Hot-as-hell Mesa, Arizona, to be home of new wave tank to rival Waco, Palm Springs etc.
Earlier today, the former world number two and “least huggable pro of all” Shane Beschen finally revealed his latest wave pool project, a tank in Mesa, Arizona, using engineering and tech made in Minnesota.
Beschen, who is forty-eight, is a longtime believer in the viability of wave pools in the USA, first in partnership with the German-made City Wave and, now, with attorney and developer Cole Cannon esq, who “is a negotiator at heart, not the soft type, but the ‘speak softly and carry a big stick’ type that Teddy Roosevelt preached about.”
Both announced the project, which has been approved by the Mesa Planning Commission, on their respective Instagram accounts.
The build will begin in 2021.
“Relaxation not earned is just more stress. To solve this paradox, I decided to build a surf park because maybe then I can relax in it,” wrote Cannon.
“Our wave technology and vision for this project will be like nothing you have seen in the market to date and so grateful to be a part of this incredible project and team,” wrote Beschen.
Mesa, if y’didn’t know, is a hot-as-hell city twenty miles west of Phoenix, hits a hundred in the shade most days in summer, and before Beschen’s pool announcement was noted as the place where cops gunned down a weeping, unarmed Texas man, Daniel Shaver, in a hotel hallway.
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Potential don’t mean nothing. It bombed, like all the rest.
how do you charge an entrance fee to a reef, let alone build condos on it?
I feel sick after watching this.
Oh people have tried, but they have turned out to be half-arsed attempts. Chevron Reef in California, some place in New Zealand, another in India.
All failures.
When they were dumping the sand from Tweed River into the point, Surfrider and everyone else almost rioted.
And what happened: Created one of the best waves in the world.
Accidentally on purpose.
Wait. Daniel Shaver wasn’t black so this couldn’t have happened. Cops don’t do such things to white guys, only black guys. I know this because BLM,CNN and the NYTimes say so.
Wow how is that cop with the gun not in prison?
He screwed the pooch, and the drunk guy is dead.
How the fuck is that even close to “justified” force? Cunt made him cry, he was clearly in fear for his life and for good reason, a fucken murderer was standing over him. Died crying the poor bastard.
Only in Arizona could a cop get away with that.
Here’s the Wikipedia version:
On January 18, 2016, Daniel Leetin Shaver of Granbury, Texas was fatally shot by police officer Philip Brailsford in the hallway of a La Quinta Inn & Suites hotel in Mesa, Arizona. Police were responding to a report that a rifle had been pointed out the window of Shaver’s hotel room.
After the shooting, the rifle, which remained in the room, was determined to be a pellet gun. Following an investigation, Brailsford was charged with second-degree murder and a lesser manslaughter charge and found not guilty by a jury.
Prosecutors argued the shooting was unjustified.
In March 2018, it became known that the United States Department of Justice had reopened the case and was looking into a possible civil rights violation by Brailsford.
Brailsford was reinstated to the Mesa Police Department in August 2018, then over a month later was granted retirement on medical grounds, as well as a pension of $2,500 per month.
Brailsford’s lawyer has said that Brailsford suffered from posttraumatic stress disorder due to his shooting of Shaver and the resultant criminal trial.
Good god.. can someone just go meter out gods wrath on this Braislford fuck. I somehow feel sicker than I did after watching Shaver be murdered. But thanks for the intel.
Yep he needs killin’ as they say in Texas. That was some amateur night lame-ass police work there. There’s no way he should have been acquitted.
Because humans are geniuses at creating waves in the ocean by accident – Wedge, Sandspit, Super Bank, Santa Cruz Harbor, countless jetties, Ala Moana – but hopeless at creating waves in the ocean on purpose.
No one has gotten it right yet. Not even close.
Put sharks in wave pools, and get Elo to poo stance his way across a wave and beachgrit can combine all of their story lines into one shit storm
I’m really not that interested in a fun, fresh, efficient wave, I’m really searching for the fresh ,alive, vibrant wave.
That video was fucked up. Thank you, I think.
they say QAnon beach been very crowded these days…
116 degrees in Mesa tomorrow.
Warm water wax?
Low of 87. Yuck.
Get down here now cunts!
The surf is absolutely
Fun, fresh efficient!
couldn’t bear to finish “weeping…” didn’t make it to finally! How it end?
It would be better if Gavin was in charge.
I heard the wave interval is roughly patterned using a scaled version of the creases on Beschen’s forehead.
You think there will be an interference setting?
Yes. It’s called the Matt Archbold/Christian Fletcher Interference setting. When employed, it’ll be difficult to notice Shane surfing the joint.
A 3rd tier surfer in a 3rd tier city. Bringing surfing to the masses.
Mesas*
Rick Kane is gonna love the new pool though. The old one was pretty shit.
3rd tier surfer? Hardly.
Active shooter must be young and dumb.
I was born on Leap Day so I’m only 12. I guess that I’m dumb about the Beschens, but otherwise I have been called a fart smella.
Beschen was the only dude of his time willing to mix it up with Ke11y and not become a sycophant.
He was the template for Andy.
I will fly to hot-as-hell Mesa, Arizona to ride Shane’s wife. The pool? Na.