Eisbachwelle

This guide to the Eisbachwelle in Munich starts with a twelve-year-old named Quirin Rohleder paddling into the Eisbach on a board cut from foam insulation, past a sign forbidding it. You'll hear how concrete blocks wedged under a bridge in the 1970s accidentally built one of Europe's fiercest standing waves, and how police spent decades chasing surfers off the bank and confiscating their boards. Look down from the bridge at how shallow the water actually runs beneath a ride that can pin a surfer in place.