Please post a video that zooms out a bit and shows how the pool was built and how the wave is generated. This is a great civil engineering project. I think some credit is due to the engineers and contractors that made it happen.

Is the water like diet coke or something

an aerospace and engineering phd from USC Adam Fincham , born in Jamaica , designed it.

next thing would be to play with the floor depths and contours to simulate breaks from around the world.

I heard this was sponsored by Coca Cola ,

extremely perfect!! except its water color lol

In my book he built it - he went out and surfed like the champ that he is - earned his money doing awesome feats and now has the means, drive, intellect and spirit to actually make something that many of us wish we had made happen. Pretty much the way all other great things get built ;-)

When I heard Kelly say "all the attention and all the fame.. all that stuff can just take a hike. It's all about the waves and the water." That changed me as a person. So now he's done this and I know he meant every word he said.

2:52 lol the camra dude just wasn't fazed at all with the wave.

Obviously its pretty cool. I can't help but think that it's too perfect and that will make it boring. When you go surf in the ocean, so many things have to come together, sometimes frustrating yes, but it makes those perfect days all the more precious. As cool as this is, I think it will eventually not be surfed. But yeah, would love to do it for a session or two can't lie.

What an accomplishment to all of you!! Well done! The smile and facial expressions are enough to feel through the video!

Thanks to u and your crew for this amazing wave pool ,! Epic job what's there next time Kelly

This gives me great hope. Now I can surf without screaming like a little girl thinking a great white is about to eat me when seaweed touches my leg.

Finally some shark free surfing

Awesome Vid & Cool music is = DARKSIDE - Golden Arrow

Kelly: I’m so old I remember reading about the sixteen-year-old phenom from Florida (was it Cocoa Beach?) tearing it up fresh on the ASP world tour. I remember a reporter from Surfer mag asking why you shaved your head at the age of sixteen, and your response was so you’d look ugly so the girls wouldn’t be swarming you so you could focus on the surfing (something like that). Those were the days when Tom Curren and Tom Carroll were consistently vying for the number one ranking. Good to see you’re still in one piece and still tearing it up. Cheers.

This is soooo rad! This was on my Soul id feed yesterday and was blow away how perfect that barrel was. Must be a blast to ride out there!

Freekin' Slater...mid-forties and still living the dream...thats a fun fucking wave.

You remind me of your Dad ,back on Cocoa Beach you were 7 or 8 then , and your Mom was a saint , me ,frank ,and Steve working the Vanguard lounge , many years ago.

it was a group effort with engineers and Kelly with his concept the maths and geometry and mechanics was all modelled in a smaller scale

best surfer to ever walk the planet.

my reference point for the level of mastery or understanding of just how amazing and mind boggling surfing like that, actually is. starts at 1:59, when he's standing up. how the water kind of lifts and propels you. I managed to be able to stand up at one point, but it was kind of like at that 1:59 moment. I am a complete newbie, beginner, rookie when it comes to surfing. so all the surfers that can carve and do all those amazing tricks, turns, and can ride in barrels like that, is incredibly humbling and awe-inspiring. its its like having an idea, that I have no idea.

Amazing...and dual purpose. Wave pool / sewage aeration from the treatment plant.

I don't know anything about surfing, but I do know that is one awesome wave pool! No small feat of engineering nor energy to pull off something like that.

The color of that water looks like the Tijuana river

I'm more interested in how the wave is created, it's very obvious it's a perfect wave and that it's fun

KELLY SLATER IS PROBABLY ONE OF THE MOST AMAZING TALENT HUMAN-BEING THAT SURFED/LIVED THIS PLANET. HE IS ON TOP OF LOTS OF CAMPAIGNS TO SAVE THE PLANET, ANIMALS, OCEANS AND ETC. HOW COME HE IS BEHIND A PROJECT, THAT PRETTY MUCH WAIST TONS OF WATER (THE MOST PRECIOUS NATURAL RESOURCE IN THE WORLD), SO HALF DOZEN OF DUDES CAN HAVE SOME FUN DURING A FLAT DAY IN THE OCEAN?

Awwwwesommmeness! Beautiful waves. Congrats!

Is that coffee they used instead of water?

WOW.. IMPRESSIVE... Rides for days. Kelly can I come over and play?

When you can replicate Pipeline in Hawaii at speed, power and 10-15 feet size, then you have captured my interest.

Make this on the Gold Coast Queensland, you will make millions!! So many people here want to surf good waves, 250 days a year it's wind blown slop and if it gets good hundreds of people in the line-up 😰😰😰

seeing Kelly stoked is a gift from god.

I so badly want a wave pool like that

That is Da Kind !!! And def. the best ever !

