I’m 60 yrs old and have been surfing for 50,we use to joke skim boarders.You guys have given me a whole new respect for what you do,your really on a different level.I’ll never laugh at skim boarders again,I don’t know how long those finned hard short boards have been around but I wish we would have had them when I was young,I would have definitely owned one.You guys Rip !!
so you surfed everyday or I will give you once a week for 50 years? I don't believe you. You surfed when you were young, then life took over, you worked a job you hated for decades for a family who take you forgranted and hate you. Your wife ended up fucking your eldest daughters boyfriend. Your son loved brazillian boys. Your youngest daughter loved Leon and he loved crack. You are now in a bed sit your wife has everything you worked for for years. She got it by doing absolutely nothing btw. And now you just sit in a drunken stuper infront of a computer remembering the one time you tries surfing and failed miserably.
Wet sand is like concrete. A good size breaker can snap your neck like a twig slamming you into the sand. Highlighted reply J Doe 16 hours ago Is it more dangerous to in a way? Like do the waves not push you to the bottom further out?
Looks like seal beach south side to me. I rode 8- 10 footers there in 69 and 15 - 18 footers in 71. I lived to write this 50 years later. Never forget those two days as long as I live!!!
As a kid I always purposely sat right where I'd get sucked over the falls and get slammed and flopped around on the sand! Silly kids bounce off concrete!
I telescoped my spine and lay motionless on the sand, unable to move from the neck down for a good 30 seconds, while skimming at this beach (The Wedge, Newport Beach CA). I could open my mouth to scream for help, but I couldn't make any sound come out. I could open my mouth and blink my eyes, aside from that I had no control of my body at all. For those 30 seconds I got myself mentally prepared to spend the rest of my life as a paraplegic. And then I slowly started getting feelings & sensations back, and within a few minutes I was more or less fine. I took my spinal cord right to the point of snapping without actually snapping it. The longest 30 seconds of my life, right where this was filmed, doing the same thing 30 years ago. Why is UA-cam showing this to me? Trying to make me feel grateful for my life or something? 😛
Did this snowboarding. Probably bent my spinal cord to the point no electrical communication could get through to the rest of the body. Was also convinced I was paraplegic for that 30 seconds or so.
''true surfers''? what? why cant there be 2 types of surfers? skim boarders who surfs shorebreaks and regular surfers? why has the gotta be hate in between?
Aw brah its just like, you just get the best barrels ever dude. you come in and get spit righttt out. just drop in and smack the lip, wah BAH, just drop back in like BAHHHH, just ride the barrel and get pitted, sooo pitted like THAT.
No one: Literally no one: Guy in the first clip: I could easily get that! A few seconds later the same guy: that’s how you get dead right there! Holy makrol 🤣🤣
Certain breaks and conditions can create one-off events that you'd never believe possible. I was surfing in Pacific Beach area of San Diego one weird day and I was watching the horizon for something surfable I heard a noise BEHIND me and hand to God there was a wave coming towards us. Going the wrong way! Since I happened to be facing the right way I figured what the hell and tried to drop in but it just fell apart as it hit deeper water but was still a trip.
I live six miles from this spot. I learned to surf on the north side of the pier. I surfed here when a large section of the pier broke during a storm and huge sections were floating around. You’d get barreled along with a piece of pier. Just wish it broke year round, not just winter. But been about 20 years since surfing south side.
Wow you guys are so wonderful beautiful amazing surfers 🏄♀️ Seems like you guys have a lot of fun there But be carful and stay safe guys God’s blessed 👍👍👍
this is one of my favorite kind of waves cuz u can get majorly shacked an theres no hold downs once ur done u just stand up an ur on the beach . super fun waves
Years of mountain hang gliding, sometimes in questionable conditions, and this still makes me wonder why. I've been to the Wedge on big days (local So Cal boy) and wonder, as that break consistently closes from the other side and crashes down shallow, in a foot or two of water from pretty high up, what are these folks counting on?
