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Whether you love it or hate it, the era of the wave pool is very much upon us. Kelly Slater is holding events in his new-and-improved Lemoore facility, Wavegarden's Cove design will soon be exported to various locations around the world, and the future of surfing looks like it's bound to feature much more freshwater. At the moment, however, the best artificial wave that is currently open to the public sits on the outskirts of Austin, Texas at NLand Surf Park. We recently traveled to NLand with Hawaiian rippers Albee Layer and Torrey Meister to see just what Austin's best (see: only) wave is capable of, and to investigate whether or not surfing can thrive in a landlocked community. Music 'I'm A Spaceman' by The Fun Guns: https://soundcloud.com/funguns/im-a-spaceman Go to Surfer.com for the latest daily videos, photos, stories, news and more: http://www.surfer.com/ Like Surfer on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/surfer Latest photos and breaking news on https://www.instagram.com/surfer_maga... Latest videos at: https://www.instagram.com/SURFERfilms Tweet at Surfer: https://twitter.com/SURFER_Magazine

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Tyler Honeycutt - 7 years ago

When anybody does something new everybody wants to criticize...in my opoinion flop or success this place just shows people's determination to try new things...go get a hobbie if your just going to say the oceans better because uh...fucking duh...that's not the point

SDBARTENDER1 - 7 years ago

Why so choppy?

Alex Bautista - 6 years ago

SDBARTENDER1 it’s all rainwater

dji zzah - 7 years ago

that wave looks like pus and snot

Marty McSuperFly! - 7 years ago

How much for your sister?

Surfmus - 7 years ago

No buoyancy, salt water is always better regarldess the condition, check those tails bogged. For this waves you'll need fatter tails.

Sam Wells - 7 years ago

That wave is complete shit compared to slaters wave pool.

SUP Tonic - 7 years ago

Amazing video, shared: https://www.suptonicmag.com/sup-news/2017/10/freshwater-cowboys-at-nland-surf-park/

Gotthatgoin4me - 7 years ago

What a tremendous waste of resources for absolutely no good reason. Slater would be the first asswipe to spout off about the environment and how precious it is....... And this is what he DOES goes out and wastes how much water and destroys how much land so some land locked rich kids can "surf". This is not surfing, surfing is paddling out when it's set after set and your paddling as hard as you can and your getting nowhere and your getting worked. Surfing is learning ettiquet and earning a spot in a local lineup cause you grew up there, surfing is learning a spot so you know where to be positioned, learning to surf is knowing the weather and the tides and wind et et et. Kids this ain't surfing and you can't surf. It's a Disney ride for millennials.

David Haig - 6 years ago

that mentality is so outdated , do we respect that era , yes. this is only an opportunity for those that have aspirations of surfing but don't have the same exposure or opportunities who live near a coast break. I grew up skateboarding and snowboarding my whole life , moved out to the Bay Area & started surfing and have met more pretentious A holes in surfing than any other board sport. You guys think so highly of yourselves, grown ass men who act and behave like kids.

Tyler Honeycutt - 7 years ago

Gotthatgoin4me not everybody can buy a beach side home...not everybody can afford to live near the ocean....do you know how much land there is in Texas...you think cows need more places to shit or what? Get a life

Daniel Marcoulis - 7 years ago

How was the lifeguard at 1:26 and how can I have her save my life.

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SUP richie - 7 years ago

its a SUP/FoiL wave.
fresh from Waikiki, chee-huu

TekLion - 7 years ago

$100/HR is insane. Max I would pay is $20 for the day.

Lucas Di Gregorio - 7 years ago

It doesn't worth pay U$100 for the current waves condition. I had one hour experience prior they shut down for repair Nov-2016, and the waves were bigger and with enough power to make a good ride, recover from some trick and keeping riding, at this point I was convinced it maybe worth go once a month for people that live close by, like me, living in Houston. But when they re-opened after repair period, I had 1-hour session last week and the waves were much smaller and mushy, totally worthless the $100 paid. Living in Houston I prefer monitoring Swell forecast at West Coast, get cheap Spirit air fare and spend $500 for entire weekend surfing at California. I hope they release some annual membership program that the reef waves can be ride for around $50 per around and change my current vision about the facility.

Kurt Schoenhals - 7 years ago

Don’t forget the rude employees in the water telling where to paddle, and the overcrowding on the reef wave. (5 guys per side?)

Unicorn GTR - 7 years ago

Biggest failure in the world. This place is a fraud. Unless you like the absolute shitiest and smallest wave possible. Plus $100/hr but you'll enjoy it if you're a fucking kook

Tyler Honeycutt - 7 years ago

Awww poor baby....

Lukeoccy - 7 years ago

Agreed waist of money

magentawave - 7 years ago

Merican Import Outlaw Are you saying it's a failure because no one is paying to surf it?

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