Usually when one goes to Switzerland it’s not to go surfing. Maybe it’s to go look at the Matterhorn and get drunk in a horse-drawn carriage in Zermatt. Maybe it’s to go get vertigo at Jungfraujoch, that observation tower at the so-called “top of Europe.” Even more likely, you’re going to ride some of the best snow in the world. But surfing? Nah. Not super likely.
Unless you’re Leo Fioravanti, who recently headed to Alaia Bay to try out the new air waves they have on tap. “Give me another session,” he said, “and I am sure I will be able to pull off a backflip.”
The Wavegarden engineers, you see, have been working hard to program different waves. That’s a strange sentence, isn’t it? Not too long ago, “programming waves” wasn’t even on the tip of the tongue. The latest upgrades to the code used the brains and bodies of Yago Dora, Luke Swanson, Reef Heazlewood, Leo Fioravanti, Victor Bernardo, and Dion Agius.
“We have perfected four new air waves and several barrel waves,” the Wavegarden team wrote. “The new air waves are ideal for straight airs, rotations, flips and alley-oops. A softer wave with less pop has also been created for training purposes. Our new innovative software program has allowed us to create these waves by altering their power, steepness, and angle.”
