PRESS RELEASE

Body Glove Signs Contract with Wave Pool SAC to be Distributor at La Ola Movistar Wave Machine in Peru

Redondo Beach, CA [April 24, 2013] -  Body Glove International is excited to announce they have signed a contract with Wave Pool SAC, to be an authorized distributor of Body Glove products.

Wave Pool SAC began operations in October of 2010 as the operator of “La Ola Movistar” surf arena in the Boulevard de Asia Outdoor Mall. Under the direction of Guillermo Gonzales it features the largest standing wave machine in the world designed and built by American Wave Machines, Inc. (AWM). The venue puts Peru at the forefront offering a perfect place for athletes, fans and the general public to practice the sport of surfing in a family setting with restaurant, bar, and entertainment facilities.

Body Glove CEO and Chairman of the Board of AWM, Robbie Meistrell, first met Guillermo along with professional surfers Cheyne Magnusson and Anthony Walsh on a trip to the surf arena. “I was so impressed with Guillermo as a businessman and as a professional surfer, I wanted to find a way to bring him into the Body Glove family,” states Meistrell, “I think this arrangement will be beneficial to both companies and can really increase our brand presence in South America.”

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About Body Glove:

Founded in 1953, Body Glove is a leading, worldwide water sports brand specializing in wetsuits, swimwear, clothing, footwear, accessories, and technology accessories. The company sponsors one of the most respected surf and wakeboard teams in the industry with such powerhouse names as pro surfers Jamie O’Brien, Cheyne Magnusson, Anthony Walsh, Alex Gray and Holly Beck and wake boarders Rusty Malinoski, Harley Clifford, Bob Soven and Jeff McKee. Body Glove and Jean-Michel Cousteau and his Ocean Futures Society have formed a legendary alliance to help preserve and protect the ocean while providing ocean and diving geared equipment to water enthusiasts around the globe. Some of the proceeds from the sale of those products go directly to Ocean Futures Society. Through Reef Check, SIMA’s environmental fund, and the Surfrider Foundation, Body Glove also works to preserve the purity of the waters it loves. Body Glove products are sold in the U.S. by a network of independent retailers. Body Glove is also sold in approximately 50 countries internationally.

American Wave Machines, Inc. designs, engineers, manufactures and sells world class wave pools, wave systems and surf centers. Founded in 2001 by California surfer Bruce McFarland, the company is committed to delivering authentic surfing experiences in a safe and controlled environment that values sustainability, integrity, and sportsmanship. SurfStream® is the world’s first standing wave machine that delivers a stationary surfing experience (on real surfboards) scalable to various spaces. PerfectSwell™ is the first air-powered system to create an authentic surfing experience through natural-like ocean waves. From the Caribbean to Sweden, American Wave Machines has developed more than 15 small and large-scale installations exclusively for surf parks, waterparks, resorts, malls and research institutions.

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American Wave Machines Brings World Class Surfing Experiences to Water Parks Across the U.S.

Company expands U.S. footprint with SurfStream® installation in South Dakota

SOLANA BEACH, CALIF. (April 10, 2013) – American Wave Machines, the company behind the highest-quality, scalable wave technology systems – SurfStream® and PerfectSwell™ – announced today a new sale to a cutting-edge water park in the U.S. Rippin’ Rapids Resort & Adventure Sports in South Dakota is one of the first parks in the nation to install American Wave Machines’ breakthrough wave systems.

“We’re excited to bring surfing to people located in areas across the country that traditionally don’t have ocean access,” said Bruce McFarland, founder and president of American Wave Machines, Inc. “Our breakthrough patented technology and proprietary innovation delivers high quality surf experiences – even if you’re in South Dakota.”

Rippin’ Rapids Resort & Adventure Sports

Rippin’ Rapids Resort & Adventure Sports opens in Rapid City, SD in the spring of 2014, and will feature SurfStream® – the world’s first standing wave machine that delivers a world class stationary surfing experience on real surfboards. Rippin’ Rapids will be the second U.S. venue for American Wave Machines (the first is located in Nashua, New Hampshire opening summer 2013).

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About American Wave Machines, Inc.

