I’m going to pay 200 an hour , no problem . Looks like a blast !! Lifetime experience right there. I’ve only seen them on You Tube. Can’t wait . Thanks Tom !!
i met a guy that said he was showcasing flow rider at a convention in Daytona Beach we were surfing say in the 80's i wonder if that was him. no sharks or jelly fish great concept. great interview. keep the dream alive
The $200 is because most people will be one timers willing to pay whatever just to experience it once. I'm sure there will be a cheaper membership type deal for regulars. Wish the pool tech had been this advanced when I was younger. I surfed Typhoon Lagoon 30 years ago lol. It was cool one time, but pretty lame overall. (BTW it was $1000 to rent out for a few hours). These new pools are just so next level.
If this guy hadn't been such a trash talker, I probably wouldn't have written what I am about to write here: The flowrider model all over again, it's a tourist novelty, and on that basis, great, fantastic. Based on what I see in their promo videos it's not fun enough where you would want to do it on a regular basis. The brash trash talking of Slater's pool was very obviously a defensive move because Slater's pool is the real deal. 4 foot face, maybe 5 ft if you squint, 1 second tube maybe 1.5 seconds if you squint, and the tube is super tiny, more of a cover-up. He says his goal was a financially viable product, not to make a better wave than Slater. He claimed he can shape his wave, and I agree, he probably can, but he wisely never said it is actually a better wave for real surfing. There's many videos on youtube of Slater emphatically stating he took so long to do his wave because wanted to avoid a crap wave just to make something financially viable.
Somewhere near the middle of the interview (timestamp 12:02) did he admit that he would “pay off” city council members in order to get a wave pool built in an area where the people don’t want it built? I wonder if there will be an investigation on how this wave pool was built in Palm Springs?
Great interview. I believe Munich is with Myrtha which is PVC, not liner. Check out Praia da Grama for liner example. Agreed on liner's weak performance over time. :)
Rather surf a 2 second barrel than ride a mushy longboard wave for over a minute. $200 for a plane ticket, what about food? Hotel/Airbnb? Surfboards? Transportation? Just a few days you’re lucky to pay only $2k. What about the crowds? Packed lineups? Crazy meth heads? Waikiki overrated, overpopulated, overpriced, and fake.
$200 turns surfing into snowboarding but even more expensive. It’s gonna be for 1% foreigners soon with the declining dollar. Rather be in the ocean with my friends, involved in nature, for free. Hopefully, one day these pools can be big enough and cheap enough to accommodate many without ruining it the same way snowboarding was ruined; it became for tech nurds with Google salaries; aka posers.
People complaining about the price. People pay that much to go snowboarding for a day. If it’s too expensive, work harder and stop surfing all day 😂. It’s always packed in the lineup because no one works anymore.
As a former Pro Skateboarder for SIMs. I would never pay that much to go surfing perfect waves. How many can afford $200.00 and he to surf really ? And how come there l somewhere else then Florida who has suffered for years for a perfect wave. Kelly should know that. Why Cali and Texas. Put one in Florida.
Society is fuckdd when half the world doesn’t have fresh water but in America we have 5 different wave generation technologies so kooks can surf in the middle of the desert. Hoo Rah
There is a huge aquifer under Palm Springs. Many water districts store water in it. All the ponds in between the wind turbines are recharge ponds for the aquifer.
Also thanks for the shout outs for Jamie O Brien and the Skid Kids and what about Beefs TV ? Gotta love it !! The future is looking very promising.
I’m going to pay 200 an hour , no problem . Looks like a blast !! Lifetime experience right there. I’ve only seen them on You Tube. Can’t wait . Thanks Tom !!
But how many people out?
Nice one Chas.
i met a guy that said he was showcasing flow rider at a convention in Daytona Beach we were surfing say in the 80's i wonder if that was him. no sharks or jelly fish great concept. great interview. keep the dream alive
I went to highschool with this guys little brother. He showed me drawings of the waves his big brother was conceptualizing.
Watched a few vids of PSSC. I'm going to book a session soon - take my money 😂
Cool stuff…closer to home and not hot AF 🥵. Still, watching that Slater train 🚂 will be indelible to wavepool history 🤙🏽😎🖤 cool nod by the homie 🏄♂️
What is the water depth at the bottom of the wave? What is the height of the Wave?
LOVE your shirt!!!
How many rides per session? How deep is it right where the wave starts to barrel? People are gonna get bloody in that shallow end.
Need a wave in Nashville 🖖😎
The $200 is because most people will be one timers willing to pay whatever just to experience it once. I'm sure there will be a cheaper membership type deal for regulars. Wish the pool tech had been this advanced when I was younger. I surfed Typhoon Lagoon 30 years ago lol. It was cool one time, but pretty lame overall. (BTW it was $1000 to rent out for a few hours). These new pools are just so next level.
