Despite the new tech’s debut in Florida, which Mark Price confirmed on US website Shop-Eat-Surf this story almost didn’t run when we were asked by Firewire to delay the story indefinitely. We spoke to Firewire’s Mark Price at the time, who said the new technology was set to be released to Australian retailers in June. Firewire debuted The Rob Machado design Go Fish using the Woolight technology at SurfExpo Orlando Florida in January. Firewire’s ‘Woolight’ technology was developed in partnership with Kiwi innovator Paul Barron of Barron Surfboards and The New Zealand Merino Company (NZM). FIREWIRE’S ‘WOOLIGHT’ SURFBOARD įirewire announced in February, it was going to release a new super light and durable surfboard that uses (sheep friendly) wool instead of fiberglass. The app debuted on iTunes during the Quiksilver and Roxy Pro events in France.Ģ/. If Big waves are your thing, then True Surf lets you take on Nazaré, Portugal and Jaws (Pe-ahi), Hawaii. Players can also try to beat the sections at some of the fastest pointbreaks like Jeffreys Bay. True Surf includes 21 of the world’s best waves from classic reef breaks like Pipeline and Cloudbreak, to rolling ‘power-curve’ breaks like Bells. True Surf utilizes True Axis’ real-world physics simulation engine, powered by live Surfline weather forecasts, to enable the virtual replication or ‘mind surfing’ of a surfer’s favourite wave. True Surf is an incredibly realistic mobile surfing game. True Axis is a multi-awarding winning game development company based in Melbourne, Australia and along with official partners World Surf League (WSL) and Surfline they announced in October the worldwide launch of True Surf. This story had the most views for 2018 and was almost double the number of the second most popular story for the year, which is surprising given the business nature of our platform. TRUE SURF – THE OFFICIAL MOBILE GAME OF WSL It seems like whether we are at home, or office, we all just like to surf □ The second most popular story of 2018 almost didn’t run when we broke news here on a new technology that Firewire debuted at Surf Expo.īelow, we’ve compiled a snapshot of the TOP FIVE stories for 2018.ġ/. Wave pools continue to dominate the headlines and ‘State of The Wave Pool Business’ by Bryan Dickerson, was the fifth most popular story of the year.ĭespite these seismic shifts in our industry, the most viewed article of the year was the news and instructions to download True Surf, the official game of the WSL. While that story ranked as our fourth most popular, it was our Professional Editioninvestigation into the industry’s reaction that was the third most popular story for 2018. Two of the most popular features this year are available exclusively to our growing list of industry professionals.Ģ018 was a transformational year for the surf industry, highlighted by Boardriders’ acquisition of Billabong earlier this year. In 2018, we launched our Professional Edition that includes exclusive content for our subscribers. Since relaunching just under 12 months ago there’s been over 800 articles published and thanks to the power of analytics we’re able to rank the most viewed stories of the year.
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