Wavegarden, the manufacturer of artificial wave-generating systems, has released its latest feature that caters for surfers of all abilities from beginners to Olympians, in a world first for the surf park sector.
The leisure tech specialist has created the Wave Menu, which displays key data and videos of each wave type available to customers. All Wavegarden surfing lagoons are supplied with a pre-programmed menu of more than twenty different waves. New waves are also forecast to be released before the end of the year.
Footage filmed at existing Wavegarden surf parks with varying machine sizes show all wave types and real data on wave quantity relative to wave quality. Other key data provided include wave heights, ride times, speed options and energy consumption, for various frequency settings.
Wavegarden Cove not only delivers the widest variety of waves, but also the most waves per hour for a given wave quality, together with the highest user capacity in the smallest footprint. A one-hour session at Wavegarden Cove generates up to four times as many waves per square metre of the same quality as other systems.
Versatile system
While a Wavegarden lagoon measuring 8,000 square metres may generate up to 700 Malibu-style waves per hour and 250–300 full-size waves per hour of consistent quality, surf parks without Wavegarden’s technology may only be able to generate 110 waves per hour with a lagoon size of 12000 square metres, and 70 waves per hour in a 6000 square metre lagoon, according to research from the firm.
“We understand the importance of high surfer capacity and this can only be achieved by producing the maximum possible number of waves per hour while maintaining their quality,” says Wavegarden CEO and founder Josema Odriozola. “To date, no other tech has come close to creating the number of good waves per hour that the Wavegarden Cove generates. Further, our system is versatile, the variety of different waves we can create is almost infinite.”
A wave for everyone
Six wave types are available on the Wavegarden Wave Menu, with are 3–4 different sizes and 2–3 peeling speeds for each type of wave:
- The Bays are white-water waves with a small open-face
- Waikikis are the smallest Reef open-face waves.
- Malibus are for longboarding, funboarding and as an introduction to shortboarding.
- Turns are great waves for shortboarding.
- Barrels are available in five different settings that gradually increase in size, power and speed.
- Airs are ideal waves for improving aerial technique.
“We offer seven different sessions structured according to our customers’ level,” says Adam Bonvin CEO and founder of Alaia Bay, a venue in Sion, Switzerland.
“Each session has two to three different waves, which vary in terms of intensity. This allows surfers to warm up and then really start progressing. Then we realized we were missing a particular wave on our Wave Menu – the jump between Malibu and Turns waves was too big for our customers, So, we worked with the guys at Wavegarden to design a new wave called Malibu 5, which has now become our most popular one.”
Last year, Wavegarden saw its technology being used by more than one hundred surfers from around the world for a new Swiss event.
