I'm sort of leaking this video a little early to you guys. Though a comprehensive search will yield results on vimeo, youtube, and a post on the surfline forecast blog.
Hoping you guys find this as exciting as I do. Also want to let you know that I post as kool-aid, which hopefully won't sway your opinions on the video or ASR. I don't mean to troll; want to be honost about my affiliation with ASR...
Enjoy!!!
Thanks Guy; I just want express to you how awesome ASR really is. Everyone working here is unbelievably passionate about changing they way people and organizations see coastal development.
Wow, that looks a lot better than the Bornemouth reef. Is it constructed the same?
Why India? Was it for inexpensive construction and low resistance from local/national government?
Cool, but it's awful that elephants were used to construct it. http://ht.ly/1EzOw
Fair enough but I'm sure the elephant was stoked to be on the beach and probably well taken care of...
This is really awesome by the way!
I've surfed that spot for a really long time..
And was totally stoked after you dropped the reef..
It was awesome with just a few of us in the line up..
Now your posting videos and sharing the location and it is ruining it for those of us who surf there..
I am respectfully asking you to stop giving the location...
Sure report your stoked at how well the reef turned out but don't say where..
Respect those of us who have put the time in and surf there...
(I am really sorry but I could not help it)
Laughing my ass off at last post. Dumpy left in remote south india... Big company built it so you could have it to yourself, nevermind the locals who could all benefit from increased tourism.
Delusional chapati head! Maybe its a joke, deadpan humor perhaps?
My mentawai piggybank just got rerouted, wait till the "Search" boys get wind of this.
You are a ridiculous child.
SWEEEEEEEEET! They should make "Lefts" All over!
You regular footers have your rights already haha!
Man......... I guess I can't surf there ether, It's Rev's place.
Yes the reef in India is constructed using the same methods as in Bournemouth. The thing about these Multi-Purpose Reefs is that they work exactly the same as a real reef. If the swell is junky and the winds are onshore, the surf will not be good.
However, if the swell is clean and the wind conditions ideal, the waves will break nicely. The Bournemouth reef faces the English Channel, as opposed to the North Atlantic. Meaning that quality swell for the reef there is few and far between. What it does receive is short period, choppy wind swell, usually in conjunction with onshore winds.
ASR doesn't really lean towards any sort of government or local infrastructure in choosing locations for these developments. Interested parties contact ASR and then we create a plan, design the reef, and start working with the local authorities on the projects. Changing locations substantially and having to work around weather conditions makes these projects especially challenging. But that's all part of the fun.
Thanks for the interest. We are really excited that so many people have shone support for these projects. Save ###### btw!!
So sick. It's only 10 hours from my hometown. Maybe a trip to India is due... I really want to snowboard in the Himalayas one day too.
re: elephants:
I'll bet this elephant leads a pretty good life. If not it probably wouldn't be in the right frame of mind to exhibit its extraordinary intelligence.
ASR, great work making the rounds everywhere online talking it up. This could be the biggest thing ever in surfing if it catches on.
I've been to kovalam, and anything to help out the locals andl beach rats is really a good thing. Good for fishies too.
Allaround A+ project. It would be a dream job to do what you do.
Need a PR rep with tons of abroad experience?
Many locals do not like what ASR created. It’s take off is too steep for local kids. Even Nick Behunin seemed to change gradually more cautious. There is not much water. You can see that in video if you study it closely. Time 40 s suddenly appears a white water spot in the face of the wave just front of the tube. That spot is maybe 20 cm (8 inches) higher than top of the bag, which are like gigantic cigars between each other gaps causing currents. Lifeguards have been more busy saving lives after reef project was finished and are protesting their less than 10 000 IRS monthly salary (some even no pension after 20 years duty) meanwhile their employer gives foreign company 76 000 000 IRS for what is for them just more dangerous work.
Fishermen are angry. They are banned to fish on the whole bay, but policeman let them pull their net other end of the beach because they understand that those poor people have large families to support. Their haul has been less because some fish have moved to the shelter of artificial reef. It is just a question of time when local dynamite fishers throw their boms near the bags to get easy fish. Let´s see, are the bags unbreakable as ASR says.
Tourists are not happy if they can no more hear fishermans singing and instead have to look out for lost boards and listen arrogant surfers demanding swimmers out of their way. And who benefit local tourist businesses more: old beach goers or young surfers ? There will be no doubt about that.
Local kids would like the monsoon move the bags away and come back the pre reef situation when there were funny waves. Their rides on a good day are now shorter because more than half of the artificial reef is total crap (lighthouse point part). There bags are in uneven hight resulting breaking here and there on the same time. Impossible and dangerous part of the reef. ASR do not show that in their video. Instaed of that they show elephant which they cleverly brought soley for marketing purposes.
ASR released also uncut 14 s video
without slow motion on the contrary above
to give impression of long barrel. Thank them for that. 14 s unedited film gives a realistic picture and how it can be surfed by a talented surfer. The end of the ride is worse closeout than before. Also the middle of the bay is now worse. The swell was on this 14 s film decreasing from it’s peak. ASR surfers flew from USA and were there from the beginning of the swell, which swellwatch.wetsand.com marked as a good 18- 20 s period swell for the whole Northern Indian Ocean. This is what they got in 10 days. They had hired an Indian film crew to document all the time. Uncut 14 s video is pretty realistic about conditons when there is ok south swell and how it was before crowds. Unfortunately Maldives blocks better southwest swells.
