The WSL's world record measurement still isn't the official say on Slebir's wave. That determination should come from ...

Alo Slebir’s ride during one of the biggest swells ever recorded in the Pacific Ocean drew national attention. The same storm ...

Santa Cruz had two big-wave surfers win titles at the 25th annual Big Wave Challenge Awards celebration at Lido Theater in ...

The swell at Mavericks a half mile off the coast of Half Moon Bay hit two days before Christmas, on the same day and with the same storm that destroyed the Santa Cruz Wharf.

You wouldn't know it from the work boots or dirt smudged on his hands (nor would the neighbor, clearly), but just seven months earlier, Slebir was the man responsible for unofficially breaking surfing ...

“It’s the fastest I’ve ever traveled on a surfboard,” Slebir tells PEOPLE. “I’ve never experienced a sensation like that before” The wave — which thundered into Northern California’s Mavericks surf ...

ESPN did their homework on this one. If you’re going big-picture at Maverick’s, Jeff Clark and Mark Sponsler are two guys who must be mic'd up. The former, of course, is credited with being the first ...

Official measurement for Santa Cruz surfer’s historic December 23rd, 2024 ride has been decided; the big wave surf world reacts.

I think many of us have more than a passing interest in extremes and world records. The Guinness Book of Records, cofounded ...

“I talked to a couple of the old timers already, and they were saying that day potentially was the biggest swell ever seen,” Santa Cruz surfer Alo Slebir said in Half Moon Bay on Christmas Eve, ...

SANTA CRUZ – Every time a massive swell is forecast, Santa Cruz’s hard-charging, big wave surfer Alessandro “Alo” Slebir can hardly contain himself. Several times each winter, Slebir drives an hour up ...