travel one issue 02/2018
Slide in chord
Young or old – on holiday you can slide with enthusiasm. Hardly any leisure pool, hotel resort or cruise ship does without the colorful tubes.
Rainer Braun always plays the guinea pig. “It’s like in the Middle Ages,” he says and laughs. “At that time, the builder was the first to be sent to his bridge.” And so Braun tries out all of the constructions he has conceived before others test it. But not because
he has to, but because he enjoys it.
The engineer builds slides. That means: water slides in every conceivable variant. With tight curves and wide straight lines. With light and sound effects. With funnel, loops and trap door flaps…
