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Amputee Fabrizio Passetti Explores How Wave Pools Can Help Adaptive Athletes Wednesday April 21, 2021 Staff
Fabrizio Passetti lost part of his right leg when he was 18-years old. Having already developed a healthy love for riding waves, his life since then has been given to finding ways to continue surfing. Battling through amputation and infections, experimenting with prosthetics, and finding the right equipment that could accommodate it all, he’s worked through the challenges that make up exactly what it means to be an adaptive surfer. An obstacle is thrown his way and he faces it. And that’s what makes characters like Passetti a source of inspiration.
Photo: Alaïa Bay
It’s quite a concept, surfing in the Swiss Alps. As we know, surf parks pop up around the globe constantly with the proliferation of manmade wave technology, and Switzerland’s AlaïaBay facility, a Wavegarden product, is the newest concept set to open this year. But aside from dropping another wave pool in a landlocked location, it’s worth examining if the pool (wave) itself is as good as it’s made out to be and what the park’s facilities are bringing to the table. And to do that, we can look at the landscape of this unique location for a surf park and the unique story of how it came about.