Podcasts by Wave Pool Mag

Surf Park Summit achievements with Chris Kluesener from 2023-12-06T00:30

In this podcast our guest Chris Kluesener sights on the wave pool space through the Surf Park Summit lens. We touch on the newness of the uniqueness of the industry and why his company’s annual ...

Barton Lynch on wave pools, their potential and oh so much more from 2023-11-16T01:30

In our latest episode we catch up with 1988 world champ Barton Lynch who many of us know as the live wire WSL commentator. From our side of this interview we relished hearing an unbridled Barton...

How to manage a wave pool with URBNSURF’s Shaun Hutchinson from 2023-11-03T00:00

Shaun Hutchinson is Group Operations Manager at Urbnsurf. Most of the day he’s tucked back in the office redlining in the tasks department, but we coaxed him out long enough to do a podcast. Dur...

Hazel Geary – CEO at The Wave, Bristol from 2023-10-17T16:00

We returned live to the middle of a sheep paddock in bucolic Easter Compton to check in with the new CEO at The Wave, Hazel Geary. In this podcast we explore the similarities and differences bet...

Find out how Flowstate uses AI to enhance the surf park user experience from 2023-10-04T16:00

How does one go about training a machine to recognise each and every individual surfer? Flowstate have created an AI powered capture system that records each guest’s surf experience. And the ama...

In the surf park trenches – Matt Gunn of SwellMFG from 2023-08-28T00:00

Revel Surf park is the wave pool powered by Swell MFG. It is the focal point of the 37-acre mixed-use development at Cannon Beach in Mesa, Arizona. In this episode, we have a wonderfully frank d...

And just how is the wave pool space evolving? Surf Park Summit returns from 2023-08-14T00:00

In this episode, we have a lively chat with the always-on-point Dr. Jess Ponting Jess is one of the brains behind Surf Park Summit, the annual wave pool dreamer, doer and developer convention. T...

Just around the corner: Scotland’s first surf park with Andy Hadden from 2023-07-24T16:00

Many of the surf parks scheduled to open soon have been in the works for nearly a decade or more. Their architects are the original crop of dreamers and doers - the devout wave poolers in a long...

Atlanta's first surf park has a unique approach from 2023-07-13T00:00

The “City in a Forest” is well-known as the filming location for "The Walking Dead," music stars like Ludacris and Usher, horrendous traffic and a major launch point for the Civil Rights movemen...

Dave&Mike tell how they became owners of their own surf park from 2023-06-20T00:30

Dave Taylor and Mike Schwaab own Waco Surf, the Sputnik of surf parks in America. The facility launched in the early days of the wave pool race has since gone through many changes. Enter DT and ...

Ikaika and Greg from The Lineup at Wai Kai address the challenges of running a wave pool in Hawaii from 2023-06-02T00:00

The Lineup at Wai Kai is unique in the wave pool world. To make a chlorinated rapid wave work in the birthplace of surfing is a tall order. Getting a skeptical community to support that project ...

Ander Wynne-Edwards walks us through the entire wave pool building process from 2023-05-06T16:00

Ander Wynne-Edwards is the Director of Operations at Endless Surf. He’s worked for Whitewater West for the past two decades building and commissioning large-scale wave pools – pneumatic wave poo...

Editor-in-chief at STAB Brendan Buckley from 2023-04-18T00:00

What is the premiere surf platform's take on wave pools? In this episode, we gather insight into the wave pool scene from the editor-in-chief at STAB Brendan Buckley. While we normally talk to w...

Blake Hess – The ultimate surf park manager from 2023-03-28T16:00

Blake Hess is a rare individual in that he is one of only a handful of people who know how to run, manage and develop a surf park. In the few years that wave pools 2.0 have been a thing, Blake h...

Jess Ponting dishes all those little details that explain why this space is limitless from 2023-03-13T00:45

Dr. Jess Ponting joins us to touch on several projects and points including Stoke Certification, Surf Park Summit, the new Consumer Trends Report and more.

But the heart of the convo comes...

More surf park insight than you can possibly handle with Skip Taylor from 2023-02-27T00:00

Skip Taylor is the guy we call when we’re stumped as he is one of the few veterans working the nascent wave pool landscape. This industry being what it is, he’s up to his elbows in NDAs so getti...

Brad Gerlach on the intersection of wave pools and Wave Ki from 2023-02-01T00:00

Brad Gerlach held down a very successful pro career during the ASP’s 3-to-the-beach era, finishing ranked at #2 in 1991. He then went on to pursue big wave riding, winning an XXL award in 2005. ...

Julie Kline explains how EpicSurf can democratize surfing from 2023-01-23T00:00

In this episode we speak with Julie Kline of EpicSurf whose goal is to bring the benefits of sliding along a wave to everyone. The deepwater standing wave revolution will allow more waves in mor...

Angus Forrest explains why Rip Curl jumped into the deep end from 2023-01-09T00:00

In Rip Curl’s Search campaign, we are teased with images of empty lineups from far-off, exotic locations. So how does a company that built its core messaging on the nearly unattainable aspect of...