American Wave Machines, Inc. designs, engineers, manufactures and sells world class wave pools, wave systems, and surf centers that offer authentic surfing experiences. Founded in 2001 by California surfer Bruce McFarland, the company is committed to delivering ideal conditions for surfing in a safe and controlled environment any time of the year anywhere in the world. SurfStream® is the world’s first standing wave machine that delivers a stationary surfing experience (on real surfboards) scalable to various spaces. PerfectSwell™ is the first air-powered system to create naturally occurring ocean-like waves for an authentic surfing experience. From the Caribbean to Sweden, American Wave Machines has developed more than 15 small and large-scale installations exclusively for surf parks, waterparks, resorts, malls and research institutions.

The Waterfalls Music Festival 2013 was the first electronic music festival created exclusively for Latin America that began on Friday March 1 and ended on Sunday March 3 on the premises of La Ola Movistar in the Asia Boulevard of Peru.

Event surfing attraction and experiences via the SurfStream by American Wave Machines

The event featured live performances from 10 international DJ’s, six Peruvian national DJ’s and included live fireworks displays, VIP areas, 15 bars, and more surprises.

Location: La Ola Movistar SurfStream — Asia Boulevard

A Solana Beach company founded by the great-nephew of San Diego surf legend Charles Wright has created what it says is the world’s largest standing wave machine — producing waves with a 5-foot barrel and a 28-foot face — that will be making its debut this spring in the United States.

Another of the machines will be debuting in Canada’s first indoor surf park this summer.

The company — American Wave Machines, founded by engineer and recreational surfer Bruce McFarland — developed its SurfStream technology in the mid-2000s.

The first SurfStream debuted in 2009 at a resort in Turks & Caicos.

In the years since, several more of the machines, which can be engineered to any size and shape specification, have opened at surf parks, water parks, hotels and resorts around the world, McFarland said.

The patented surf machine allows for authentic surfing on real surfboards with fins, with a water temperature that averages around 82 degrees.

That warm water is likely to be a strong pull when the first SurfStream in the United States opens this spring in Nashua, N.H.

The machine will be the centerpiece of a park called Surf’s Up New Hampshire, an expansion of SkyVenture NH, a massive indoor sky diving venue.

The SurfStream will be indoors in a facility that features a retractable glass roof, glass walls for spectator viewing, surfside lounging and a cafe, McFarland said. Surf’s Up will be the first multisport venue with surfing and sky diving.

When the owners polled their sky diving customers, “they were very enthusiastic about being able to surf after flying,” McFarland said.

McFarland said all the SurfStream machines share a design scheme: The basic platform is a training wave where you can body-board or learn to stand up.

“It’s very easy. It’s a small wave and it’s very stable,” he said. “Level two is what we call the standing wave, it’s kind of like a rapid in a river. The wave jumps up about twice as high and it’s more turbulent and a lot more powerful. You can also have white-water kayaking on that wave.”

The most advanced wave, McFarland said, is a barreling wave that breaks either continuously left or continuously right. The barrel is created by moving modular pieces of different sizes and shapes.

The changes in the waves are created by adjusting a spoiler at the bottom of the machine.

McFarland said the machine is great for learning how to surf and for practicing maneuvers, such as aerials and 360s.

“You can practice the same maneuver as many times as you need to to perfect it,” he said. “It is using real surfboards with fins, so the skills are transferable to ocean surfing.”

American Wave Machines also offers a technology called Perfect Swell, which is essentially a wave pool that you can surf in.

PerfectSwell is an air-powered system that uses computer controls to modulate wave shape, ride duration, frequency and energy efficiency. The waves range from about 2 feet to 7½ feet.

McFarland, who in the 1990s developed sheet-flow wave simulators at Belmont Park and The Wave Waterpark in Vista, said his company’s goal is to open a SurfStream or PerfectSwell in every major city in the U.S.

He said they are working with some developers in California, but nothing is scheduled yet.

Canada’s surf park, called Oasis Surf, will be set in a contemporary surf retail center with a California beach-themed bar and restaurant. It will also include a surf shop featuring surf apparel and custom surfboards.

“(The owner) is creating a place (for customers) to go any time of year,” McFarland said. “In the winter, when it’s so cold up there, it’ll be a pretty warm place where you can go and get in the water and hang out.”

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AWM is the leader in artificial wave technology for surf parks and wave pools with an innovative approach to creating world class waves for surfing in pools.

PerfectSwell™ technology is an entirely new approach to generating large waves with the emphasis on creating an opportunity for an authentic surfing experience outside of the ocean. An infinite variety of customized waves can be generated that mimic points, reefs and beach breaks without the need for special bottom contours.

