Hey Ben . . I love your spirit . . I started surfing at the beginning of the short board revolution in 69 . . Growing up in the LBC we would look for jetty bounces in Seal Beach and Surfside, Ca.. Surfing a perfect fall afternoon is what it is, but getting a quick barrel and eating it a few feet from the rocks are some of my fondest memories . . Keep doing what your doing. Cheers . . Paul
Awesome video Ben! Yeeewwww!!! For the boyzzzz!!!! And what about a Top 10 or 5 of the best waves you have scored, or maybe even your favorite trips or something like that.
Greatest video ever made! I thought the Great Lakes looked soooo sick! Also that one pic of you hitting that air in one of the novelty places was really cool
Big island of Hawaii!!! Best Noveltys in the world! 🙌🏽🙌🏽 I know about 20 spots that would absolutely blow your mind!! All types sand reef rocks year round😏👌🏽👌🏽
Bron Heussenstamm did a movie at the Great Lakes about a surf trip. It was called 'Unsalted'. What epic fun. Love the whole tude. I would do the same throughout my 40+ years. I had a few rocks that would break on a zero swell and be the only one there for a good reason. However, every now a then a two-footer would come through large enough to get barrolled. Then a car would pull up thinking I was a complete kook and no one would come out. That's the beauty of it. Great video and excellent theme.
Nice, love the Great Lakes vid! For me, it's Killer Dana, what's left of it outside the long jetty in Dana Point, and the time my buddy and I scored an epic little A-frame in the Sea of Cortez, south of La Paz, when we got our rental stuck in the sand (1991?) after driving up from Cabo- way past the East Cape, still can't figure out where the swell came from, maybe a tanker? 30 minutes of fun split peaks on a shallow reef before the little swell was gone. It was January, so no Chubasco- Oh yeah, Los Frailes in East Cape proper when a chubasco was spinning- solid double overhead left drainers, not really a novelty but a rare score for sure!
I am 40 years old. I have lived on east and west coast. I have even lived in Italy, basically near the ocean most of my life. I have never even been on a surf board, but I found this video by accident and couldn't stop watching.
Well presented Ben! Drinking coffee and talking shit.....I love it man! You have a great attitude, I'm stoked I found your channel. By the way, that was a sick count down!
Fun to watch - thanks! For a few months in1975 while waiting to enter the Navy I started surfing on an old 60's long board I picked up for a few dollars. I was in a head space I just didn't want to fight for waves so taking off way out and barreling along by the time I got to the regular line up just fit my mood. I started figuring out this little unridable left at Doheny that peeled off really fast with almost no power. I got to where i could trim that long board zip across the face for about 50 feet and pull out right before smashing into the rocks. Had it all to myself and it never got boring.
There is a great novelty wave on Oahu, lee shore by a hotel. The wave bounces back off the shore and hits the incoming wave. Surfers get in the sweet spot where the waves collide and shoot straight up about 10 or 12 feet. What a hoot.
Stoked that you gave the great lakes the top spot! I'm visiting Reno NV right now, but word has it that Lake Tahoe goes off here as well. There's a pressure system comming this week! I'm going to check it out! Mahalo broth@!
another novelty on columbia river - last summer, I saw 3 guys paddleboarding in the gorge when the wind was blowing very hard - they were catching waves that were made in the river by the wind - they could have easily did it on a surf board instead of a sup
Super cool video, I've surfed some weird little waves in the past and you've made me want to get back on it. I don't know how my 53 year old body will like some of the gnarly obstacles but you've inspired me to look at some new spots. I've subscribed, keep it coming.
Thank you for the kind words about the Great Lakes! Even though I grew up there, I never surfed them until I went back to visit this year. Then again, they didn't have computer and phone apps to predict swell like they do nowadays and wetsuits were very hard to come by in that area back then. Scoring a summer swell up there is also a grand slam accomplishment!!!!
your vibe and enthusiasm for the Novz' and surfing so many clutch and dangerous spots are inspiring. nice work on the vid.. the lil interludes and mix of shots made it entertaining.
As someone who has panic for deep waters and would never surf, it's weird how your videos inspire my longboarding, always looking for the strangest streets to bomb... thank you pal, thumbs up! keep on surfing (water or asphalt)
That Left at Coffee's!!!! I would love to charge that!!! looks like my kind of fun.......those rocks and concrete pieces...and the pilings from the former pier!!!! NUTS!!! Congratulations on getting that spot soo Fun.....I hope you can surf it again one day!!!
