And welcome to the first exclusive look at Snowdonia going full speed.
Jarrad Howse is a very handsome man. His eyes when he smiles….I don’t care who you are….welcome to Melt City! He is the sort that grows better with age. Like, he wears wrinkles with such careless disregard. Like, George Clooney or Brad Pitt. Being neither tall nor short is a distinct advantage in that his handsomeness stands front and center. Tousled hair. White teeth. Subtle Australian accent worn like warm, not hot, cashmere.
Here, Jarrad and friends can be seen surfing in a sneak preview of the soon to be open commercial wave park Surf Snowdonia. You’ve seen other clips on those websites for middle-aged men with social disorders (hello The Inertia!) and dark, probably illegal, sexual kinks (is that you Surfline?) but you’ve never seen Jarrad Howse.
And how much do you want to go surf Snowdonia now, hater? 2 meter (6 ft) for 150 meters (I failed math) of pure joy? The ocean has just been made redundant. Viva the handsome man!
Surf Snowdonia – Sneak Peak from Surf Snowdonia on Vimeo.
We’ve got waves. Check out a sneak preview of what’s to come. Thank you to all our staff, contractors, Wavegarden and the Conwy community for their support. Open for business from August the 1st.
FILM / EDIT: Luke Pilbeam
Surf Snowdonia is the first ever commercial surfing lagoon that generates waves simultaneously for beginners, intermediate and advanced surfers.
Utilising Wavegarden technology a 2 metre advanced wave is produced that peels 150 metres and runs for 16 seconds.
Surf Snowdonia will open for its first customers at 10am on August 1 2015 – to book a session surfsnowdonia.co.uk.
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just want to know what happens when you fall off the back. the guy surfing looked pretty frantic to body surf in front of the wave.
what happens if boom fails and mows down the surf school!!
guess they got good insurance
other than that would have one in my backyard
Probs salt cause the more salt means buoyancy is better
How weird must it be to surf in freshwater?
Do you think they’ll salt it?
Season to taste?
I’d hope so. Then they could sell the salt in the gift shop.
I really wanted to hate this before I saw the video but that was pretty legit.
in all seriousness, I’d surf it daily.
For sure me too.
Even in a 6 degree C Welsh winter with 40mph winds dropping it to freezing and ragging the waves to pieces?