“The park will provide waves, surf instruction, fitness training and physical recovery tailored to suit all levels..."
Strange days, these, with the armageddon just over the horizon, hurricanes chewing harder than ever and an Australian surf pool conglomerate ready to break ground on a new tank in America’s old south. Yes, Jacksonville, Florida, very near the oldest US city and important confederate town when Civil War ripped this great nation apart, is soon to be home to Jax Surf Park which will be built by aventuur alongside the American-based PARC group.
You will certainly recall the “global creator of integrated surf park developments” being in the news of late. Aventuur, with home base in Perth, has started construction on a pool there and also hoping to bring a New Zealand facility online in 2027. “Our purpose,” the company declares, “is to enhance physical and mental wellbeing.”
The new one, deep in the heart of Dixie, promises to be wonderful.
Plans have submitted showing “restaurants and retail space, condos, apartments and ‘ecosystems’ comprising supporting structures of a surf academy, wellness studio, conference rooms and more uses.”
Plus, of course, a Wavegarden Cove.
“The park will provide waves, surf instruction, fitness training and physical recovery tailored to suit all levels, from first-timers and junior surfers through to elite athletes. Mental wellness, water safety, resilience and surf therapy programs will further encourage guests to develop healthy minds alongside healthy bodies,” the press release declared.
Aventuur co-founder and CEO Nicholas Edelman added, “We met our local partners in March 2022, and admire the passion they have for both surf and the city of Jacksonville. We have built an incredible amount of trust between our partners and The PARC Group, and we are extremely proud of the site we have secured for the development.”
Going even further, he promised, “In delivering the Jacksonville Surf Park, we look forward to supporting grassroots surfing, working with charitable organizations, and building on our relationships with local government to help them increase employment opportunities and improve the quality of life for residents.”
Sounds an absolute dream. But do you find yourself living on the other side of the Mason Dixon line? Looking forward to a new tub?
Very cool
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As long as it’s not in Oz then good.
Jax is largest city in continental US by area. Great surf town.
nice spots in and around there. Always thought of it as South Georgia but waves were fun every time we stopped there on back and forth to obx.
RDNKSURF
Well I better just go and surf the tub again tomorrow night! Ok, don’t mind if I do.
Might as well get one there of whatever technology (rusty plunge is still my fave for Industrial Age vibe) it’s absolutely dogshit, at least the couple times i went, the waves sucked also
Can a wave pool get flood insurance?
Can’t wait for this mental wellness corpo-BS to become unfashionable.
= more profit /more BS we need pools for our mental health,LOL!
Fitness stuff aside, they will have a good bar for a post wake drunk. It’s Jacksonville.
She’s a purist, been very anti the wave pools since day dot. I thought she’d begrudgingly say she enjoyed it after a 10 minute spiel about the superior ocean experience.
Guess who had the time of her life! totally frothed on it. Not a negative word spoken bar the cost and the requisite judging by others that little missy can’t surf. It does seem like a very good pool with a ton of wave options and one that i’ll surf next winter!
how much?
A very German 89 euro {not 90} for one side of a peak.
And 139 euro for the point break setting, yet again in either left or right mode.
Plenty of settings from kook to pro.
228 euro .
so $365 AUD for 2 hrs of surfing in waist high waves.
yeah, fcuk that noise.
Surely paying the extra 20euro for the filming option per session would reel you in?
did you get it?
Maybe they’ll build one in Iran, after Israel completes the excavation work.
They’re coming across very anti-pool with the return serve.
It’s not that they’re anti-pool, it boils down to why leave a terrorist in a pool of blood when you can aerosol that terrorist in spectacular fashion.
You’re on an absolute roll!!!
Is it just me or is Wavegarden dinosaur tech with a good PR department?
Catering to toxic positivity enthusiasts who are also massive VAL kooks.
Printing money.
Xox