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Employee of the Month: Reef Ellison at Waco Surf

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Reef Ellison started his work life at Waco Surf during the somewhat wild days before the new owners took stewardship and cleaned things up. In his time here he's seen the good, the bad and the ugly as the Waco drama unfolded. He started as a lifeguard and worked his way up to the surf operations position. A highly sought-after

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Employee of the Month: Paul Francisco of SkudinSurf American Dream

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New Jersey stand out Paul Francisco has found a way to keep wet during the East Coast's notorious flat spells. It's simple, he clocks in at one of America's largest shopping malls where he helps run the show at SkudinSurf. Along with Alyssa Malliae, Greg Kaasmann and a host of others, Paul keeps the wave pool's presence felt on social

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Hawaiian Pro Jason Shibata gives tips for the salted set on how to ride a rapid wave

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Jason Shibata shares a few things with Kelly Slater. To surf nerds he's the other 2011 WSL mathematical error of note (after Kelly's premature world title crowning) when commentators gave Jason a loss for his Pipeline heat when in fact he'd advanced. This year he shared another moment with Kelly, this time at the Lineup at Wai Kai wave pool,

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Greg Kaasmann of Skudin Surf at American Dream

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Greg Kaasmann keeps this New Jersey wave pool totes Jersey

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While sessioning the wave tank at the American Dream Mall in New Jersey I kept noticing a buff mustachioed dude working the environs of the wave pool. Adjusting a banner, tossing beverages to guests and organizing the board rack at minus 5 minutes to each hour. Surfing here is surreal enough. But to see a real-life Brawny paper towel guy

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Employee of the Month: Ben Player of Surf Lakes

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Ben Player is master of the world's heaviest wave pool wave. And while that might be akin to saying, “yeah, he’s the best chef at McDonalds,” consider that the Surf Lakes' Island slab in Yeppoon is so gnarly, so thumping, that it's led many to claim it as the most challenging surf tank wave in the world. Before it was

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Alyssa Malliae documents the confluence of salted and chlorinated New Jersey stoke

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SkudinSurf American Dream is an enhancement to the New York/New Jersey surf scene. Pros practice here, groms collect clips and Manhattan's business elite hit the surf instead of a gym. Factor in the occasional Jacob Zelesky and Ben Gravy sighting and you can see that this wave tank is becoming a focal point to the East Coast circuit. Alyssa Malliae

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George Mori of Surf Stadium Japan

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Employee of the Month: Engineer Joji Mori at Surf Stadium Japan

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Joji "George" Mori learned to surf at age five and studied in Australia for several years, surfing and learning the ins and outs of engineering. In the pool he's a snappy goofyfoot with solid foot placement and a high make ratio for barrels and airs. But speaking with George you realize he's just a surf-crazed grom who grew up at

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Discover the process behind Waco Surf’s water treatment

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Behind the veil of every wave you ride in a pool, there is a team that dedicates its time to making sure that magic happens. Michael Holder is one of those people – a wave basin Swiss army knife who knows everything there is to know about keeping the wave pool at Waco Surf running and in tip-top shape. Holder

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Employee of the Month: Shunichi Matsuuchi, taskmaster at Surf Stadium Japan

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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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Employee of the Month: Shaun Hutchinson at Urbnsurf

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Shaun Hutchinson is Group Operations Manager at Urbnsurf. We met when WavePoolMag toured the Melbourne site this year. He's super busy, as you'd expect, but we love South African accents so we kept calling him on WhatsApp just to hear his voice. Most of the time Shaun was tucked back in the office redlining in the tasks department. Despite this,

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Devin Pullin Waco Surf

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Employee of the Month: Waco’s lead water quality technician Devin Pullin

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What is the most rock star job at a surf park? Photographers take center stage when they nail that perfect shot for your Instafeed, and the front desk human is positively drummer-like in getting everyone through the doors in time. CEOs and park managers? Yes, they are the lead singers, the brand face of the surf park that you'd see

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Employee of the Month: Luca Loubet of Alaïa Bay

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Luca Loubet studied water sports management at the University of Montpellier. The fickle swell patterns and six-month-long flat spells of the Mediterranean stoked his interest in wave pools. Luca wrote his final thesis on Wavegarden, eying an exit to a career as a surf coach. A combination of drive and luck landed him a job at Adventure Parc Snowdonia as

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Employee of the Month: Amy Hunt of Waco Surf

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Everyone who works in the wave pool world at this point in time wears several hats. Partly because the industry is so young that clear-cut job titles are still years off. We've heard of CEOs taking on social media duties, fixing dings and handing out singlets to customers. There's a wonderful we're-all-in-this-together vibe among staff at the world's wave pools.

