In 2013, Adventure Bay Family Water Park got a FlowRider Double. It came in as part of a full WhiteWater West buildout, slides and all, tucked into the downtown Windsor complex that also houses one of the most serious aquatic training facilities in southwestern Ontario. The city invested big, the community showed up bigger.
Thirteen years passed, the wave kept running, and a whole generation of flowboarders who learned to ride on that machine, kept coming back, brought friends and got competitive. Windsor’s wave built a real riding culture around it, which is not a given, and not something you can manufacture. It happens when the right venue takes the right attraction seriously.
This spring, it was time to give this community wave some love.
The Work
And love it got. Our talented team delivered new pillow padding, two new pumps, fresh foam and vinyl, nozzle flaps, and custom side logos. The kind of detail work that doesn’t make headlines, but makes the difference between a wave that runs and a wave that rips.
Terry, a staple of the FlowRider team since 2012, along with Randy, and Daniel handled it. That kind of institutional knowledge doesn’t show up on a spec sheet, but you feel it in the finished wave. Zak Tolli, who oversees services on the FlowRider side, called it the best quality wave application he’s seen. Coming from someone who has seen a lot of waves, that lands in a big way.
It’s not the first time the FlowRider Services Team has shown up for Windsor. A few years back, 7-time World Flowboarding Champion Eric Silverman sacrificed his Thanksgiving holiday to fly in and get the wave running again when an issue arose. He fixed it and naturally, challenged the wave to an immediate test run (to which it passed with flying colors). Whether it’s a champion rider turned in-house expert or a crew of three rebuilding a wave from the ground up, somebody from FlowRider always shows up. That’s been true for Windsor since 2013 and will continue long into this partnership.
Why Windsor
Adventure Bay is the only FlowRider in Ontario, which is worth saying twice. The park sits in downtown Windsor inside a 35,000 square foot facility that draws from a city of over 200,000 people and serves the broader southwest Ontario region. The FlowRider isn’t one feature among many here. It’s the one people talk about, the one that built the local riding community, and the one that had riders waiting patiently through the refurb window.
What’s Next
There’s a potential Flow Tour stop on the horizon for Windsor in 2027, which would give that riding community a proper stage and put the newly refreshed wave in front of the broader flowboarding world. Details still developing, but the intent is there.
For now, the grand re-opening is June 27th, 2026. The wave is in better shape than it’s been in over a decade and a city that has been riding FlowRider for thirteen years gets to feel what brand new feels like again.
