"A danger to surfers cannot be ruled out. Do not enter."
Before there was Kelly Slater’s Surf Ranch, there was Munich’s Eisbachwelle. The famed standing wave that pops up in the Heimliche Hauptstadt’s Englischer Garten has been surfed since 1972 and has hosted competitions, Jamie O’Brien and your imagination. The glorious fantasy of drinking a frosty Paulaner, eating a plate of sizzling bratwurst and reiberdatschi then performing the Huntington Hop in landlocked Deutschland.
Well, the dream is currently shuttered after a horror accident on the Ice Brook. According to witnesses an unnamed surfer went down whilst riding, Wednesday evening, her leash becoming attached to the bottom. Those watching, or waiting their turn, immediately jumped into action but were unable to free her. After thirty minutes, the fire department was able to get the job done and she was transferred to a local hospital in critical condition.
Police closed the area down on Saturday and posted a sign Sunday reading, “A danger to surfers cannot be ruled out. Do not enter.”
Very tragic and hopefully a happy ending but as far as novelty waves go, which one would you actually pay to surf? The Eisbachwelle is at the top of my list due the aforementioned frosty Paulaner, sizzling bratwurst and reiberdatschi plus prinzregententorte for desert.
Very much better than watered down gin and tonic in a plastic cup from Lemoore’s Tachi Palace.
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Safer shitty standing waves down the roadenschlager….
Absolutely tragic.
River waves are the worst I feel like the only boards that ever work on em are Grom sizes CI Pros..
The river I surfed was a clear no leg rope zone.
Maybe unknown is that they use a ramp to improve the wave size and reduce whitewater / increase the face. That ramp sometimes pops out like a guillotine.
Try obatzda + prezels Chas! Served on porcelain and not paper like SoCal.
This construction is currently not in use (and hasn’t been in the last 1.5 years)
Soo it’s loch’ed up?
People die in bathtubs too. No HamSammishes for wusses.
Are we sure JD Vance didn’t make a stop by the wave after visiting the Pope?
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just in….JD poisoned the Pope with a secret potion from ol Putin….because the pope wouldn’t bend the knee to the ” golden one!”
Anybody who meets JD Vance realizes it’s time to go.
River waves have always seemed sketchy. At least normal waves break. Some waves are even nice enough to push you into a soft sand beach.
“After 30 minutes in the river, she was rescued by fire officials and reanimated on the river bank.”
reanimated? Good thing someone had their sketchpad handy.
I think also it means she is now “undead” Ala Zombie. Now there’s a sick b grade horror franchise plot. “Reanimated Surf Nazis”
Could send a few Vloggers to surf this wave, especially the detonation part of it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKFWAE2ED2w
Take a page out of young astro’s playbook, Chas – skip the ice bath and just go for the grub, matey !
If she was one of the girls that serves the beer during Octoberfest(2318008), this is tragic.
30 minutes underwater doesn’t typically have a happy ending.
… according to yesterdays news shes still in critical condition :-/
Just saw a Near death experience show on Netflix last night .
The first episode opens with a ‘merican doctor who went without oxygen for 30 mins after a kayaking accident in Chile. Check it out if you get a chance. She should be dead but they brought her back from death. Remarkable stuff.
https://www.netflix.com/tt/title/80998853