{"id":582400,"date":"2026-08-04T00:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T00:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/582400\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T00:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T00:22:12","slug":"jamie-obrien-and-crew-test-out-dsrt-surf-on-soft-tops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/582400\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamie O’Brien and Crew Test Out DSRT Surf on Soft-Tops"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Comfortable<\/p>\n

Comfortable in the barrel as always. Photo: Jamie O\u2019Brien \/\/ YouTube<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

It seems like every week there\u2019s a new crew at DSRT Surf. The Palm Desert wave pool is slated to open this summer and the approaching date has brought with it a relentless marketing push. Pros, freesurfers and YouTubers have been flocking to the chlorinated oasis and reporting back<\/a>, with the latest offering coming from none other than Jamie O\u2019Brien.<\/p>\n

\u201cApparently it\u2019s the best wave pool in the world,\u201d announced JOB at the top of the video<\/a>. \u201cZeke and Josh Kerr and all the guys have been working on these crazy air sections. Crazy slab barrel. We got the Funday team in the house. Everyone from Uriah, Maddox, Sage, Ryan, you name it.\u201d<\/p>\n

There was one more wrinkle to the strike mission, however \u2013 the entire crew was riding soft-tops. The decision made sense, as O\u2019Brien himself is a purveyor of the craft with his brand Fun Day. However, he also made a case for why there may be some logic to the decision, besides just branding.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m pretty confident about getting some sick barrels, but I want to kind of walk away from this like stomping the best air I\u2019ve stomped in a while \u2013 on a soft-top,\u201d he described as he waxed up one of the craft. \u201cA lot of people are like, \u2018Well, why don\u2019t you ride your real board?\u2019 because something is a little bit more challenging and a lot more fun when you ride soft tops.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Comfortable in the barrel as always. Photo: Jamie O\u2019Brien \/\/ YouTube It seems like every week there\u2019s a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[245769,61,60,245770,80,245771],"class_list":["post-582400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-dsrt-surf","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jamie-obrien","tag-technology","tag-wave-pool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}