SYDNEY'S NEW WAVE POOL | FULL REVIEW URBNSURF SYDNEY 2024 

thank god, they are focusing these on communities that have no surf and not sea side cities.

One day the waves were weak like this and I decided to just chill and ride straight but let my board follow the flow of the wave - let it be carried up the wave (without turning), and let the lip throw it out and down again, so that - if you were to look at it from the direct front - the board would be doing a full rotation round a clock-face but facing nose-on to your eye the whole time. There was something so charming about riding like this - letting the wave lift you and throw you, rather than powering all over it - that the memory never left me. I think if you vary your style from time to time from slashing turns to a gentle flowing with the wave, it will benefit you with a quiet joy. It returns you to the initial fun you first had. It's not all about how well you can surf. Before this, it's about the wave carrying you. I hope whoever reads this tries it out - you won't regret it.

Thanks great to watch, been along,time comeing to Sydney 👍

I was a sceptic of wave pools, surfed the Melbourne pool and had a blast, look forward to surfing here at home in Sydney. Good review kale as always....

invaluable info Kale! Cheers!

This new pool is so beautiful. I've never been to one, but i hope I get to go sometime. Great video Kale. 🤙🏽

Great review Kale mate, joined you in the Feb Melb sessions and looking forward to working on the advice in my newly available local wave pool here in Syd. It was actually quite inspiring to see how much everyone was getting from your coaching-keep it up man, you are working in the positive

Epic! Thanks for the video Kale

Great to hear your insights Mr Brock.. Can't wait to have a go!

... Thanks Kale ... Never have surfed a wave pool yet , but there is still time ... Bucket list for me nowadays for sure 🙏🌊

Used to live 30 min from Tulla and was a foundation member. Surfed it close to 100 times. Yeah they are smallish waves but definitely lifted my surfing cause it’s hard to surf it good. Have to be on your game with the lack of ocean power. One awesome thing about the pools is being able to surf after dark on a weekday. It’s surfing but not as you know it. On a glassy sunset evening it’s pretty amazing when those waves start pumping out. Live by the ocean now and only been back once in 18 months.

10/10 Haircut Sir! Excellent choice looking freshhhhh!

Looks so much fun! Can’t wait to surf it with you mate @Kale. So good to watch you miss a wave 🤣 PS: great video 🙌

Reckon they will tweak the settings i.e. bump wave heights or improve them before june 👀

nt tube ride, and never been any wave pool as have been living in Bondi, and didn’t need to. Do you think I can go straight to the tube setting without trying other settings first?

Great video, thanks mate! Do you think a 5’11 with decent volume would be suitable for progressive turns? Or should I bring a 6’3 foamy?

I had a cruiser session at Melbourne about a year ago. As a longboarder I rode their 9ft softdeck. I struggled with that choice. I look forward to using Sydney's pool as I'm from Newy, my question is will I be allowed to use my own board, it's a lightweight 10ft McCoy. Cheers.

Hey Kale! I was a member at the tulla pool. They had new settings that we got to test on a members night that were more cupping probably very similar to the settings you tested at Sydney 🤙

Thanks great review! I’ve surfed Melbs a few times and I’m pleased to have a local version (no need to hire a board like I do in Melbs). Good summary of all the modes. 1st session is booked!

Great review Doc Brock

Currently working on a video to explain how wavepools work technically. It's interesting to note that the waves at Sydney are different to Melbourne given the same technology by Wavegarden. The two causes i could think of: 1. Different concrete levels and surfacing under the water level which would impact how water is being displaced 2. Completely different coding structure in the computers that generate the wave sequence. Super keen to get down there in afew weeks! 🏄🏽‍♂️

If you want a steep drop into barrel take off wide. I was taking off really wide on beast mode in Melbourne backhand finding it easier to ride the barrel.

These wave pools are opening up everywhere it seems like! Even Oceanside CA is getting one now 😳

Cheers for the vid! Makes it a easy decision not to go haha.

Any camera recordings yet?

Hey Kale, what time do you think is the best to surf these pools at? Does wind play a factor?

Sweet I’m there next Monday for 6 hours.

Look forward to getting out there. Getting older been a while and it is intimidating out in a crowded break. Look forward to getting out with some mates not fighting for waves.

are you doing any lession at waco anytime soon. would love to be part of that. thanks for all the vids theyre great

great review mate

Do they let you foil?

