Surf parks having a viral moment

You won’t find ice skates but you will find a hockey stick when you look closely at surf parks in little towns like Waco, Texas

When you are examining a business opportunity what you want to see is a hockey stick. It’s a sign that you are in the right place at the right time. You might be surprised to hear about a hockey stick in the surf industry but we found one. Of course “hockey stick” is just the term MBAs use to describe the desired shape of rapid growth in an industry. This chart below from Surf Park DB shows that it is an awesome time to be in the surf park industry.

We snapped some data from surfparkdb.com to see how the number of operational surf parks has grown over time

Looks like a hockey stick to me!

This data only includes the total number of surf parks with traveling waves that have been built over time and are still operational today. Though not every park on this list is open to the public—some are research and development facilities—it is encouraging to see this exponential trend. Growth indicates that surf parks are worthwhile i…