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 ...

Ryan Watkins, Surf Abu Dhabi’s general manager, says the facility’s primary aim is simple: to produce the best waves, period. “There’s no natural surf break in the world that runs perfection 365 days ...

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 ...

Surf Abu Dhabi, the Kelly Slater Wave Company joint in the United Arab Emirates, was honored with a slot on Time Magazine’s coveted list of “The World’s Greatest Places.” ...

Vertigo Sports, a wakeboard park company turned wave pool manufacturer, has two of their pools already operating in the western regions of the country – one in Rostov Oblast (a district bordering ...

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, ...

Kaskade, aka Ryan Gary Raddon, stuns with surprisingly advanced skills at Kelly Slater’s Surf Ranch.

As wave pools continue to thrive across the globe, the synthetic surfing is booming. The latest? Saudi Arabia. Perhaps an unlikely destination, yet still pretty spectacular, especially given the first ...