Chapter: 8
The Ride of Your Life
- Is Surfing Hip?
- Lisa Andersen Surfs Better Than You
- Killer Cute
- Kelly Slater is Just Warming Up
- Rebel for Hire
- I Believe I Can Fly
- A Monster in Half Moon Bay
- Mark Foo's Last Ride
- Open Throttle
- Laird Means Lord
- Tahitian Scream
- A Webcam for Every Wave
- Last Call for Print Media
- Taylor Steele Likes it Rough
- Searching for the Perfect Phrase
- Hollywood Tries Again
- Thirty is the New Twenty
- Andy Irons' Poetic Fury
- The Beast and Beyond
- A Dance with the Past
- Foam is Dead, Long Live Foam
- Nature Gets a Makeover
- Surf in a Box
- The End of History
Surf in a Box
Blair Conklin, BSR Cable Park, Waco, 2019
Summerland wavepool, Tokyo, 1967
Fred Hemmings, Big Surf, 1969
. Surf Ranch, Lemoore, California
Dorney Park wavepool, Allentown, PA. Photo: Bill Sharp
The notion of creating or improving waves along the coast seemed to lose steam in the 2010s, as building waves from the ground up—literally—moved to the fore. Wavepools were not a new idea. Pools featuring some kind of water-moving feature were built in Germany, England, and Hungary during the first half of the 20th century. In the summer of 1934, the Illustrated London News reported on a new Emp...
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