J Bay Explodes💥 Biggest Swell in History!!
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- Опубліковано 19 вер 2023
- The biggest swell in my lifetime arrives on the South African shores and turns our world upside down. Watch as I film this arriving storm and building seas as JBay goes massive and our coastline gets destroyed..
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I surfed J Bay back in 1969. My wife and I hitchhiker around S.A. and we camped there in a tiny 2 man tent. There was NOTHING there in town except a single shop.
It blew like shit for a week, no swell, then it came up. I had a 6 ft Van Straalen, single fin. I'd had to glass it back in as I had sent it from Cape Town on the train and they had snapped it off. I had one day when it was big but I was the only guy out. A learning experience. We hitched out and got picked up by a surfer in a VW kombi. He took us up to P.E. and a little river break. We came home via Mauritius where the French locals showed me how to glass a lump on the back of the board, drill a hole through it, thread 10 ft. of nylon clothesline through the hole and tie the other end to a handkerchief which was knotted on my ankle. First time surfing on coral reef.
Good times back then remember those days. Kids today would not understand 😁
Wow original leash technology!
That's pretty sick bro what a legend
Goosebumps
In the seventies we used the rubber tubing they ran across roads to count cars, next gen 😂
We surfed the place in 1968 when there was nothing there but a dusty caravan camp and had a 20 foot day but without the terrible wind in this video. It was the best wave I’ve ever ridden anywhere on earth. Sean Tompson and his brother Michael were there for practice before he became world famous and he was shredding these giant gnarly barrels right in front of the rocks and making it look effortless. He never wiped out not even once which is a good thing because that far up the break a wipeout would blast you right into the rocks.
Good to see guys my age still interested in surfing...Inspirational.
Love the ocean..
Best wave in the world! It doesn’t get much better than this! Perfection. ❤
gets way better than that.
Agreed
Good point about the gear and technique, most of us blame the equipment but in reality it is our technique!
Doesn’t matter what country you are in, on days like this we all feel the stoke 🤙
Exactly🌊
Thanks that was good to see 👍👍👍👍🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿🍺🍺🍺🍺
Killer video man, so cool to see how tight knit the surf community is over there. Pros lending you boards and everyone just stoked to get a big swell. Reminds me of old times, thanks for sharing brother.
Very welcome yeah the community here is small and very cool. More coming so stand bye👌
2 to 3 foot Noosa suit me fine in my later years. Stoked and love your input and passion. At your age you are a legend. Thank you.
Kind words.. Thx
Absolutely massive 🙏, thanks for the pleasure of watching your upload 😁, that was sick
My pleasure so glad you enjoyed it👌
@@oceanadventures365 yeah definitely, just watching the second half now lol 😂, hope you are well and finally got a wave in bro
Great group of guys, the kindness, loving the surf together. And showing us older folk, you just keep going and looking for the big ones, no one having to be the greatest - you are all amazing.
Awesome vid. Stoked just watching 🏄🏾♂️
I stayed in j bay ,July to October 1975 at the ronnies,the Hawaiians had come and gone from memory and we drove around to Supers one morning (me and a couple of other Aussie blokes)and walked up to the edge of the dune to see a set come through,dead straight swell,brisk offshore,sun out but cold and if that set wasn't 12 to 15 I'll stand stuffed.There was an American guy there named Robbie and he'd bought an 8 ft 6 gun and everyone stirred him about having such a big board but mark my words,he caught a set wave and his board looked like a twin fin .Im 70 now and I dont know who's left of the crew who were there,Piers,Bruce,Larry Levin,Peter Daniels,but somebody may remember it.
Great memories.. Yeah the guys who had proper big boards did well, the rest not so good..
See Peers and Larry occasionally.. They still around👍
Anybody else remember Sausage from Aus
@@oceanadventures365 I think Larry and Daniels were shaping boards around 7 ft,not many guys surfed short boards,all rounded pin or swallow tail.But then there was Bunker who took out a 5 ft 6 twin fin in board shorts in winter but he was different.
Yip I surfed Supers first time in 1973 as a twelve year old.. Had a 6.2 single fin I bought from and Auzzie at St Francis Bay. Had a logo of a train coming out of a barrel cant remember the name of Auzzie.. Pretty mod board for those days..
Love the videos. Jeffery's Bay climbs higher and higher on my list of places to surf and visit every year.
Very good!! Thank you for this one! Remembering good times at J-Bay in 2015
That was a treat to watch! Thanks putting the vid together and sharing it with the world.
