It’s my first time on a surfboard and I’m petrified. Instead of learning how to surf in the ocean with unpredictable conditions, I’m in a more controlled environment that should, in theory, make it ...

Here’s a fun, little-known, fact: Kelly Slater’s Surf Ranch, arguably the world’s first “perfect” manmade wave, breaking in a 2,300-foot rectangular lagoon in Lemoore, California, was originally ...