There was once a great post card, a pic from an airplane coming into LA @ night ( imagine) on the back it said “ All roads lead to LA” It was my home I grew up there the 60s & 70s lawndale California Luezinger high and this shit their doing it’s old bra ,but sorry man California is now officially a shit hole and all of us natives have long departed it’s yours now you can have it, sad 😢 actually.
Cali fucking sucks. Cost of living is a joke, homeless people everywhere, bankrupt state government, violent racial divide, pollution everywhere including the beaches you’re so proud of. You get cut in that water and you’re guaranteed a case of Hepatitis or Ebola. Ya, California rocks, LMFAO.
That really wasn’t that bad I’ve been slammed by much bigger at the Wedge, anyway he was already at the bottom when the wave crashed onto him I doubt he even got scratched on that one
Sand is more forgiving than coral or lava reef. The reef at Pipeline is especially gnarly, it's composed of sharp jagged basalt that looks like a sadistic maze that has walls topped with blades and caves you can get thrown into, even fang like rock formations.
LOL!! My dad said one time, he was running with my brother, and he wasn’t looking and then he kicked a squirrel and it went flying all across the park-
Wait... before my comment gets any more likes... I may have confused The Wedge with Shorebreak at Waimea. Either way, they're both absolutely BRUTAL. I learned about bolth from watching Who Is J.O.B., the Jamie O'Brien reality show on UA-cam.
I’m 60 yrs old and have been surfing for 50,we use to joke skim boarders.You guys have given me a whole new respect for what you do,your really on a different level.I’ll never laugh at skim boarders again,I don’t know how long those finned hard short boards have been around but I wish we would have had them when I was young,I would have definitely owned one.You guys Rip !!
People laghed at us yet they can't skim
so you surfed everyday or I will give you once a week for 50 years? I don't believe you. You surfed when you were young, then life took over, you worked a job you hated for decades for a family who take you forgranted and hate you. Your wife ended up fucking your eldest daughters boyfriend. Your son loved brazillian boys. Your youngest daughter loved Leon and he loved crack. You are now in a bed sit your wife has everything you worked for for years. She got it by doing absolutely nothing btw. And now you just sit in a drunken stuper infront of a computer remembering the one time you tries surfing and failed miserably.
John, I am 63 and definitely relate to your comments. I haven’t surfed in 11 years due to a knee injury. Man… I miss it!
@@WildBill1120 Still playing your guitar though Bill! 😊
@@Tismesue LOL! I am! Do We know each other?
“I like riding shorebreak because the ambulance can drive right up to the scene of the accident.”
LOLLLL
BAHAHAHAHAA
1 word : LOL :
Is it more dangerous to in a way? Like do the waves not push you to the bottom further out?
Wet sand is like concrete. A good size breaker can snap your neck like a twig slamming you into the sand.
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J Doe
16 hours ago
Is it more dangerous to in a way? Like do the waves not push you to the bottom further out?
Looks like seal beach south side to me. I rode 8- 10 footers there in 69 and 15 - 18 footers in 71. I lived to write this 50 years later. Never forget those two days as long as I live!!!
Totally awesome
@Cecil Cruz I'll be 70 next February
Native to the town, I can verify that it still can get that big on a good winter swell.
69....
Where is this?
did anyone ignore the fact on how high he went on the wave at 0:59
I yea he got some air on that one. Just imagine if he’d have tucked his feet he might have gotten 3 flips out of it.
He was gonna have an awesome wave as well
Solid three seconds bro
Sjvd Hsvdlal 106 was bigger
Sjvd Hsvdlal Jesus christ
I love how everyone is cheering each other on!
My mum wrote the title to this video
Lindsay Kay 😂😂😂
Bruh
and the description looool
Listen to the way he talks too lmaooo
😂
“that’s how you get dead right there holy macarol” LMAOOO
Zh
I would have handle that wave totally differently ,by not catching it.....
“Mackerel”
As a kid I always purposely sat right where I'd get sucked over the falls and get slammed and flopped around on the sand! Silly kids bounce off concrete!
Riding that A frame brah!
9:20 looks relaxing,and can tell how much fun was had throughout the day.
