Exciting!
Few things are currently as highly anticipated as Greg Webber’s wave pool technology. A coronavirus vaccine, manned missions to mars, Tesla becoming the most valuable stock on earth are all exciting but none have the frisson of The Webber.
You first learned of it, here, back in 2018 when the master-builder called out all-comers.
A lot of crap is going to down the second our pool proves we’ve got the best tube on earth. Then the games will really begin. I’m ready for it. There will be one company eclipses everyone else. Why would you choose a lesser version that can’t control the currents? Why would you spend the same money to have a lot less? It’s like buying a phone that was designed ten years ago? You gotta have everything, internet, a good camera, seriously, that’s how big the difference is going to be.
Extremely provocative though not much has been seen by way of practical steps toward realization.
Until now.
For now we have a “charismatic, guitar-playing environmental entrepreneur” who hopes to build a Webber in his childhood hometown of Coral Springs, Florida.
Anthony Brown, 55, grew up in what was once swampland, hunting, fishing, riding bikes before moving to the mid-west and making his living starting companies revolving around environmental remediation.
In 2008, he was flipping through a Popular Mechanics magazine when he read a story about wave pool technology and decided, then and there, that’s what he was going to do next.
Well, one thing led to another, Brown moved back to South Florida, started his company, Ocean Sports Development, which, in turn secured an exclusive licensing and patented design for the Webber Wave Pool to “create waves for all levels of training and competition.”
The company hopes to build surf parks across the nation and create a competitive surfing league at those facilities.
Last week, Coral Springs commissioners gave the go-ahead for city staff to begin formal discussions with Brown and his team to build the $20 million facility.
And can you finally see it?
Feel it?
Exciting.
I’m most looking forward to the competitive surfing league and will ask to be commissioner.
Looks awful. Crowded and nothing natural about it.
Great! Now you will?add hordes of people who can ride in a wavepool and never have seen an Ocean and gee it’s not that tough and next week their funerals from Drowning and the crowds?Don’t even go there!
Meh. I’d rather spend my money on a plane ticket. Can’t imagine how many kooks such a monstrosity would attract. But the good news is the more cheesey wave pools, maybe it won’t be so crowded at lowers. FOAD MFers
greg does the best artist impressions. I devoted most of my education to drawing in my school books but never came close to anything of his quality. perhaps I should have reduced my quota of lady bits and cock sketches I could have made something with my life.
If a charismatic guitar-playing environmental entrepreneur can’t get it done, no-one can…
Look?what a bald GOAT did! Don’t judge a book by it’s wet and barrelled cover.
It feels like story has been going since Kelly’s first world title. Just tell us when the fucken thing is finished
The year you know how to spell swear words.Thats the 1 st.of Never!
Ha that’s funny, as that’s the same date the Webber wave pool is opening. Man your on form in the comments section
webber’s formal discussions with south florida developers = him sending facebook dm’s to random people in south florida with drawing of barrels
Would rather wait in a 3 hour line to ‘it’s a small world’ at Disneyland Orlando than surf Webbers wave.
I’m looking to form a franchise for wave pool surf schools. This is the model;
https://www.betootaadvocate…
Hey! @redbull JOB, get psyched and srmtart a surf school at 2 nd. Reef Pipeline! Lots of one time students and JOB emergency place is on the corner.
2nd Reef is a nice chip in for the inside break. Kind of like Old Man’s at Canggu. I can see it working.
Tesla??? Who knew????
Heeheeheheeeeeheeeee…. if only I took stock tips from a homeless guy living out of his Volt. 🙁
It’s done nothing since his recommendation
Cocoon Lagoon, a Webber Design most thought had retired, but now finding it’s rejuvenation in Florida.
https://youtu.be/s9BSsIX2j7M
As an entitled teen living on the beach thanks to my Reagan-loving parents, I always dreamed of a day when I could ride my GT Pro Performer two miles inland to spend their money on a fake wave instead of walking the 50 steps to the break out my back door. Turns out dreams come true in Coral Springs!
Glad to hear that your local break offers great waves 365 days a year, and that you’re under-employed enough that you can still manage to regularly surf during daylight hours on weekdays in winter!
Flat days are for golf and croquet. Underemployed? Work is for suckers. Read above, RICH PARENTS!
Coffey sisters will be looking like Pearce Bronson’s wife by the time they break ground.
standing ovation Robert.
Thanks
I wonder how he got linked up with Greg…
Greg Webber, renowned surfboard shaper and surf-adjacent technology pastry chef, walks into the empty conference room. He’s scheduled to meet with Anthony Brown, identified as an “environmental entrepreneur,” whatever that means, to discuss his wavepool technology and designs for a facility in Florida. Is he nervous? Of course not, as he would tell you “worrying is for effeminate gonad gangsters.” A few moments later, Mr. Brown walks in.
Brown: Hello, Greg?
Mr. Webber stands up to greet Mr. Brown with a wet handshake.
Webber: Yep, yep. That’s my name and don’t wear it out! Haha Just excuse me, I’m what people would call “an eccentric”…
Brown: Right, I can see that….
