Ohhh I want to go surf this new wave pool in Brazil so bad!!! UHHHH! Check out these perfect waves and let me know which board you wan to ride there! 

World's Largest PerfectSwell® Surf Pool at Boa Vista Village, São Paulo

American Wave Machines

This PerfectSwell® Surf Pool was commissioned by JHSF for their beautiful residential development, Boa Vista Village. This project features PerfectSwell®’s longest, biggest, and most varied wave menu yet. PerfectSwell® is premier patent protected surf technology from American Wave Machines. For more information visit https://perfectswellsurf.com/

Wave Pool insights with Rob Machado

Wave Pool Magazine

Rob Machado shares his design for a perfect wave pool then stops, reflects, and dishes out a few more ideas. You’ll also find out why an Alaia or Twin works best at Kelly’s Wave and how Munich, Germany could be the model for the coming wave pool surf scene.

Finless In Abu Dhabi (via the surfer's journal)

By TSJ

The wave's as good as any day at The Wall. It's missing the palm trees swaying in the breeze and aging beach boys hustling tourists, but there is sand. Plenty of it. You'll find this wedge on the other side of the world, dug out of one of the planet's most inhospitable deserts. Noa Ginella, Wadi pool sliding outside of Abu Dhabi.

Kelly Slater Wave Co... New Wave Pool

This doughnut-shaped wave pool is the brainchild 

of a local surf champ By Jerry Hume, Brevard County Reporter (Via baynews9)

COCOA BEACH -- 

If a world famous surfer's vision catches on, you may soon be able to hang 
ten just about anywhere.

Kelly Slater, well known in Brevard County and around the world, wants to build an "endless 
wave pool" for surfing.

The Cocoa Beach native and 11-time surfing world champion's company, the 
Kelly Slater Wave Co., recently unveiled a new website, including renderings of what the 
doughnut-shaped wave pool would look like.

According to the website, the pool would produce guaranteed surfable waves, and would be the
center of a resort-type experience.

"Centered around an island created just for you is a place of leisure and escape to reconnect
with family, friends and yourself," the website teases. "This one-of-a-kind destination celebrates
the best of beach culture and the surf lifestyle and delivers an unparalleled wave riding experience
tailored to each guest. As surfer, spectator or beachgoer, you choose your experience."

If it sounds like the kind of attraction you'd love to see in Central Florida, you might have to wait
a little longer. It looks like Australia will be the first location to partner with Slater in this new
surfing experience.

Back to the Future

Wavegarden wave pool surfing (Extended version)

A few words from those guys at : www.wavegarden.com/#

Our vision gives people of all ages and surfing levels the ability to enjoy a beach environment and a real surfing experience...beyond the oceans of the world. Wavegarden®’s cutting edge technology allows the creation of a broad and customisable range of authentic surfing waves in a safe and natural environment. This cost effective and environmentally friendly wave generation technology is now available to the public and for the first time makes economically-viable inland wave sports and lifestyle facilities possible.

A few more words from me:

So either I need to become really wealthy so I can afford one of these in my back yard or I need to become friends with the guy who already has one in his back yard. Either way I would like to give it a test drive on a few different boards (Longboard, Shortboard and Hybrid). I understand that it's a smaller wave and that has it's own limitations, but it still looks fun. I can imagine a few up and coming amateur and profession longboarders inventing some new nose riding tricks there. Not sure if the guys at Wavegarden plan on inviting Joel Tudor and his friends but I'm sure it would make one great story. I think I may need to become friends with Joel to up my odds of getting to play around at this place.

Update 2014:
It looks like there have been some major improvements… Check out what I found (via blog.gessato.com)

Wavegarden 2.0

With the best of summer yet to come, surfers must be anxious to hit the waves. For Wavegarden’s CEO José Manuel Odriozola, the perfect wave is an engineering art – one that has been perfected with Wavegarden 2.0. The artificial waves are produced by a hydrofoil that creates the familiar peaks and crests, which can hit a frequency of 120 per hour for continual enjoyment. Completely reliant on electric power, the system is a reliable alternative for those who might otherwise find beaches inaccessible. There is a fee to use the facilities, which are cropping up across Europe and even the Middle East, but who can really put a price on summer fun?

Images © Wavegarden

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ABOUT KIMBERLY LI - Kimberly is a graduate from MIT's Department of Architecture, and has recently joined the publication team at MIT OpenCourseWare. While architecture remains her first love, her interests encompass literature – epic poetry and Medieval romances are her favorite – and also fashion. She delights in various design projects, featured on her website "unkliched".