SAN DIEGO'S BEST BIG WAVE SURFING SPOT
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- SAN DIEGO'S BEST BIG WAVE SURFING SPOT
Happy New Year! We are excited to share our another episode from this historic run of swell we had last week in San Diego. La Jolla Cove took the spotlight on Saturday December 30th. Surfline forecasted this day to have surf up to 15 to 18 foot faces. Cheers to a prosperous 2024!
San Diego big waves may be rare but when it happens San Diego can compete with the best locations in world. This large swell showed how many world class waves we are lucky to have here in San Diego and more specifically La Jolla. Enjoy this video on your smart TV in 4K for the best experience.
Thank you to Jay Manning for capturing the epic thumbnail. The spectators in the foreground give scale to how big the waves were this day.
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Love the etiquette given.. Ahh, I dont care if you got that wave, its mine now. the rules of etiquette have changed.
Watching from Australia it looks like a bunch of dropping in and burning each other and kind of chubby wave
Yep.
Watching from the US it looks like that too :)
Not a surfer. This video doesn't help market the sport for me. Tons of bait for Tigers and Great Whites, only this bait has the ability to slice open your forehead as it runs over you while you paddle up and over a wave.
No thanks.
@@davesprague1542 😂
12' faces, 10' boards. Roll in take-offs, and run to the shoulder on mushburgers. at 1:56 I thought I was watching an early 60's movie.
Exactly. They're log-riding. Boring.
Truly, it was the OG locals owning the waves. Good show, gents!
While all the good surfers were hitting hospitals, cliffs, or blacks. These are the OG tourmaline locals who don't ride anything under 9'.
Rhino chasers on 6 foot waves. Everyone is Laird Hamilton now.
Original Grandpas
What a great holiday weekend! Great surf. I struggled but still managed to enjoy it. (Skill Level) It’s hard to not love living here 🤙🏽
Thanks for the Video
And where are you from originally?
Clean, perfectly formed waves!!
😂😂😂
not perfect. I've seen better
Lol
Happy new year, nice video😊
lookin good, sd surf scene grown up !
Faaaantastic! Guys/girls and there gunz!!
That first wave! I thought he was late.
So many burns in the lineup
San Diego’s EASIEST big wave surfing spot.
Not a surfer, but based on what we saw, bigger at Sunset Cliffs on Sunday. At La Jolla on Thursday, guys having to wait a lot for good sets. Enjoyed seeing both, and seeing San Diego.
I'm always surprise to see so many snakes at the Cove
Good job
those waves are small compared to La Jolla Cove 1982. It was so big there were only 3 guys out. One got caught inside, couldn't make it back out and was lucky to make it onto the rocks alive. The other 2 got plucked out by a Coast Guard helicopter. After that, no surfers went out. I've never seen the ocean be that violent before, the swell was big enough to catch some deep underwater feature to the south and if a wave was big enough, a ripple would propagate up the lip of the wave northwards at an insane rate. My buddies and I stood out in the cold rai for a couple hours, watched, and felt the ground beneath our feet vibrate when the waves broke. Unfortunately, I've never seen anything like it since.
Wow! Great story and memories. I hope to experience a swell of that magnitude during my lifetime. Thanks for sharing.
@@SoCalSurfer my pleasure. Here's more: the dude that got caught inside got steadily pushed further and further in. Finally, he ditched his board and chanced getting washed up with the whitewater. Lucky for him, he didn't get smashed into the rocks and was able to land on his feet and scramble up. So lucky. Afterwards, he just sat there for 45 minutes with his head down, kind of in shock. He just had a near death experience and I'll speculate his adrenaline was completely empty. That must've been a terrible feeling as he got more and more exhausted. But dude got lucky. After that, the lifeguards must've called the helicopter in. There's no way they could go rescue someone in that maelstrom if someone else got caught inside.
Also: how did we hear about the swell? The radio. It was so huge it was all over the radio, on music stations. It ended up being on the cover of Surfer magazine the following month, but the photo didn't have any people in it so you couldn't tell how huge it was.
