Abu Dhabi has many of the things that surfers hunt for in their quest for perfect waves: warm weather, year-round sun and clear water. The only thing it did not have was waves. That changed in October ...

The manmade wave pool revolution is reaching all four corners of the globe, as now, a new player in the game has emerged in the surf-starved Russian motherland. Vertigo Sports, a wakeboard park ...

Wave pools, Bloomberg says, were once “the antithesis of surf culture.” But that has changed considerably: The publication opens its story about the rise of these inland, human-designed bodies of ...

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, ...

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 ...

Amidst the global wave pool arms race, China was always going to be a major player. With a rising surfing population, funding from the government for competitive training, and the first-ever Chinese ...

Surfers could one day have access to an endless supply of big waves, each a perfect swell, thanks to a new surfing oasis built not far from the everyday I-95 gridlock in South Florida. In an ...

A decade ago, most surfers would scoff at the thought of a machine making waves. A place away from the beach and Mother Nature, artificial waves instead of swells — it all seemed so … unnatural. Fast ...