Kelly Slater’s Surf Ranch is a feat of engineering. A perfect wave. A gigantic foil plowing through 2,200 feet of water. An estimated $30 million to build the thing. And all of it going down 100 miles ...

Since 2015, when the first images of the Surf Ranch were released into the wild, a lot has changed. For one, the rise of machines has exploded, kicking of a worldwide wave pool arms race. And because ...

Wave pools have often been hailed as a democratizing force in surfing. The ability to build a wave inland promised a way to wrest the sport away from the wealthy and entitled residents of beach cities ...

LEMOORE, Calif. (KFSN) -- People have come from around the world to see a top surfer's take on the "perfect wave" in the South Valley. Now, the technology creating the surf conditions seen at ...

In the middle of alfalfa fields more than 100 miles from the Pacific Ocean, the world’s best surfers will be honing their craft. They will be surfing a wave created by a state-of-the-art machine that ...

Here’s a not-so-bold, not-in-the-least-bit-farfetched claim: Gerry Lopez is one of, if not the, most barreled surfers on earth. From the North Shore of Oahu (and Pipeline, of which he is the absolute ...

Kelly Slater’s latest manmade surfing destination in Austin, Texas hits a bump in the road when it comes to construction.

The sport gave the Big Sky Partners founder a sense of purpose, and now he's helping to bring a new wave of surfing ...

On December 5th, 2015, the morning after Adriano de Souza won his World Title, Kelly unveiled manmade perfection to the world. “It’s a freak of technology,” he claimed at the time, “that could change ...

These days, it's easy to lose sight of the beauty of surfing. There's a lot of BS on the periphery of the surf world to fill our heads with. Still pissed about getting snaked this morning? Wondering ...

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 ...

If an artificial wave like the one you’ve seen at Waco piques your interest more than the machine-like perfection of the Surf Ranch, then Boa Vista’s Brazilian peaks just might be your dream wave.