Alex Poirot, along with Chief Scientist Adam Fincham, were the engineers behind Kelly Slater’s Surf Ranch; Poirot talks about the creation of that wave, and the future of manmade wave pools.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Since Kelly Slater first unveiled his Frankenstein monster of a wave pool to the world back in 2015, the Surf Ranch, as it’s come ...

Lewis Samuels, some may recall, started Surfline’s controversial (and funny) Power Rankings almost a decade ago. After a few years of writing about sport, Samuels quickly realized that “surf ...

“Last week was one of the most rewarding times of my life,” Slater wrote via Insta. “Sitting back and seeing some of the happiest and most fulfilled expressions on the faces of friends who've surfed ...

About a year-and-a-half ago, I had the honor to visit to Surf Abu Dhabi – the Kelly Slater Wave Company joint, creating manmade waves in the Middle East. It was a luxury experience. After a couple ...

The main difference between the Kelly Slater Wave Company, and all the other prominent, players in the space vying for a piece of the pie, it the technology. Compared to most others, the KS Wave Co.

Kelly Slater’s “perfect wave” nearly started as a surfing merry-go-round. Before the 11-time world surfing champ’s famed Surf Ranch became a 2,300-foot rectangular lagoon in Lemoore, California, the ...

What was once billed as one of the most ambitious surf developments in the country has hit an abrupt pause in Texas. The Austin Surf Club, a high-end wavepool and residential project tied to surfing ...