I have been following wave pool projects in Germany since Wavegarden came out with their first-ever video, which was filmed at their testing facility in the Basque Country roughly 10 years ago. The hype was real and considering that Germany only has a small stretch of coastline and waves are rare, for me, Germany was destined to get a pool in no time. Then I accompanied a few projects as a consultant and realized: this is going to be a lot more difficult than I thought. 10 years later, after various projects came and disappeared, the first-ever wave pool project in Germany finally received the green light. Surftown MUC will be built in a town called Hallbergmoos, roughly 40 minutes from the center of Munich, right next to Munich’s international airport. I sat down with Micheal Mohr, one of the partners in the project to get the lowdown. Michi, how … Continue reading How Surftown Munich will transform the German surf space