Kelly Slater’s Surf Ranch is, by pure optics, the most perfect wave in California. Maybe even the world. Again, it takes that honor, due to its sheer purity, its unblemished barrels unfurling in ...

Back in June, we got a glimpse at the cost per wave at Kelly Slater’s Surf Ranch. That was when pro scooter rider Corey Funk went for a session at the Surf Ranch, courtesy of Red Bull, and he broke it ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Newport Beach City Council approved a new artificial surf park that will replace part of an aging golf course.

A train of a machine revved up and moved forward, pushing the water to grow on the flat, lake-like pool. The fast-moving wave crumbled on the top as it approached. A surf guide gave me a gentle shove, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The woman in the Austin airport gave us a perplexed look. “What ya’ll got in those big bags?” she asked in her thick Southern accent. Surfboards, of course. Texas isn’t known as a surfing hotspot, ...

A train of a machine revved up and moved forward, pushing the water to grow on the flat, lake-like pool. The fast-moving wave crumbled on the top as it approached. A surf guide gave me a gentle shove, ...