Artificial wave technology has been in the back of Kelly Slater’s mind since he was a wave-starved kid growing up in Florida. Last month, Slater played host to the world’s best surfers at the Surf ...

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.

The main difference between the Kelly Slater Wave Company, and all the other prominent, players in the space vying for a piece of the pie, it the technology. Compared to most others, the KS Wave Co.