For most of the world’s population, the hardest part of surfing is getting to an ocean and scoring good conditions. But that’s changing. Over the last decade, artificial wave pools have started ...

But actual surfing—involving water, a board and serious moves—is blowing up as an amenity in high-end communities, harnessing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Once upon a time, the first American wave pool, built specifically for surfing, was located in the unlikely town of Tempe, Arizona ...

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, ...

Surfers could one day have access to a limitless supply of big waves, each a perfect swell, thanks to a new surfing oasis built not far from the everyday I-95 gridlock in South Florida. In an ...

In 1969, the space race wasn’t the only game in town – the race to build the first wave pool in the U.S. was on, and Alabama was in it. Wave pools – indoor or outdoor swimming pools with artificially ...

One of the primary complaints, in the burgeoning world of wave pools, is homogeneity. Whereas the ocean provides a unique canvass like a fingerprint, in the pool, the waves are all the same. This ...

It’s the off-season, presumably, for those of the winter sports persuasion. And especially those competing in the Olympics, as the next winter Games will take place next year in Milano Cortina (Italy) ...

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