Shipstern Bluff From Above

Featuring Mick Fanning, Mark Mathews, Laurie Towner, Ryan Hipwood, Danny Griffiths, Tyler HX and Brent Dorrington.

JOB foamies are his friends

JOB basically… Well he’s taking the piss on a foamie…

SUP Foil boarding is a thing. Who'd have thought

So….what’s the worst that could happen… I’m the only one thinking “multiple beheadings at the Superbank…”

*Disclaimer. We actually have a few friends who are very good SUP’ers and not a danger…In the sea anyway…

The worlds bestest river waves

So you want to surf in a river? From waves rolling through the English countryside to brown tropical rivers with flesh eating fish we have five must ride bores for you!

Sara Sari’r Baan ..The Ganges, India. Of course the Ganges is a holy river so you could end up surfing next to a body surfing corpse…

The Silver Dragon Tidal Bore, Qiatang River, China. Big flesh eating fish here too. First surfed by Stuart Matthews an English bloke.

The Pororoca wonder of the Amazon…Yes that means Piranhas and those fish that swim up your willy….Not for me really…

The “Bono”, Indo. Mesmerising lineups…Probably more flesh eating fish, possibly pirates…

The Severn Bore, UK, for years the most famous bore the world. Gets as busy as the super bank these days! First surfed by Mad Jack Churchill an ex Nazi hunter and the last British officer to kill someone in battle using a bow and arrow while simultaneously playing the bagpipes. A true multi tasker.

A Wavegarden the length of J Bay?

Here it is…

“They are digging a Wavegarden the length of J Bay….” Was the over riding snippet of information I took away from Surf Snowdonia. Was it rumour? Was it just over imaginative nonsense? Well it appears it may actually be true as the first small images appear from the dig.

Wavegarden and Doug Coors, CEO of NLand Surf Park, plans to put Austin, Texas on the map as a world class surf destination with the introduction of the first public Wavegarden in North America.

Roughly the size of nine (American) football fields, NLand claim their WG will “feature eleven surfing areas with four different surfing levels ranging from beginner to pro. Each hour, 300 distinct waves that never lose power or shape, ranging from one to six feet will be yours to hang ten!”

It will be three times the length of the Spanish test facility…Imagine that!

There are no other parks that compare to NLand.’ He said in recent interview “Our lagoon will be the size of nine football fields with one-foot, four-foot, and six-foot barreling waves, on a ride that could last up to 35 seconds. There has been nothing like this in the past, nor is there anything similar to this now on the planet.’

An artists impression. Plans also feature a skatepark…

The lagoon will offer waves suitable for surfers of all abilities, but that a six foot wave with a ride of 35 seconds per wave is pretty mad.

‘It is extremely rare to find a surf spot anywhere in the world with waves that break perfectly over this duration; this is infrequent even at the most famous surfing locations around the planet because a range of natural elements must coincide for this to happen.’

The driving housing is on site…

Doug Coors is an engineer and a surfer, his aim is to produce perfectly tubing six foot waves every 60 seconds. The Coors-Wavegarden team have even worked on a unique lagoon design and self-sustaining water supply.

A wave garden the length of J Bay… Imagine the fun! It is well on it’s way to opening in 2016 so with this space!

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