Europe’s first artificial surf reef is in the final phase of tests in Boscombe, Dorset, England.
The £1.4 million project will be ready for surfing, windsurfing, kitesurfing and bodyboarding next month.
The reef will not create waves, but acts as a ramp which changes the way the waves break and will certainly improve the quality of the surf and produce a long right-hand ride of around 75 metres for surfers, and a shorter left-hand ride of around 35 metres most favourable for body boarders.
During clean, long period swell, the reef and the inshore banks would all be surfable.
It was billed as a gathering of the best tuberiders in the world at the best barrel in Bali, and the Rip Curl Cup Invitational at Padang Padang delivered as advertised.
Jamie O’Brien took home the cup in what will go down as one of the most spectacular displays of high-stakes tuberiding in the history of competitive surfing. The 26-year-old surfing sensation from the North Shore of Oahu battled through a field of 16 of Indonesia’s best surfers and 16 of the world’s top tube riders to meet legendary Balinese surfer and two-time Rip Curl Cup champion Made “Bol†Adi Putra in the final.
“This is right up there with my Pipe Masters and Teahupoo trials wins … Details