About 15 months ago, Kelly Slater, the greatest competitive surfer of all time, came to Abu Dhabi to try out the the longest, open-barrel, high-performance, human-made wave on the planet. He was ...

As the swell begins to form and the crest starts soaring into the sky, surfer Sebastian Steudtner puts one hand back to feel the wall of energy rumbling behind him. In just a matter of seconds, the ...