"There will be blue turf on the course and vintage surfboards speckled throughout, as well as a 1974 Volkswagen Bug."
The wave pool boom is fully here, Kelly Slater’s lifelong dream of a tub in every town and a chicken in every pot a basic reality. Every day brings word of a new facility featuring either Wavegarden technology or Wavegarden technology opening in some burgh. Mesa, Arizona today, Virginia Beach, Virginia tomorrow.
Start-up costs for tanks are, of course, extremely high and margins fairly narrow and so you can imagine the anxiety currently being felt by investors as they eye Surfs Up, a new 18-hole mini-golf course opening in Carolina Beach very soon.
The brainchild of Mike Matsinger who owns “an entertainment venture that brings poker and trivia leagues to taverns nationwide” and his partner Marie McCarthy, Surfs Up will showcase a “old-school surfing vibe.”
According to Wilmington, North Carolina’s Port City Daily:
The course is designed by Harris Golf and built by Nipper Construction. It won’t be flat but have rolling hills that wind through the 18 holes, with a 12-foot waterfall and 15-foot animatronic octopus, KiKi the Kraken, whose tentacles are motorized. Matsinger said a 5-foot sea turtle that moves will be positioned on the course as well.
The goal is to make it an experiential attraction, with the sound of waves roaring through speakers, since it’s not located beachside, as people approach through a tropical walkway. There will be blue turf on the course and vintage surfboards speckled throughout, as well as a 1974 Volkswagen Bug. Even the holes will be named after surf terms, such as ‘riptide.’”
Mini-golf, as any savvy business person knows, has extremely low start-up costs with large margins and thus the understandable consternation of the aforementioned wave pool investors. Questions certainly being asked, internally.
“Did we pick the wrong horse?”
Much stress.
But do you recall the last time you played mini-golf? For me, it was five, or such, years ago at a child’s birthday party. I tried to keep accurate score for the group, but that led to hurt feelings and ill-tempers.
Participation trophy life, man.
If you are going to slag wave pools, at least get facts right (There is no Wavegarden in Arizona)
Love is blind
Imagine the opportunities the WSL and Kanoa alike see with this for the future of core surf culture…
Heroin and mini golf go hand in hand. Handicap paradise
I feel if they had a show called how to catch a pedo it would start at a place like this.
do they have golf buggies…….we could slash the tyres on them???
15-foot animatronic octopus absolutely screams ‘old-school surfing vibe’.
Yup.
This idea could be a winner but gotta offer more than mini golf. Mini golf around a wavepool could be a good one. Imagine Waco with a 9 hole par 3 surrounding all the water endeavors. Win-win.
North Carolina. Know your fucking audience. Shoulda gone a NASCAR/Stock Car Racing theme.
Or an incest theme.
hope is not a strategy channelbottom
North Carolina
should have raised up
take your shirt off
twist in round your hand
spin it like a helicopter
https://youtu.be/uyC2xJHLq0U?si=JEHdjxle9-HtR5sC
wait on…I sell shit loads of surfboards to N Carolina….hoping this mini golf thing will allow wheel chairs?
strap a v8 on that thing
if a wave pool facility doesn’t have a mini putt and a go-cart track, you can count me out.
Essential!
Wife and I played within the past year and my god was it expensive. The place was a shit hole too. Still a decent time though
The kind of place where Com Turren and Barreled meet to discuss the future of California. When tgey miss a put, i’m sure they blame some Brazzo tourists
It would be epic if Tom Curren showed up and took them both roller skating
I prefer rollerblades. Brazzos welcome but only females in thongs.
2015, Boardroomshow….Tom turned up from Mexico …rollerblading the whole show!!
what a character. The surfing world almost doesn’t deserve Tom Curren
ah but otto…everyone has a dark side….Tom’s is darker than most!!
Definitely an interesting person if you have ever spent time talking to him.
What’s his dark side? Leading roller skaters to the mine field of pebbles he set up?
too dark to tell…yet?
almost…as if…bizarro universe Tom Curren might be named something else…might surf as the antithesis to his surfing style, all hectic and wonky…might be brash and outspoken instead of quiet and reserved…
Old School Roller Skates.
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Turren/Barreled 2028–hopefully the Constitution still exists by then, but we doubt it.
65% of Native Americans voted Trump. Bet that hurts.
well, they certainly shouldn’t invite him to manage any of their casinos😂
How very on brand racist of you to immediately equate Native Americans with casinos.
tribal casino revenues have increased the financial-well being of Native Americans across the board. Trump probably could have taken a few notes from Native Americans in his managment of Trump Plaza, Atlantic City. I really don’t know how you can possibly bankrupt a license to print money
you sound just like a committed racist. Next you’re gonna tell me how slavery increased the financial well-being of black people.
Psychological projection (or projection bias) can be defined as unconsciously assuming that others share the same or similar thoughts, beliefs, values, or positions on any given subject. According to the theories of Sigmund Freud, it is a psychological defense mechanism whereby one “projects” one’s own undesirable thoughts, motivations, desires, feelings—basically parts of oneself—onto someone else (usually another person, but psychological projection onto animals and inanimate objects also occurs). Thus, projection involves imagining or projecting the belief that others originate those feelings. The principle of projection is well-established in psychology.
Good. You’ve identified your psychological problem.
Next thing you need to do is fix it.
I don’t think you quite grasped the point of my prior post, so let me break it down into Montana-sized bites for you:
I know you are, but what am I?