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James Miles of Urbnsurf

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Employee of the Month: James Miles of Urbnsurf

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James Miles is excitable. It might even be his superpower. He’s one of those individuals who bring enthusiasm wherever they go. And it’s not the cheerleading type of froth so pervasive across Tik Tok and Youtube makeup tutorials. James isn’t phoning it in. I don't think he ever does. Which could explain why he’s had such an illustrious career in

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Employee of the Month: Giovanni Piro of Alaia Bay

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Giovanni Piro is a tall affable man with an air of seriousness that is totally out of place at a wave pool. It isn’t until I watch him work, traversing the grounds at Alaia Bay and ping-ponging between employees delivering instructions that I realize it's the job that requires seriousness. I mean, on one hand, it’s just surfing. Fun, wet,

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Want to become a wave pool designer or engineer? Here’s how

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If you want to be happy, do what you love. An old trick used the world over by school guidance councilors is to ask you, “If you had a million dollars, what would you do all day?” And whatever your response - aside from “nothing” - be it working on old cars, computers, beekeeping, or sketching skyscrapers, is what they

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Employee of the Month: Blaise Booth of The Surf Ranch

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One Instagram feed, in particular, captured our attention early last year. The BlaiseyShootz feed kept up our interest with fresh perspectives and action of Kelly’s Wave in Lemoore. Not an easy task. Images of Kelly’s Dream in Lemoore have become as perfunctory and comfortable as living room furniture. And digital pixels of a Felipe alley-pop during the CT comp is

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Volcom’s wave-pool obsessed designer kicks off their own brand

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So, wave pool-themed T-Shirts is a thing now. Brands include Lemoore Surf Club, the Palm Springs Surf Club and the highly visible Country Club Surf Club. All three brands are running hot on social channels and in select retail outlets fuelled by the unique juxtaposition of the shaggy surf aesthetic with private club exclusivity. It’s a brave new world out

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Baptiste Caulonque

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Industry: Baptiste Caulonque’s shred moxie and Endless Surf

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Baptiste Caulonque is a core surfer who slipped into the surf industry during the heyday of the Big Three. He helped anchor Rip Curl in Europe and navigate the trappings inherent in European business. Where in America the industry can be as simple as wholesale profit margins, the Euro game is like an extended chess match. Baptiste knows how to

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Jina Kim at Wave park

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Employee of the Month: Let’s hit South Korea’s wave Park with Jina Kim

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One of the great things about wave pools is that they level the playing field in terms of which corners of the world have good surf. South Korea is not the Gold Coast of Australia in terms of wave quality. But Wave Park’s giant Cove wave pool ensures consistent sizzling surf in an area that relies on the rare wind

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Employee of the Month: Rob Kelly, Operations Coordinator for PerfectSwell

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What are the differences between the waves at American Dream and BSR Surf Resort? PerfectSwell Employee of the month Rob Kelly shares details about each spot... Rob Kelly is a well-rounded social media powerhouse stacking clips in gnarly, cold surf the world over while still keeping his hair wet with novelty sessions in the Great Lakes and the occasional adventure

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Nick Rees of The Wave

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Employee of the Month: Nick Rees of The Wave on staying core when the surf industry moves inland

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Nick Rees loves British surfing. He cut his teeth on the beach running errands for Surfing England then translated that mojo into project management. His work eventually pushed him up to the Chief Operating Officer position. The crown jewel of his accomplishments being securing National Governing Body status for surfing in England, a big move that put UK surfing on

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Is this what a wave pool addiction looks like?

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Symptoms. Signs. Warnings. It all started with a blurry photo of a clear plastic back full of brightly colored wristbands. The image showed up in an Instagram DM and soon we began to unpack the story: Two years that included 140 sessions, 2,000 expert waves and roughly 200 cumulative hours driving through the Texas heat. “I recently saw that someone

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Jo Dennison at Surf Snowdonia

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Meet Surf Snowdonia resident pro Jo Dennison

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When Surf Snowdonia openend up the first public wave pool with Wavegarden technology, Welsh champion Jo Dennison took the position as resident pro. Technically “Water Operations Manager” (but doesn’t ‘resident pro’ sound cooler?) it means she overseas everything that goes down in the Surf Snowdonia pool from surf instructor break times and live-saving diligence to ejecting kids for peeing. She’s

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