At about 3:15 p.m. on Dec. 23, as a powerful winter swell raged on the California coast and left the Santa Cruz Wharf snapped and floating in the ocean, Alessandro “Alo” Slebir pointed his ...

To recap, there was Alo Slebir’s estimated 108-footer at Maverick’s; a supposed 98-footer from Nic Von Rupp at Nazaré; and an as-of-yet measured behemoth from Benjamin “Sancho” Sanchis at ...

Surfer Alo Slebir, 24, rode a gargantuan wave estimated to be 108 feet high “It’s the fastest I’ve ever traveled on a surfboard,” Slebir tells PEOPLE. “I’ve never experienced a sensation like that ...