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For the first time since it began, World Ocean Day for Schools (8 June) will have a physical home - at The Wave in Bristol. The event will still run as an online festival, as it has for the last 5 years, but in addition, there will be a day of surfing and immersive workshop experiences for selected groups of
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$10K buy-in and $200 monthly grants access to new tech which plans on opening 20 new surf clubs in the next five years throughout Brazil. Surf Center, scheduled to launch in 2024, claim to be the world’s first heated and covered wave pool outside of North America. Brazil is ground zero for a recent boom in wave pools. But there’s
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This year World Surf League organizers added other wave tanks to their lower-tiered series, but it is the Surf Ranch Pro, both loved and loathed by many, that is their marquee wave tank event. Online pundits point to the event as “the most boring on tour” while the cream of the WSL crop (Hi Filipe! Hi Gabriel) have mastered the
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We spoke with Ariane Gerami, a researcher conducting a wave pool study to find a correlation between surfing and feelings of happiness. Gerami discovered that, yes, surfing does indeed give you feelings of joy. But her initial research only scratched the surface. She's now committed to doing even more work from the edge of the pool in Bristol. Ariane Gerami
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The RSL Pro/Am Season 2023 presented by Dextro Energy is done and dusted and what a crazy one it was. This year’s RSL season was a little different from the years before. While surfers had to qualify for RSL Pro events through a ranking from 2018 to 2022, the RSL’s Pro/Am format allowed everyone to participate in 2023: Professionals and
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Crest Surf Clubs celebrates the groundbreaking of its debut location, Crest New York, located less than an hour from Manhattan at the gateway to the Hamptons in Mastic-Shirley. The 55,000 square foot surf pool, designed exclusively in partnership with Premier Surf Systems, and the 9,000 square foot clubhouse, designed by GRCH Architecture & Curious Yellow Interior Design, is slated to
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Ander Wynne-Edwards is the Director of Operations at Endless Surf. He’s worked for Whitewater West for the past two decades building and commissioning large-scale wave pools – pneumatic wave pools in particular. In this episode, he walks us through everything that goes on in the time between a project breaking ground and rolling out the first set of waves. Ander
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Jina Kim has watched the South Korean surfing scene explode. In the past 10 years, it went from a handful of expats and coastal rule breakers to a full-on government-recognised sport. Throughout all the evolution Jina has been there, adapting, evolving, and riding waves, and charting a professional surf career in a country without any professional surfers. Challenging? Yes. Boring?
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We’ve all done it; misplaced keys, phones, and lost coins down the back of the couch. But as for very expensive bling and body parts, we manage to keep track of those. Well, most of the time. Things can go awry when you’re fully focused on the warm fuzzy glow of wave pool euphoria. Coastlines worldwide have had everything from
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Some of you may remember when Surfline was accessed via a landline phone. Pre-internet and pre modem dial-up, users would call to get wave reports and primitive surf forecasts. In the ‘90s the company saw the potential of the internet, launching webcams and forecast modeling. In short, they’ve been way ahead of the curve for a few decades now. With
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In Garopaba, Surfland Brasil completed the installation of the wave pool motors for their Wavegarden Cove technology this week. The work started in 2020 but stalled until the first shipment of machinery arrived all the way back in October 2021. Since then it’s been a steady flow of construction on the site to complete a 52-module Cove design as they
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Some of the best athletes will have the opportunity to test these recently developed waves before they are available to the general public.“We are opening the doors of Alaia Bay to Federations to witness the potential of our brand new Air Waves and the advantages of doing training at our facility,” said Founder and CEO Adam Bonvin. “The new Air
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What is the premier surf platform's take on wave pools? In this episode, we gather insight into the wave pool scene from the editor-in-chief at STAB Brendan Buckley. While we normally talk to wave makers and doers, Buck’s contribution to the wave pool discourse is on the culture, that unique confluence of salt and pool water. We hit on how
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From different wave settings and food options, Sarah revisits Australia's first public wave pool located just outside of downtown Melbourne and adjacent to the Airport. The facility opened in January 2020 and has since set the benchmark for surf park operations. You will find surf club competitions, concerts, corporate events, new food options, hot tubs and heaps more - especially
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We are stoked to add the world’s rapid wave pools to our company’s Surf Planner page. The expansion comes with WavePoolMag’s expanding coverage of the standing wave market. Where to find the Surf Planner on WavePoolMag's menu As surfing enters a global growth phase in the Olympic era, we can expect all forms of the sport to rise with the
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In person, you can tell that Shunichi Matsuuchi is constantly thinking, coming up with solutions to any number of problems presented during a day at work. From ill-tempered weather to surf wax stuck on the pool waiting area, his brain is always puzzle-solving. Shunichi, or simply Shun, is the Assistant General Manager of Business Development at Surf Stadium Japan. Like
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We surfed 3°C (36°F) Alaia Bay for the Winter Cup, but we’ve also heard reports of 30°C (92F°) water in Japan. Curious about the extremes of wave pool temperatures, we reached out to the surf tanks of the world to ask them directly about the warmth of their waters. Here's what we found... The Wave – Bristol, U.KThis Wavegarden Cove installation
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Blair Conklin sits comfortably on our top list of surfers. He was one of the first to explore Waco on a skimboard and all manner of craft including a bodyboard and a foamie. In this clip he's feelin it and getting creative - he even launches an RC surfer at one point. The frothy regular foot from Southern California takes
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How do I find work at a wave pool? Consider this: Even if only half of the surf park projects on the WavePoolMag App come to fruition, it still represents more than 5000 jobs in the next 3-5 years. We just found a few dream positions for anyone serious about working in the space. Wavepooljobs is a platform for surf
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Joe Frizzelle is a livewire of creative energy, stoke with a wonderful splash of goofiness (he’s not afraid to wear a golf caddy outfit in public.) The creator of Country Club Surf Club launched the brand after watching the first Surf Ranch pro event and hasn’t slowed down. We first interviewed him two years ago (you can read that here)
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Main Image by Matt George In 1985 the planned union of wave pools and high-performance surfing caused barely a ripple in the collective surf world. No one had any idea what to expect - least of all professional surfers. It takes people keen to try something new to get others to think outside the box. If people are unwilling, drag
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Offshore wind good. Onshore wind bad. The research study we didn’t really need, but we're stoked to have. Plus, the researchers got to go to Kelly’s. A team of scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego took a trip to the Kelly Slater Surf Ranch to do extensive research about how wind affects waves. Falk Feddersen, a
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In some of the heavier settings in wave pools, the barrel can get pretty tight. Stand-up surfers, if not balled up tight enough, will get clipped in the head trying to squeeze in while bodyboarders have no trouble getting slotted. This scenario seems a bit like karmic justice. Since the introduction of the Boogieboard from Tom Morey, the dedicated have
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It’s very difficult to confirm if a surf park development is dead. Tenacious project developers never issue a press release that their project was tanked, and there is always hope that the tide will turn in favor of the wave pool. As one insider told us, the duration of bringing a wave pool project to light is often longer than
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'Min Mool’ means tap water in Korean and was coined to identify a surfer who has only surfed at Wave Park in Siheung-Si. Korean surf culture is in its infancy, slowly maturing and developing its own dedicated breed of chlorine surfers and we wanted to know how this consistent, quality wave is shaping the Korean surf culture. Fortunately, we have
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