Exciting days.
The long-held dream of zero people leaving Arizona to head to California beaches came one shovelful closer to reality, today, as ground was officially broken on Cannon Beach east of Phoenix.
Set to open in May of 2022, the 37-acre water park and mixed-use project has been in the works for over two years. It will feature a hotel, restaurants (including a tiki-themed bar), office space and, most excitingly, a 3.3-acre surf tank powered by a yet-to-be-experienced new wave technology dubbed SwellMFG.
According to wavepoolmag.com:
Up to this point, we’ve only seen video clips of perfect little peelers from SwellMFG with no idea of what the outline of the pool or system will look like at scale. The new renderings show a handbag-shaped facility with a wall of either air chambers or levers (SwellMFG won’t say how their tech is powered) in the deep end to pump out the surf. Within the short, a rectangle-ish outline is a peak splitting left and right. It looks like bathymetry will play a big role in how waves break in the facility, and right now a split peak will be something unique in the realm of open-to-the-public wave pools. Wavegarden’s Cove design has separate a left and a right. Kelly’s plow system only works in one direction at a time. BSR Surf Resort alternates between running lefts and rights during a single session. Only American Wave Machine’s indoor New Jersey facility, Whitewater’s new Endless Surf system and Surf Lakes, offer a split peak.
But are you intrigued by this fresh take on artificial waves? Would you like to try or have you burned out on the idea of freshwater surfing altogether?
I’ll admit, I’m itching to give it a go as I’ve recently grown very fond of the Grand Canyon State (daughter is star freshman on U of A’s soccer team).
Also, I love a good tiki bar. Do you think world’s greatest surfer Kelly Slater is reconsidering his choice to build Surf Ranch in Lemoore?
Do you think he is jealous of Cannon Beach and its tiki bar and its direct tie to the historical root of inland surfing (see: North Shore)?
How could he not be.
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Slater? Jealous? Lol… u must be joking… He is THE KING, gentle, honest and kind w nothing to prove. He’s a gentleman. Ur EGO has gone dillousional. Sounds like YOU are… sad and plain low energy….. hes proubly proud for u… SPORSTMANSHIP… 🏄♂️
You’re right. I’m sorry.
Looks ok but I won’t be going until it’s endorsed by a shirtless ex-pro from the 90’s. Who’s left?
I love the surfing horse picture!
I only visit bg for the pictures these days
Yeah, the picture is cool! Reminded me a little of this old Powell Peralta ad:
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Looking forward to what both the invited gala crowd and pro-level riders (non-competative) think of it for the stoke and the value of the gate admission.
Perfect! Vals love concrete
As soon as inflation catches up, it will cost about $25000(USD) for two hours. Lines should be huge.
There’s a Wave Pool Mag?
And if there is – who the hell is buying ads in it?
It seems the main item of interest in that article (?) is that you’ve got a daughter at University.
Really ? Crikey.
That, and also the development seems too crowded on a small site…
I’ll warrant Slater wakes up screaming most nights about the time he thought he’d reached god status, only to have the entire surf world turn round and say his perfect wave is a bag of shite.
It’s the 5 minute lulls and price of admission that kill it.
That, and the fact that it turns out a perfect little 30 second barrel is not the zenith of the surf experience, for viewer or participant.
Agree as a viewer. As a participant I wouldn’t know but would love a 30 second barrel so I could at least know if that was the pinnacle.
Fair!
lol truth!
Swell Mutha Fucking Gunt?
Curious to know who this is aimed at.
Any details on what sort of handbag it will be shaped like?
Pls pls be Chanel
Lol yeah baby! CC
There will be no true surf culture in a wave pool–there will be surf ‘tank’ culture, which I think will be very different from the real thing.
Profound as ever.
Is there a Euro trash/Goa/trance Surf magazine or website he could write for? I feel his nostalgic surf spirituality act would have a home somewhere.
Haha
Trolling Sam never gets old. Clever shit.
I think it’s deep, deep performance satire and I’m here for it.
I’d suggest The Inertia, but they couldn’t stomach him over there either.
Can you feel it in your Sam Waters?
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Will ‘tanking it’ mean the same thing in a wave tank?
Is all that was bad now good?
No
If there’s one thing we seem to be good at, is fucking up a good thing and then selling what’s left of its soul. #RIPCalifornia.
Closing scene of one of the best introductory chapters to a character, ever. Edward Abbey, Monkey Wrench Gang.
Yeah, the 140 F summers a few years out, and only getting hotter, while the region suffers water shortages as there’s less CO snowmelt, not sure…
“On Caladan, we ruled with sea and air power,” the Duke said. “Here, we must scrabble for desert power. This is your inheritance, Newport Plus’ Missing Fins …….
― Frank Herbert, D
“Forgetting to rezip and leaving the jeep in the empty roadway, he walks to the end of the bridge and climbs a knoll on the canyon rim, a high point overlooking the desert. He goes down on his knees and takes up a pinch of red sand. Eats it. (Good for the craw. Rich in iron. Good for the gizzard.) Standing again he faces the river, the soaring cliffs, the sky, the flaming mass of the sun doing down like a ship beyond a shoal of clouds. Hayduke’s cock, limp. wrinkled, forgotten, dangles from his open fly, leaking a little. He spreads his legs solidly on the rock and lifts his arms wide to the sky, palms up. A great and solemn joy flows through bone, blood, nerve and tissue, through every cell of his body. He raises his head, takes a deep breath—
The heron in the canyon, a bighorn ram on the cliff above, one lean coyote on the rim across the river hear the sound of a howl, the song of a wolf, rise in the twilight stillness and spread through the emptiness of the desert evening. One long and prolonged, deep and dangerous, wild archaic howl, rising and rising and rising on the quiet air.”
Our monuments to human vanity ain’t gonna make it much longer. Especially in that bioregion.
It’s a miracle!!! https://youtu.be/RUUxDwJjV1E
Welcome to the Hotel Arizona
Such a lovely place (Such a lovely place)
Such a lovely face
Plenty of room at the Hotel Arizona
Any time of year (Any time of year)
You can find Chas here …..
Untill his money runs out and they won’t let him in anymore.
Wife’s money*
haven’t seen her….but she could do better.
Check her out on fappening