Webber: Excuse me, Tony….
Brown: It’s “Anthony.” I’m not in a New Jersey street gang.
Both men sit down across from each other at the conference table.
Webber: Right, right, well, so I hear you’re interested in my pools. Let me tell you, you’ve come to the right place. I have the best wavepool designs in the biz. Don’t want to give away too much, but you know it’s circular and has a trough, like a real wave…
Brown: Right! I’ve read into your ideas a little bit, though, I have to admit, there is not a lot of information out there. Would you care to explain to me a little bit more about how the technology would work?
Webber: Well, first off, I’m not gonna divulge too much. Gotta protect my assets, of which my genius ideas I consider to be my greatest, so… I don’t want too much out there.
Brown: Right, but have you actually fleshed the whole thing out? Or are you kind of stringing people along?
Webber: Not at all! What a bollocks question.
Brown: Bollocks?
Webber: Testicles, mate. In this case, I’d say of the Bos mutus variety.
Brown: Bos mutus?… anyway, how is your wavepool going to be powered? As an enviro-conscious eco-warrior, it is very important to me that it be susta..
Webber: Yes, but you want to make money?
Brown: Yes.
Webber: Right, so you don’t actually care about the environment. A pro environment wavepool? Pfftt, *gesturing to imaginary people in the room* I want what he’s having. Anyway, my pools are the most environmentally friendly pools out there. They use a fraction of the energy as the plow or jet pump models.
Brown: How is that possible? What are you using?
Webber: Well, you know, that’s proprietary knowledge. You’d have to pay to get that from me. Let’s just say, human labor is important, no motorized machines…
Brown: Wait, what?
Webber: You’ve seen Willy Wonka, yeah?
Brown: Yes.
Webber: Good. Well, we are going to power the thing using laborers from Myanmar, Taron people, and they will run around a hamster wh…
Brown: Taron people? What? Slave labor? Wait, hamster wheel?
Webber: Yeah, Taron people. They’re like… how to explain… oh, well, I guess like my fellow amateur anthropologists, readers of 1.5 total chapters of 1950s anthropological textbooks, would say, like “pygmy” people. “East Asian pygmies.”
Brown: Again, what?!
Webber: Well, their culture is about to disappear, so I was thinking it would help them out to start working.
Brown: That doesn’t even make any sense. Why them?
Webber: Well, I don’t know what to tell you. They’re small, so they can fit in the hamster wheels easier, is mostly it, but also, I shouldn’t be saying this, we have a way of harnessing their sexual energy to power stuff.
Brown: Really? They’re known for their sexual energy?
Webber: Insane libidos. I had an encounter with a young lady from one of their villages, and let’s just say it was intense. Could power all of Alice Springs!
Brown: Alice Springs?
Webber: A totally huge metropolis in Australia.
Brown: Wow, nice… I think I’m sold! How much are you asking for the license?
Webber: How much you got?
Brown and Webber sign a contract with a bunch of words and an undisclosed amount of money (written in invisible ink).
Brown: Thank you, we’ll get this done.
Webber: That’s the spirit!… Probably not, though, mate. Anyway, been a pleasure… I saw a strip club on my way in, so that’s up next… so where do I get my parking validated? I’m not paying for that shit.
Brown: You can get it validated at the strip club. If you see her, tell Desereii I said “hi.”
Webber: Will do. Cheers.
Webber walks out of the office.
He got together a group of investors. They then asked; “have you ever surfed”. To which he ran around the question like cameltoe harris, answering about her years as Willie Brown’s (whore!
Stop mansplaining! What do you think this is, a debate?! /sarc
I wonder if Pence even looks at camel toe? Will his wife allow him?
He sure missed a fly on his head.
https://media.npr.org/asset…
Pretty sure he’s not running this time.
The model in Australian conservative politics is while in opposition complain about all decisions made by the government, even if they actually vote for them in parliament. Then when in power, complain about all the things the opposition did while they were in power, while the changes they make objectively make things worse for the public. It saves them from actually taking any responsibility when it is always someone else’s fault.
You’re darn close to the truth – only thing you missed is that this is how it work on BOTH sides.
You do have the best surfers but we all can’t understand anything you say” Mite”…
Flies Lives Mockers
When that’s your focus, it’s a tell of who you are! I bet your friends invite you to play poker a lot.
Better than being asked to play” Pokehim!
true
He’s not the same guy he was four years ago.
Then the fly turned him into the last uneaten sausage at a bbq, completing his transformation.
Even a fly has the right to take a dump.speakin of that,” I’ve gotta go Take a Trump..
Stephen Colbert last night had a field day about the fly!
This must be getting hard to watch for you.
I already know the outcome. It’s going to be entertaining to watch average people see what’s about to happen. Unfortunately, I’ll mostly likely be rotating overseas.☻
Not sure too many countries will take any pox ridden white Supremists
Is that your status? You still matter.
Florida is part of the Bermuda triangle for wave pools.
They start than just disappear.
Ask Kelly and Ziff