And Italo Ferriera, world champ, gives an unforgettable show for Dutch surf fans! Handstands! Big spins!
What a wild ol history Rotterdam has, from its role as the port hub in the Dutch slave trade, shipping 600k Africans to the Americas in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, to having the hell bombed out of it by Göring’s superb Luftwaffe in the second existential world war.
And, now, right there in the centre of the joint is a Tom Lochtefeld-tech Surf Loch wavepool, the same buttons and switches and air pumps whatever else, used in the Palm Springs Surf Club, currently broken.
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Recently, Italo Ferreira, world champ five years ago and a dark horse to steal if off John John this year, showed the Dutch what it looks like when a man who surfs thrice a day and always with the furious clang of lips being hit, attacks it.
“Likely the best surfing that will ever be done in this pool,” Noa Flegel correctly points out.
If you’re in Rotterdam, click here to book a session.
It’s summer so the water ain’t so bad, 57 degrees or so, 14 degrees if you’re European, Australian etc.
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Any guesses who the first Aussie will be who introduces Rotterdam locals to the wooden shoey?
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Knowing the Dutch and their sense of humour they would say it’s just a funny little man in a rubber suit doing funny little things in a polluted canal. Of course.
They shoulda sent Billy Hemper…
said nobody ever.
Crappy waves, green river water, probably really expensive to run and ride, but the setup and location – fuck me ain’t this futuristic. It’s a wave inside a city. Just like a skatepark. You can go get a coffee, and have pigeons shitting on you, while you wait for waves. Inhale the traffic smoke (at least until 2050). Dreamy.
pretty cool there’s probably 10 rubntugs within stones throw distance too
Yeah so convenient for long period swell lulls
Did someone say rubb n tugg??
Fuck Indo, I’m in.
You can jump onto my backside, too, if you want, whilst holding your longboard. I’ll bring the Sex Wax.
looked mo’ like out’do!
Get Bicko there for a review!
other than one of the worst headstands ever, the worst version of “Blinded by the Light” ever, and one of the worst hairdo’s ever….this is okay.
Dude didn’t even show off any Amsterdam purchased green.