One day, maybe five years from now, you think surfers will declare allegiance to the various brands of wave pools? Like how folks do with booze and cigarettes. Will there be Wavegarden diehards, Kelly ...

One great promise of the wild world of wave pools is the increased amount of time actually riding a wave. Unless you’re surfing Chicama, Jeffreys Bay, or any other of the world’s greatest pointbreaks, ...

“Someone told me: It’s not always best to be the first person doing something,” Cheyne Magnusson recently chuckled over the phone. “But somebody’s gotta blaze the fucking trail!” Magnusson, as you may ...

For all the skateboarders out there, this might ring a bell: After school in the cul-de-sac, a true test of trust and skill, a handful of neighborhood kids lie down on the ground, as someone ollies ...

In this occupation, and with the surf world being what it is in today’s day and age, moving more and more towards the promise of artificial, landlocked surf spots, I hear a lot about wave pools. New ...

The surf is flat, ocean water is cold, maybe the wind is mucking up conditions — would you travel a few miles inland and pay for machine-made waves? Developers proposing a surf park in Newport Beach ...

(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- In January, as the 2025 World Surf League Championship Tour kicked off on the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii, Brazilian Italo Ferreira waited for what felt like an eternity to ...

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