The Gold Coast’s coolest week-long party, the Sessions Surf Festival, has wrapped up its 2026 edition with a Burleigh Heads ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Surfing Kelly Slater’s Lemoore, CA wave pool, aka the Surf Ranch, used to be an elite, exclusive invite. So much so that when one ...

It was only a matter of time. Standing on the edge of the vertical limestone cliff that overlooks Padang Padang, I could only wonder why it took him so long to get here in the first place. Kelly ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For the rich and famous, wave pools are the salve for a surfing thirst. And one, in particular, draws celebrities of all kinds – ...

Kelly Slater is the undisputed GOAT of surfing. The 53-year-old has won 11 world titles—including being both the youngest and oldest champ ever at 20 and 39, respectively—and has competed regularly on ...

On a frigid morning session last winter, I had the pleasure of watching a highly gifted surfer go to work at a wave he had never seen before. All respect to Eithan Osborne and Robbie McCormick, two ...

Do you remember where you were, what you were doing, when you first glimpsed what would later be christened, the Surf Ranch? I do. I was sitting on an ex-girlfriend’s couch in Hollywood, sipping ...