The World Surf League has officially removed the 2026 Surf Abu Dhabi Pro from the Championship Tour schedule due to ongoing military conflict, regional unrest, and severe logistical complications ...

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 ...

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 to be known, has been at the upper echelon of synthetic surfing – both ...

Here’s a fun, little-known, fact: Kelly Slater’s Surf Ranch, arguably the world’s first “perfect” manmade wave, breaking in a 2,300-foot rectangular lagoon in Lemoore, California, was originally ...

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 ...

Breaking news: waves (once again) are barreling in landlocked Texas. In a new clip from the Austin Surf Club – a private surf community and luxury condominium development, bolstered by a Kelly Slater ...

Developers in Fort Pierce, on Florida's Atlantic coast, are planning a massive development around a man-made surfing park. Fred Sharples via Flickr Creative Commons Kelly Slater Winning His Surfing ...

It’s my first time on a surfboard and I’m petrified. Instead of learning how to surf in the ocean with unpredictable conditions, I’m in a more controlled environment that should, in theory, make it ...

Recent rocket strikes in Saudi Arabia sparked rumors that the 2027 Dakar would be canceled, but the event organizers shut down the speculation. The clock is ticking for a decision to be made regarding ...

"We’ve seen so many perfect tubes created out of nothing at the Surf Ranch," says Samuels. "It’s desensitized us, made perfection less compelling than it used to ...