1989 took a trip down to Mexico with a “church” group. Lol swell was huge and woke up to feeling the hound shake under our tents on the beach, unzipped the tents to find the sand dancing each time a set would break. Up until this day 2 days prior the winds had been onshore, and the surf unrideable due to its size and nowhere to go. The only board I had when we caught wind of this group going down and last minute joined, was my 7’4” mini gun, I was in 9th grade at the time and my other board were at a buddies in Point Loma. Woke up that morning to this crashing and dancing of the sand, the winds had shifted and was blowing offshore, sets were rolling in 12’-14’
with some 16’s rolling in on the outside and I’m the only one with a board made for big surf. Long story short, 4 of us paddle out, 1 of us makes it and for 30-40 min I sat there scared out of my mind, they were giants 20+ faces and bigger. Finally take one drop in and kick out, take another and the same but light carve and then out, the third one I get cocky, I can do this. Here comes a set of three and they’re out there and I scramble, barely make it over the first and let the second pass, and take the third, by now I’m a pro, I’ve ridden two already I got this, I take off and drop in, this time I drop all the was down and make this big bottom turn, go back up the face and back down but I go too far, I look up and see this lip and my first thought is run, and dropped back down but was too low already and I ran out of speed in the flat and that lip came directly down on top of me taking me and my board to the bottom. I hit the bottom so hard and just got rag dolled but kept bouncing off the bottom and then wasn’t but was still being ragdolled, I couldn’t tell which direction was up for the first time in my life. This keeps going and I’m running out of air and I don’t know which way is up, and I start digging. Suddenly my lungs are burning so bad, I’ve been held under for so long that I can’t hold it any long, and I come at ease with myself that t this is how it’s going to end. Just as this calm comes over me, I let my air out, suddenly I’m breaking the surface being thrown to the surface like something was throwing me up. Suddenly I’m at the surface my board is right next to me and I’m facing the shore, I take a huge gasp of air and turn around to look behind me and just as I do I’m being pounded by a mountain of whitewater, and back through it again I went, but this time I was able to stay at the surface and made it to shore. When I got to shore, my 8’ leash was stretched out to what seamed like 12-14 ft. That was the first time I ever came close to losing my life, and it scared me for a long time riding anything over 8’. The next time I did was a number of years later, was just about 10-12’ super consistent in Carlsbad Ca, and a really strong current. I broke my leash losing my board and had to swim fighting big surf and the current and wound up over 300 yrds down the shore almost drowning that day.
For surfers and non surfers watching an XXL north swell at the Cove is like a mini version of watching Nazaré. lol What surprised me is no cameramen shot La Jolla Shores. I’ve seen a triple overhead barreling right break right out in front of the parking lot on a similar swell. Thanks SCS.
Shhhhhhhh dang it 😂
I can't imagine the Shores ever producing anything.
Swamis holds a big swell! North Bird too!
Rad 🤙🏽
La Jolla Cove big wave mush burgers. It is amazing at how many people are out there now compared to like 3 decades ago. Back then you would only see maybe 2 people out catching the waves.
Eric Powers had to be rescued in 83, one of the strongest swimmers I knew.
@@jimijefferson82 that 83 storm was crazy. I think that when the scrips research platform got destroyed if I remember correct.
Is this a vid if everyone snaking each other
Wow 3:12, that guy doing the burning is prob the scum of the earth on land. He sees the guy and says, "I'm still going to drop in right over him and try and catch this and make it look like he burned me."
Ben Gravy is out there.
Please keep him. NJ doesn't want him back.
@@waxer420 Did he steal your RAZR scooter?
Ostar de Jornay is happy...La Jolla surf club
Some of these surfers aren’t ever going to learn. Surprised a fight didn’t happen. Too close and on top of each other. Someone’s going to get hurt badly by someone else’s board etc.
A lot of Ben Gravy and Zeke
I have no idea why this is titled the best big wave surfing spot in San Diego... looks like a bunch of kooks on Rhino chasers shoulder hoping each other... the real deal is at Blacks, Swamis or maybe Point Loma depending on the tides
You tell 'em, champ! Your geode must be acknowledged!
No kidding…. ALL OF THEM ARE ALL IN THS WAY OF EACH OTHER….. BOARDS WAY TO BIG …. Nonn n e of them can surf…. And NO jet ski rescues out there….. how did those kooks get out there…. At least the crowd has something to laugh at …..
lolooololo goofs
Welcome to the internet?
Never throws a barrel. Fun for old timers.
I'm an old timer and it doesn't look good to me. Kinda mushy.
@@seeharvester I'm getting up there, maybe one day we'll be stoking on 5ft mush. Maybe
Needs an even bigger swell for that to happen.
@@Ethan-bu2zy or different tide and wind
@@jimijefferson82 very true. There are several spots in San Diego that are very tide-sensitive. Luscombe’s at Sunset cliffs can go from thick and kinda bouncy at high-tide to a grinding screamer with a negative tide. Lived in San Diego from 89-93 and never saw La Jolla cove at size. The El Niño winter of 91-92 had stretches of 6-10 foot surf with sunny skies and offshore winds that lasted for weeks. We actually had to take days off for recovery because the surf was so consistent during this period. Kinda crazy. 🤪
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Yes the thumbnail was MAJOR epic, thanks JAY!!!