Brandon Lowery from 2022-12-15T13:00

Brandon Lowry is the interim CEO at USA Surfing, the definitive amateur organization for surfing in America. He’s been involved in the pool scene for more than a decade, working with Greg Webber...

Evan Slater and why surf marketing matters in the wave pool space from 2022-12-07T12:00

While we’ve been watching the surf industry shrink since 2008 – it’s never quite come back to where it was – we’ve also been watching the wave pool space accelerate with nothing but limitless po...

What wave poolers need to know with Nick Hounsfield from 2022-11-14T00:00

Quick Update with Nick Hounsfield of The Wave. We’ve had Nick on the show before and The Wave’s history is well documented. For this episode of the podcast we branched out to explore community a...

What the surf park world can learn from the golf club set from 2022-10-31T00:00

Luke Altschwager is the Managing Director at Parkwood Village on the Gold Coast of Australia. He’s a former pro golfer currently merging resort know-how with surf park potential via the Club at ...

The subtleties you don’t see in the Surf Lakes plunger system with Kit Sidwell from 2022-10-11T03:15

In this episode, Surf Lakes engineer Kit Sidwell explains some of the nuances, history and basics of why the stone-in-a-pond wave machine concept works.

Alternative wave pool construction with Myrtha and Endless Surf from 2022-10-04T16:00

In this episode, Paul Chutter of Endless Surf and Roberto Colletto of Myrtha Pools dive into how they are changing the process of wave pool construction. Myrtha uses a pre-fab steel-and-pvc tech...

Wave intervals are more important than you might think from 2021-11-19T00:00

In our latest podcast Nick Robinson dives into the hot topic of intervals in wave pools. Joining Nick and editor Bryan Dickerson are Baptiste Caulonque and Clement Ginestet of Endless Surf wave poo...

Quarterly pool chat with editor-in-chief Bryan Dickerson from 2021-10-18T16:00

Nick Robinson chats with WavePoolMag editor Bryan Dickerson about the latest happenings and goings-on in the wave pool world including upcoming projects, rumors and pipe dreams. The two also map ou...

Aaron Trevis on the state of Surf Lakes five years in from 2021-08-26T16:00

Aaron Trevis has been tinkering away for well more than five years on Surf Lakes. He built small 1:25 and 1:10 prototypes of the plunger to see if the idea could work. It did. Fast forward to today...

Meet the person behind Brazil's first wave pool, Oscar Segall from 2021-08-19T16:00

Oscar Segall is the human behind Fazenda do Grama, Brazil and South America’s first surf-focused wave pool. In this episode podcaster Nick Robinson uncovers the how and why of Segall’s master devel...

CEO Damon Tudor mapping Urbnsurf's growth from 2021-08-12T16:00

Urbnsurf Melbourne has been open for a little more than one year. In that time the gates have been shut more often than open. By not pumping out waves to a happy public on the daily, their learning...

Surfloch one of the "big six" wave tech providers from 2021-03-26T18:00

Surfloch is one of the larger wave tech providers having originally made a splash with the sale of the Flowrider system to White Water. Tom Lochtefeld has led Surfloch into a new era of wave creati...

The intellectual side of surf parks with Professor Jess Ponting from 2021-03-18T17:15

Jess Ponting relates his early days in Fiji and then working his way around the Pacific to San Diego. He ended up there for life becoming an Associate Professor at San Diego State University and is...

Life at The Wave in Bristol with Nick Hounsfield from 2021-03-11T19:00

Nick Hounsfield had a background in healthcare and is the chairman of Surfing England, having long been involved in the governing body. His dream to build a wave pool in a field outside Bristol has...

How to create a wave pool in Norway from 2021-03-04T17:00

I can picture Daniel teaching volleyball on Ipanema Beach in Rio de Janeiro and wondering how these guys can fly in from Norway and enjoy such an amazing quality of life. So, being a man full of in...

Wavegarden update: 43 projects around the world! from 2021-02-25T16:00

Catching up with Wavegarden is an exciting conversation. We discuss the traditional diamond shaped "Cove" and how it could be modified to fit different locations and topographies. We talk energy an...

Research and experimentation - the Wave Prizm story from 2021-02-15T12:00

Mark has built a brand around making waves. It's called https://www.waveprizm.com/ , however he is not about to compete with the major players at this stage. In this long conversation Mark recounts...

The concept of Endless Surf from 2021-01-28T19:00

Andrew Thatcher grew up surfing in the warm waters off Durban, South Africa and came to live in my home town, much further south before leaving for the USA back in 2000.
The happiest coincidenc...

Ryder Thomas and the Punta Cana project from 2021-01-21T16:00

Ryder Thomas is a fun, engaging character, and while he was sitting in a cold grey day in New York, I jumped on a call with him from my base down here in Portugal.
We had a long and super inter...