Mighty sick vid...was a novelty wave rider in the 70's and 80's. People thoght I was crazy but f^%$ that! Surfed the Great Lakes, the left in the Sebastian Inlet, Tampa Bay during a storm and a few other spots around Florida and Georgia! Keep the stoke going, brother...
like the bay waves! and the coloardo wave . you might want check next time your on the west coast. 204s in san clemente, even when waves r killer all around this wave creates the craziest backwash that some times can surf out! (problem is its probably perfect surf down the way but this is about nolvety right.) puget sound WA , as the PNW coast gets hammered by huge swells , the swell enter the sound pretty far in maybe 3o or so miles. there r endless points , I saw incredible but small long point breaks!. only problem lots of wood. this is logging country and i am talking telephone poles in the line up. any way keep up your search.
cheers ben for sharing your legend stoke with us and the boys all the way down here in ausyralia heading out on the weekend novelty seatching with the boys keep shredding yeww
I can really relate to this clip, growing up surfing inside the Gulf of St Vincent in Adelaide, South Australia. Its a miracle that place gets surf at all, which made it so much fun to surf spots in very rare conditions, particularly screaming stormies.
Know what I like best? That you and your friends went out and had a great time! It didn't take scary huge monster waves. You enjoyed yourself so much from those 'novelty' waves! I can hear it in your voice. Makes me smile! Really liked watching the video, well done! The slo-mo was so revealing; surfing is not easy, is it? Such balance! I wish I had the ability! I know you know what you're doing, but this ol' Mom asks: please watch the rocks, rebar, pilings, piers and jetties! Don't want YOU to be the skewered like a shishkabob!
Loved watching you surf these different waves! Awesome video. For some reason I love the song playing during the Colorado river spot. Can you tell me what it is please?
Holy @$%- ben! I never knew that this was one of your channels!I always used to watch your videos as a kid, and now you have your main channel @BenGravy I was looking through all of your channels and saw this!
i went to iceland and didnt surf but that place is LOADED with novelties. theres a crazy heavy like 5ft wedge in the north, clean slabby reefs everywhere and crazy beachbreaks.
i agree novelty waves are fucking awesome theres just something so special about them and getting to surf a special weird spot, loved this video... imagine all the novelty waves there are out hidden in the world just waiting to be discovered in places we'd NEVER think to look...
Hell yeah you just made me wanna film some of the novelty's round home! Like you said they might not be round for long, gotta keep faith they will break again 🙏
totally awesome dude, you've given me inspiration to surf the waves that are pushed in by the ships in the river near my pad, perfect rights, barreling and all..yik yik
There's a sick wave at my local spot It's in the middle of the inlet at low tide. It's basically in the sound and you have to wait for a 50ft yacht to drive by but you can grab a solid 1ft wave. Not big but the face that you are surfing in the sound always makes it worth it
Sick Vid!!! SF GG Bridge has to be a novelty too even though it is regularly surfed In Aus some places I love are: - Froggies behind Snapper Rocks - Lefts at Tallebudgera Creek and heaps of Rivermouths when the swell is huge !!
Josh T. I surfed there for ten years, caught that left novelty 2 times. hit the rocks once, but got barreled same day. second time wasn't as big but the swell angle was better, so got a little wedge with a longer less tretrous left. definitely fun wave when you catch it right.
You need to go to Wabasso just south of Sebastion, its like the Pipeline of Florida, breaks right on the beach, could almost hi five someone on a tube while your on the beach
That Caribbean wave is called Cueva del Indio. However, on super rare combo swells a novelty wave called El Fenómeno breaks. You start by taking off way back, right in between the two huge rocks like a slide chute, going right until you meet this HUGE bowl section where the wave wrapping around the far side of the rock (it's a big rock) meets your original wave. You can surf the wave from in between the rocks connecting the second wave all the way to the shore. Probably the most unique wave I've ever surfed.
I feel you on novelty waves my favorite is Long Beach next to the jetty between seal Beach and long Beach the conditions are right when there is sand being pumped in from the jetty and piling up. It also requires a hurricane in Mexico to break in Long Beach usually cuz there is a breakwater half a mile out that blocks swells. when all is right it's about Waikiki conditions but only half the ride. When you wait next to the bouy it's right where the sand is pumping highest and breaking best. Haven't seen it in years my dad hasn't either halfway to the Belmont pier breaks at times up to 6-12 feet on shore pretty sick tube pics can be found.
