Who are the reigning World Longboard Champions? Could you name them if someone paddled up to you and asked while you’re out for your morning splash? Do you know how the World Longboard Tour (WLT) works? Its locations, how you qualify, and who the big names are? The 2026 WLT season kicks off this week in Huntington Beach as part of the US Open, but unlike its shortboard counterpart, the fact that it’s the top flight of professional longboarding is kept pretty low key. From any busy lineup on the planet, you wouldn’t know that longboarding was shortboarding’s poorer cousin. The most crowded lineups in the world are packed with longboarders - the Pass, Biarritz, Imsouane, and so on. Longboarding is the more accessible form of the sport, yet its popularity doesn’t seem to have translated into big hype and big dollars in the competitive world. When you open the WSL app or scroll their Instagram page, longboarding only appears occasionally.…