Never had a clue La Jolla could produce this!
Such an epic week!
Thanks guys!
Cheers!
Cove always produces this on large swells ..
Stop saying cheers
It’s not cool and your not a bartender
@@jasont2443 Edit: Cheers!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@jasont2443CHEERS!
Red / yellow board , had the day
That's ben gravy
Nub nation FTW@@jywave1969
Is that Ben Gravy and Zeke at 4:40?
Yeah it is lol
Better not show Zeke this video, he will run to Instagram and start whining that he got posted in something that’s not his vlog
La Jolla Cove ? Starting at Wind N Sea ?
I'm Sure You Know But So Does Oceanside&Carlsbad~WaayDownSouthImperialBeachCanSwellToo🎉🎉🎉
love bump thumpers
Why are they dropping on each other ? Is it normal on that spot ??
I was wondering that as well...
Every wave in San Diego is a party wave.
Nothing is normal in the cove. It only breaks once a year or less.
Slow rollers like that would have been fun on a longboard more so than a gun.
So many kooks out😂
La Jolla cove. It’s like the Waimea bay of socal
WHY TAKE OFF IN FRONT OF YOUR BUDDY…… foolish goofs…. Flat out stupid……both get hurt too
A lot of un cool shoulder hopping going on ….
Welcome to SoCal lol
I guess this is big by socal standards…average by NorCal standards…looks fun easy paddle out
Man…. People sleep on sunset cliffs so much when we have these swells. Lol. They think it’s just a joke. Indicators was so big the day I was out there it looked like blacks. Easily this size if not bigger. Broken boards everywhere.
Should build the board with an aluminium inner core.
It was big on the 29th. Not the cleanest swell but one after the other. Indicators is a great wave when it's big. I wish I'd gone out to Dolphin Tanks that afternoon to watch. Donuts too.
Isn't that a good thing that people sleep on the Cliffs when there is swell? Places like La Jolla cove and Lunada Bay are a complete shit shows with dudes that have oversized boards and a lack of surf etiquette. If I was a Cliffs local I'd want everyone to sleep on my spots.
Hit one of the reefs on the second big day and was out there alone 🤙 so much fun
theres also a big wave spot nobody talks about when it gets big… it can be way better out there, but its not for the faint of heart as a boat ride to the lighthouse is required. Thats all ima say about that.
So - it's La Jolla COVE. |||
I Live in CARLSBAD.
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When Big Waves come,
Everyone says,
Go NORTH.
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North County can't handle
Bigger Waves.
◼️Doheny
◼️ Dana Point
damn
Eddie wouldn’t go
Slow and easy.
Lumpy😂
I prefer some fries with my burger
You know I grew up here, surfed here every day back in the 80’s, and I’m embarrassed by the lack of respect for the fellow surfer. Mushy wave for sure, but dropping in on each other all over the place. Clearly never were out on big days. Back then, that wouldn’t happen more than once. Call me an OG, I still have better game than these east of I-5 red necks. You are right, Eddie wouldn’t go.Eddie wouldn’t bother getting in the water for this shit, other than to save someone’s life.
Aircraft carriers plus close outs makes for zero fun
Drop in and say Hello!
Shark infested waters
That’s California
Why can't this wave just have a peeling top to bottom barrel for a couple hundred yards.
Swamis was just as big, but a thousand times worse with the crowd. Blacks looked like the spot to be. Too West
how lame, a mushy close out that guys on 10ft guns drop i n on each other like it’s malibu
Not to be rude but I’d rather surf 6 to 8 ft east coast Heavy Barrels than that mushy roll in mess that u got ride a 12ft board. No offense 😂
New Jersey was so much better than this slop, comparing this to numb skulls video than seeing cali douches talk about how their swell was better is hilarious
I live in San Diego, no offense taken, and I totally agree with you.
Just something different otherwise I’d rather ride Tahiti than little East Coasts 6s and 7s fog can’t even see 2 feet down 😂
All while catching hypothermia 😂
I'm from CCTX and I'd rather surf 1-2 ft brown wind chop than all those good waves you lucky assholes have! 😢
That thumbnail is fake news.
this is so not the best big wave spot in san diego. let's be real, this wave is in fact, pretty junky.
With the exception of just a few people, this is a kook-fest.
Click Bait title. Is it big? Yep. Is it in the top 10 for big waves in San Diego? NOPE.
Reminds me a bit of a grom session me and my HS buddy got in 88' only they were a few bigger, cleaner ones on at that place south of there with the big rock and I was riding a 5'4" 😂 🤙😎🖖
Most of them have such a stiff poo stance
Boomers😊
weak!
Is nobody going to mention that's Ben Gravy? @bengravy