Ever since Greg Noll’s fabled ride at Makaha during the historic swell of 1969, measuring big waves has been a tricky business – controversial, in fact. And so, when Alessandro “Alo” Slebir rode a ...

"It was something that I had never seen before out there," Alo Slebir, a veteran of large swells, tells PEOPLE Alo Slebir/Instagram; bigwavechallenge/Youtube Alo Slebir during a recent surf trip to ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This October evening swell came up quickly at Mavericks. The result of getting under-the-radar long period west swell was that ...

“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 ...