I telescoped my spine and lay motionless on the sand, unable to move from the neck down for a good 30 seconds, while skimming at this beach (The Wedge, Newport Beach CA). I could open my mouth to scream for help, but I couldn't make any sound come out. I could open my mouth and blink my eyes, aside from that I had no control of my body at all. For those 30 seconds I got myself mentally prepared to spend the rest of my life as a paraplegic. And then I slowly started getting feelings & sensations back, and within a few minutes I was more or less fine. I took my spinal cord right to the point of snapping without actually snapping it. The longest 30 seconds of my life, right where this was filmed, doing the same thing 30 years ago. Why is UA-cam showing this to me? Trying to make me feel grateful for my life or something? 😛
thats baller as fuck bro just walked off paralysis
@@spynapple4105 Ha, you just made my day. I'll be sure to tell that one to my chiropractor! 😛
And that was when you got your ass back in the water to ride those waves!
I see The Wedge but there is a pier in some of these clips. Further north on Baloba?
Did this snowboarding. Probably bent my spinal cord to the point no electrical communication could get through to the rest of the body. Was also convinced I was paraplegic for that 30 seconds or so.
These guys are our true surfies. “ go out in anything and have great fun”. “ don’t care attitude. Fantastic 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
No.When One of them ends up w/ a halo on his head they'll realize, the great surfers don't bother w/ ridiculous shorebreak!
''true surfers''? what? why cant there be 2 types of surfers? skim boarders who surfs shorebreaks and regular surfers? why has the gotta be hate in between?
@@fredrikandersson3885 he never said those where the "only" true surfers, just that they were aswell. you are the one trying to divide it
I could actually feel myself getting ground into the beach.
Awesome job guys, really impressive
The commentary on these videos are always top tier
0:15
oh that´s look normal... WhAt ThE F*****
Ikr bahahha
Ikr
That was insane
@6:42 funniest wave clips of all time down to the finish where his friend pets him lolol
Aw brah its just like, you just get the best barrels ever dude. you come in and get spit righttt out. just drop in and smack the lip, wah BAH, just drop back in like BAHHHH, just ride the barrel and get pitted, sooo pitted like THAT.
Shut the fuck up poser.
@@kotabathory8026 not sure you get the reference
Hammett175
Always that “one” guy! Well, my poser self is about to eat a super delicious fish tacos!
Santa Monica Surferxx Zz fucking kook get outta here with your ugly ass.
Kota Bathory
Such an angry little man... 🌯🌮🌯🌮🌯🌮❤️❤️
4:49 wave of the day
1:51 my husbands good for cheating
LOL what the fuck
“My husbands good for choosing swells”
this gives me so much anxiety but I can't stop watching these videos😂😬
3* World Champ Ripping. Blair Conklin. WTH Fins on skim?
Shit is bananas bra
: )
joe Dirt it’s built like a wakesurf board lmao
@1:00 this guy has balls to get in after that
That was the ride of the day.
These waves are vicious! I felt my neck snap like 10 times watching this.
People have become permanently paralyzed doing this. These people are incredibly athletic but taking a huge and crazy risk.
No one:
Literally no one:
Guy in the first clip: I could easily get that!
A few seconds later the same guy: that’s how you get dead right there! Holy makrol 🤣🤣
Certain breaks and conditions can create one-off events that you'd never believe possible. I was surfing in Pacific Beach area of San Diego one weird day and I was watching the horizon for something surfable I heard a noise BEHIND me and hand to God there was a wave coming towards us. Going the wrong way! Since I happened to be facing the right way I figured what the hell and tried to drop in but it just fell apart as it hit deeper water but was still a trip.
1:02 that looks like one of those moments where everything goes slow-motion in your vision. it looks so fun
Wow. Some of the most crazy waves / surfing I've ever seen. Like the wipeouts as well haha.
Like if you mind surfed the wave at 0:50 a million times....
bro I did loll and also at 1:15
Stop asking for likes
like if you dont like to ask for likes
donkey
Yeah
That looks fun as hell! I've wanted to do that shit since the 80s. Thanks for the kick ass video.
