Having a local wave pool would mean that Belgian and Dutch surfers could get a shot at surfing a perfect wave that peels – without booking a flight or driving half a day to France or Spain.”
The engine behind the Knokke-Heist project is Frank Vanleenhove, owner of LakesideParadise Belgium. Frank embraced windsurfing in his youth, traveled the world, bagged a national championship (1982) and somewhere along the way discovered surfing.