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.

Before the 11-time world surfing champ ’s famed Surf Ranch became a 2,300-foot rectangular lagoon in Lemoore, California, the ...

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 ...

Gerry Lopez, one of the sport’s most enduring icons, has been doing a lot of close-to-surfing over the past decade or so. SUPing (“kinda like surfing, but with a giant board”), snowboarding (“kinda ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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.