What’s stopping you man?
“Tiny surfboards”
did he mean skimboards lmfao
I live six miles from this spot. I learned to surf on the north side of the pier. I surfed here when a large section of the pier broke during a storm and huge sections were floating around. You’d get barreled along with a piece of pier. Just wish it broke year round, not just winter. But been about 20 years since surfing south side.
What city is this? Long beach / Huntington beach?
@@MikeKollin Seal Beach California. Just north of Huntington Beach, six miles south of me here in Long Beach
1:02 I WANT TO BE A BIRD OCEAN
Ocean: Really?👍👏👍fly so my little bird :3
There’s a gnarly shore break at Big Beach on Maui. The locals told me they have tons of serious back and neck injuries every year.
gnarly af
Shut up cringe lord
english pls..
WICKED
@@Sector_07 are you stupid?
@@MrCScottie I didn't know the meaning then
This is called skimboarding. Bill Bryant is the Masterclass
Was
Since no one seems to know, that's Laguna Beach in Cali and the "tiny surfboards" are skimboards
@pluvio not Newport wedge?I'm from hella cal I really dunno
Joshua they're skim boards
I live there and there is no pier that would be dana point
That is the funnest looking shore dump I've ever seen. That wedge is GNARLY...
1:04. omg you have to look let's hope he's ok
He is
Wow you guys are so wonderful beautiful amazing surfers 🏄♀️
Seems like you guys have a lot of fun there
But be carful and stay safe guys
God’s blessed 👍👍👍
4:49 ughhhhh
Body wamping. I grew up at the beach. I did this for years. A lot of fun. Great video.
A new meaning to the phrase " go pound sand".
4:50 This guy was so deep that the wave spit before he even came out. Great shot; great ride.
Dang those were huge you guys are insane great job!
great video!
Respect for even trying to ride the waves in the first place
Short hair Blair? I'm starting to realise that the more I watch him, the more I realise he's one of the best barrel riders I've ever seen :o
I lived for that break when I was younger
Now live for summer swell Southside Kauai
Favorite break 5 min from work
Fuck you. I want that
@@bjrnbuchanan1136 come get u some
@Ryan Armstrong u need help
@@larrygeordan5747 bro maybe you don't understand English but he was jokingly being jealous because of what you said
@@symowebb ya
I get it
I wasnt upset
Corona got everyone stressed these days
That quad fin skimboard is the way to go!!
Austin Keen at the end with the personal photographer lol...that was kinda funny 😂. Idk why
I can't believe there's so many thumbs down. This is very crunchy n tasty footage.
Shore breaks or "shory's" as we call them have sent many a person to the spinal unit, you'll end up in a wheelchair that you steer with your tounge.
It's good to be young. I enjoyed this stuff in the 80s and 90s.
1:03 not gonna lie flying like that looks fun lol
That's the "wedge" at newport beach!!
you spelled surfboard wrong anyone notice?
Haha I did not actually
South side of seal beach pier has always been a fun spot I remember when I was a kid I watched people skim board there after surfing the jetty
1:04 is definitely on my bucket list
Lol I never saw the ocean throw someone into the air like that
Blair is a beast at the wedge & shore breaks in general! 🔥
0:17 what was that
constructive interference
@@ashfrick5958 Thanks
Both waves bumped into each other
Water Bending.
@@pitucaacadela295 yes.
Ah, Seal Beach… I loved bodyboarding the winter swell breaks. Hated the sinus infections from basically surfing in sewage.
0:15 who else thought that wave felt like a tsunami
Me no
U know what a tsunami is?
Eh, I’ve seen bigger on camera. That was just a huge wave.
sorry about the title but this is close to perfection...wounderful!!!!
this is one of my favorite kind of waves cuz u can get majorly shacked an theres no hold downs once ur done u just stand up an ur on the beach . super fun waves
Yeah but for the same reason you are much more likely to break your neck 1:03 3:12
Ites
i surf pretty good and i pay most respect to style of surfers and you guys have got it
Years of mountain hang gliding, sometimes in questionable conditions, and this still makes me wonder why. I've been to the Wedge on big days (local So Cal boy) and wonder, as that break consistently closes from the other side and crashes down shallow, in a foot or two of water from pretty high up, what are these folks counting on?
