After word got out about the indoor surf pool, Black has received calls from developers across the world who expressed interest in his artificial surf concept.
The reproduction of great surf areas such as Ragland under the glass of suburban American malls could be the answer to the sport’s constant dilemma--too many surfers and a limited number of good places to surf, which has hindered the ability for the sport to grow.
Professional surfers have searched for more ways to earn prize money and promoters want to market them however, the only way that could happen is through expanding the sport beyond coastal areas.
Professional surfers stated that a good pool would open new doors to the sport and introduce it to people who never had the opportunity to surf because of where they live.
Black’s biggest dilemma was finding out how to create the perfect synthetic wave for coastal surfing as well as indoor pools.
Components of Black’s research included:
When Black was asked to design an indoor surfing pool in Sydney, he went back to his computers to come up with a 1:15-scale model.
The result was a swimming pool that produced the most consistent surfing waves, one right after another, at any time and any month of the year.
Wired May 10, 2004
I love being in the ocean. Although I have yet to master surfing I certainly enjoy body boarding in Maui's giant waves in the winter.
I recently saw the movie Step Into Liquid and I liked it so much I purchased the DVD. There were some great action sequences in the end of the film where the surfers go out into the ocean and jet ski out to ride some 66-foot waves.
Absolutely amazing.
Although you certainly won't be able to ride waves that big, as it says in the article one of the world's top experts on how waves are formed has started a project that will provide virtually perfect surfing waves indoors.
With the push of a button, his patented pool floors will morph into an almost infinite variety of shapes to produce steep 8-foot-high tubes that peel for 100 yards, or gentle three-foot rollers that peak after 40, or waves that break to the left or right every 12 seconds.
If this topic interests you the article above if four pages long and has plenty of information.
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