Alo Slebir had just arrived on Maui’s north shore late last year and was looking forward to tackling the monstrous waves on the Hawaiian island’s celebrated surf break known as Jaws when friends back ...
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 ...
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 — ...
Germany’s only wave pool stepped in to fill the surfing void after Munich’s premier river wave shut down. When the famed Eisbach disappeared in early November because of a city-run dredging project, ...
He would’ve made it in if he was conscious. He rode that wave straight to heaven.” Dennis Ritch, one of Bobby O’s Puerto Rico pals, remembered: “We lost a real gem of a person. Bobby O checked out of ...
“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 ...