Spanish engineering firm Wavegarden has already attempted the seemingly impossible. They heisted the sandy beaches of Hawaii and California to make Austin, Texas a surfing Mecca. Austin’s NLand Surf Park will be Wavegarden’s first U.S. project. Opening in 2016, it will feature a lagoon the size of nine football fields with wave sizes that fit […]
Red Bull, as a brand, has never been one to be deemed as self-effacing. Rather, they have been bold enough to experiment as early adopters across the gamut of sports, especially non-mainstream ones. The foresight to imbue themselves into American soccer, eSports, and even ultimate frisbee denotes their commitment to emerging sports–building its own media […]
In the sporting world, there is a divide between fans and professional athletes that gets bridged a little more with every passing year. Fans can follow their favorite athletes and interact with them on social media, use team websites to track statistics, and keep track of the score from multiple devices, while simultaneously watching the […]
Image of Trace, the action sports tracker. Tracking technologies take shape in various forms, be it handheld, wearable, rideable, or otherwise. These devices have now made it possible to try to quantify just about anything, anywhere, anytime. There’s a certain level of curiosity by some to find out about metrics that are not empirically evident […]
Images via aspworldtour.com The Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) World Tour is making waves with its game-changing video technology at the Billabong Pipeline Masters this week. Pipeline, on the North Shore of Oahu, is hosting the final event of the year with three surfers vying for the 2014 World Title. For young gun Gabriel Medina from […]
