“You can tell when it’s a big one when the lines march in from the outer ledge,” Benjamin “Sancho” Sanchis told SURFER after his heroic, albeit cataclysmic, ride at Jaws on December 22, 2024. Fate ...

Most days, 44-year-old Brazilian Michaela Fregonese juggles the same responsibilities as any parent: running her small travel agency, shuttling her son to and from soccer practice, and squeezing in a ...

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 — ...

It started with a high school marching band and ended with an 88-year-old surf legend handing out one of the marquee awards of the night. A lot happened in between acts at the 2025 Big Wave Challenge, ...

It was a muggy July day in Santa Cruz and life could not have been more mundane for Alessandro “Alo” Slebir. The 24-year-old was pounding wooden concrete forms into a missing section of sidewalk. Cars ...