Kelly Slater’s Surf Ranch is, by pure optics, the most perfect wave in California. Maybe even the world. Again, it takes that honor, due to its sheer purity, its unblemished barrels unfurling in ...

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 ...

On Friday, Meghan Markle shared a video of her husband, Prince Harry, surfing California’s most elite wave pool: the Kelly Slater Surf Ranch. The Duchess of Sussex added Salt-N-Peppa’s hit “Whatta Man ...

The Surf Ranch, a feat of engineering in the manmade wave pool space, is the go-to location for celebrities to get their synthetic surfing fix. And the man who guides them on their quest to conquer ...

LEMOORE, Calif. (KFSN) -- People have come from around the world to see a top surfer's take on the "perfect wave" in the South Valley. Now, the technology creating the surf conditions seen at ...

LEMOORE, Calif. (KFSN) -- The world's top surfers have come a long way from their favorite beaches to an unlikely surfing hot spot: Lemoore. Kelly Slater's wave pool is mind-blowing. His dream of ...

Here’s a not-so-bold, not-in-the-least-bit-farfetched claim: Gerry Lopez is one of, if not the, most barreled surfers on earth. From the North Shore of Oahu (and Pipeline, of which he is the absolute ...

A train of a machine revved up and moved forward, pushing the water to grow on the flat, lake-like pool. The fast-moving wave crumbled on the top as it approached. A surf guide gave me a gentle shove, ...

In the middle of alfalfa fields more than 100 miles from the Pacific Ocean, the world’s best surfers will be honing their craft. They will be surfing a wave created by a state-of-the-art machine that ...

The surfing competition for the Paris 2024 Olympics will not be staged at any of France’s famous mainland surf spots. Not at Biarritz or Anglet or even the thumping sand-bottom beach break at Hossegor ...

The woman in the Austin airport gave us a perplexed look. “What ya’ll got in those big bags?” she asked in her thick Southern accent. Surfboards, of course. Texas isn’t known as a surfing hotspot, ...