Does surfing make you a happier person? Yes. Salted surfers have known this all along. There are obvious exercise benefits, but more and more we see that surfing is good for mental health as well. Some call this Blue Health. And as wave pools push surfing beyond the world’s coastal borders, stoke and wellness are reaching the landlocked on global scale… As the old saying goes, there are two kinds of people – those who love surfing, and those who’ve yet to try it. For communities far from the ocean that are going to have wave pools built in their area, some folks there already know the stoke of riding waves. But for most of the residents, the whole appeal must be a bit of a mystery. It appears time and again with press releases and local articles once these projects are confirmed, lines like, “It’ll be great for the … Continue reading Wave pools signal mental and physical health boom beyond expensive coastal zipcodes