Loved this video man! You should come to buckroe beach in Hampton VA. Not at all a surfing beach, its usually flat 99% of the year (especially during summer) but when there's a storm, which usually happens a lot with tropical storms or hurricanes, we get 6 foot waves. Buckroe is bay water and there's 3 different areas with rocks along the shores and there's a pier. Not many people get to surf it, usually the same old surfers who are crazy enough to go out during rain and 40 mile wind speeds.
Good shit bro. I like this because it obviously requires the skill any surfing does but is interesting for being out there. Kinda like, not just being different which is what everyone tries to do and in the process all end up being the same, but is similar to thinking outside the box thinking. The kind of thinking people can benefit from when unlocking universal mysteries. Thinking askew puts one in a position of their own, and at an advantage to the masses. Similar thinking helped me to unravel the mystery on the Stone walls of Peru. You know, the impossible joinery, there's a clue right there, I figured it out. I alone figured out what nobody else can. One does not know what might happen when traveling down an unknown road. Stay on that road. You got the juice bro.
That wedge in Puerto Rico has a name and its works really good even when the wind gets on it. The wedge is not always working though, so you got lucky to score it. Still my fav wave in PR!
Hi Ben I lived in the Uk near the Severn Bore in Gloucestershire. Never surfed it. But i reckon that i something you should look at. People can ride it for up to an hour.
Me and a buddy scored a novelty spot of our own this fall. All the sand got swept from a certain cove in the Laguna beach area and the swell was a WSW so everything was walled. We decided to check out a spot that normally has backwash in the summer and discovered an insane wave. It would feather from an outer reef before throwing onto another. We surfed it for about an hour before the tide got too low and the reef went dry. I doubt I will ever see it break like that again
Duuuuude this video was soo sick, i live in Oahu and never thought of searching for novelty waves but damn this inspired me to go on the hunt for some!
and on oregon coast, there are some waves that break up rivers - so I won't give away the popular ones, just one that nobody does it on inside nehalem bay, at low tide is a shallow sandbar and it forms a right - only can do it at low tide, and there are probably sharks nearby because of food chain stuff going on I wanted to do that one many times, but never had the balls
Dang some nicely captured chaos senor. I grew up in La Boca a town site of the former Panama Canal Zone. My brother and I surfed three different novelty waves in the Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal. (1) Flamenco Island SSW side. Wave breaks at higher tides. (2) Balboa Yacht Club sandbar. South of anchored vessels (3) West Bank. On road to former Lepper Colony, when US dredged canal entrance properly. Also when I was young we caught (4) Bridge of Americas East. Perfect A frame on huge June South swell. Keep up the Novelty Act my man.
Where I live (Nosara Costa Rica) theres a small beach with like 4 different novelties. Ive seen 4ft barrels but never caught them, as they sit infront of a rock wall. But when a swell hits, that beach is the best.
enjoyed you video.... I'm born in mn. lived in pb county fl forever....check out peanut island....when pump house and reef rd are huge and wind goes up the inlet.
Great compilation dude! I live here in Bali. We have a popular wave called Dreamland but when there is a good sized swell on the inside there is this insane little barreling right that breaks on onto a reef shelf. You need a beater to surf without destroying your fins but me and a couple friends are the only people I've seen surf it. I have to send you some clips!
Man, I surf tybee island, and the main break is a right between two jetties. It goes off pretty often, but one time we were catching waves that was breaking a foot away from the jetty all the way down. Super sick
Your novelty stoke is so contagious Ben! Got me searching for a couple novelty waves with the boys! Yeew
Get after it!!!
hope you get to go to g-land one day Ben
Yeww Ben this novelty edit was sick!!!!
Thank you!!!!
Hey Ben . . I love your spirit . . I started surfing at the beginning of the short board revolution in 69 . . Growing up in the LBC we would look for jetty bounces in Seal Beach and Surfside, Ca.. Surfing a perfect fall afternoon is what it is, but getting a quick barrel and eating it a few feet from the rocks are some of my fondest memories . . Keep doing what your doing. Cheers . . Paul
Awesome video Ben! Yeeewwww!!! For the boyzzzz!!!! And what about a Top 10 or 5 of the best waves you have scored, or maybe even your favorite trips or something like that.
Sick dude thanks for the idea!! Def going to do something !!
