Originally published on StabMag.com on March 25, 2015 as Meet Surfing’s First Chlorine Creation! Story by: Lucas Townsend Mo Rahma pays $10 for every wave he surfs. Twice a month he drives an hour and a half from his home in Dubai to the Wadi Wavepool in Al-Ain. Although oil rich, gas is not free in this … Read More >
Sally Fitzgibbons and the Roxy Girls Invade Wavegarden With two days left in the waiting period and the largest forecast lump an uninspiring 2ft at 6 seconds, there probably isn’t going to be any meaningful surfing going down at the Roxy Pro. All that planning and they’ve created the world’s most expensive SUP event thanks to the vagaries of … Read More >
Warning: The action you’re about to witness is NOT a mirage… Pack your bags, pop your ears and join Team Naish on a trip across the world to Abu Dhabi! Let your imagination run wild as the boys take surfing to the next level, one perfect wave after another, at the Abu Dhabi All Stars … Read More >
Surfing’s wonder kid, John John Florence recently released a video of his time spent in Europe late last year. John John also popped into the Wavegarden during his time in Spain to ride the half pipe and the prototype surf lagoon, and included a couple waves from his session in the edit (Starting at the 3:20 mark). — … Read More >
Chicago Surf LLC is the first and only surf park within Chicago’s Cook County, IL. Chicago Surf has partnered with American Wave Machines to install their 16’ SurfStream® ocean-like surf machine at Montrose Beach (200 W. Montrose Harbor Drive, Chicago, IL 60640) set to open May 1st 2015. “The SurfStream® is a stationary ocean-like surf park and … Read More >
James Harold — a.k.a. DJ James Z recently had a great surf session at Disney’s Typhoon Lagoon wave pool. Lots of airs, turns and fun surf pool action.
On August 17th, Surfs Up in Nashua New Hampshire was host to the world’s first sanctioned indoor surf contest. Surfers, including many of the Eastern Surfing Association’s top competitors and ESA All Stars, competed on the world’s largest SurfStream from American Wave Machines. New Hampshire ripper and ESA all star Kainalu “Kai” Nichols,14 was the big … Read More >
The 2014 Southeast Oakley Surf Shop Challenge was held at Typhoon Lagoon wave pool giving 40 of Florida’s best surfers the chance to get their shred on. The second attempt at holding the 2014 Southeast Oakley Surf Shop Challenge at Ponce Inlet proved fruitless last week, with no contestable waves on tap. Fortunately organizers got creative … Read More >
Jamie O’Brien and friends are at it again. That’s right, the latest episode of Who is JOB 4.0 is upon us. Part 1 follows JOB, Kalani Chapman (pictured above), Cheyne Magnusson, Poopies, Damo and the crew as they visit the east coast and make what looks like an especially fun trip to Surf’s Up NH … Read More >
The next few years look promising for the surf park industry – with multiple installations set to be built around the world, it’s anyone’s guess what the next surf park video may look like. That said, here’s a look back at some of the great surfing and cinema spawned in existing parks around the world … Read More >
Up until now we’ve mostly seen surfers have the chance to take on Wavegarden. But recently, Wavegarden opened it’s doors to the spongers, inviting three-time bodyboarding world champion, Jeff Hubbard. Check out this video where Jeff shows off a series of 360s, “El Rollos” and cutbacks, and shows that Wavegarden doesn’t discrimiate on how you … Read More >
The Inertia recently released their latest “Headspace” interview with Kelly Slater and thankfully asked the question on the top of all of our minds: “What’s going on with Kelly Slater Wave Company?” While Kelly doesn’t necessarily describe the brightest future (monetarily) for the KSWC, he does address how surf parks will change the landscape of … Read More >
“The pool’s engineer pulled out an iPad, opened an app, and proceeded to create a perfect three-foot standing wave. The kids’ faces lit up. They sprung to life, pulling on wetsuits and waxing boards. As far as they were concerned it was eight-foot and offshore. With the swipe of a finger their surf lives had … Read More >
In this week’s Summit video release, Jamie Meiselman discusses what it’ll take to make a commercially viable surf park a reality. Having been involved in the Ron Jon Surfpark project in Orlando, Jamie brings an experienced and grounded perspective to the subject at hand, and includes figures and lessons from Ron Jon that should prove … Read More >
World Champion Peter “PT” Townend discusses the history and evolution of surf parks over the past 5 decades in this week’s Summit video release. As a teenager in Australia in 1968, PT was first introduced to the world of surf parks via a Surfing Magazine spread of Big Surf in Tempe, Arizona. Years later, after … Read More >
