What does it take to create the perfect wave? Turns out it’s just a bold, innovative engineer, a team of technicians and a superstar surfer.
Past a row of low-slung office buildings where a Culver City street dead-ends, behind the towering skeleton of a high-rise-in-the-making and tucked into the leafy bank of Ballona Creek, lies a small, whitewashed warehouse with a single door. Inside, the small foyer gives way to an airy, high-ceilinged space like many in L.A. — open-plan cubicles, a conference room with hand sanitizer on the tables, a few potted palms and surfboards for a casual, beachy effect.
But past the cluster of desks, colorful print-outs and whiteboards with indecipherable hand-written equations is something else: … More