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  jason campbell

  7 years ago

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  This was such an interesting project and I am glad you picked up on it. Having grown up surfing  my opinion is that this idea is both supernatural and unrealistic.  As an actual product for the masses, it can never be, the team here chose a remote break(as in no one around) in Bali with a very particular type of wave(right and left peak) that there is only a couple of similar spots in California.  Essentially, this cannot be located where the public goes to surf, it would result in certain death. If this was positioned at a break like Trestles in San Clemente, 6 people would die per day. 

  
  

  Other than the fun/thrills it looks like these guys are having, the experience to stand on a stationary yet movable platform that mimics the contours of the ocean is something that hardly exists in the world.  This is what walking on water would feel like. The experience is different from surfing or standup paddling or standing on a slightly submerged rock because you can passively notice and feel the contours of the ocean as a physical surface. You still need to react, but one's reactions are not slowed by being in the water. If paddling a surfboard, positioning oneself a few feet this or that way takes several seconds. But standing on this platform, one can cover 5 times the distance in the same amount of time. It would make me feel superhuman.

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  Christopher Hanks

  7 years ago

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  0____0 cool.

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  Donald Jones

  7 years ago

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  Make them motorized with solar powered motors that keep to a given GPS coordinates. Build it one mile wide and you have the first ocean highway to Europe. If winter storms break it up it motors back to its position and reattaches to the others.

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