Alo Slebir at Mavericks World Record Contender - Big Wave Challenge 2025 Entry

[@k_e3735]

This guy just shot himself into legendary status with one wave

[@seancallahan1312]

Guy's been surfing there for 9 years now. Started there at 14 years of age. Crazy. Those waves look so much bigger in person, even an IMAX screen doesn't compare. Definitely legendary status!

[@timothyslaughter476]

Anyone out there is legend in my book, but that was a wave for the ages.

[@erents1]

Alfter the wave broke behind him, it splashed a hundred feet! It’s his, he owns it, that was a 108 foot wave! Congrats brah, you’re a living legend.

[@erents1]

Living legend, I am not worthy. That was an epic ride with the luxury of a quality video.

[@missinglinq]

That is, without a doubt, one of the heaviest waves ever caught on film. And he surfed it perfectly.

[@johnarizona3820]

DUDE...EPIC DUDE! Half Moon Bay? INSANE!

[@erents1]

That was me riding that wave, in my dreams. Happy New Year

[@n19ctt]

The way you capture the weight of the water, amazing!! Love your footage! ❤

[@michaeljoseph2303]

When I go back and forth looking at Nazare and this wave it doesn’t appear to be 108’. However must be biggest wave skillfully and gracefully surfed at Mavericks.

[@Kh2456]

Not even close…

[@capilibby]

I agree but maybe it's an optical illusion? Nazare waves look much bigger and saying this is 20-30 ft bigger than the previous record doesn't make sense to me

[@DeadSezSo]

The whole time I was watching this, all I could think about is Jay moriarity... what an incredible wave by Alo Slebir but I just know Jay was watching like holy smokes! Incredible

[@coralreilly1470]

❤yes...live like Jay! ❤❤❤

[@davidargiro8306]

It doesn't look like 100 ft from this angle to me. But it was a damn big wave for sure.

[@daves.9479]

Agree.

[@CorePathway]

Must be the angle, that wave in Portugal looks bigger

[@daves.9479]

@@CorePathway The wave in Portugal is almost always photographed from the top of the cliff, and that angle makes it more difficult to accurately judge wave height because it's difficult to see where the base of the wave is. Leads to over-estimates.

[@Anthony-wp7tz]

From the angle of my couch looks about 3.75 inches tall. How is this a record?

[@thovex]

@@Anthony-wp7tz lol

[@wiscgaloot]

Damned impressive and Jeff Clark says it's the biggest he's ever seen at Mavs (he should know) but it isn't any more than 80 feet where he is surfing it. Maybe taller at the peak, but he didn't drop in from the peak.

[@52worship]

Epic! No words!

[@cameronbrown6292]

How can it get any better than that? Wow

[@MB-nl2uo]

Maybe with audio lol

[@marksheehan8026]

That was sheer amazement , he rode it perfectly from go to woe.

[@uncleyoung1978]

One of the biggest Mavs waves I’ve seen but 60-70ft

[@nlabanok]

Epically huge, huge wave that I would've $hit my pants on but there has to be a distinction between tow-in vs paddle-in wave records.

[@pundamilia1191]

I thought it had him at the bottom for a second. Great ride.

[@lour9348]

Impressive for sure! This guy is insane btw! 😂

[@ThePerpetualStudent]

Absolutely mental! Huge beast.

[@ambientexpanse]

Surfer Magazine as well as SFGATE are currently reporting that it's officially a 108-footer and that Guiness World Records is close to certifying.

[@jordaneglis7380]

No wayyyyy that’s 100ft

[@toddhopkins1081]

80 max

[@zorrofox8950]

Amazing wave and excellent ride but 70' max.

[@Helmutandmoshe]

All you have to do is compare it to the ride of Sebastian Steudtner at Nazare which is clearly bigger

[@gravityfuzz]

1/2 that. Still epic. Why lie.

[@dougart11]

It's definitely much hollower than Nazare but not as tall if that is the criteria, incredibly enjoyable to watch as the thickness of the barrel is unfathomable. Nazare looks like ants on a ski slope, this one of the most magnificent barrels ever ridden!

[@djvaped]

the power of that wave must be incredible.

[@christineb8148]

Second-hand gut churn just from the stills. What a monster. That's like an apartment building of water.

