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Surfing video. The Eisbach (German, 'ice brook') is a 2-kilometre-long (1.2 mi) canal, part of Munich City Streams in Munich. It flows through the Englischer Garten park, and is a side arm of the Isar River. An artificial wave has been created on one section, which is popular among river surfers.
River surfing is the sport of surfing either standing waves, tidal bores or upstream waves in rivers. Claims for its origins include a 1955 ride of 2.4 km (1.5 mi) along the tidal bore of the River Severn .
Some wave pools like those made by Wavegarden at Surf Snowdonia and NLand are expressly designed for surfing rather than for swimming, and accordingly, create much larger waves. Other surfing wave pool projects, some of which can be in lakes, include Surf Ranch from Kelly Slater Wave Company, Surf Lakes, Webber Wave Pools and Okahina Wave ...
[1] [2] At a ceremony on August 17, 2013 the Waikiki Beach Wave pool was designated as an ASME Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark. The recognition is for being the "first inland surfing facility in North America". [3] The Big Surf Water park became the first amusement park or waterpark to receive such an ASME landmark status.
That same year, after ten years of R&D, Wave Loch introduced its Surf Pool line of compressed-air-powered wave pools. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ] With its goal of making surfing an Olympic sport, [ 13 ] Wave Loch’s Surf Pool generates 2-metre-high (6.6 ft) waves every ten seconds in a 5,000 m 2 (1.2 acres) footprint.
Douglas County police in Colorado say they've received six calls related to teens taking part in a trend called “car surfing” in recent weeks.
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