On December 23 2024, 23-year-old Santa Cruz surfer Alo Slebir rode a wave at Mavericks surf break that has been estimated by some at 108 feet tall, a potential new world record. With the end of ...

The current holder of the surfing “the largest wave (unlimited) — male” is Sebastian Steudtner of Germany, who broke the previous record in October 2020 at Praia do Norte in Nazaré ...

Nazaré's renaissance as a big wave surfing Mecca came fast, furious and only lately, as one of the more recent additions to the big wave landscape. In the mid-2000s Hawaiian big wave surfer ...

"Shooting big wave surfing for as long as I have ... The morning started with a few paddlers trying to make history, each set got bigger and bigger. We witnessed incredible waves ridden.

With the competition window now open for the 2025 TUDOR Nazaré Big Wave Challenge, discover what makes this form of surfing so compelling and find out where the world's biggest waves can be found.

There are, after all, only a finite number of waves and way too many ... inaugural A Great Day in the Stoke, the largest gathering of Black surfers in history. It was a family-friendly event ...