Vor wenigen Tagen lag der Fokus der Surfwelt noch auf Hawaii am warmen, sonnigen North Shore von Oah'u. Doch mit dem ersten Video von Kelly Slaters Wave Pool Projekt der "Kelly Slater Wave Company" rücken perfekte Barrels und Cold Water Surfing plötzlich in den Vordergrund.

Wie sich hier die künstliche Welle perfekt durch den Pool schält ist wirklich sehenswert. Kann der Wavegarden jetzt einpacken? Wir sind sehr gespannt wie es mit dem Thema "künstliche Wellen" weitergeht und halten euch hier auf dem Laufenden.

Bis dahin: enjoy Kelly in seinem neuen Spielplatz.

Kelly selbst nennt das Biest "the best man made wave ever made" und schreibt zum Post seines Videos:

"Now that the world title has been decided and events for the year have finished, I’m excited to show you what I’ve been sitting on for the past couple of weeks. For nearly ten years, my team and I have been working on creating the first truly world-class, high-performance, human-made waves. This is something I dreamt about as a kid. Through rigorous science and technology, we’ve been able to design and build what some said was impossible, and many very understandably never thought would actually happen. I’m proud to say we took our time to get it right, and the first fully-working prototype of the wave now exists (a huge personal thank you to everyone in our lab and on our team for seeing this through!). I’ll be sharing more details in the coming weeks and months but I can’t wait any longer to share a film of my experience surfing the wave for the first time, almost two weeks ago. It was an insane day. I’m still a little in disbelief, and trying to process how much fun this wave is, but it certainly feels like this is going to change a lot of perceptions about human-made waves. There’s a direct link in my bio to kswaveco.com to view the full film. Can’t wait to see other people surf it soon and show what is possible on this thing."