American Wave Machines PerfectSwell™ capabilities include:

Create up to 10 barreling waves per minute.

Any wave size, type and shape whether it’s soft rollers for beginners or clean hollow barrels and timed aerial closeout sections for the pro’s.

Compatible with the Wave App: Imagine calling up your favorite wave from the shore with your iPad or from your board with your iPhone — gentle or hollow, small or large. PerfectSwell™ is the next generation of artificial wave pools.

NASHUA – This spring, the nation’s largest standing wave machine is expected to attract expert and novice surfers to Nashua.

Currently under construction, Surf’s Up New Hampshire is being built at the existing SkyVenture New Hampshire site at 3 Poisson Ave.

“We can already teach anyone to fly, now we can teach anyone to surf,” said Rob Greer, who owns SkyVenture with his wife, Laurie. “SurfStream is a tremendous value proposition with broad appeal. That’s what convinced us to invest, and that’s essential for our bottom line.”

American Wave Machines Inc., the leader in artificial wave technology for surf parks, announced this week that SurfSteam is expected to begin operations this spring, possibly by April.

Surfers will be able to experience a 5-foot barreling wave with 32-feet of face to carve on in an all-season indoor multi-sport venue, according to Bruce McFarland, founder and CEO of American Wave Machines Inc.

“SurfStream is the most fun water ride there is,” said McFarland, praising the enormous system chosen by the Greers for the indoor facility. “It is very cold to surf outside in New Hampshire. The water inside is going to be in the low 80s, and so is the air.”

McFarland expects that people will travel a far distance to try the new SurfStream technology, including experienced, hard-core surfers as well as individuals who have never stepped foot onto a surfboard.

“Regardless of what is going on outside, people can walk around in their trunks and bikinis and be completely comfortable in and out of the water,” said McFarland, adding an open air roof system is being built to allow for sunshine when the weather is nicer.

SurfStream is a gel-coated fiberglass modular system that can be built in different shapes and sizes to produce different size waves. In basic mode, the machine can be used by inexperienced customers who are trying to surf for the first time.

However, it also has the capability of producing barreling waves for professional surfers, according to McFarland. He said the machines range in price from $350,000 for a small model to a few million dollars for the larger systems like the one being built in Nashua.

Learning to surf in the ocean can be challenging because it takes a lot of effort just to get standing on a board. With the SurfStream, McFarland said people can often stand and ride on a surfboard fairly quickly, often during the first session.

“The system allows that training and skill development – it can be a thrill ride,” he added.

Nashua is an ideal location for a new indoor surf park, according to McFarland, who said it is close enough to Boston to attract a large number of potential clients.

Furthermore, many daring skydivers are often willing and excited to try something new like surfing. The Greers have already received a tremendous amount of feedback from existing clients ready to begin a new adventure in the water, he said.

SkyVenture, and now Surf’s Up New Hampshire, are located on Poisson Avenue off the Daniel Webster Highway behind Best Buy.

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TECH:  American Wave Machines Can Offer Custom Rides
By: Brad Graves

There is now an app for making waves.

American Wave Machines of Solana Beach designs pools with technology that creates waves big enough to surf on. They can bring the familiar sport to places that are nowhere near the ocean.

Among the company’s latest innovations is a way to modify those waves with an Apple Inc. iPhone or iPad.

Standing before a miniature, tabletop wave pool at the company’s headquarters — just a few steps from the Belly Up Tavern — company founder and President Bruce McFarland demonstrated the variety of waves he can turn out by changing the settings on his phone.

Then, he invited a reporter to try out the controls, on a console with a tablet-sized computer screen.

By manipulating the shape of the wave on the screen, a person can modify the wave emitted by the machine. Press a button, the air-operated system makes some noise and, voila, the wave breaks. McFarland sizes up the result. “You made a mushy wave on the right side of the pool,” he said.

The app will work the same way on the full-size wave machines that McFarland and his company engineer.

American Wave Machines was founded in 2000 in McFarland’s home. Its machines are now up and running in Peru, Sweden and the Caribbean region.

“We made it through the recession with international business,” said McFarland.

Seven Patents

American Wave Machines holds seven patents, and it has applied for several more in the United States and overseas.