Greatest video ever made! I thought the Great Lakes looked soooo sick! Also that one pic of you hitting that air in one of the novelty places was really cool
Thank you so much!!! :)
Great Vlog Ben !! Some real stomping wave action. You seem fearless. Cool AF.
Thank you!!! :)
Big island of Hawaii!!! Best Noveltys in the world! 🙌🏽🙌🏽 I know about 20 spots that would absolutely blow your mind!! All types sand reef rocks year round😏👌🏽👌🏽
Sounds beyond amazing!!!
China Walls on Oahu!!
YOmamaSMOKESdab you from big island?? Im looking 4 dabs.
This is absolutely awesome.. Thank you for sharing your top 10 novelty waves... love the stoke man,
Surf block island, Rhode Island heavy novelties👌
On my bucket list for sure!!!
Carlos V block island is the shit. i was just there yesterday
Trueee
Carlos V I
I was there to
Bron Heussenstamm did a movie at the Great Lakes about a surf trip. It was called 'Unsalted'. What epic fun. Love the whole tude. I would do the same throughout my 40+ years. I had a few rocks that would break on a zero swell and be the only one there for a good reason. However, every now a then a two-footer would come through large enough to get barrolled. Then a car would pull up thinking I was a complete kook and no one would come out. That's the beauty of it. Great video and excellent theme.
Nice, love the Great Lakes vid! For me, it's Killer Dana, what's left of it outside the long jetty in Dana Point, and the time my buddy and I scored an epic little A-frame in the Sea of Cortez, south of La Paz, when we got our rental stuck in the sand (1991?) after driving up from Cabo- way past the East Cape, still can't figure out where the swell came from, maybe a tanker? 30 minutes of fun split peaks on a shallow reef before the little swell was gone. It was January, so no Chubasco- Oh yeah, Los Frailes in East Cape proper when a chubasco was spinning- solid double overhead left drainers, not really a novelty but a rare score for sure!
Yewww sounds like some awesome adventures man!!!
I love how stoked you are on waves most people wouldn't even paddle out for. Good stuff man.
Thanks dude!
Awesome vid bro! Was glued start to finish....very well done!
Great work mate, you guys have put a big effort into getting this stuff up here, congrats for the upload !!!!!!!!
Thanks so much!!
I am 40 years old. I have lived on east and west coast. I have even lived in Italy, basically near the ocean most of my life. I have never even been on a surf board, but I found this video by accident and couldn't stop watching.
Well presented Ben! Drinking coffee and talking shit.....I love it man! You have a great attitude, I'm stoked I found your channel.
By the way, that was a sick count down!
Fun to watch - thanks!
For a few months in1975 while waiting to enter the Navy I started surfing on an old 60's long board I picked up for a few dollars. I was in a head space I just didn't want to fight for waves so taking off way out and barreling along by the time I got to the regular line up just fit my mood. I started figuring out this little unridable left at Doheny that peeled off really fast with almost no power. I got to where i could trim that long board zip across the face for about 50 feet and pull out right before smashing into the rocks. Had it all to myself and it never got boring.
NOVELTY WAVES RULE! Great video, thank you...
There is a great novelty wave on Oahu, lee shore by a hotel. The wave bounces back off the shore and hits the incoming wave. Surfers get in the sweet spot where the waves collide and shoot straight up about 10 or 12 feet. What a hoot.
haha that sounds awesome!!
Stoked that you gave the great lakes the top spot! I'm visiting Reno NV right now, but word has it that Lake Tahoe goes off here as well. There's a pressure system comming this week! I'm going to check it out! Mahalo broth@!
Oh you're out there!!!
I love the premise, and the enthusiasm! subscribed
Thanks so much!!
Awesome video!!!
Is that neon Indian playing during the Colorado river surf part? What's that band and song?
Ben! Beautiful stoke man. You got thinking about looking for all kinds of novelties in life. Thank you!
another novelty on columbia river - last summer, I saw 3 guys paddleboarding in the gorge when the wind was blowing very hard - they were catching waves that were made in the river by the wind - they could have easily did it on a surf board instead of a sup
so sick!!!
Epic episode! Great surfing, footage, edit. best 18 minutes today.
THANK YOU!!!!
Super cool video, I've surfed some weird little waves in the past and you've made me want to get back on it. I don't know how my 53 year old body will like some of the gnarly obstacles but you've inspired me to look at some new spots. I've subscribed, keep it coming.
Thank you!!!