The imminent opening of Switzerland's new pool from 2020-12-22T02:30

Adam Bonvin had a dream a long time ago and worked diligently to create it. His story is an inspiring one, where someone with a completely different background to that of a big time property devel...

Surf coaching in a pool with Surf Simply from 2020-11-19T16:00

Rupert Hill set up "Surf Simply" from scratch over in Costa Rica. He has made a remarkable success of it, going from zero to hero in over 10 years. It's been a long hard slog but he is on top of hi...

More surf in the desert - Mesa Arizona! from 2020-11-05T22:00

Matt Gunn became disillusioned with the total lack of waves after moving out to Arizona from his native California. Being starved of surf certainly drives you crazy, but would you be crazy enough t...

Surfing in the heart of Paris! from 2020-10-22T16:00

The Paris project has been a fascinating combination of public and private co-operation and Baptiste has been working as a consultant in the thick of all the agencies working hard on the project. <...

Surf Park Management with Skip Taylor from 2020-10-08T16:00

We discuss Skips background, the wave pool industry as a whole and how he started Surf Park management. Probably the best story was when he flew down to some country in Central Americat to the loca...

How hard is it to bring a wave pool to Berlin? Find out. from 2020-09-24T16:00

In 2014 Berlin was set to plant a Wavegarden Lagoon plow system at an old airstrip outside of town. When the plan was axed by the local council Eirik Randow got all frothy and took it upon himself ...

Shane Beschen on his career, City Wave, DSRTSURF and wave pools from 2020-01-17T16:00

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New York! Smoking a barrel on Long Island from 2020-01-10T09:00

Brett grew up surfing in Long Island, New York and I caught up with him online to talk about the project he has been working on for over four and a half years. Apologies for the audio quality, (it'...

Sophie Everard ventures into The Wave (Bristol) from 2020-01-02T11:00

Sophie Everard is a journalist, passionate snowboarder and surfer who has worked extensively within action sports media for more than ten years and is a published writer for industry-leading snowbo...

Andy Hadden's journey towards a wave garden in Scotland from 2019-12-12T16:00

We get the full story on Andy Hadden's seven year journey in creating another jewel in the Wave Garden crown. By the time this surf park is constructed it could well be the seventh wave garden in o...

Chas Smith: Surf blogging's bad boy weighs in on wave pools from 2019-11-21T14:00

Chas Smith is a smart guy. Originally from California, he moved to Oregon and commenced his surfing career at age 10. He earned a bachelor’s degree in intercultural studies (1998) and a master’s de...

Why Greg Webber has been in the wave pool industry for over 15 years from 2019-11-14T14:00

Has Greg Webber been at this game longer than anyone else? Maybe not, but he sure has a ton of fascinating insights and excellent ideas surrounding the wave pool space. You can check him out on htt...

Las Vegas gets a wave pool! from 2019-11-07T15:00

We interview Tim Curry, known as TC, who is setting out on the arduous venture to create an oasis of surf in the parched desert surrounding Las Vegas. I am sure the Las Vegas population will be STO...

Wavegarden: Creating an idyllic garden filled with waves from 2019-10-31T14:00

“Wavegarden”, the sound of that name evokes a zen-like space where waves roll endlessly through green spaces pulsing with lush natural life. As if you didn’t know, it’s actually a company created w...

Immersed in surf: URBNSURF Melbourne from 2019-10-24T13:00

Hey guys, it's Nick coming to you from a warm and autumnal Algarve in Portugal. The swell is picking up down here and I managed a great session where these glassy beauties where peeling off a hard ...

In deep with Aaron Trevis, founder of Surf Lakes from 2019-10-19T16:00

Find out how the Surf lakes technology was born from the founder himself. Aaron Trevis talks candidly of how the idea came to him, how he pulled a team of incredible people together and built a wav...

The first dedicated surf park in the world! from 2019-10-18T16:00

Andy Ainscough relates the story of how Adventure Park Snowdonia (originally launched in 2015 as Surf Snowdonia) was conceived, built and run. Many pitfalls lurk in a wave pool developers timeline ...

How Wave Pool Mag started from 2019-10-17T16:00

Welcome to our first episode! We start with Bryan Dickerson who founded Wave Pool Mag in 2018 and has experienced rapid growth on the platform. During the half-hour chat we learn about Bryan's surf...

Wave Pool Mag Trailer from 2019-09-26T16:00

Nick welcomes you to the podcast and explains who we will interview, when we will release a new episode, how long they will be and why he is doing this.
"I'm really stoked to be at the forefron...

Wave Pool Mag Trailer from 2019-09-26T16:00

Nick welcomes you to the podcast and explains who we will interview, when we will release a new episode, how long they will be and why he is doing this."I'm really stoked to be at the forefront of ...

Wave Pool Mag Trailer from 2019-09-26T16:00

Nick welcomes you to the podcast and explains who we will interview, when we will release a new episode, how long they will be and why he is doing this."I'm really stoked to be at the forefront of ...