a fickle peninsula at the whims of three relatively small bodies of salt water. The Yellow Sea, the East China Sea and the East Sea are all within a few hours' drive of each other.
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The Wave has launched two new experiences dedicated to bodyboarding - The Beginner Bodyboarding and Improver Bodyboarding sessions. The company said in a statement that the move is designed to encourage everyone to get in the water and experience the positive health benefits of being in the waves. “We know how brilliant we feel physically and mentally after spending
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Brazil wholly embraced surfing only a few decades ago - its growth was initially hampered by unstable governments and rampant inflation, making boards and surf gear horrendously expensive for most folks. But boy, are they making up for lost time. With multiple world champions having made their mark in recent years and talent-a-plenty amongst their junior ranks, the future of
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As more wave pools pop up around the globe we are seeing a wide range of business models, all tied in some form to sustainability. While some parks have fashioned a tighter knot than others, the goal here at WavePoolMag is not to greenshame, but to open the discussion of what is possible in the wave park space as we
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In a strategic rebrand Wavegarden Scotland is now Lost Shore Surf Resort. Developers said the move was to reflect the surf park as a major leisure and staycation destination. The £55m landmark development by Tartan Leisure Ltd in Ratho, near Edinburgh is expected to open to the public in summer 2024. It is set to deliver significant sustainability and community
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Three-time world champ Gabriel Medina announced he will build a string of performance surf clubs throughout his home country. The economic engine to power the franchise is Kauai Ventures, an investment company created by Medina himself earlier this year. The investment group will develop an unspecified number of performance surf clubs using surf pool technology provider Endless Surf, creators of
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Surf Stadium Japan hosted its first competition recently, crowning champions in two divisions. The Surf Stadium Cup ran several 35-minute heats throughout the day on Sunday, October 30th. At the end of the competition eight athletes took to the podium. The contest wraps up following major events at wave pools in Texas, Switzerland and Korea. The WSL also announced this
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This week the WSL confirmed they will expand the Pro Junior, Qualifying Series, and Longboard Tiers to include wave pool venues. Earlier in 2022 the world's largest and best-known tour re-instated the Surf Ranch Pro CT comp at Kelly's pool in Lemoore. The latest move officially embraces wave pools (or wave basins as the WSL likes to call them) as
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The inaugural 2022 Wave Park Surf League (WSPL) hosted by Wave Park came to a dramatic conclusion after several events, closing with a ceremony to applaud the winners and award prizes. This first surf league series was held over a 10-week period from May 21st to August 7th, with a total of 125 surfers entering the mix. The series is
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A month after Hurricane Ian tore across Florida, US, the sun shined on the Edgewater project in Florida. Last week, developers, surfers, and the mayor gathered to commence the development of PerfectSwell Edgewater. The surf will be powered by American Wave Machines' PerfectSwell tech. The project got off the ground through the work of the company's Senior Vice President Mike
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It was an action-packed final day at Alaïa Bay for the second edition of the Alaïa Open Winter Cup. Despite the frigid 10-degree water, the surfing was red-hot and a testament to the amazing wave quality that Alaïa Bay produces.The Open Men’s Final was an incredibly close affair, with the lead changing a few times. Yago Dominguez from Basque Country
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