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‘Wave Gardening’ video

Artificial surf session in northern Spain.

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Posted 10:57 GMT on October 4, 2011
‘Wave Gardening’ video

Rip Curl have just released this short surf film, Wave Gardening.

It sees team riders Mick Fanning and Owen Wright hit the recently opened Wave Garden artificial surf lake in the Basque Country.

Says Fanning: "It was really hard at the start to surf the wave and to figure out where to paddle. It definitely had plenty of power which surprised me, was so fun! This is something that will really take off, with all the technology of today we will see these types of wave pools in places like Las Vegas or in the middle of Australia where kids and adults get the opportunity to learn to surf. It’s the future."

But if you are near the sea, real waves may be a little bit cheap to catch...

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Creative Commons License‘Wave Gardening’ video (text) by Ed Andrews is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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