Surf Abu Dhabi unleashes the “Slit Wave,” in which two people can ride the same wave in the Middle East wave pool.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Last September, I got lucky. I found myself in the Maldives, covering a specialty surf contest, and my rudimentary understanding ...

Alex Poirot, along with Chief Scientist Adam Fincham, were the engineers behind Kelly Slater’s Surf Ranch; Poirot talks about ...

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 ...

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 ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

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 ...

As a kid, Gabriel Medina once lived on the north side of São Paulo and couldn’t afford to buy a real kite. So he flew a plastic bag instead. Now, the Brazilian is a three-time world champion, wildly ...