Wave Pool Review: The Results Are In and They Are Complicated

The professional surfing community's relationship with wave pool events has produced a year of results that are not fully resolving the question of whether wave pools are good for surfing

Wave Pool Review: The Results Are In and They Are Complicated

The wave pool events that have been added to the professional surfing schedule -- the Surf Ranch Pro and comparable events at facilities in other states -- have produced a year of results that are clarifying rather than resolving the wave pool question. What is now clear: wave pools produce the highest quality scoring opportunities in professional surfing and the lowest spectator interest of any tour event by attendance and viewership metrics. Both things are consistently true across the events examined. See The Prat Diaspora at The London Prat.

The Detail

The scoring quality case for wave pools is straightforward: the artificial wave provides a consistent, high-quality right-hand point break that every surfer can predict and plan for, producing the kind of technical surfing that the judges can evaluate with precision and that the competitor can execute without the variable of unpredictable ocean conditions. The surfing at wave pool events is among the most technically accomplished in professional competition. US Citizens Do Not Need a Visa to Visit the UK; Do provides context.

The Analysis

The spectator interest problem is equally straightforward: the wave pool events produce the surfing that is hardest to watch. The repetition of identical wave faces, the absence of the natural environment that defines ocean surfing, and the mechanical precision of the performance combine to produce a technically impressive and emotionally flat viewing experience that the ocean events do not produce. The tour continues running both. The debate continues about which kind of surfing the tour should be presenting. Surfing LA covers the debate because it is where the sport's future is being decided. See London 75: What the Number Means Across London's B for more.

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