Hawaiian pro surfer Sebastian Zietz has been surfing at Wavegarden’s R&D center in northern Spain each year since 2014. On his last visit, his good friend and fellow pro surfer Stu Kennedy tagged along for a high performance man-on-man training session. “I have got Stu with me and I am excited to see how it goes”, said Zietz. “And I am more excited to just catch a million waves, cause that’s what I like to do”.
Hailing from Lennox Head, NSW, Australia, Stu Kennedy is considered to be one of the countries most well rounded and stylish surfers. Although Kennedy has travelled extensively, and ridden most of the world’s best breaks, it was his maiden surf in a man-made wave facility. “It’s my first time to Wavegarden, pretty excited”, exclaimed Kennedy with a grin. “I have never really got to surf a wave pool, so I am definitely pumped on sharing the moment with Seabass”.
Since Zietz’s previous visit back in 2016, the variety of different waves at Wavegarden has expanded considerably. Zietz tested the Wavegarden Cove just days after the new generation technology was being tested for the first time. At that stage, it offered just 1 type of wave, a tubular slab. A lot of work has gone into expanding the technology’s capacity, and now there are approximately 30 different wave types of all shapes and sizes. “It definitely has got a lot of different waves to it this time”, confirmed Zietz. “It’s nice here because it’s not the same wave. The second and third waves are different. And then when they make it bigger and smaller, that’s different too. So it’s nice to get some training.”
