{"id":6816,"date":"2011-11-29T11:47:56","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T11:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?p=6816"},"modified":"2011-11-29T11:47:56","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T11:47:56","slug":"indoor-surf-centre-for-cardiff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2011\/11\/29\/indoor-surf-centre-for-cardiff\/","title":{"rendered":"Indoor surf centre for Cardiff"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>It is hoped the new attraction will boost the economy<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_6883\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 480px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/11\/active_8_surf_big_ah.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6883 \" title=\"active_8_surf_big_ah\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/11\/active_8_surf_big_ah.jpg\" alt=\"CIWW\" width=\"480\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/11\/active_8_surf_big_ah.jpg 480w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/11\/active_8_surf_big_ah-300x138.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6883 \" title=\"active_8_surf_big_ah\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/11\/active_8_surf_big_ah.jpg\" alt=\"CIWW\" width=\"480\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/11\/active_8_surf_big_ah.jpg 480w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/11\/active_8_surf_big_ah-300x138.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The new Surf Rider will be based at Cardiff International White Water<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Plans for a \u00a32 million indoor surf centre in Cardiff Bay have been given the go ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Based at <a title=\"CIWW website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ciww.com\/content.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cardiff International White Water<\/a> (CIWW), The Surf Rider will have an 1.5m high wave that can be ridden by up to eight people at once. It is due to open in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Nigel Howells, executive council member for Sport, Culture and Leisure said: &#8220;We estimate the new facility will attract an additional 18,000 users to CIWW, which will of course lead to a boost for other businesses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>South Wales\u2019 coast is a popular outdoor surfing destination and Stu Bentley from the <a title=\"Welsh Surfind Federation website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.welshsurfingfederation.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Welsh Surfing Federation<\/a> says you can\u2019t beat real waves. \u201cWhen you&#8217;re in the sea you&#8217;ve got the natural elements moving in different ways,\u201d says Stu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is hoped the new attraction will boost the economy Plans for a \u00a32 million indoor surf centre in Cardiff Bay have been given the go ahead. Based at Cardiff International White Water (CIWW), The Surf Rider will have an 1.5m high wave that can be ridden by up to eight people at once. It is due to open in 2013. Nigel Howells, executive council member for Sport, Culture and Leisure said: &#8220;We estimate the new facility will attract an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"featured_media":6890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1516,1517,1518,1519,1520,1521,1522],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-6816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-active-life","tag-cardiff-international-white-water","tag-gwen-spurlock","tag-nigel-howells","tag-stu-bentley","tag-surf-rider","tag-surfing","tag-welsh-surfing-federation"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Indoor surf centre for Cardiff - alt.cardiff<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2011\/11\/29\/indoor-surf-centre-for-cardiff\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Indoor surf centre for Cardiff - alt.cardiff\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It is hoped the new attraction will boost the economy Plans for a \u00a32 million indoor surf centre in Cardiff Bay have been given the go ahead. 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