One of its more ambitious projects is a wave pool at the Russian resort city of Sochi, the city that will host the 2014 Winter Olympics. The 35,000-square-foot pool will be part of the Sheksna Resort, and will offer a 10-second ride.

Another buyer is the owner of an amusement park in Nashua, N.H., 40 miles north of Boston. The customer is putting the wave machine indoors, in a space with a retractable roof. The attraction will complement other rides at the park, including technology that lets people “skydive” in place.

Depending on the technology, American Wave Machine projects can cost between $500,000 and $15 million. And the company can not only supply a park with equipment. McFarland says it can also help formulate business plans.

Third-party contractors build the wave machines to company specifications. The wave machines come in two styles.

The SurfStream is more compact and reminiscent of a treadmill. It can produce a small wave for beginners or a barreling wave for advanced surfers. Detachable modules get the wave to break to the left or to the right, depending on the rider’s preference. The waves continue to churn for as long as the machine is running.

By contrast, the PerfectSwell machine sprawls out over a large area. It sends waves across the surface of a pool at regular intervals, and those waves peter out at water’s edge.

Unlike other products, the wave machines accommodate regular, off-the-rack surfboards with fins. “It’s beyond a simulator,” McFarland said.

Several market forces affect the people who buy water play equipment.

Financing a water park has been a challenge during the economic downturn, said Aleatha Ezra, director of park member development for the World Waterpark Association in Overland Park, Kansas.

Making Waves Overseas

International development, however, has been strong, she said. Asia has “a burgeoning market,” Ezra said, while Europe and the Middle East are also strong.

American Wave Machines can claim one other innovation: It built a wave machine that was part of a float in the 2012 Tournament of Roses parade in Pasadena.

Natural Balance Pet Foods Inc. of Pacoima sponsored the float, and the wave machine wasn’t really the focal point. A surfing bulldog stole the show.

It was the longest and heaviest float ever entered in the Rose Parade, McFarland said.

Going forward, McFarland is enthusiastic about his wave machines’ potential.

“There’s room for at least one of these in every major city,” he said.

American Wave Machines, Inc. (AWM), the leader in artificial wave technology for surf parks, announces three technological breakthroughs for PerfectSwell™, an innovative approach to generating large waves with the emphasis on wave quality and surfing. PerfectSwell is the next generation of artificial wave pools with its patent pending PerfectSwell Wave App™, patented Reflecting Wave Generator and Phased Array Control System, providing the opportunity for surfing outside of the ocean. Production of PerfectSwell is underway in Sochi, Russia, site of the 2014 Olympics. The 35,000 square foot PerfectSwell wave pool will open at the Sheksna Resort, nominated as Russia’s Leading Spa Resort by World Travel Awards.

AWM’s PerfectSwell Wave App™ allows surfers to control the session by calling up their favorite waves from the lineup or from shore with their iPad or iPhone. Wave direction, size and intensity can be modified from an iPhone, allowing surfers to have the perfect session every time. Coaches and trainers can manipulate the surf for the skill level and physical location of trainees in the pool. Surfers can record the ride with a built-in media option.

PerfectSwell™ Wave App for iPhone

No longer having to wait for the perfect wave, rigorous conditioning and training can take place in a PerfectSwell pool. AWM’s proprietary PerfectSwell Reflecting Wave Generator creates circular particle motion waves like the ocean, capable of producing 10 barreling waves per minute. The PerfectSwell Phased Array Control system controls chamber firing patterns and sequences creating any wave breaking characteristic from mushy to pitching to timed aerial closeouts.

“PerfectSwell is the most versatile system with the most innovative technology providing the best surfing experience, “ says Bruce McFarland, President of AWM. “PerfectSwell creates an infinite variety of waves. Point, reef and beach breaks can be replicated in PerfectSwell surf pools and waves can be adjusted and customized without need for special bottom contours.”

About American Wave Machines, Inc.

AWM is the creator of wave technology for surf parks, hotel/resorts, recreation, and research applications. SurfStream®, the world’s first standing wave machine, delivers surfing capability in a compact space. PerfectSwell technology is a new approach to generating large waves with the emphasis on the surfing experience. With no moving parts in the water, sophisticated computer controls modulate wave shape, ride duration, frequency and energy efficiency. www.americanwavemachines.com

HIGHLIGHTS:

• AWM Surf Centers in every major city in the world
• How SurfStream and PerfectSwell work
• Robust digital system with mobile app enabling complete wave control