[@harrietharrietbly1089]

WOW !!! Good job!! I'm impressed. Always wanted to be a surfer, but to old and afraid of sharks.

[@wthomas5697]

Very impressive!

[@LearningFast]

Huge for Mavericks but that isn’t 108 feet tall.

[@christhompson6010]

from this angle it looks small but from other videos of it looks gigantic

[@rabulc]

Monster🎉

[@adammuccino9513]

"Just paddling out into big surf is a total commitment. You can’t just call timeout and stroll on into the beach if you don’t like the way things are going." "If you want the ultimate, you gotta be willing to pay the ultimate price."

[@onuss333]

Why do we not have some standard "video calipers" available for this by now?

[@miketexas4549]

Why do the Nazare waves seem twice as high

[@JasonForouhar]

because waves viewed from that hill/ tower on the bluff makes the waves look way bigger than if you take a video from the water level, thats why they look softer an mushier but gigantic , if you take the video from below and "straight on" waves will looks steeper but the face will look smaller

[@TmackSD184]

Europeans are small

[@sardinygordiny6796]

Normaly when i go to the beach the waves seem smaler when i see them from the sand, when i went into the water its always bigger

[@bennolyon]

Massive legendary wave. But the eyeball test sure doesn’t say 100+. Angles matter tho. But still. Numerous ridden waves on film look as big or bigger.

[@45revolut1on]

It’s the wave from Interstellar

[@gregchambers2738]

Most perfect wave I’ve ever seen there! Evil Knievel shit right there

[@mahcaebnivek2610]

At the 0:06 second mark he is crouching down, which puts him roughly around 5ft tall. If you take his 5ft tall stance and continue to stack it from the trough of the wave to the crest of the wave it puts the wave height at roughly 70-80 feet. Still Gigantic, but not 100’

[@Yanoa]

@@dumbcat I'd say it's 40'

[@stanford-nf4jk]

Santa Cruz surfer here: I have so much respect for this guy! I’m not even *half* as talented as he is! For reference, I *used to* think I was good because I moved from Cowell’s to Steamer Lane. 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@biblicaltheologyexegesisan9024]

hope he wins

[@toothnail605]

YEAH BUDDY!!

[@danielmegahey7571]

I wanna hear what it sounded like 🤯

[@dubbR16_]

Congratulations just read ur story on Yahoo and wow you made it look easy champ

[@jamesmckellar4026]

The angle is throwing everyone off, this angle will make any eyeball guesstimate short of the actual size of the wave

[@Helmutandmoshe]

I'm measuring about 15 times his height crouched over - maybe 5 ft x 15 or 75 footer. Biggest Mavs I've ever seen for sure.

[@whatsmolly5741]

I got the same but he is the foreground so depending on how far in front of the wave he is makes the wave look smaller.

[@samueljlarson]

I did the same thing as you - I don't think it's 100ft but you're very close to my estimate and even Jeff Clark said "Biggest wave ever seen at Mavericks." Crazy how clean the face was too. Amazing wave!

[@jobhiojkp]

I can't believe how FAR he faded on the takeoff, and then stalled again, just the lip was coming over.

[@PrestonHarris-xq1ng]

Correct me if Im wrong, but as a non surfer whose jumped off more than a few big ass rocks in the mountains, to me this looks like 40 - 50ft tops. Not sure where they're getting 100

[@SeanWork]

19' Hawaiian?

[@ThePerpetualStudent]

20 tops. : )

[@ambientexpanse]

@@ThePerpetualStudent20.5

[@robinthomsoncomposer]

Biggest wave I have ever seen footage of at Mavericks

[@MA-lm1ql]

These people that are not saying it's not 100-ft wave don't know how to measure have no perception of height it is definitely almost 100 ft or 108 just like they said

[@zorrofox8950]

I think you just wrote a quadruple negative sentence. Are you a graduate of an Oakland school?

