Wavegarden Drops First Full-Length 'Cove' Edit

Eh, screw em.

My last trip to Austin I had booked a session. They cancel week of. Okay, don't hear back from them for months, think that's the last of it. This last Monday I get an email, "you can rebook". Yesterday evening during dinner I get a call, let it go to voice mail.
"You can rebook."

No, "sorry for the inconvenience, no hard feelings, here's some priority booking and a slight discount."

Not that it matters. I'm not planning on going to Texas anytime soon. The fam all comes to SoCal for the Summer.
Although we are going to send the child there in July for a week or two.

100°+ heat and mosquitos builds character

 

That's it I'm buying one

 

Yeah, at the end of the vid there's a list of coming soon locations. Miami is one. Yay! Well, I hope they don't mean Miami propre but more like in south Florida somewhere. A thousand waves per hour is more than we get all winter.

So, between Kelly's wave machine in Jupiter and this thing in Miami and the Flo Rider right here in town, south Florida will soon be the artificial wave capitol of the world.

 

Nah, man, I'd still have to go there from time to time just to see Betty and the gals

 

now nuke the bahamas out of the way and you'd have a propperre swell windough

 

Wow. Looks fun!

Ok, this new wave garden tech looks SOO much better than that garbage they had in Austin. That wave park in Austin is just a wake. It's not a complete wave. You go straight right down a metal pier instead of across the wave. Also, that place I heard had all kinds of problems with people getting infections. I saw posts all over the internet about former employees. Look on youtube for people who uploaded personal videos to see what the wave looked like and the water looked absolutely filthy. It was waist high fake mush wave. Nothing like a proper wave.

Now here's my question/issue for this wave. If you're creating a wave every 8 seconds, I don't buy for a second you can use that little of an area. You're going to need a large body of water so it's clean otherwise it's going to be a washing machine and not clean like you see in that video. Also, they need to get the price/cost under control. 90 bucks an hour outrageous especially if you build it anywhere near an actual ocean. $20-30/hour is really where they need to be at with some maximum number of riders per session so it's not a destruction derby and actually fun.

 

i don't have sound on at work, but those waves look real small. not sure if they mention how big they can get. it'd be great for them to whip it up to DOH. wonder if that's a possibility...

 

and yet they have these pros surfing these waist to chest hi waves. doesn't make sense right? i wonder if the pros asked for waist hi waves or maybe their sponsors told them so. even then, can't they get a couple "advanced" surfers to go head high+ ?

 

I think this is it. I suspect the waves they showed in the vid were the biggest and best that particular pool could put out.

Also, to Rhode islands point, you would think waves that frequent in a relatively small pool would create that washing machine effect before long. maybe a wave every 8 seconds, but I wonder if/how frequently they have o shut her down to let the pool settle.

 

they could have drains/buffers at the end/edges that lead to a sump tank?

 

looks fun....so are step-offs(the wall) ok? Will you get chastised? Asking for a friend?