A REAL man made wave..Well done guys:)

Will change surfing forever. Nature can't provide rides that long. Would like to see more how they engineered it

looks like iced tea of coffee

I think one of the best things about it, besides the high quality of the wave and lack of crowds, is that there aren't any sharks.

that the sexiest man made wave ive ever seen

its fast and so clean...very cool,

Ayeee this is in Lemoore, CA. Friends used to own the lake before he bought.

Damn that's some dark ass water... Now to get over my fear of what I can't see beneath! Lol

that water looks sick

I just found out this is super close to where I live. I was wondering what was going on there. I just never knew it was Kelly Slater. I've always looked up to him and would love to meet him some time.

This is the coolest thing I've seen

That's awesome. I don't surf but geez I almost want to now lll

Future of surfing

Fantásric ! performance , the Man is Very good, top Wave🆙

that was dope. You got that off !

There should be a jetty angled to the wave to create a wedge double the size.

I like how you can see the dookie in the water

dude that is epic

The real question is,.. where did they get all that black olive juice!?!??!

O MELHOR de todos os tempos...

Kelly Slater built the whole wave pool? WOW! Guys its a joke I know he didn't

Revolutionary

There goes like 5million Right There!!!

Good wave🏄🏄🏄

1:07 looks like the wave isnt advancing at all

I disagree with people saying that this would get boring really quick, you do not need to surf each wave the same instead work on different combos and new tricks, practice switch be innovative and invent new tricks. You dont see guys at the skate park or mega ramp saying that they would get bored skating the same ramps but instead they try new tricks or try and go bigger and push the limits and be innovative and go bigger than the last guy..I could see anything getting boring if you aren't willing to step it up and mix it and push yourself and be progressive. Yes nothing beats the real thing but in my opinion I would rather surf the pool instead because of its consistency, quality and my biggest reason is because of all the radio active nuclear waste and sewage being dumped in our oceans daily, im even afraid to eat fish from the ocean now days and i love sushi and raw fish or poke' as we call it here in hawaii. I wonder if surf rider foundation is still doing any water samples from beaches around the world, I think we all deserve to know what we're really jumping into and how safe our water and fish we eat really are. I remember when waikiki had millions of gallons of raw sewage making its way out to the ocean wich made me stop surfing town spots altogether wich really sucks because of sick spots to surf like kaiser's and ala moana bowls to name a few. That would really suck to hit and get cut up by the reef wich most likely was saturated with the sewage as it settled. My point im trying to make is we as surfers and water men and women should be more conscious of whats really in our oceans, and in the meantime, go try out kellys wave pool or ones like it, you might fall in love with it like all the pros and non pros have✌

We need one in Oz.....

Gezzzzz Takeoff as a rookie, kickout as a pro.

al final lo habéis conseguido enhorabuena haber si lo implantáis por todo el mundo para poder entrenar y prepararse para la temporadas de olas previa

would suck sitting there in a fishing boat unaware of that wave

Had to check it out to see if this is the same k slater from the original bad news bears.

Fantastic - 4 thumbs up from me. Kelly - like Tom Curren before him - cops a lot of flak from the people who cant handle the fact that he makes a good living from surfing - i have no doubt that he would have dedicated his life to chasing the perfect wave even if he had to pick fruit etc to get there. Awesome vid - thanks.

insane...looks like fun.

the time of now will become then and arise of lost memorys into the sea of plasma

Seen the new dove commercial? Get it son

When I get rich Ima need one of these

The Future: an overpopulated world, covered with machines like this...no thanks.

So, I need to buy a plot big enough for said wave pool, and figure out how to have said wave pool built.... all after I hit the powerball..

Surfing the Exxon spill..........

that is sick

I don't even surf and I'd try that, it's hella gnarly looking

Filled with coffee.

Every surfers dream.

When people think there are lakes of coke laying around because nobody has ever swam in a lake before.

Sort of like "skydiving" in one of those vertical wind tunnels. Good for practicing when you can't get to the beach or the sea is flat. A secondary rush at best I guess.

Damn that looks fun af

Holy shit bro. That's bad ass mate. But if they can build something like this just imagine what NASA could build. That's some scary shit you got there bro.

That's so cool

Aparently the solution to the complex engineering problem of building such a contraption was to use maple syrup instead of water.

Pioneer status

Slater is a bad ass.

Looks like a smooth bourbon whisky

I wonder if the water is dirty on purpose so you can see how the wave is generated.

for sake of irony I hope this wave pool is in California

awesome ! congrats!!

Is this something that a waterpark could ahve? Can it be set to different wave, like for people just learning and not yet ready for the wave in this video? And if the answer to both questions is "yes," then how long until Dallas gets one? Please?

SICK

Perfection... barrel school

the water looks filthy

Awesome wave. Why the black water though.

Hell yea.

Damn that looks fun

thats madddd

that looks like nasty ass California beach water. cold too.

this is a big pool.