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Sessions Surf Festival 2026: The Former Solento Festival Takes Over Encinitas
One week of surf, music, film and art across North County San Diego, September 12 to 19. The former Solento Surf Festival returns as Sessions, opening with the Osees live on the sand at Seaside Reef.
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Chasing the Gnarliest Wave Pool Barrel Ever
Zeke Szekely links up with Josh and Sierra Kerr, the Colapinto brothers, and Cole Houshmand at a stealth new wave pool project, and the barrels get seriously deep.
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25 Unique Corporate Event Ideas Your Team Will Actually Want to Attend
From private wave pool buyouts to desert stargazing dinners, 25 corporate event ideas ranked by how much your team will actually talk about them on Monday.
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DSRT Surf: Wavegarden Cove Comes to Palm Desert
An oasis in the low desert. DSRT Surf breaks ground on Southern California's first commercial Wavegarden Cove, Coachella Valley's answer to the two-hour San Diego drive.
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Best Corporate Retreat Ideas in Palm Springs
Surf before lunch, spa after. Palm Springs is the easiest yes in corporate retreats, and it now has two wave pools in the conversation.
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Surf Abu Dhabi Books the 2026 WSL Finals
The World Surf League confirms its championship-deciding event will land at the biggest, most powerful man-made wave on earth.
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Best Outdoor Team Building Activities for Work
Fresh air beats conference rooms. The outdoor team building activities that actually work, from surf sessions to field days, with honest notes on cost and group size.
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O2 SURFTOWN MUC's First Winter: What Munich Learned
The first full winter of Endless Surf operations, snow on the deck, heated pool, and a booking pattern nobody predicted.
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Best Corporate Retreat Ideas in Texas
Texas has the most proven corporate wave pool in America, plus Hill Country ranches, Austin everything, and resorts that can swallow 500 people.
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Inside Palm Springs Surf Club's Ex-Pro Setting Menu
How a former CT surfer rebuilt PSSC's wave library, and why the new "Snapper" setting is quietly the best barrel in North America.
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Company Offsite Ideas That Do Not Feel Like Work
The best offsites feel like a trip, not a meeting. Ideas and a planning framework that gets genuine buy-in from the whole team.
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Zion Shores Breaks Ground on the First 50 m UNIT Wave
Southern Utah gets the first full-length UNIT Dynamic Wave, a traveling deep-water wave three times longer than any standing wave on the market.
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Best Corporate Retreat and Team Building Ideas in Phoenix and Scottsdale
Revel Surf changed the math in Mesa: a corporate surf session 25 minutes from Sky Harbor, plus desert resorts, golf and spring training.
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Revel Surf's Swell MFG Reference Wave, One Year In
Twelve months of data from Mesa: the first commercial Swell MFG install, tuned by ex-CT surfer Shane Beschen, is quietly becoming an intermediate's paradise.
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Client Entertainment Ideas Beyond Golf and Steak Dinners
Golf takes five hours and half your clients do not play. Client entertainment that actually builds relationships, from private surf sessions to chef counters.
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Ocean Kamp Targets a Pre-LA28 Opening in Oceanside
A 92-acre Oceanside redevelopment three miles from the Pacific is building a $45M surf lagoon, with completion aimed at the run-up to the LA 2028 Olympics.
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Best Wave Pools for Corporate Events in 2026
Ranked with the WPP Corporate Score: the wave pools that actually deliver for company events in 2026, with honest notes on price, capacity and status.
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Crest Surf Clubs Brings Private-Club Waves to New York
A Hudson Valley private club anchors the flagship Premier Surf Systems install, 20-surfer sessions, member-only, 90 minutes from Manhattan.
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How Much Does a Wave Pool Corporate Event Cost?
Real numbers: public sessions from $119, private lagoons from $2,500 an hour, full buyouts from five figures to $110,000+ a day. What each product actually includes.
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Heroes Paradise Debuts the First Commercial EpicSurf
The first paid EpicSurf standing wave opens in a Caribbean veterans' resort, real shortboards, real tube, and a footprint smaller than a tennis court.
