STATUS: Dead
WAVES: Wave heights ranged from 2-to-4-feet produced soft lefts and rights
LOCATIONS: None yet
Built in 2019 and modeled heavily after Kelly’s wave and early Wavegarden plow designs, the artificial wave technology at the Xing Feng Extreme center featured a giant foil which ran down a track to produce waves on the right and left sides of a central pier. The Chinese Government backed the design to train athletes for the Olympics. The rectangular pool was 700-meters long with a width of 150 meters.
The central machine’s velocity and foil could be adjusted to vary wave size and type. Wave frequency was low, even by plow standards with a right and a left generated once each six minutes. This is most likely due to water needing to settle between waves. Surf height was in the 2-to-4-foot range with soft-breaking waves. Some reports stated that the wave was hollow at the beginning and at the ending of the plow’s run.
It’s unkown if the site will be improved upon or abandoned. Kelly’s wave in Lemoore took years of tweaking bathymetry, plow speed, lining and much more (often at great expense) to become the performance gold standard that it is today. We don’t know if the backers at this wave pool are willing to re-invest to improve the product.
