This year WavePoolMag visited a few projects in Japan including Surf Stadium and citywave Tokyo. Our trip included a meeting with members of the JPF Company, which stands for Jump for Positive Future. The publicly-traded entity with 800 employees is famous for growing track cycling, that once-obscure sport of chasing opponents around an oval track on hipster fixed-gear bikes. Launched in 1951, they built the business on the back of their successful photo-finish technology and now pride themselves on the planning, operation, research and design of sports facilities and amusement facilities. So why wave pools all of a sudden? Well it turns out they want to do with surfing, what they did with track cycling – make it ubiquitous throughout the country. Here’s how they plan to do that using wave pools. Where will we see the first wave pools?We aren’t able to show the exact location quite yet, but … Continue reading Seven pools in 7 years: This is how Japan’s next surf boom will happen