Pleasure!!
Great video work. Thanks for it. And the commentary, too. Old heads get it. Every time I see J-Bay I remember the RI Water Brothers, and the travels of one of those Brothers at J Bay. I was lucky, I tell you, to be in the water with him at Ruggles on a double-overhead day way back when. I had as much fun watching him crushing the swell at Ruggles as I did riding it myself. Aloha to the RI crew from an old outsider in the lineup. And hey, go J-Bay! You'll be firing long after we all have flickered out.
Many thanks yip she will be barreling for others..
Great job and so glad you are there to film it ...can't wait for your next one....
Thanks pleasure.. Stand bye👍
Just epic waves. Amazing place.
WoW.....That's a lot off paddling, and duck diving !!!!! Epic Epic footage. Thanks !!!!!!
Great video! From an old Surfer Girl from Southern California that is now landlocked in Sacramento, California).
Loving your videos Trev, very, very nice. Best rgds...
Thx bud hope you well.. 🙏
Awesome swell coverage, Captain!
Thx Dave!
Awesome Trev, thanks for that !!
Well done, thanks, Was there in 1969, was big and perfect.
Awesome that was a long time back. Watched Midget at the world's at point in 69..Supers wasn't on the radar back then.. Sure is now😁
Congrats for this video, cheers from Spain! Those waves were so scary!
Pleasure many thanks!
Prima photography. You are blessed by location.
Beautiful waves !!!
Still flat as a lake here on the north shore of Oahu .Mahalo for the posting of the epic swell lots of mind surfing going on here !
I was so happy that your channel popped up on my feed. My family holidayed in JB when I was a child, & I've never forgotten the size of those waves, or the blue bottles that stung me when I sat on a rock 😅. Hope to make it back one day.
So glad too enjoy😁
Thanks for sharing this event with us!
Pleasure!!
Awesome fooooootaaaaaggggge duuuuuuudeeee!!!!!! Thanks mate from VB-VIRGINIA BEACH 🌴, VA!!!! HOPE YOU HAAADDD FUUUN!!!!!
Timeless Jbay.Seeing is believing.
Thanks for documenting this 👍
More coming second day was crazy..
Great video! I'm not a surfer but I could feel the excitement and joy coming through the screen
Jordy is driving some beautiful lines out there, reminds me of waves I had at another point in Baja.
Hes a stand out here for sure and a cool guy!
Great content! Keep it up
Great waves. Enjoyed the vid.
Greetings from Oz 🇦🇺🤙
Lovely stuff Bru… my favorite wave on earth..
Beautiful!
What a Beautiful place , Huge waves and so amazing are surfers ! Excellent photography. Would like to see this in person someday! 🙌🏼🫶🏼👏🏼😎🙏🏼🌅Thank You
Very special place this.. ❤️
I've never surfed it, undoubtedly I never will but for all the trips I have taken, this was one I'd give up all the others for...maybe.
J-Bay is such a perfect wave!
Never too late..
At 72, bad shoulders and hips and fixed income. If I surf anymore, it's with a Paddle on an SUP. Nice thing to dream about though. @@oceanadventures365
That’s mega, thanks for sharing Trevor
Shotto Bud!! More coming..
Hi Trevor as a fine artist who paints mainly water, beach and surfing subject matter in oils. I love the form, size and color of the best waves in this episode.
crazy trevor, great footage
Awesome- going to use my McTavish carver. 🙄 I love winter waves that good.
That looked like Dale Staples? Amazing footage! Thank you, sir.
Thought so too but not sure.. Ducky normally comes for these swells 👍
Great video. Thanks!
Oh yea I remember your videos from the swell that hit right before wsl event, keep it coming man your videos are awesome
Many thanks!
Thanks for sharing. Grettings from Argentina.
Gassed just watching, insane! Nice 👍
Awsom show, made my day ,ill remember that vid
Thanks 🙏
Epic Waves! 😲😲🤙🤙
Epic brah thanks for sharing. It was great meeting you on the Supers boardwalk today.
Thanks likewise good luck going forward 👌
Ohhhhhh he almost made it out!!! you know it's a good day when you hear that a lot
Cant believe that the WSL has dumped J Bay from the tour one of the best and most consistent wave in the world, they need to see this so they know what they could be missing.
Been an amazing winter with swells every spring tide and more. WSL scheduled the comp on the neaps... Would have been all time 2weeks either side of their dates.. My videos prove that... Idiots!!
