The year was 1990. In theaters, Home Alone was topping the box office. Sinéad O’Connor and her haunting rendition of Prince’s “Nothing Compares 2 U” was inching up the Billboard charts, ripping apart ...

There’s been a palpable buzz, percolating for a handful of years, about an upcoming Kelly Slater Wave Company project coming, vaguely, some time soon to Texas. And while there’s still no official ...

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 ...

Kelly Slater’s “perfect wave” nearly started as a surfing merry-go-round. Before the 11-time world surfing champ’s famed Surf Ranch became a 2,300-foot rectangular lagoon in Lemoore, California, the ...

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

The World Surf League Championship Tour is in full swing and heading into the second half of its season. With stops in Hawaii, Portugal, Australia, and more, the tour looks to return stateside with a ...

The world’s most recognizable surfer slipped through the beach crowd incognito, his hooded sweater draped over his clean-shaved head, hiding his tanned face. A few heads turned as he passed, their ...

Alex Poirot, along with Chief Scientist Adam Fincham, were the engineers behind Kelly Slater’s Surf Ranch; Poirot talks about the creation of that wave, and the future of manmade wave pools.

World champion surfer Kelly Slater has a storied history at the famed surf spot just south of San Clemente. In 1990, the Florida surfer would win his first big career title at Lower Trestles, the surf ...

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 ...

Surfing icon Kelly Slater and his partner Kalani Miller have announced the exciting news that they are expecting their second baby. The happy couple welcomed their first son, Tao, in 2024, but their ...