Europe River surfing

1 europe

1.1 germany
1.2 austria
1.3 norway
1.4 switzerland

europe

surfing standing wave on eisbach.


germany

despite being many hundreds of kilometres nearest ocean, munich has reputation surfing hotspot, offering 1 of europe s best waves. bavarian capital birthplace of river surfing. city has been center of surfboard riding on stationary wave since early-1970s. 100 surfers daily hit waves in city s englischer garten, largest urban park in world. there, in river eisbach, world’s best known river surf spot, eisbach wave — literally “ice brook” — flow velocity of icy water 5 meters @ rate of 20 tons per second, , temperature never gets above 15 degrees celsius. annual surfing competition held on standing wave. additionally, there further stationary waves form on river isar downstream of wittelsbacherbrücke bridge in isarvorstadt, on canal joins isar channel floßlände. munich has produced best river surfers , first location created true surfing community around inland river wave. scene has around 1,000 active surfers, while 10,000 in munich have tried @ point.

austria

on austria s river mur in graz, river surfing regular on 2 waves built surfing in 2001 , rebuilt in 2004 kanuclub graz. near salzburg in alm canal there custom built surf wave, almwelle.

norway

norway has several river waves, amongst famous bulken in voss , unnamed river wave in sarpsborg. oslo in planning phase of building potential, artificial river wave in main city river akerselva.

switzerland

the limmat in zürich not have standing waves fast-flowing. local surfers have developed pulley system known upstream surfing allows surfers surf river.