Doug Coors' superseded wavepool in Austin, Texas, about to get the hottest injection!
Have you ever bought a car or a telephone only to see it dramatically superseded overnight?
Two years ago, Slater loosed his wave pool and, immediately, Spain’s Wavegarden, up to then the most advanced tank the world had seen, was suddenly as desirable as a film camera or a cassette Walkman.
“Wavegarden just went Betamax,” as Matt Warshaw famously said.
But Wavegarden’s creators and engineers didn’t, as Warshaw also said, “stand on office building ledges, crying, looking down at the sidewalk!”
They got to work.
And over one year, built a vastly improved version called The Cove. Instead of Wavegarden’s burger wake, The Cove is a pool that can be easily tweaked into four or five different waves, including an almost impossible takeoff-to-tube righthander.
Watch little Brazilian Mateus Herdy dirty it up here.
Now, tell me: if you were Doug Coors in Texas, and you’d just shelled out $25 mill for the comparatively shitty original only to see it dramatically bettered, would it be your turn to stand on the ledge of a high-rise, eyes wet?
Here’s his Texas tank. It ain’t bad but better for kids, beginners.
Now, and this is a rumour so shoot me if I’m wrong, Wavegarden have agreed to provide NLand surf park with the improved version at cost price.
There’s even talk of slotting in the German City Wave to make it the most multi-cultural wave park in the world!
That enough to get you on a bird to Texas?