Thank you for the kind words about the Great Lakes! Even though I grew up there, I never surfed them until I went back to visit this year. Then again, they didn't have computer and phone apps to predict swell like they do nowadays and wetsuits were very hard to come by in that area back then. Scoring a summer swell up there is also a grand slam accomplishment!!!!
your vibe and enthusiasm for the Novz' and surfing so many clutch and dangerous spots are inspiring. nice work on the vid.. the lil interludes and mix of shots made it entertaining.
Awesome video! I learned how to surf on novelty waves in the Chesapeake Bay. Old run down piers were the best!
Wow that sounds awesome!!
As someone who has panic for deep waters and would never surf, it's weird how your videos inspire my longboarding, always looking for the strangest streets to bomb... thank you pal, thumbs up! keep on surfing (water or asphalt)
watched this one a lot of times, just to realize you're driving around naked and no seatbelt. Wild. Savage.
Love what your doing!! Thank you for the feel good smiles :)
Man those lake waves! 🙂👌🏻
so fun!!
SHELTAH!!!!!!! Burton n Will are homies....glad you had fun here on the lakes braddah;)
Thanks so much!!!
... and that's what surfing is all about. You got it bro !!!
Stoked! :)
That Left at Coffee's!!!! I would love to charge that!!! looks like my kind of fun.......those rocks and concrete pieces...and the pilings from the former pier!!!! NUTS!!! Congratulations on getting that spot soo Fun.....I hope you can surf it again one day!!!
GREAT VIDEO! GOT ME PUMPED. HOOKIPA HAS WAVES THIS MORNING TOO. CAN'T WAIT.
Sick hope you score!!!
That pier shot is incredible!
Mighty sick vid...was a novelty wave rider in the 70's and 80's. People thoght I was crazy but f^%$ that! Surfed the Great Lakes, the left in the Sebastian Inlet, Tampa Bay during a storm and a few other spots around Florida and Georgia! Keep the stoke going, brother...
Thanks so much man!!!
like the bay waves! and the coloardo wave . you might want check next time your on the west coast. 204s in san clemente, even when waves r killer all around this wave creates the craziest backwash that some times can surf out! (problem is its probably perfect surf down the way but this is about nolvety right.) puget sound WA , as the PNW coast gets hammered by huge swells , the swell enter the sound pretty far in maybe 3o or so miles. there r endless points , I saw incredible but small long point breaks!. only problem lots of wood. this is logging country and i am talking telephone poles in the line up. any way keep up your search.
Thanks so much for all the tips!!! HEAVY log life
Yeww miami made it 2nd, glad to see my underrated home break on here!
PLace rules!!
cheers ben for sharing your legend stoke with us and the boys all the way down here in ausyralia heading out on the weekend novelty seatching with the boys keep shredding
yeww
Thank you!!! Let us know what you find
I can really relate to this clip, growing up surfing inside the Gulf of St Vincent in Adelaide, South Australia. Its a miracle that place gets surf at all, which made it so much fun to surf spots in very rare conditions, particularly screaming stormies.
Know what I like best? That you and your friends went out and had a great time! It didn't take scary huge monster waves. You enjoyed yourself so much from those 'novelty' waves! I can hear it in your voice. Makes me smile! Really liked watching the video, well done! The slo-mo was so revealing; surfing is not easy, is it? Such balance! I wish I had the ability! I know you know what you're doing, but this ol' Mom asks: please watch the rocks, rebar, pilings, piers and jetties! Don't want YOU to be the skewered like a shishkabob!
You’re nuts and I mean that in the best possible way! Great video!
Great job man I love the beach
thank you!
No problem
never seen someone so psyched to surf footers! good on ya mate.
hahaha stoking!!!
Loved watching you surf these different waves! Awesome video. For some reason I love the song playing during the Colorado river spot. Can you tell me what it is please?
Thanks so much!! I honestly have no idea what that song is haha
This is awesome.... thanks for sharing this feel good vid
This is such an inspiration, seen a bunch of weird waves at places not even slightly considered "spots". Paddling out next time for sure
A board doesn't last long when its in Bens hands! haha Much respect
Best. Content. Ever. Holy shit these waves are sick! Keep it up
Love the format!! Sick Video!
Thanks dude! :)
Sweaty surfers, love the enthusiasm bro. Keep up the good work and more vids my man
Awesome video and contagious enthusiasm; sweet thanks for making good creative ways to make surfing funner!
