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Surf Park Awards name judging panel

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Surf Park Central announced this year’s panel of judges for the 2022 Surf Park Awards. The annual awards ceremony is the closing event of Surf Park Summit, and it highlights the best of the growing surf park industry. This year, companies and organizations related to creating, operating or working with human-made waves submitted applications fitting in line with three categories:

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Fort Pierce Florida adds rapid wave pool to planned surf park development

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Situated between Miami and Orlando, the Koa Bay project announced the addition of a Unit surf pool this week. The development is a total of 200 acres planned for residential, hospitality, retail, restaurants, and recreational amenities. The most notable amenity being one of the World’s largest surf parks under development with two wave technology suppliers announced Wavegarden and UNIT Surf

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HTX Surf park

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Stoked: Core Houston surfers (and the rest of the city) to get big ass Wavegarden Cove

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Beach Street Development went public this week with the HTX Surf project in Northeast Houston. The project will feature a Wavegarden Cove set within 15 acres of surrounding amenities. Houston has a core surf community with most surfers opting to go to the Gulf Coast for the occasional session or driving a few hours to the Waco pool. HTX Surf

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endless surf wave pool

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Endless Surf says that arriving late to the surf party has its benefits

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Water park pioneer White Water West has been around for a long time. Longer, in fact, than any of today’s elite tour surfers have even been alive. But Endless Surf, its dynamic-wave-making subsidiary, is a relatively new kid on the wave-pool block.  The company, which has its first project underway in Munich, broke onto the scene in 2020, smack in

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Kit Sidwell, engineer at surf lakes

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The subtleties you don’t see in the Surf Lakes plunger system

Podcasts

We love the Surf Lakes system. It resonates with surfers. It's simple. Painfully simple. Yet, it's complex. It's kind of like the wave pool equivalent of that other Australian export, AC/DC - big, dumb rock'n'roll that just works on three chords. The plunger could even be compared conceptually to a stack of Marshall amplifiers sending out joy in a different

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Reminder: Surf Park Summit launches on Sunday

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We are just days away from the start of Surf Park Summit 2022. The exclusive event is the leading networking and insider meeting for the future of the surf industry. Experts in human-made wave creation will meet with big name surfing legends at this year’s event to discuss how to create successful surf parks and bring waves to new corners

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jessica mahoney of surf park summit

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Industry: Jessica Mahoney on the Future of Surf Park Central

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When Jessica Mahoney sat down to discuss the 2022 Surf Park Summit, she was tucked into the corner of a casino conference hall. She’d only been in her job as COO of Surf Park Central for a few weeks, but she was already on the road, at a trade show in Las Vegas. Our virtual hallway meeting, it turns out,

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Perth Surf Park renderings

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Perth’s $100million surf park moves forward, eyes 2025 launch

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The largest surf park in the Southern Hemisphere is one step closer to opening today after global surf park developer Aventuur submitted its Development Application (DA) for the Perth Surf Park. The $100m surf park is set to become a major tourism, sporting and entertainment precinct for Perth. Delivering surfing, wellness and cultural experiences, the development is expected to welcome

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Marin debris at center of new art exhibit

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Marine debris at center of new art exhibit

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The bottom of the world's wave pools are a lost and found basket of surfboard fins, wristbands, ear plugs, chunks of wax... you name it. Fortunately, it's pretty easy to clean up come closing time. But what about this debris at the bottom of some of the world's most famous surf breaks? After a storied career lifeguarding in Hawaii, Mark

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woman with face covering at surf lesson

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Two coaches share insights into the other women’s surf movement

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In women's surfing, the media lens is generally trained on Steph's latest title run or Erin Brooks doing some tweaked-out air in Waco. This is just the very tip of the women's surfing pyramid. Beyond today's pros there are legions of other women who simply want to feel comfortable in the surf - adult learners, desk jockeys, adaptive surfers, the

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The Wave CEO Nick Hounsfield

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Case Study: Do wave pool CEOs get to surf solo?

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A button built to summon swell is what a surfer's dreams are made of. Like lab rats lured to a dopamine hit, is this god-like availability of waves a case of gluttonous celebration for wave pool CEOs? Or has it simply turned into an overburdening workplace, becoming somewhere to escape from, instead of to? Being a CEO is a massive

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wavegarden water treatment

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Industry: Wavegarden launches water treatment system

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Wavegarden ́has launched the first bespoke water treatment system that has been 100% designed, built and tested for artificial surfing lagoons. The system is incorporated in Wavegarden ́s technology package for all installations. The company's R&D on water treatment dates back to 2014, when Wavegarden ́s focus shifted from not only creating waves, but also hygienic water. The system was

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wavepoolmag podcast episode 22

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Alternative wave pool construction with Myrtha and Endless Surf

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In this episode, Paul Chutter of Endless Surf and Roberto Colletto of Myrtha Pools dive into how they are changing the process of wave pool construction. Myrtha uses a pre-fab steel-and-pvc technique that simplifies the wave pool building process and reduces project time. Too good to be true? Give it a listen and find out...

