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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Amsterdam and its famed system of historic canals could soon be home to something never-before-seen in the Netherlands’ capital ...

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, ...

The coastal city of El Segundo is an unlikely location for a massive, new artificial surf park. Other California surf parks with machine-powered wave pools are inland, far from natural waves in places ...

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 ...

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 ...