If this guy hadn't been such a trash talker, I probably wouldn't have written what I am about to write here: The flowrider model all over again, it's a tourist novelty, and on that basis, great, fantastic. Based on what I see in their promo videos it's not fun enough where you would want to do it on a regular basis. The brash trash talking of Slater's pool was very obviously a defensive move because Slater's pool is the real deal. 4 foot face, maybe 5 ft if you squint, 1 second tube maybe 1.5 seconds if you squint, and the tube is super tiny, more of a cover-up. He says his goal was a financially viable product, not to make a better wave than Slater. He claimed he can shape his wave, and I agree, he probably can, but he wisely never said it is actually a better wave for real surfing. There's many videos on youtube of Slater emphatically stating he took so long to do his wave because wanted to avoid a crap wave just to make something financially viable.
Can he invent a scheduling system that doesn’t show sold out for the next few months and no availability in future?
Somewhere near the middle of the interview (timestamp 12:02) did he admit that he would “pay off” city council members in order to get a wave pool built in an area where the people don’t want it built?
I wonder if there will be an investigation on how this wave pool was built in Palm Springs?
Smooth operator 🔱
Great interview. I believe Munich is with Myrtha which is PVC, not liner. Check out Praia da Grama for liner example. Agreed on liner's weak performance over time. :)
What a Barrel of fun. 😂😂😂😂
$200 .. no way that’s way too expensive unless a novelty a few times or training , I’d rather go surf free in the ocean
Look how much Waco charges per session.
$200 a session seems about right, assuming one will get over a dozen waves that hour.
lets crowdfund one
Is this the place that almost killed BJ
12 second ride. You could get on a plane to Oahu for 200 bucks and get a 120 second ride through Waikiki
Rather surf a 2 second barrel than ride a mushy longboard wave for over a minute. $200 for a plane ticket, what about food? Hotel/Airbnb? Surfboards? Transportation? Just a few days you’re lucky to pay only $2k. What about the crowds? Packed lineups? Crazy meth heads? Waikiki overrated, overpopulated, overpriced, and fake.
Yes
Lol where you flying from? Maui? 1 way? 😂
Big surf survived 40 years and was the innovator, only succumbed due to covid and the value of land being 50 million
Was that in Tempe, AZ?
$200 turns surfing into snowboarding but even more expensive. It’s gonna be for 1% foreigners soon with the declining dollar. Rather be in the ocean with my friends, involved in nature, for free. Hopefully, one day these pools can be big enough and cheap enough to accommodate many without ruining it the same way snowboarding was ruined; it became for tech nurds with Google salaries; aka posers.
Yeah Crowd fund would be awesome
Better yet. All Counties in Florida should have one just like the money they put in Basketball courts and softball fields and soccer
Honestly I can't believe there aren't several in Florida already. That market is surf hungry.
It’s because the water table is too high.
@@cjgamer2140 there is one planned in central Florida
People complaining about the price. People pay that much to go snowboarding for a day. If it’s too expensive, work harder and stop surfing all day 😂. It’s always packed in the lineup because no one works anymore.
As a former Pro Skateboarder for SIMs. I would never pay that much to go surfing perfect waves. How many can afford $200.00 and he to surf really ? And how come there l somewhere else then Florida who has suffered for years for a perfect wave. Kelly should know that. Why Cali and Texas. Put one in Florida.
Pipe for an hour by yourself ? ……
…10,000. At least. More like 50,000.
@16:57 👃
Should only be $100.00 an hour not 200.00
It's $150 an hour unless they upped it.
Society is fuckdd when half the world doesn’t have fresh water but in America we have 5 different wave generation technologies so kooks can surf in the middle of the desert. Hoo Rah
There is a huge aquifer under Palm Springs. Many water districts store water in it. All the ponds in between the wind turbines are recharge ponds for the aquifer.
Free market baby 🤙🏽😎🖤
Build everywhere globally … empty out all the surf spots … I will take it up again
Yyou look like John Waters
That wave is trash compared to slaters wave pool, even the wave pool in Gladstone QLD Australia shits all over that Palm Springs one
Palma springs is Las Vegas little sibling casino town. That might help you be ok with the fact that no one cares 😂
Damn, 200 bucs an hour to surf the wave pool in Palm Springs. Go to the ocean and surf all day for free. Beware, HIV might be floating in the water.
Uh, wut? 🙄
It’s cured, you don’t have to be scared to be 🏳️🌈 anymore
Smooth operator 🔱
Yeah he's kinda full of it no doubt.