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Chris Hemsworth at Surf Lakes wave pool

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Shooting Thor and Occy at the world’s most surreal wave pool

Television

Freelance photographer/videographer Elke Mai got the call up to shoot Chris Hemsworth and Mark Occhilupo during a recent demo day at Surf Lakes in Yeppoon. The wave at Surf Lakes is surreal enough, but mix in the likes of Thor (with family in tow), Occy's serendipitous ramblings and it's, well, there's a lot to unpack there. "It was cool to

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guide to wetsuits

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The definitive guide to choosing your first wetsuit

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WavePoolMag Basics is an ongoing series providing essential surf gear information for those surfers new to the pool. Whether you’re learning in a wave pool or in the ocean or (hopefully) both, if you are a novice surfer who is committing to the sport, you’ve realized that it’s time to invest in a wetsuit. Those ragged rental suits just aren’t

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Sunshine makarow at the kelly slater wave pool

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Pool surfers encouraged to participate in new survey

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A growing number of wave pool participants and a slew of planned pools around the globe will see more people stoked on surfing than ever before. And by sheer dent of numbers, it’s likely to mean more injuries too. Surfing Medicine International (SMI) is launching a survey called the Wave Pool SURFEY that’s aimed at clarifying injury patterns from the

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EpicSurf event focuses on making surfing accessible to all abilities

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Aquatic Development Group (ADG) the manufacturer of EpicSurf - a true deep-water, stationary surfing wave, is excited to announce their recent collaboration with a team of expert disability advocates to evaluate the wave’s inclusivity, accessibility, and potentially therapeutic benefits for individuals of all abilities. EpicSurf teamed up with Justin Speegle, a Rhode Island surfer and retired Air Force Colonel who

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World’s largest rapid wave pool to open February 2023 on Oahu

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Wai Kai, set within Hoakalei Resort in Ewa Beach on West Oahu, today announced its grand opening date of February 10, 2023. The development is the first of its kind in Hawaii and is poised to become an active year-round destination that inspires locals and visitors to connect to the water, land and rich Hawaiian culture. Located 35 minutes from

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coral mountain wave pool gets smaller

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Kelly’s wave in La Quinta defeated

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Editor’s Note: Pick almost any town and you’ll find “that one building that somehow got through code.” It’s big. It’s ugly. Maybe it makes noise at night in the form of a nightclub or sports bar. But does a wave pool fall into this category? I don’t know. I don’t live in La Quinta, so it’s hard to judge how

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Surf Park Summit airs official speaker panels and sessions for 2022

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Surf Park Summit is the most exclusive and largest networking and insider event for the booming surf park industry, with a heavy focus on the latest wave technologies, park developments, and the future of surfing. This year, the event runs from October 16-18 at Scripps Seaside Forum in San Diego, CA, and it’s on track to be our biggest event

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surf lakes sunset by andrew shield

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WavePoolMag Photographer Series: Andrew Shields

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Andrew Shields, or "Shieldsy" as everyone referred to him when we met in Australia this year, is part of an elite crew of career surf photographers. It's a tough gig, we know, schlepping gear around the world to photograph the world's best in the world's most beautiful locations. And it takes a certain perseverance, stubbornness, talent, lack-of-smarts, vision and everything

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Euros use rapid wave knowledge to claim Continental Surf Cup

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In front of back-to-back capacity crowds at Lakeside Surf, 32 river surfers from around the world put on a show and competed in the first-ever Continental Surf Cup hosted by Lakeside Surf in cooperation with German surf pool manufacturer citywave. After a tight battle for most of the tournament, Team Europe used its depth and experience to pull away, secure

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new brazil wave pool

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Boa Vista airs footage of new wave pool

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We’ve received a few clips of wave testing at Boa Vista in São Paulo. All came through our Insta DMs with the disclaimer not to share. In addition, the test waves were done in a half-filled pool and were not that impressive. So we waited for impressive. And now we are celebrating the public release of Brazil’s latest wave tank

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ka'ana wave co

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Ka’ana Wave Co. showcases pop-up surf park with stationary deep-water waves

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Ka’ana Wave Co. celebrated the launch of their CM7-Series wave machines with a pop-up surf park at Britannia Beach, British Columbia. Their ground-breaking technology represents a new class of artificial surf attraction, one that creates a variety of deep-water surf waves, in new and existing pools and lagoons. The company said its aim is to break down barriers to entry and make

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Peak surf park Tampa Bay

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Back to School: Peak Surf Park in Tampa does more homework

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The developers behind Peak Surf Park, a project that will use Surf Lakes tech located in Tampa Bay Florida, released results from a survey this week. The company said results showed that the “concept was met with unprecedented enthusiasm with approximately 90% of respondents expressing their interest level as very high or high.” Most of the respondents were beginners or people who have

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