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New Tools, Bigger Teams: SPC Grows Committees and Opens Member Slack By Jess Ponting Surf-anchored real estate development has hit an inflection point. Nearly...
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New Tools, Bigger Teams: SPC Grows Committees and Opens Member Slack By Jess Ponting Surf-anchored real estate development has hit an inflection point. Nearly...
By Jess Ponting Have you noticed a recent uptick in articles concerning surf parks? I’m not talking about the newspaper articles referring to specific...
By Jess Ponting When I first took an interest in the emerging surf park industry in 2011, I wanted to try to influence its...
By Jess Ponting Academic Research Finds That Environmental Sustainability and Community Benefit are Both Achievable and Non-Negotiable for the European Surf Park Market. With...
By Jess Ponting A new peer-reviewed academic journal article on surf parks came out in January this year. Why is this important? It is...
By Jess Ponting Surf parks are proliferating around the globe – there are now 22 dynamic-wave surf parks in operation. Guaranteed wave quality, wave...
A look back at some of our favorite research and thought-driven articles of 2024. By Jess Ponting As 2024 sinks below the horizon, the...
By Jess Ponting The 2024 Consumer Trends Survey secured 4,310 responses. Special thanks to Firewire, Rob Machado, Dan Mann, Taylor Jensen, Blair Conklin, The...
By Jess Ponting Something was different at Surf Park Summit this year. Everyone there could feel it. People were talking about it. Summit always...
By Jess Ponting When I took the mantle as CEO of Surf Park Central earlier this year I spent every day of my first...
16% of the global surfing population have substituted a surf park trip for a traditional surf trip to an ocean surfing destination in the...
By Jess Ponting The second iteration of Olympic surfing is in the books. The event took every second of the 8-day waiting period to...
By Jess Ponting Sam MacIntosh is a visionary. A thoughtful, softly spoken risk taker. The modern surf media’s James Tiberius Kirk boldly goes where...
By Jess Ponting An Interview with Asa Cascavilla, Waco Surf’s Frothiest Champion The Surf Park Central team met Asa Cascavilla at Waco Surf during...
By Jess Ponting It has been a busy summer at Surf Park Central! We have been dialing in Surf Park Summit 2024 and we...
By Jess Ponting Article Includes: The partnership that conceived of DSRT Surf effectively ended my first surf park consulting business, so I had some...