The swell two days before Christmas that gave Santa Cruz surfer Alo Slebir the ride of his life on a towering wave at Mavericks off the coast of Half Moon Bay was officially the biggest wave ridden ...

O ne great promise of the wild world of wave pools is the increased amount of time actually riding a wave. Unless you’re ...

Spoiler alert: I don’t know who rode the biggest wave of the 2024-2025 Big Wave Challenge window. That’s being kept under lock and key until the award show live from the Lido Theater in Newport Beach ...

Brazil has its fair share of heavy waves. “Shock” a wave near Niterói, immediately comes to mind. Brazil also hosts it’s own “Brazilian Nazaré,” aka Laje da Jaguaruna. Still, heavy slab waves and big ...

SANTA CRUZ — Santa Cruz had two big-wave surfers win titles at the 25th annual Big Wave Challenge Awards celebration at Lido Theater in Newport Beach on Saturday. Alessandro “Alo” Slebir was named the ...

The Emmy award-winning surfing docuseries “100 Foot Wave” follows Garrett McNamara and some of the other biggest names in big wave surfing. From wave-riding highs to season-ending injury lows, the ...

At an awards ceremony Saturday night, 24-year-old Santa Cruz surfer Alessandro “Alo” Slebir will finally find out if he set a new world record while riding the towering wave at Mavericks last winter — ...

The Emmy award-winning surfing docuseries “100 Foot Wave” follows Garrett McNamara and some of the other biggest names in big wave surfing. From wave-riding highs to season-ending injury lows, the ...

Last September, I got lucky. I found myself in the Maldives, covering a specialty surf contest, and my rudimentary understanding of geography sparked a scheme. “I’m not too far from the Middle East,” ...