The growing business of surf pools wants to bring the ocean experience inland. But with many planned for areas facing water scarcity, who bears the cost? For nearly as long as surfing has existed, ...

Tired of waiting in the ocean for the right swell? Plunge into the world’s top wave pools for flawless curls on repeat. Every surfer knows the frustration of commuting to a remote surf location only ...

For most of the world's population, the hardest part of surfing is getting to an ocean and scoring good conditions. But that's changing. Over the last decade, artificial wave pools have started ...

The surfing competition for the Paris 2024 Olympics will not be staged at any of France’s famous mainland surf spots. Not at Biarritz or Anglet or even the thumping sand-bottom beach break at Hossegor ...

Last week, a brand-new wave pool came out of nowhere, with Ben Gravy and Blair Conklin surfing perfect, wedging, barreling waves somewhere in Arizona. The operation, dubbed The Wave Source, took us ...

Care to take on the job of WSL CEO? Well the search is on, so various semi-candidates out there in the US corpo surf world have been telling me… and while none I’ve spoken to have yet to actually make ...

It took Kelly Slater, and his team of hydrodynamic engineers, 10 years to build the Surf Ranch…so the story goes. Not to mention the untold amount of dollars that went into such a revolutionary, ...

When Wai Kai (Hawaiian for "fresh water/ocean water") opened in Ewa Beach on Oahu in March, it was touted as Hawaii's first surf pool park. But Wai Kai is far more than just a wave pool. It's a dining ...

LEMOORE, Calif. — The Kelly Slater Surf Ranch, often referred to as the "8th wonder of the surf world," is changing the way we experience surfing. Located just south of Fresno, the world-class surf ...