Bc it’s so much fun getting huge barrels and so easy to air! I bodyboard but I love shore break we don’t get it this perfect on the outer banks tho!
Wedge is very dangerous. I've seen some horrible accidents there.
Just another reason to love California. The surfing the babes The scenery it has it all
There was once a great post card, a pic from an airplane coming into LA @ night ( imagine) on the back it said “ All roads lead to LA” It was my home I grew up there the 60s & 70s lawndale California Luezinger high and this shit their doing it’s old bra ,but sorry man California is now officially a shit hole and all of us natives have long departed it’s yours now you can have it, sad 😢 actually.
Cali fucking sucks. Cost of living is a joke, homeless people everywhere, bankrupt state government, violent racial divide, pollution everywhere including the beaches you’re so proud of. You get cut in that water and you’re guaranteed a case of Hepatitis or Ebola. Ya, California rocks, LMFAO.
Seal Beach be pumping lol
Seal Beach, yeah, right! Or was it the left?
1:02, that was fun! Do it again!!
I was a shore break rider on these beaches from Wedge to the HB pier for a long time. Took a lot of beatings. No single one sticks out, fortunately.
the bodyboarder at 3:10.... should be dead... No clue how he made that wave...
That really wasn’t that bad I’ve been slammed by much bigger at the Wedge, anyway he was already at the bottom when the wave crashed onto him I doubt he even got scratched on that one
Experienced my first time hitting the Shaw this month and it hurts these guys are mad
Falling head first is how you break your neck in these kinds of waves.
Yer mom.
Seal beach 1973, barrels and Nick broke his board on the pier! Still critical.
The video should be called. "kook got a new camera"
We call that styles of waves "cerrojos" in Canary Islands (Spain) .Quick and closed .Hard to ride
That’s how I broke my board once lmao
What beach is this? I would love to go there and see those waves
Me apaixonei por essa praia ❤
it'd be cool if you could explain why "shore break waves" are more dangerous. Is it simply because you can land on the floor?
daaaaaamn!
what happened to blair's hair?! :O
I had no idea waves formed/crashed that close to the beach
That is scary
Dude at 1:00 gets WRECKED!!! hahaha
Sand is more forgiving than coral or lava reef. The reef at Pipeline is especially gnarly, it's composed of sharp jagged basalt that looks like a sadistic maze that has walls topped with blades and caves you can get thrown into, even fang like rock formations.
they put fins on a skimboard😂
Is that what it is? I couldn't tell if it was a surfboard or not.
I thinks it’s just a wakesurf board that’s the right size
I miss days like that. How was The Point at 19th street that day?
We, in newengland have been doing this for centuries, old hat.
This guy on his skimboard is having fun!
This is seal beach correct?
I say yes South Side pier
1:02- my guy went flying 😂
LOL!! My dad said one time, he was running with my brother, and he wasn’t looking and then he kicked a squirrel and it went flying all across the park-
Hows all the kooks talking about the point and the wedge? Wrong side of town Barneys.
Nice shore breaks. Makes for great body surfing waves.
3:12 that man broke his back
“I’M NOT A CONTORTIONIST- OW”
I wush I grew up on the coast 😔 🤙 you dudes are sick with it
FYI: There have been numerous fatalities, neck breaks, back breaks, bone breaks, quadriplegics and paraplegics here.
Wait... before my comment gets any more likes...
I may have confused The Wedge with Shorebreak at Waimea. Either way, they're both absolutely BRUTAL. I learned about bolth from watching Who Is J.O.B., the Jamie O'Brien reality show on UA-cam.
Conklin is F n crazy, I love it!
Imagine being brave enough to do this
There's an extra fine line between being remarkably brave and being intricately cautious.
The GOAT arrives at the end
1:04 wtf did he just do
That’s some badass shore break.
That’s impressive but never seems to end well for them 😂