Holy @$%- ben! I never knew that this was one of your channels!I always used to watch your videos as a kid, and now you have your main channel @BenGravy I was looking through all of your channels and saw this!
thise are some cool shots. I fully understand your passion for this.
Your the best at surfing and you catch the coolest waves
i went to iceland and didnt surf but that place is LOADED with novelties. theres a crazy heavy like 5ft wedge in the north, clean slabby reefs everywhere and crazy beachbreaks.
Sounds amazing!!
i agree novelty waves are fucking awesome theres just something so special about them and getting to surf a special weird spot, loved this video... imagine all the novelty waves there are out hidden in the world just waiting to be discovered in places we'd NEVER think to look...
Man there are SO many!!!
Hell yeah you just made me wanna film some of the novelty's round home! Like you said they might not be round for long, gotta keep faith they will break again 🙏
totally awesome dude, you've given me inspiration to surf the waves that are pushed in by the ships in the river near my pad, perfect rights, barreling and all..yik yik
There's a sick wave at my local spot
It's in the middle of the inlet at low tide. It's basically in the sound and you have to wait for a 50ft yacht to drive by but you can grab a solid 1ft wave. Not big but the face that you are surfing in the sound always makes it worth it
Sick Vid!!!
SF GG Bridge has to be a novelty too even though it is regularly surfed
In Aus some places I love are:
- Froggies behind Snapper Rocks
- Lefts at Tallebudgera Creek
and heaps of Rivermouths when the swell is huge !!
there is this break at straddie called backwash its mad two full force waves colliding on a 45 degree angle
Damn i need to get out there!!!
Nub TV oh brother it's sick the wave will last as long as the tide is high once it gets to low no good
this is so sick, makes me wanna catch some novelties in england now. keep killing it man fuck yeah for super boards
Hell yeah dude get out there & find some!!
good on ya mate Love IT keep the search alive was a real treat
Love novelty waves! have you ever surfed amazons in the Gulf? epic break inside the inlet that runs left for daze!
Fuck would love to man!! Gulf of where...?
Great stuff. Only a surfer knows that stoke. Indescribable. Magic.
Southern side of Botany Bay at Cape Solander, NSW Australia. When the winter storms hit it, it becomes the venue for the Cape Fear competition.
I've surfed Sebastian inlet my whole life and never surfed the left
But I am 13
It's fun!
Josh T. I surfed there for ten years, caught that left novelty 2 times. hit the rocks once, but got barreled same day. second time wasn't as big but the swell angle was better, so got a little wedge with a longer less tretrous left. definitely fun wave when you catch it right.
Nub TV check previous comment
You need to go to Wabasso just south of Sebastion, its like the Pipeline of Florida, breaks right on the beach, could almost hi five someone on a tube while your on the beach
AWESOME video!!
THANK YOU!!!!
Mate brilliant, bringing the Kong island back to surfin!
thank you!
Nice vid man. Surfing in Cornwall/England (where I'm from) is like all those waves rolled into one haha
haha fuck yeah!!!
That Caribbean wave is called Cueva del Indio. However, on super rare combo swells a novelty wave called El Fenómeno breaks. You start by taking off way back, right in between the two huge rocks like a slide chute, going right until you meet this HUGE bowl section where the wave wrapping around the far side of the rock (it's a big rock) meets your original wave. You can surf the wave from in between the rocks connecting the second wave all the way to the shore. Probably the most unique wave I've ever surfed.
WOw that's epic!! Hopefully one day I can catch it!!
Wow! Such a good video men!
thank you!!
I feel you on novelty waves my favorite is Long Beach next to the jetty between seal Beach and long Beach the conditions are right when there is sand being pumped in from the jetty and piling up. It also requires a hurricane in Mexico to break in Long Beach usually cuz there is a breakwater half a mile out that blocks swells. when all is right it's about Waikiki conditions but only half the ride. When you wait next to the bouy it's right where the sand is pumping highest and breaking best. Haven't seen it in years my dad hasn't either halfway to the Belmont pier breaks at times up to 6-12 feet on shore pretty sick tube pics can be found.
Love these surfing videos :)
Loved this video man! You should come to buckroe beach in Hampton VA. Not at all a surfing beach, its usually flat 99% of the year (especially during summer) but when there's a storm, which usually happens a lot with tropical storms or hurricanes, we get 6 foot waves. Buckroe is bay water and there's 3 different areas with rocks along the shores and there's a pier. Not many people get to surf it, usually the same old surfers who are crazy enough to go out during rain and 40 mile wind speeds.
