The world's loveliest two-footer, on demand!
Not sure how long this little piece of vision is going to last so get it while it’s relatively warm.
Here, a day before it officially lifts its skirt to the public, are two waves ridden, and one butchered, at the world’s first full-sized Wavegarden Cove, Bristol’s The Wave, and as shared on LinkedIn by Project Manger Monica Lumsden.
This is what I see: a lovely two-foot, blue-water wave of approximately forty metres length that allows two turns, three if you’re fast or very little before evaporating into deep water. There is no air end section, which may or may not matter given its location.
One presumes better surfers will explore its cavities with scrupulous concern, buttons tweaked etc, before any official vision is released. Nevertheless, this clip, amounts to a precise document of what the average surfer might expect.
Sessions cost forty pounds, the joint opens at eight and last surfers hit the water at three.
Commented on Disqus? Log out, tap the Disqus button, and your old name and comments come back. The box is ours.
Your comments are still here. Every one of them.
Twelve years of BeachGrit comments came across from Disqus. Connect and we will show you how many are yours. We get your username, nothing else.
Connect Disqus to reveal.
Looks pretty good by Myrtle Beach standards. I hope that ours actually gets built.
“Come sit on my lap and we’ll talk about anything that pops up”
its always raining in Bristol
where is this little clip you all speak of? I need to join this linking thing? I am linked to no one other than my precious
I think they disappeared it, like Chas’s Chinese buddy’s peepee.
Same same.
Seems we’ve missed sweet eff a
MMM here is a little clip from a few blokes ripping at the test facility in Spain a month ago . The video in the article, was nothing like this , and I am assuming it was probably filmed by a non surfer , showing only the end section of 3 waves before panning off to show the grass hills and the wooden change sheds at the end of the pool .
https://youtu.be/Cph6mprM7EI
Is Stu Kennedy Omni’s best team rider? How did he not last on tour, anyone?
Looks like a narrow channel funnels water more efficiently. Love that there are guys on the “shoulder” trying to snake Conner.
Possibly lack of funds … ? The well paid can afford to travel to each competition with their wife , children , friends ,medical staff , Coach , shaper and manager ,so it must be hard for guys and girls doing the tour on a shoe string budget , basically alone , especially those like Stu ,having to leave a young family at home for most of the year, to compete against surfers with this type of support .
While listening to Kolohe’s last heat interview he mentioned that he got his own personal medical practitioner ( ? ) to fly to Portugal to look after him ….I imagine that this might have cost more than Stu Kennedy was paid in a year ….
That same thing is affecting mainstream sports in the US. “Travel teams”… meaning club teams that travel weekends to compete have very few minorities participating because of the expense of a full family spending a weekend or two away from home each month.
One of my buddies kids looks like a baseball prospect. He spends so much money on the families trips that he can’t go on surf trips anymore (? He is VP of a regional insurance corp and makes huge money). I think he’s bitter about no days off too, but he won’t admit that.
James, I took his brother on a trip and he told me that his brother, the prospect, hates baseball and wishes he was on our surf trip. Reality is, few of these kids make the big league.
Too bad for Stu, always liked his flow.
Kelly should pay him more. Stu makes those boards look good to the general public.
He’s actually doing pretty good on the QS right now, number fifteen.
How many beers do you reckon Stu has had before doing that interview haha?
I think that just him frothing …..
Yeah, they disappeared it, as was always going to happen hence first line.
sitting on your lanai watching Medina smash all comers at Pipe.
And The Basílica de la Sagrada Família even longer !
I reckon it will do a roaring trade. I lived down the road from the pool in Bath for a stint years ago. There’s plenty of surfers around there who will spend 5 hours in a car to surf waves worse than that.
It looks terrible in that footage. I hope this is not the finished product. But there is another wave after the wave before and another before that. I am trying to be positive. The Urban Surf crew might be shaking in their boots right now. The latest lot of footage from the Plunger in Yepon is not looking flash either. Those waves seems to lose all their power and size very quickly.
More Gilligan’s Island and less like Frozen !
Well may they say that “ Less is More “ ,
But it doesn’t apply to our man from Lemoore ….
Where’s your Robin Hood ? On my ice cream headache head !
The first thing that pops up ……. ( on a surfboard )
Is that what ‘surf knobs’are for? And the even have a term for those with troubles; PD. Pop-up Dysfunction…
https://surf-knobs.com/
A man is not a Pop-up Toaster ……Knowing my luck I’d bruise my own knob and nuts on these babies every take-off .
The person who took the video has a great future with the WSL , firstly missing the takeoff , the best section by far ,on the 3 waves surfed and then the ensuing paddle battle / run around for priority……
Promising, about 15 sec of surfing footage on a 2 min video.
I’d rather have a cry wank.
That looks like one foot high tide rainbow bay. Even gold coasters won’t surf that
This comment is some kind of paradox. Have you seen how many Gold Coasters there are at one foot high tide Rainbow Bay?
Probably less than the number of hipsters at the Pass for a wave half the size ?
Fuck yeah they got it set to my optimal size.
Is it bad to say my favourite sized wave is chest high?
I might need a gun on those.
Yes ! waving a gun in front of the athletes shown might raise their level ……. bottom turn now …. boom goes the gun ….. NEXT !
… I’m confused which one of my innumerable high volume high performance surfboards will work best in these conditions. Is there a volume calculator for this wave?
https://www.calculator.net/…
Yes.
Nope, any bigger and I’m like a trolley boy on a runaway stack.
Double overhead for the little bloke who left BG for Stub ?
wee bloke
I gravitate between Waist and Chest! And I think your humour was slightly wasted on this crowd!
this is the one you’ve got a hard-on for ?
My hard on extends to all artificial waves, but yes it’s the same tech that they have at Melb. Beach Grit Xmas party?
good idea, I think it would get unsurfably sloppy very quickly.
by it, I mean I.
Possibly bigger waves than the QS6000s got in both Newcastle and Manly this year ?
Please, please, please tell me that this is the “intermediates” peak where it reforms or something like that. Surely this can’t be the best of what the Cove offers. Even the scaled-down test pool was better than this.
Looks like fun for a hot minute, would I pay $75.48 in Aussie dollarydoos for an hour? Once maybe, twice if I was desperate. Thrice? No Sir I would not.
Ye gods it looks terrifyin… oh hang on that’s the Walshy clip that pops up every damn time.
I expected the Rocky Mountains to be a little rockier than this.