"Is that a 200ft wave?"
New year, new you. Or is it? Did 2025 dawn with a renewed sense of ambition, focus, energy or do you feel much like you did at the end of 2024 only grimmer? Well, in either case, the world record for largest wave ever surfed might have just been shattered on Christmas Eve Eve and not at the newer normals Nazare or Jaws but trusty ol’ Mavericks.
Newsweek is reporting that a wave ridden by Alessandro “Alo” Slebir on Dec. 23 towered over 108 ft. The current record belongs, of course, to Sebastian Steudtner and his 86-footer tacked out at the aforementioned Portuguese Python.
A who’s who of big wave greats immediately weighed in on the legendary feat.
Kai Lenny declared, “100 foot wave.
Thomas Victor Carroll added, “Biggest one!! Easy 100ft+”
Koa Rothman wondered, “Is that a 200ft wave?
Bianca Valenti remarked, “That’s gotta be a world record.
Slebir humbly opined, “Regardless of the number, it really doesn’t matter how big the wave was to me. It was really the biggest wave of my life and that’s all I really care about at the moment.”
Of the wave itself, he shared, “It felt different. When I turned at the bottom, it felt like I was being sucked back up the face. I knew it was a big wave, but the speed made it hard to grasp just how big. When I reached the channel and heard the cheers, I realized it was something extraordinary.”
Extraordinary indeed.
Wow.
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looks like one of the most politically unstable couple of years coming , but we will al pay a price….unless of course you happen to be a billionaire, or as known today as” the new gods of Baal have arisen!”
Luv you Big Guerrilla
oh yes already watching as the cannibalization of right wing politics is starting …Bannon,”we will rip off your face!” talking about Elons plan to sack americans and hire slaves from O/S.
@barreldodgersanon
think Florence & Normandie, circa April of ’92
April 29th. I was working nights at UPS in Santa Fe Springs when we were told rioting was erupting and could cut out to go home to our families. Got off at 2 am and drove home to Belmont Shores with two co workers as packs of police cars flew by us on a ghostly empty 605. The Safeway two blocks down from my home got sacked. My wife and I stayed up till dawn watching police march by our place in riot gear. Fun times.
He could have been deeper
that’s what she said!
the might of white is right !
damn that’s big and a bit of a barrel……the question is will the Nazare crew now apply for a H-1B visa..or an 0-1 Visa………will donaldo accept Brazilians and Euros into his new world order…all will he ban them as made in the USA is the way????
I’m waiting until Surf Equity decides which metric is pc enough to scale that beast.
This debate is over. Everyone stop. Said wave is exactly 1 Chas Smith puffy chest on the Beach Grit pop up ad scale. https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
The size of the wave will depend on his lower leg, is Slebir the same height as the German dude at Nazare.
“Waves are not measured in feet and inches but but in increments of Instagram likes” -Buzzy Trent, 1950
Wow, congrats, LEGEND! Your comment inspires me. YEW!
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Hashtag me too.
Yes yes, but what does Sam George have to say about it?
Twillsey?
How are they gonna officially measure it though ?
We all know that Sebastian Stuedner’s Nazaréan ski-slope was measured using his lower leg, so is this one also measured using that standard German lower leg unit, or will Alessandro Slebir have it changed to his own lower leg measurement ?
In which case, what nationality is he ?
Legbekistandinavian I believe.
I’ve heard that Slavs have bigger than average lower legs.
i saw that pic the other day and thought it was photoshopped. that’s fuckin nuts.
More height on its way. Poseidon style gonna flatten every faker out there.
I promise to be more mature this year, Happy New Year fuckfaces!
Congrats to Alo Slebir… that’s one hell of a wave. Impressive, but next macker swell, there will be fifty tow-teams out at Mavs, instead of the usual ten to twenty.
Poor Koa is mathematically challenged… no surprise there.
Another working class surf hero..Fucking love it!
Do you think he means 200 ft Hawaiian?
200ft Hawaiian is the circumference of Earth.
tow in?
No, soft top transfer to skim