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Palm Springs Surf Club vs DSRT Surf for Corporate Groups
Two Palm Springs area wave pools, one decision. PSSC is bookable today with resort hospitality; DSRT brings Wavegarden Cove scale in 2026. The honest comparison.
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East Point Reef Club: Ka'ana's CM7 Standing Wave Explained
British Columbia gets the first commercial Ka'ana CM7, a Canadian deep-water standing wave positioning itself as an EpicSurf alternative.
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The Wave Fuerteventura Opens on the Windsurf Coast
A Wavegarden Cove drops onto a windswept volcanic island, flat-water sessions in a place famous for wind, and a five-hour flight from most of Europe.
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Stab High 2026 Returns to Waco Surf
The one-day, air-only, everything-goes wave-pool contest is back on Waco's PerfectSwell air section. New format, new ramp, doubled purse.
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Alaïa Bay's Alpine Cove: Season Two Recap
The highest-elevation wave pool on earth wrapped its second season with a pro training block, a heated-water milestone, and a booking mix nobody predicted.
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Surf Ranch's Private Weekends Get a New Setting
Kelly Slater's Lemoore pool quietly added a fourth wave setting to its private-weekend menu, a punchier, shorter version of the original.
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URBNSURF Sydney Passes One Million Waves
The Sydney Olympic Park Cove crosses a milestone: one million rideable waves delivered, in under 30 months of public operation.
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Praia da Grama: Inside Brazil's Private Cove
Inside the invitation-only Wavegarden Cove in São Paulo state, how a golf resort built one of the most consistent private waves on earth.
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Endless Surf's 40-Setting Menu, Ranked by Session
We rode every named setting on the WhiteWater West Endless Surf platform. Here's which ones actually deserve a booking.
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PerfectSwell's Next-Gen Air Ramp Rolls Out
American Wave Machines pushes a firmware update that reshapes the air section, steeper, more vertical, and now available at Waco, Palm Springs BSR, and the pipeline sites.
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Wave Pool Homes for Sale: Every Surf Community You Can Buy Into
The complete hand-verified list of wave pool communities with homes, villas and lots for sale or coming to market, from Waco to Los Cabos to Brazil.
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Surf Lakes Confirms First North American Site
The Australian central-plunger wave pool signs a Texas developer for its first US commercial install, five simultaneous waves from one piston.
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Buying a Home at a Wave Pool: The Complete Buyer's Guide
How surf community purchases actually work: surf rights, club structures, HOA layers, rental rules and the exact questions to ask before you sign.
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The State of Wave Pools 2026: What's Open, What's Coming
A snapshot of the entire commercial wave-pool network in March 2026, where you can surf right now, and what's opening in the next 24 months.
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The True Cost of Owning a Home at a Wave Pool
Purchase price is the beginning. HOA dues, club initiation, surf session fees, transfer fees and the recurring costs buyers consistently underestimate.
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The Best Private Surf Communities in the US, Ranked
From Waco to Palm Desert to southern Utah: America's surf communities ranked by wave quality, ownership structure and how real the project actually is.
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The Desperado at Waco Surf: The Complete Buyer's Guide
Everything known about buying a home next to the world's most famous wave pool: the development, the surf access question, costs and what to verify first.
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Zion Shores Real Estate: Buying a Home Near Zion's Private Surf Lagoon
Southern Utah's surf community pairs the first full-length UNIT Dynamic Wave with red rock homesites twenty minutes from Zion National Park.
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DSRT Surf Real Estate: Villas at Palm Desert's Wavegarden Lagoon
Southern California's first commercial Wavegarden Cove anchors a resort with for-sale villas. What buyers should know about the residential program.
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Austin Surf Club Real Estate: Discovery Land's Private Surf Community
A Kelly Slater Wave Co. basin, a Discovery Land Company club model and the Austin market: what is known about the most prestigious project in the pipeline.
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Ocean Kamp Real Estate: What Oceanside's Surf Village Means for Buyers
An approved surf-anchored district on the San Diego County coast. How to read the unit counts, the phases and the actual ownership opportunity.
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Every Wave Pool Community in California, Mapped and Explained
California has more surf real estate projects than any other state: DSRT Surf, Ocean Kamp, Thermal Beach Club and the context buyers need for each.
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