[@lasgoamnesia7934]

Imagine if he stalled and pulled into that cavern of a barrel...impossible to make but the picture wouldve been sci-fi looking

[@thovex]

big ups to this legend. how do you even get on that surfboard when your balls are that gigantic! unreal

[@tdluxon]

Biggest mavericks wave I ever remember see

[@thesoultransferprotocol721]

Dude......😮

[@SimtekSensors]

Massive wave. Doesn't look 108 ft. But stellar ride and unreal

[@ebcrypto1672]

I cant see how that is bigger than the nazare record

[@pwash474]

15 times X that surfers height from base to crest. I don’t know how tall he is but that wave was uuuuugge! lol

[@Skittlez998]

Bigger than Waimea

[@douglaspinsak1246]

That wave does not look anywhere near as big as peak waves from places like Nazaré, Jaws, and Waimea Bay. Honestly it looks like about a 50ft wave.

[@Sweetheart_of_the_rodeo]

Bigger than Waimea bro

[@lasurflife]

Not anywhere near 100 feet, but gnarly . . .

[@EndrickVideos]

That is a massive and beautiful wave, but it's not even close to 108'. I'd guess ~50', which is pretty amazing for a wave with power like that.

[@gregorylammers8024]

DUUUUUUUUUUUUDE!

[@Bimmer_MD]

He made that look easy....

[@waynehearst317]

I don't understand it...seems like i've seen several waves ridden at Nazare that were way bigger than this.

[@Irideus]

heavy one

[@jdwrink]

Wheeeeee

[@thomasryan5681]

It's an OMG! wave.

[@RobRando927]

Flea revisited.

[@PhilipCalvert17]

If that video is the actual wave and question that’s nowhere near 100 foot wave. Look at the waves Lenny in those guys are serving in Nazaré and compare the size of the surfer to the wave. The waves and Nas are way way larger than that wave by comparison. gases, this wave will be measured at 70 or 80 feet

[@RafaelDias-f7u]

It does not look huge like the waves in Portugal...

[@MesseKopp]

Duude.

[@Heavy_Distortion]

gladiator

[@dave34573]

I give way more respect to the paddle in guys than the tow in guys. He may have caught the biggest wave ever but the setup makes it so much easier and safer to catch these monster waves. Catching a 20-25 foot Hawaiian style at Waimea is way more difficult than these tow waves IMOH.

[@joshuamcdonnell122]

awesome but there is no way it's 100ft. Maybe 80ft.

[@REDdirtMafia]

80ft monster for sure

[@haapitimoorea]

!!!

[@LeoneSolurson-t4y]

One of the heaviest waves ever ridden; but if one guy is 6'5 210 and slow the other guy is 6'0 230 and fast af whos bigger? Who's badder? Who you got??

[@YOMELBOURNETV]

Coulda been deeper. lol 😛

[@taylorgreenhaw3920]

108 my ass

[@patrickreilly7256]

A tow-in is not surfing a wave.

[@anadmirer1019]

He's also an FBI agent.

[@russfrancis4220]

Doesn't look like 108 feet.

[@numbernine8571]

mine was bigger

[@MrChip1230]

A most perfect ride, but I suspect his mom is doing the wave height estimate.

[@mozdickson]

None bigger.

[@Kh2456]

Nowhere close to 100 ft… get your eyes checked.

[@johnjordansailing]

Are we blaming it on "climate change"? Probably why it's getting hyped.

[@LekkerDops]

Sick ride, but no way 100ft bro. Hawaiian 30 to 40

[@onekewlbraddah8460]

20ft Hawaiian tops. Mavericks guys always over exaggerating.

[@John-nw9jc]

guinness world records guys are claiming 108 not mavs guys. normal people measure waves from face height, and I'd would trust someone who knows how to use image analysis to determine wave height over a surfer eyeballing it.

[@humanbeing2796]

You down playin? Have you paddled out at Mav's?

[@toddhopkins1081]

No 30-40 foot Hawaiian. 70-80ft face

[@linusrandall9339]

@@John-nw9jcdon’t you know that everyone’s an expert at everything now?

[@timnewsham1]

this is some pretty amazing AI.

[@thomasryan5681]

No, no don't tell me it's AI. Don't kill the dream.

[@averagejoegrows]

that wave in nazare only looks bigger because its a straight A frame half of these kooks commenting wouldn't understand because they only come out when its 2-3 onshore summer mush

[@TheLemon333]

Plus Nazare looks like a mushburger in comparison.