@@oceanadventures365they do it on purpose to favor small wave aerial surfing, unfortunately this kind of surfing is frowned upon by the wsl now
Epic vid Trev! Your best yet!
Thx Sarge!!
Excellent film
Awesome footage Mate! #levelyourhorizon
Fantastic
African perfection 😎
great channel mate 🤙🏼
Aloha, mahalo for the video. I learn a lot from them.
Lekker Trev, videos are rocking bud. Keep it up. See you this weekend.
Thxs Kai!!
Sheesh boet can't beleive that they've given Supers the chop. Best event on tour this year. Okes are side stepping Indo and Jbay to the detriment of fans, contestants and commentators.
Crazy shit🙈
Thanks; great surf photography.
Good to see Bru!
Very Nice!
Awesome Thanks Mate
can't wait till the next video
Surfed jbay and bruces at the tail end of this summer last year on a small swell and was amazed by the beauty of the waves and the spot... i think i would freak out if i surfed waves this good.
excellent footage
Yeeeeaw !!! Great video…. Nice to see me on the first wave 👌🏄♂️ cheers
Pleasure! Hope you subscribed😁
@@oceanadventures365 I sure did !!! 🙌🙌
Shotto!
Sorry I cut away
.. The boss was on a bomb😁
This was a great video.
Hi Cap. Trevor. I had been monitoring the forecasts, days before and realizing the degree of the thing, I started to imagine the points that would wake up to life, such as north of Cape (Paternoster) and Cape St. Francis, as soon as the amperage drops enough. However, I confess that I had not evaluated the compound factors that would aggravate this large swell, as well as the Indian current against the swell and spring tide. Disaster!! Gordom Bay appears to have suffered the most from the tzu effect, and has become a cursed pocket. Greetings from Florianopolis, Brz.
Think we all had same thoughts and under estimation.. 👍
Beautiful waves and those dudes are absolutely flying along those waves 😅
Wow!!! Thats insane!! Thankyou!!
Pleasure👌
Magic stuff!!!
Awesome
Amazing waves
I was out at j Bay when it was that big ...and I got hammered. But I walked down the beach a little ways and surfed albatross and had the most amazing surf session of my life.
I love that "Mystery Science Theater" vibe 🙂
😁
I need to get in the water ... thanks for the inspiration.
👍
My all time dream wave for as long as I ever heard of Shaun Thompson !! Would love to go there someday, since I've even been lucky enough to be in the same water as Shaun one day out at Malibu !!
When Supers is firing its an incredible wave.. Just paddling back up the point with big walls coming down the point is insane let alone the speed you get down the line.. Hope you make it..
The "Things dreams are made of."
Good one Trevor. 😎😎😎
Thx Steve hope you well bud!!
Altas ondas, ver uma galera das 'antigas' surfando com muita alegria me bateu uma saudade de surfar, parabens a todos voces que fizeram do surf um estilo de vida, Deus abençoe, Sucesso e Mahalo!
Mahalo Marcelo!
yeah baby yeah go for it bbooyyyyssssss
Love your video's man!
We thought we had it wild in PE,but J Bay was next level.
Rad! I got to see Jordy at rincon CA a few years ago. Ripper! We like our spot but I have to admit Jbay seems a little better.
I learned to surf at the Rincon back in the mid part of the 60's. I even surfed with the Beach Boys about the time they released their first hit song. I was a bit younger than them, but they gave me a lot of great tips - they were truly nice guys! My first time out, the waves were perfect for a beginner, but as the day wore on, the waves got bigger and I became a little scared & tired. I headed in and watched the guys surf. I learned a lot that day & have had the surfing bug ever since. Now that I'm pushing 70, I stick to belly boarding - it's STILL a thrill. Loved your video, and those were beautiful waves. ❤
Epic waves
Liked and subscribed just like that.
Go in off,yeeeeeeeeeew!!!!!
Brilliant athletes sponsor them big time!
Was in J bay 1 minth ago but water was flat. Nice to see you guys getting sufs up!!
Thank you very much for this nice video howdy from SoCal
Howdy and thx!
More coming and an episode on Bruces Beauties shortly..
White shark heaven
They live here..
Brilliant video Trevor ... it shows the full picture of what actually happened. David Attenborough would be proud
🤣Thx!
Good to see old geezers on short boards. Doesn't happen much here in the UK.
Be safe Captain 🤙🏼🌊😎 Jordy is an absolute legend.
Absolutely good man!
Sion looked like this today 😂 jk but it was still fun
Lekker ou Jbay!