Is surfing ready for Kelly Slater's 'perfect' artificial wave project?

Ten years in the making, a highly secretive project near Fresno, California, has let the first batch of pro surfers play on an artificial, engineered waveThe wave curls, whip-fast and flawless; it goes on, and on, and on. Inside it, surfing in the barrel of the wave – the feeling, the high, that surfers yearn for – is Nat Young, an American pro-surfer, ranked ninth in the world.Above him, a drone films his run – 10 seconds, 20 seconds, 30 seconds. It was the longest barrel of h