Power company Fluvius has provided a powerful electricity connection for AllWaves' artificial surfing pool at Natiënlaan in Knokke-Heist. There, the 100% Belgian startup will test its unique technology for safe and sustainable surfing baths via a 100 by 100 metre test rig. Two powerful electricity cabins will set the wave technology in motion. The test pool will be located in the ... Read more
Tom Soupart from Knokke-Heist asks for help On 16 December, the surfing paradise of Siargao in the Philippines was hit by super typhoon Rai. This hurricane, announced as category 1-2, suddenly grew into a devastating category 5. With wind speeds of more than 270 km/h, just about everything that could be blown loose was blown to pieces. Tom Soupart from Knokke-Heist was at the ... Read more
Working in a paradise must have its advantages... A young and dynamic team, a friendly and good atmosphere, friends among friends, the healthy open air... All this together must have influenced the fertility factor somewhat. For the last few years/months/weeks there has been a real baby boom at both Surfers and Lakeside Paradise! Congratulations to all ... Read more
The Hyperlite Rookie Tour is a wakeboarding competition consisting of 5 stages that in the past months has visited all the cable parks in Flanders. It is a competition reserved for young people, divided into 4 categories: Boys and Girls U11 and U14. In total there were 161 participants. Vic Droogmans took first place 5 times, ... Read more
This weekend at Wake Up cable in Antwerp the Belgian championships Wakeboarding and Wakeskating were held. No less than 132 participants were registered, of which 38 from the Lakeside Paradise Tomorrow team. The participants competed for the places of honour in 13 categories, good for 39 medals. The rainy weather did not dampen the fun, you get wet ... Read more
Sunday saw the annual ENECO beach clean-up along the Belgian coast and therefore also at Surfers Paradise. At Surfers Paradise the beach and dunes are taken care of up to the Zwin channel, a strip of 2 km. Apart from the main location this year - Zeebrugge with 1600 cleaners - Surfers Paradise also saw the ... Read more
If you are coming to Lakeside or Surfers Paradise between 18 and 22 September, please take into account that Knokke-Heist is the starting point of the World Time Trial Championships and that this will cause traffic problems for all those who want to reach the centre. For Surfers Paradise it is best to turn off in the direction of Sluis ... Read more
On Saturday 31 July and Saturday 14 August Surfers Paradise is organising the first edition of the Wim Hof Beach Experience! Wim Hof enjoys worldwide fame as "The Iceman", and it is already the intention to prepare all water sports enthusiasts during summer temperatures in order to be able to continue water sports this winter as much as possible, including ... Read more
The news about the opening of the new Rookie cableway and the fact that there are now 3 cableways on Lake Duinenwater is going around the world in the wakeboard scene. This week none other than world wakeskating champion Maxime Giry (FR) showed up to try out "his" Maxime Giry Funbox and immediately made a photo of his ... Read more
This weekend, all surfers around the world commemorated Jack O'Neill (1923-2017), the man who invented the wetsuit in 1952, allowing water sports enthusiasts around the world to stay out in the cold water a lot longer without worrying. So too at Surfers Paradise in Knokke-Heist, where no fewer than 130 surfers sat on their surfboards in the sea ... Read more
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