Post #134753 by Lake Surfer on Sun, Jan 9, 2005 10:56 PM

Was it not for the generous discount we were given on our rooms ($150 a night instead of $250... includes water park admission) this might not have happened but a few members of the Great Lakes Surfing Association and I were able to travel 170 miles inland to ride the first indoor flowrider in the Midwest this weekend. Better still, we had a private 2 hour session. While not a true curl like the other Flowriders around this one was a good time nontheless. And its nothing like real surfing. Still, there was 12 inches of snow outside and we were skimming across 85 degree water. During operating hours there is a divider down the middle to allow people to surf a custom bodyboard, at night they open the wave up to the custom stand up boards. I opted for the bodyboard most of the night... the learning curve is quite steep for standing as the water shoots out at 35 mph... a good time for landlocked surfers...

The wave:

Doing a little sponging:

There's another one like this opening in Sandusky Ohio this summer... more info can be found here...
http://www.kalahariresort.com