Great review and I might have to check it out. Had to chuckle when you said it was an hour from the Northern Beaches. Probably not UrbnSurf's biggest target market. 🤣

Great video! Will you be checking out the wave pool that’s being built now in Germany?

personally, I like the wave pool because if you had a week or two with negative 2 foot waves then it is always good to have that option there

Awesome! Could you do another series with board tests but for small wave boards (ex:gremlin, white tiger, mid strength, etc.) Thanks!

Hey kale, it’s Anthony. I met you at the pass on a 9 foot longboard😂 keep up the great content!

Great fresh haircut, Kale

Advanced turns was my favourite at Tulla. Barrels are fun for a bit but I found I wanted more turns when it flipped over to barrels in advanced setting. Like shit I was just getting into that.

Looks like a nice place for a swim

The description of the new age surf demographic is spot on! The corporate wave starved surfer hehe

I like that it's not a straight copy from Melbs. Why would surfers up north want to come to sunny, cold, hot, freezing temperamental Melbourne, when they could just go to Sydney. Having the waves different (Although not overly different) attracts surfers to what they would prefer at the time. Well done URBNSURF, wish I could surf there more often.

Does hte intermediate setting barrel?

It seems deliberate that they created a "geospecific" wave in each location. East coast waves for Sydney and South coast waves for Melbourne. Credit where it's due, me thinks.

Very nice 👍

It definitely looks smaller and weaker than the Melbourne surf pool. Will be interested to check it out. Good advice about board choice, that can be make or break for a good session. Definitely looks like you need a board that can generate speed but also rip in the pockets

No air section, 😢

Discussions underway for a second surf pool in Melbournes south east (that will apparently be the biggest in the southern hemisphere…we’ll see) Hopefully it goes ahead as for me Tulla is still further than Phillip Island!

Wave heights in expert look smaller in Sydney? Is this the case?

Fantastic review from someone who has knowledge of similar wave pools. For me, as a bodyboarder,......no air section, not really interested

are the helmets compulsory?

What that midlength you're riding Kale?

Did you go for a surf at maroubra? I swear I saw you. I’m pretty sure I kept staring at you 😂. I was on a purple sharp eye.

we might be getting one in nz

🏊‍♀️ 🎉

Take a 5"11 Js tractor with you everywhere. I bought my first one at a skate shop in Athens in 2009. Ironic cause I grew up surfing Mali and little Mali and dropping in at the graveyard and surfing crazy shit at froggys when only esky lids were brave

Can’t wait to try it out !! 🏄🏻‍♀️

omg -- the mythical Parramatta Pipeline is a reality -- who knew?

Opening in the middle of winter is a wild move

Melbourne wave pool>Sydney wave pool Great review mr g!

Yeah first:)

Can they have 200 person sessions to get people prepared for Snapper? 🤪

How much does it cost

It's not just the wedge that's economically unviable. Their whole price point is a rip off. Yeh I'd pay their hourly rate as a day pass, that's more value $150 for an all day pass sounds better then one hour

Camera anxiety is as clear as the water. 😂

No Expert mode???

Totally shit soft small boring unless it's the advance, but still small not even head high WTF. AND PULLING THE BS we can't use the air section ! 😢 Suck. Saying this we still all want to try it. We are so fed here in Oz because the crazy gd power ramps n turn sections in the new brazzo pool are taking it to the nex level! So much more grunt even tho it's still smallish. Go Kelly! Epic pool

The question is WHEN Perth

great but will also 10x the amount of the people fighting for a wave at the beaches 😂

Looks like the Sydney wave sux and the bottom should be redone...TRUTH

What’s up with heaps of helmets?

While nice these are unaffordable. $115 an hour is absurd.

Yea a shame no one can afford it!

Helmets? Really?

The cost is ridiculous, only rich ppl can afford to surf there. its a bloody joke , over 100 an hour in melbourne, costs more than skiing for a whole day.............

Yawn unless it was my private backyard pool

Melbourne wave pool has way better coffee then Sydney 🎣

I don’t usually watch surf videos because I struggle to listen to the awful surfer accent. Thanks for talking like a normal person!

$200 per hour. lol

The waves are to fuckin small!

why build all of this for a crappy wave? clearly inferior to slaters waves.

This corporation sacrifices well being for cheap hard concrete ground. There are soft ground covers they can use but they just want to make money. Many injuries and some very serious irreversible damage. Surf at your own risk. ♿️

Surf Lakes is better...

This wave looks shit compared to Melbourne. Too small. Too weak. Has Kale all but confirmed this?

Fail

Go surfing in Mexico, you will have a fantastic time. ahahhahah

Boring.