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 ...

Kelly Slater’s “perfect wave” nearly started as a surfing merry-go-round. Before the 11-time world surfing champ’s famed Surf ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Alex Poirot, along with Chief Scientist Adam Fincham, were the engineers behind Kelly Slater’s Surf Ranch; Poirot talks about ...

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 ...

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 ...

Even though Kelly Slater has not officially retired from pro surfing, the 53-year-old 11x world champion, inarguably surfing’s greatest-of-all-time, has embarked on a new chapter in his life. The main ...

Surfers and bodyboarders attempt a freakish below-sea-level slab in French Polynesia.

Almost a month ago, in an interview with NBC, Kelly Slater seemed on the fence about surfing the 2019 ISA World Surfing Games (ISG) — a prerequisite for the 2020 Olympics. “I’m not sure if I want to ...