A new surf pool has been unveiled in desert sands. The Wadi Adventure is the Middle East’s first man made artificial wave park located at the base of Jebel Hafeet, in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates.

Developers of the surf facility promise a surf pool capable of making 3.3 meter high waves every 90 seconds. All local and international surfers can enjoy the machine powered waves from 12pm, in 55-minute surf sessions that can accomodate up to six riders.

You’ll pay 100 AED (27 dollars) for the artificial experience. The quality of the wave is quite good. You can ride left and right surfable waves. Watch how the wave pool pumps waves, here. There’s even a button to control the wave height.

The Wadi Adventure is like surfing in the desert. It also possible to tune and select the size of the waves, whether you’re a beginner or an experienced surfer. Wave conditions change throughout the day and night surfing sessions are also available for booking.

Three world class whitewater runways for rafting and kayaking offer a combined length of 1,133 metres. Take a look at the best surf parks, surf pools and artificial waves, here.

Surfboard shapers are the guardians of surfing. The surfboard revolution has always started in the shape room, with the major inputs from the world’s greatest surfers. One surfboard can change your surf forever. The first surfboard is responsible for bringing you to the sport. Many surf beginners lose their interest in surfing because they didn’t the correct board for the early waves.

The best surfboard shapers of all time have already produced thousands of great surfboards. Each surfboard design is unique and serves a specific function. Old school surf, classic and smooth carving, vertical turns, off-the-lip adventures, super speed surf lines, tube riding or aerial antics may be strongly boosted and improved by the tweaking and tuning the foam, through hydrodynamics.

Surfboard craftsmen do surf. The rocker, the tail, the rails, the bottom contours, the fin setup, the glass and polish process -it all comes to a final fruit. Each surfboard has its dimensions: length, width and thickness are not random variables and “feel”. This is ocean mathemathics that can only be solved by the hands of experienced surfboard shapers.

These surf artists work in special environments. The shaping room should be around 16′x8′ (9,6 x 4,8 meters) with bright horizontal fluoros lights mounted on each side of the space. Standings on which blanks are shaped should be fixed to the floor, aligned with the adjacent lights.

“FinnSurf“, a surf movie by director Aleksi Raij, has conquered the “Best Feature film” award at the 2012 Yallingup Surfilm Festival, in Australia.

“FinnSurf” is the world’s first Finnish surf film and tells the story of five Finnish surfers. More than a surfing documentary, it’s a story of true love and that intense, overwhelming passion we all feel for what lights our fire in the coldest of places.

“The Surfer”, a surf movie by Dominic Coleman, won the “Best Short Film” award, while the “Best Cinematography” award was presented to two winners – “El Mar, Mi Alma” and “Come Hell or High Water”, who happen to have the same cinematographer, Dave Homcy.

The “People’s Choice Award” went to “The Still Point” by director Taki Bibelas, as voted by more than 2500 people who attended the three-day festival, which included day and night film screenings, discussion forums, art exhibitions, live local music and even a fancy dress surf competition for charity.

Waves hitting the 15-to-20 foot range hit the 2012 Volcom Pipe Pro, in the first day of competition at Banzai Pipeline, Hawaii. In three hours of big wave surfing, there were injuries, wipeouts and hairball rides to be registered.

Kauai’s Stephen Koehne, the top-scorer of the day, ended up with a gruesome gash to the knee that could well see him out of the water for weeks. Regular Pipeline chargers Mark Healey and Tom Dosland took the wipeout beatings of the day, and Pipe specialist Dave Wassel was the overall standout.

“I pulled into the barrel and next thing I knew I just got shot in the knee by my board,” said Koehne. Resident Doctor Leiland Dao said it was a serious injury that required 20 stitches or more to three layers: muscle, fascia and skin.

“I was in his heat but I didn’t see it happen,” said Wassel. “But I saw his leg afterwards. It doesn’t look like he’ll be walking for a few weeks, let alone surfing. The hole is huge. Lucky it was his leg and not his head.

The best big wave surf spots in the world have a few things in common. They’re only suited for experienced surfers, they only break once in a while and they can kill a rider in seconds.

Let’s put things in perspective. A 50-foot wave (15 meters) carries about 1.7 MW of power across each meter of wave front, in a 15-second period scenario.

If you’ve decided to surf the biggest wave of your life, there are few things you should know. Get the right surf gear, ask for jet ski and boat support. And pray. Then, decide whether you’re paddling into the wave or if being towed-in is the best option.

The biggest waves in the world are located in almost all continents. With the right swell and wind conditions you’ll be lucky to ride four or five really monstrous waves.

The best big wave spots are dangerous and, in some cases, almost inaccessible without a boat or even helicopter. Carefully selecting which wave will open its face and the right moment for the take-off is compulsory. A mistake will probably cost you life.