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Op-Ed: Surf Parks Should Be Developed as Complete Leisure Businesses, Not Simply as Wave Pool Facilities

Why surf parks must go beyond waves to succeed. Five suggested principles for developing profitable, sustainable surf park ...
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Score the Wave of Your Life at a Pool? Yup, There’s Now a Contest for That

The Wavepool Surf Tour has launched Ride The Future 2026, a competition accepting wave pool footage from surfers worldwide ...
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Adrena Surf Park: GM Jill Steinke on Operations

Adrena GM Jill Steinke discusses the Saudi Arabia surf park, its Endless Surf lagoon, guest experience, staffing, operations ...
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British Para Surfer Zoe Smith Trains at Lost Shore for ISA World Champs at DSRT Surf

Zoe Smith's para surfing training takes place at Lost Shore in Edinburgh ahead of the 2026 ISA World Para Surfing Champs at ...
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Surfer’s Myelopathy is a Rare Spinal Cord Injury for First-Time Surfers

A soft foamy and guidance under a certified instructor in a controlled wave pool environment. What could be safer? As surfers ...
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One Pool, Countless Lessons: How SurfLoch Advanced Its Wave-Making Technology

Tom Lochtefeld loves his work. It’s clear in every conversation we’ve had over the past eight years. Everything he’s done, from inventing the FlowRider in 1991 and FlowBarrel in 1993, to founding ...
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Surf Park Customer Retention: Two Real-World Wave Pool Examples

The wave pool customer has grown up. Here are two of Europe’s first surf parks on who actually came back… The Wave and Alaïa Bay opened years ago with a luxury no new surf park would ever get today.
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Surf Packs, Contests and Cameras: Alex Smith on Atlantic Park’s First Year

Since Atlantic Park Surf began operating in Virginia Beach, its programming has expanded beyond simple hourly surf sessions. In a reflection of the greater sophistication in the space, APS has ...
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South Britannia Surf Park Breaks Ground in B.C.

This summer, South Britannia Surf (formerly Tiger Bay) broke ground, beginning its environmental site works after almost six years of planning. In July this year WavePoolMag reported that the project ...
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Episode 100 of the WavePoolMag Podcast is Ben Gravy

In this, the 100th WavePoolMag Podcast, Ben walks us through a surfing utopia where wave pools bring surfing inland and introduce a whole new group of people to the sport of kings. In this process, ...
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Surf Park Summit 2026 Draws Largest Audience Yet

For the second consecutive year, Summit kicked off at Atlantic Park Surf in Virginia Beach for a first-hand look at the dramatic realities of surf park mixed-use real estate operations, including an ...
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Surf Park Jobs & Wave Pool Employment Guide: Skills, Roles and Career Paths

Currently, the wave pool industry is creating thousands of jobs globally, and a single full-scale surf park employs 50–150+ people, depending on the season. Atlantic Park Surf in Virginia Beach, for ...