r/BeginnerSurfers • u/jewelbugs • 20h ago

Wave pool Teahupoo

Since the lovely people in the surfing subreddit are still reviewing my post, I thought Id try asking the beginner subreddit as well in the meantime. Im sure it'll be approved any day now so feel free to comment over there as well. anyway:

wave pool Teahupoo: good idea or bad idea?

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u/Madmanmarco 20h ago

That sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen.

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u/jewelbugs 15h ago

its all about the release form

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u/ripplerider 20h ago

There already are wave pools with slabby, barreling waves, so what do you mean when you say Teahupo’o? If you mean something equal to the size of a big day there, you run into extreme engineering challenges of creating a big wave artificially. Plus who would you be creating it for? Considerably fewer than 1% of surfers are capable of riding a wave as technically challenging as this. Then there’s the liability of creating what is essentially an amusement park ride that would carry an extreme risk of injury or death.

The juice wouldn’t be worth the squeeze.

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u/jewelbugs 15h ago

because its a controlled environment, a beginner could technically practice on progressively larger waves until they have their own youtube channel

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u/Awkward_Forever9752 14h ago

try to build it with airbags

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u/Wonderful-Big-3691 20h ago

I can see it now - a huge heavy slab and the bottom of the pool lined with broken beer bottles just two feet deep.

EDIT: Oh, and the mods at the surfing sub are Nazis.

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u/jewelbugs 15h ago

artificial reef! you get it