Fort Myers has a couple of Novelty Spots. Enjoy. Cool video
Sick!!
most definitely check out the Big Island of Hawaii!! Has some breath taking novelty rips!!
i like what u doing mahalo for sharing ur adventures ...keep going .. 🤙🏽🤙🏽🤙🏽🤙🏽
Good shit bro. I like this because it obviously requires the skill any surfing does but is interesting for being out there. Kinda like, not just being different which is what everyone tries to do and in the process all end up being the same, but is similar to thinking outside the box thinking. The kind of thinking people can benefit from when unlocking universal mysteries. Thinking askew puts one in a position of their own, and at an advantage to the masses.
Similar thinking helped me to unravel the mystery on the Stone walls of Peru. You know, the impossible joinery, there's a clue right there, I figured it out.
I alone figured out what nobody else can. One does not know what might happen when traveling down an unknown road. Stay on that road.
You got the juice bro.
That wedge in Puerto Rico has a name and its works really good even when the wind gets on it. The wedge is not always working though, so you got lucky to score it. Still my fav wave in PR!
Hi Ben I lived in the Uk near the Severn Bore in Gloucestershire. Never surfed it. But i reckon that i something you should look at. People can ride it for up to an hour.
Dude!! I've always wanted to do that!! How often does it break?!
Me and a buddy scored a novelty spot of our own this fall. All the sand got swept from a certain cove in the Laguna beach area and the swell was a WSW so everything was walled. We decided to check out a spot that normally has backwash in the summer and discovered an insane wave. It would feather from an outer reef before throwing onto another. We surfed it for about an hour before the tide got too low and the reef went dry. I doubt I will ever see it break like that again
Nice dude!! Those are the best little scores!!
Great top 10, nicely told
Duuuuude this video was soo sick, i live in Oahu and never thought of searching for novelty waves but damn this inspired me to go on the hunt for some!
and on oregon coast, there are some waves that break up rivers - so I won't give away the popular ones, just one that nobody does it on
inside nehalem bay, at low tide is a shallow sandbar and it forms a right - only can do it at low tide, and there are probably sharks nearby because of food chain stuff going on
I wanted to do that one many times, but never had the balls
:)
surfed that in a kayak at least 20 times never saw any sharks but would not be surprised.
Amazing, Miami so glassy
surfing Lake Tahoe is the Ultimate in Novelty Wave Surfing. come out when we get a huge wind event and it can be overhead at 6,200 feet.
What!!! I'm in!
Sick video man!
thanks!!
love the video! say, what is that thing you have on your nose in some of the clips ? some sort of noseclip/gopro combi ?
nicely done! does the ferry across the Delaware bay kick up any surfable wakes when coming into dock? could be #11! yeewww
I've heard legend, but I need to go test it!!!
Have u guys ever surfed the tidal bore?
Dang some nicely captured chaos senor. I grew up in La Boca a town site of the former Panama Canal Zone. My brother and I surfed three different novelty waves in the Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal. (1) Flamenco Island SSW side. Wave breaks at higher tides. (2) Balboa Yacht Club sandbar. South of anchored vessels (3) West Bank. On road to former Lepper Colony, when US dredged canal entrance properly. Also when I was young we caught (4) Bridge of Americas East. Perfect A frame on huge June South swell. Keep up the Novelty Act my man.
Where I live (Nosara Costa Rica) theres a small beach with like 4 different novelties. Ive seen 4ft barrels but never caught them, as they sit infront of a rock wall. But when a swell hits, that beach is the best.
enjoyed you video.... I'm born in mn. lived in pb county fl forever....check out peanut island....when pump house and reef rd are huge and wind goes up the inlet.
Great compilation dude! I live here in Bali. We have a popular wave called Dreamland but when there is a good sized swell on the inside there is this insane little barreling right that breaks on onto a reef shelf. You need a beater to surf without destroying your fins but me and a couple friends are the only people I've seen surf it. I have to send you some clips!
Man, I surf tybee island, and the main break is a right between two jetties. It goes off pretty often, but one time we were catching waves that was breaking a foot away from the jetty all the way down. Super sick
Ha! I have same coffee/tea mug :) Bought it in London :D
YES!! Me too haha
there's a place called hemloch on long Island. have to walk there from another beach but always pumps up a few feet bigger then the swell calls for.