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California’s Alo Slebir unofficially broke the big wave surfing world record
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Re: California’s Alo Slebir unofficially broke the big wave surfing world record
#12I'm going to read this article because the image is cool and I love California. But I had to comment on how obnoxious this website is with my NextDNS mistakingly disabled. What have we done to the Internet! 3 popups to sign up for paid, newsletter and web alerts. scroll down to see auto playing videos, ridiculous full-banner ads. wow
FWIW, I use noscript and had no issues. Granted there were some blank spots which I guess where ads.
Reader mode works wonders for me.
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#13Photography of the surfers seems to be an important aspect of the scene. It’d be interesting to read a story about that.
In water photography is especially wild. Check out Leroy Bellet: https://www.surfertoday.com/surfing/the-story-behind-leroy-b...
He rides BEHIND surfers in the barrel. Absolutely nuts.
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
FWIW, I use noscript and had no issues. Granted there were some blank spots which I guess where ads.
Reader mode works wonders for me.
ooh you're right, reader mode is great for this article. thanks
It doesn't always work though, I assume the major publishers are employing some counter-measures. Also generally javascript heavy websites.
Re: California’s Alo Slebir unofficially broke the big wave surfing world record
#15There's a series called 100 ft wave on HBO. Great overview of the big wave community.
Re: California’s Alo Slebir unofficially broke the big wave surfing world record
#16This site needs to be banned from HN. It's borderline spam employing every trick in the book to maximise your pageview. Clickbait title, interstitial ads, floating vid, back jacking, newsletter, notification... When I open the page it's only a third that's content -- and that's only the clickbait title. What garbage...
While I agree that it's a trash site and an embarrassment to its roots as The Chronicle's website, anyone like yourself who notices how bad it is would do well to take it as a reminder that your adblocker is missing or not working. It appeared as though it were a normal site to me with ublock origin.
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#17It's so surprising that we don't use a precise method of gauging wave height for these records. AFAIK they still estimate the surfers height while riding, and then count those heights up the side of the wave in a photograph.
I'd imagine we would have a method closer to surveying techniques by now.
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#18The article appears a few days old since it was before they had the awards. Apparently they had the Big Wave 2025 awards two days ago, and declared that his wave was "only" 76 feet, but he did win the award for Biggest Wave for this year.
Source: (also the awards show is embedded here as a video)
https://www.coastsidenews.com/review/news/santa-cruz-surfer-...
Re: California’s Alo Slebir unofficially broke the big wave surfing world record
#19>riding (surfing) a world-record-shattering 108-foot-tall wave. That is rather wild.
Imagine being ten stories up on a freakin' wave. People like this guy are just incredible.
Re: California’s Alo Slebir unofficially broke the big wave surfing world record
#20I'm going to read this article because the image is cool and I love California. But I had to comment on how obnoxious this website is with my NextDNS mistakingly disabled. What have we done to the Internet! 3 popups to sign up for paid, newsletter and web alerts. scroll down to see auto playing videos, ridiculous full-banner ads. wow
FWIW, I use noscript and had no issues. Granted there were some blank spots which I guess where ads.
More tips to make the Internet suck less here: https://www.smokingonabike.com/2025/08/01/tips-for-making-th...