70percent put me onto these cool videos of Perry Farrell interviewing Kelly Slater. Slater mentions some new wave pool technology that he’s licensed. It’s called Surf the Ring. So far all I’ve been able to find on the web is this one-page site that offers very little info.
It’ll be cool to see if they actually produce one of these wave pools. These days the way mankind is learning to create and manipulate surfable waves…. just think about how much better you’d be at riding waves if you could go and practice at a wave pool that offered an all-you-can-eat buffet of perfect waves.
Surfing could be headed for a brave new world.
Here are links to the other 4 parts of the Slater interview:
Part 1: Early Days
Part 2: Mess of Energy
Part 3: Clean Surf
Part 4: Dolphins
what if owner of a large shallow lake (1 Sq mile 12 ft av depth) would allow development of Wave Ring? could this be a possibility?
My guess is that if the actual Wave Ring technology works, then it would be possible to build one in a lake. And that, Scabby, would be sweet.