I finally took a look at the new Surfpark website and checked out the pricing situation. Those of you who know me know I’m a proponent of wave parks for crowd dispersion possibilities, so it is with heavy heart and a minimum of irony that I must note this outfit has managed to throw fetid smelly water on my dreams. Membership…based on a base-price for waves. I understand the business case behind that - it makes perfect sense, like pre-selling in real estate or something. But any way you look at it that is emblamatic of the worst of current surf life. You too can belong, if you have the bucks. I get visions of a hyperchlorinated Ranch… In my mind you might have to pony up bucks to get in, more like a water park, but it wouldn’t be some health club caca. Guess I didn’t think it through.
Rivers are an alternative… check out http://www.tube6.de/ A standing everlasting tube… like the flowrider but deep and peeling like an ocean wave. I believe in that kind of ideas…there is no sea where I live. Some people depend on artificial waves, kitesurfing, towsurfing, surflifts and other means to get gliding… cheers Marcus
the real world …sucks individual energy from whereever it can…paying up to the hilt? the new sport of kings…? of emiron?.. ambrose…Who’s gonna get the security contract?
Who’s gonna get the security contract? In the bright light of 9 a.m.I concede that where there is a will, there’s a way. The business case in this situation seems to have a $1 = 1 wave price point. They literally sell the number of waves. $2000 gets you 2000 waves over the course of the year, quantity subtracted via bar coded wristbands. This really makes sense. I would gladly figure out a way to pay $1 for a good, unmolested wave at my favorite beaches. I suppose I would be happy to buy a wristband and have them count the waves I get and then charge me. I just seem to have a (another) major hangup conceptually with “buying a membership” and having the stress of having to burn the minimum waves to get my moneys worth. Maybe it seems like a country club trip. They could put in a golf course next to it. And a strip club. Ron Jon Surf Empire is the pro shop/instruction partner. The first one is slated for Orlando, Fla, where both community and state suffer flat spells. The weather is fairly perfect for it. The whole thing makes total sense to me, but the faint whiff of financial exclusivity puts me off.
It’s not that much different to kayakings whitewaterparks. But they are cheap in comparison… on the Eiskanal in Germany it’s like A Day adult 14,40 € youth 7,20 € Saison adult 124,00 € youth 62,00 € about 1/3 cheaper if you are member of the German Kayakfed. 2000€ would piss of any of these sportsmen… Using Pumps to create an artificial wave isn’t very economical either if you don’t have your own powerplant right at the spot… this is just stupid. The Flowrider is almost the same insane idea. they should built flowriders nearby rivers where the can fill a tank and have natural flow… imgagine to built a flowrider at Niagara [smile])) There are riverwaves that are huge…including tidal waves. Do you guys know of “Hawaii sur Rhone”? it get’s even bigger and glassier sometimes… and that is the Wittelsbacher Wave…one of Munichs River Waves. http://playak.com/images/destinations/wittelsbacher.jpg boater in the front, surfer in the back…it runs all day long if it’s on. Hawaii sur Rhone
i love that Picture! pure stoke!!
Tj knows where there’s a lake in minnesota with granite reefs and an old hotel??? we could buy it for cheap and make a wave pump out of the old ;imo from the hotel…an if we could find Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland we could have a big show in the old barn damn nels wouldnt it be swell?.. ambrose…unwrapping…TJ’s private wave
Yeooow!! Being a river paddler myself I know this guys in for a rough ride out the back if he doesn’t get window shaded first. Looks like Lava Falls on the Grand Canyon. P.S -the worse wipeout I’ve ever had surfing doesn’t even begin to compare to getting worked in a big hole on the river.
Now that’s the spirit! Gin and tonic on the front porch in the summer, sundresses instead of slutdresses, bicycles instead of Hummers…a touch of civility. No parking lot heroes because there wouldn’t be much of a parking lot…
China Wants to SURF… Japans golfers find it cheaper to Fly to Australia for the weekend to play… Cant see the reason why Surf Parks wouldnt work…Keeps surfers trash away from the beaches…Makes the sport accessable to all…I belive it will invigorate surfing and bring more individualls into the sport… Has anyone heard any of the latest about surfing in the olympics? Im sure this will incorporate some sort of static wave system. http://www.geocities.com/wunderboyi/ninetysixpercent.html
Yea ambrose! Now that’s my kind of surf park!
yea the water color is rust…the waves come from 4 old combines rigged up to 600 55 gal drums filled 1/2 way with c-ment…I can push a 5 wave set from one end and have it hit the granite slab with a 17 sec interval A frames from 3-8 feet all controled by the tonya and brenda sisters…fun stuff I rec-on.
rust colored water then green boards and blue uniforms on the sisters in the wax booths… red water what a boon… the paths red non skid with yellow follow me paint swirling back to the lodge and a conveyor to the take off with conforming recliners…call madison avenue… we need venture capital…ambrose… but first a trip to Niawatu to measure the reef and to bone up on bowie knife technique chasing gate crashers… we could be back by august