City Surfing

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Set to open in 2011, this project will be the world’s first outdoor artificial surfing machine – and will be constructed in a discarded dock in East London. The aim of the project, obviously, is to give city dwellers a local place to surf – saving them the trip to the coast.

Proposed by Steve Jones, some crazy ‘adventure sports’ ninja, the wave machine can “be set to make the surf break left and right from a central peak, allowing surfers to ride comfortably without fear of collision – a hazard which plagues the increasingly crowded breaks in Devon and Cornwall. Floodlit surfing and screens highlighting riders’ best moves aim to attract an estimated 100,000 surfers and body-boarders a year, as well as half a million spectators”. My ninjas, please! Sounds like a video game.

As a side note, the project is being backed by David Taylor – who is also building 5,000 new homes in the area, and Biota!, the Terry Farrell designed aquarium that will replicate life in the Amazon in a tank the size of 12 Olympic swimming pools [which, of course, warrants another my ninjas, please! – how many visitors a year do you think will get eaten by Amazon fish?]

Japan apparently had the world’s largest indoor wave pool – complete with corny fake ocean-scape, fake palm trees, and even a fake volcano [that erupts!] – but it has closed due to lack of visitors. Here’s a taste of what that was like:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-srTtMf2RI[/youtube]

Some images, here.

::article, via the Guardian::

Posted: January 14th, 2008
at 8:04am by orangemenace


Categories: architecture,my ninja, please,videos

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  1. its sad that the japanese one in the video closed. it seems pretty cool. I bet it closed because no one wanted to see that fake backdrop haha.

    I dont surf but I’ve heard about this thing (possibly in a skateboarding magazine).

    Mark Anthony

    14 Jan 08 at 12:02 pm

     

  2. Hi! I don’t know if this can be called an “outdoor surfing machine”. If not, it’s pretty close:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnSkwHDWQ7Q

    It is the Eisbach river, in Munich, where there are always people surfing (even in winter, they are mad!).

    Greetings from Spain, great blog!

    crls

    14 Jan 08 at 1:18 pm

     

  3. wow im so excited to try that..
    hahaha surfing in that kind of machine is fun…

    miguel

    29 Apr 08 at 11:04 pm

     


 

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