The future was yesterday.
Zig when others zag, I think, is how thousandaires become millionaires and millionaires become billionaires. Finding those beautiful gaps, exploiting either forgotten or ignored veins. And while the world’s greatest surfer Kelly Slater, surfboard shaper Greg Webber, American Wave Machines, the inimitable Tom Lochtefeld fight over the global wave pool market, onetime Kelly Slater foe, and the least huggable pro of all time, Shane Beschen is quietly breaking ground on “the world’s largest deep water standing wave” on Oahu’s southside.
Standing waves, recall, were once the creme of artificial surfing. The best, and only, thing we had to replicate our favorite pastime save pretending we were doing cutbacks on our skateboards in drainage ditches.
They went out of vogue once they began appearing on cruise ships and almost disappeared entirely with the reveal of Kelly Slater’s surf ranch.
But zig, zag, millions possibly billions and let us turn to Surf Park Central for the very latest.
Wai Kai Commercial Development, LLC today announced that construction is underway of The LineUp, the anchor attraction to the Wai Kai waterfront recreation and entertainment destination at Hoakalei Resort in Ewa Beach in West Oahu. Wai Kai will feature the world’s largest deep-water standing surf wave, and access to an adjacent 52-acre recreational lagoon. Wai Kai is anticipated to open in 2022.
The LineUp at Wai Kai, a dynamic social and recreational hub of authentic waterman experiences, is headlined by the Wai Kai Wave, the world’s largest deep-water standing surf wave at 100-feet wide. Powered by Citywave®, the technology creates authentic surfing conditions with perfect endless and adjustable waves from 2-feet to head-high for all skill levels allowing the use of standard surfboards with fins for big carving turns and top-to-bottom surfing on its glassy wave face. The Wai Kai Wave was created in collaboration with Oahu’s-own Shane Beschen (a partner in The LineUp at Wai Kai’s operating company), an X Games Gold Medalist, former world #2 ranked surfer, and Red Bull’s high-performance surf coach, and his young gun surfing son Noah.
“The surfing will be similar to Oahu’s Waimea Bay river wave that flows periodically when the sand bar opens up after heavy rainfall periods – but on steroids,” said Shane. “Everything from high speed carving turns to sections for attacking the lip or doing airs are all possible here. It creates the perfect on-demand setup.”
Sound fun?
Would you rather surf a standing wave in Oahu or a moving wave in Lemoore?
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Surf lakes in Queensland is the best.
Why is Shane Beschen “Oahu’s own”?
He’s from California.
Will we have to beware of Koa here, too?
No we don’t and we are in a stupid financial hole with our rail project too so everything should work out just fine.
Eh bruddah, why do I have to do all the heavy lifting around here?
Just COMBINE the projects: light rail / wave pool and use the train to push a sled along a canal.
In fact. The Ala Wai canal could be perfect for this. Kill several birds with be stone: Tourists, transit, fake-surfing, use up the mountain of electricity that’s laying around, increase the business for the local medics. What’s not to like?
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X-Games gold medalist surf accolade made me giggle
Very fitting picture above, they all look like a bunch of clones, just like the wave.
Good news BGers!
You are officially invited to invest in the most exciting, revolutionary wave pool system in the world!
We have secured six or seven (maybe 5) locations throughout the world, all with many and varied breaks for all level from hopeless fucken kook to full on asshole pro!
Here is our business plan, our pools are the blue bits.
We’re rich!
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Its like “Where’s Wally?” Bald guy in green singlet is at pool , bar and under shade cloth and pretty sure from watching again is at volleyball too – must be Kelly!!!
The shaper who made all those green boards looks like he’s doing well!
Here I was thinking big gum leaves were perfect for stationary wave riding.
They really pulled out all the stops to make that promo video. Looks like a shitty video game from 20 years ago
Is that Kelly watching?
“authentic waterman experiences”
They’ll have a bunch of ferals hanging around giving the tourist a mouthful of incomprehensible (to the tourists) abuse in pidgin and when they fall off the kids jump in and take over.
Congratulations
On creating surfing’s next
Stationary bike
It sounds like an overgrown Flowrider…
Like a mullet you really mull over.
which is an over grown garden hose
The Oahu wave press release should be in Hawaiian scale.
We have created a man made 6 inch wave!
At 0:16 in the video the water is moving backwards. So a 6″, backwards, stationary wave? Sweet!
An “authentic” surfing experience that is “on demand.” Leave the ocean, you kooks. You don’t deserve her.
for an extra G ross will block for you
Why do they insist on building wave pools near the ocean?
they should build a floating wave pool just outside the break
next they’ll build a kelly pool in the waco pool which is in the Shane pool
like some sort of horrible wave pool Turducken!
I was gonna tip you off to this but it was too retarded. Is that the situation from jersey shore on the deck?
I think it’s Kelly?
I like the skin tight short/singlet combo.
That’s a burn from Shane ay
“Haha let’s chuck a bald guy in thatll get im”
Will be better when Shane goes for the ceremonial first ride but Kelly somehow pops up on his inside and gets the interference