Truckers mowing through flooded streets the inspiration!
The popular vlogger and high-end intermediate surfer from New Jersey, Ben Gravy, says “Kelly Slater is going to be pissed” after he created a wave-making machine using a Toyota pickup with a fiifty-dollar piece of plywood bolted onto the front bumper.
The tech, if you wanna call it that, ain’t that much diff to the ol train and sled used by the first Wavegarden and the current Slater pool. Gravy, however, got his inspiration from watching truckers mow through flooded roads, their bull-bars creating a surfable wake.
This thirty-four minute featurette shows the genesis of Gravy’s idea from light bulb moment to concept drawing to pitching to major companies (fail!) and, finally, the moment de vérité in a brown-water swamp. In contrast to the Gravy pool, a single wave costs around seven-hundred dollars per person at the Kelly Slater Surf Ranch; at any of the Wavegarden tanks around twelve bucks.
Wildly non-essential but a pleasant ass fondle if you persist.
