One wave at Waikiki July 16th | Massive Tahiti Swell hits O'ahu POV Surf.
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- This massive swell combined with a low tide made it possible to take off on first break (way outside canoes) and connect the ride all the way in to the normal canoes line up
Great wave....... But let's take a second to recognise that wax job! 🔥🔥🔥🔥👍👊😎🔥🔥
Thank you! Only takes like 30 minutes but it’s totally worth it haha.
It's his signature move! Inspiring me to clean up my messy log for sure.
That’s way too meticulous... just scrub the board like a dish and move on
@@EthanHGray I used to do that, but it really makes a difference having a good basecoat.
I do the same, you get better beads when you do this,,,,takes time but worth it! Sweet Wave!
One of my favorite spots. Love the long breaks and ability to just chill
Yeah it's a super chill wave...Waikiki is magic even today.
ALOHA 🤙 I wish I was there. I have never seen so few people out at Waikiki, and the glass on the water was soooo cool.🤙
Yeah the big waves really cleared people out on the outside.
You paddled forever for that one. Good work!
Thanks man!
Simply... beautiful sense of joy and freedom!
That thing went forever! Seeing this makes me want to come back to Hawaii so bad. Beautiful water, good vibes... ahhhh to be back
Yeah the water gets such an amazing shade of blue when the sand get's kicked up. I love it.
It's definitely the number one spot that is hard to leave😪🤙
Had the ability to move to O'ahu this year, but had to turn it down which hurt. Just no way to afford it and keep the financial future bright.
beautiful...was worth a second re-watch
glad to hear!
Wonderful! Brings back extremely fond memories surfing Waikiki breaks in the 60’s 💕💕💕
Love hearing that!
Yes…THE SIXTIES!!!
That’s wild I was there at that exact same time. Freaking insane week of waves!
Yeah it was unreal! So glad I was here for it.
This makes me miss my home in Hawaii 🤩 surprised it’s not crowded though!
Yeah it was a lot more crowded on the inside. Once the big sets started coming through it cleared everyone right out haha!
Ditto…
Wow that was awesome great view
Hey i m watching you from south west coast of France, a famous place in Europe to surf. (Lacanau, Seignosse, Hossegor area).
Your vids are beautiful. Greeting from Bordeaux 🇫🇷
Yeah france has some awesome waves! the beach breaks are perfect over there.
How close are you to nazares?
Cool!
Thanks for sharing
Super cool video, It was a right, then a left, then a right! Looked really fun.
Yeah it just keep reforming!
Great video. What an awesome ride.
Thank you!
Super fun. The best thing about Waikiki is the water temp and the view on the way in.
And the waves! haha
Smooth operator
Going straight!!
Epic swells
Wow what a fun perspective.....
Thank you!
Thanks for sharing!! Wish,I was there.
Legend
I come from Morocco and we have very beautiful spots, between the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean it is sometimes violent, as usual I watch this refreshing video with a good homemade ice cream (^^)🇲🇦
Lol avoid surfers and don't fall in the water beautiful objective
I was out there paddling out for 20 minutes before i turned around and caught one all the way in.
Hahaha yeah I've done that before
Not a short paddle to get into that one.
Yeah they were mostly extremely long paddles. They're very hard waves to catch when at this size.
Wish I was there!
Right On!
ooooooo that ride 🤩🤙
You’re not a nurse working at Queens are you?
Nope hahaha.
nice long ride! that water though!!!
its not Tahiti ??
🔥🔥🔥
Sick ride!! Inside the blue 💙
That was a nice long ride !
Seemed like a long paddle ? Bad position ? Slow building wave ? Always how it is (there?) ? I've never surfed so I'm curious. (Lots of boogie boarding body surfing as a kid)
Worked his tail off on a long board. At least he got into it!
Yeah kinda a combination of all of those. This was a smaller wave for the day so I had a lot of ground to cover to catch up to it. The waves almost never break out there but yeah they're a lot harder than they look to get into way out the back. Much easier when it doubles up again on the inside.
@@_aidan_b cool, thanks !
Great job, great effort !
Woowwww nice wave!!
Nice! Can't wait to return to Hawaii. Your board looks awesome 🔥🔥🙌 Do you mind sharing what brand it is?
Interislands
Looking very nice.
Thank you..It still looks nice there in Waikiki area. Although, I did hear about the big waves that have hit many residences there over the last several days. The news from your Island's channel 4 gave some great reports. Wow!! Big waves coming on shore hitting buildings That was crazy!!
@@LMays-cu2hp Yeah that was on the big island, on the high tides there the waves often crash over the road its something else.
@@_aidan_b Thanks for sharing.
Sweet
It’s crazy how soooo many tourist pre beginners think they can only paddle half way out, and when the wave comes it should just pick them up and they will be SURFING.
You have to actually work at catching the wave people! Then weave between the
“bouys.”
True i see your point. But the inside on this day was the best spot at this time of day and location if you could surf thru the crowd. There was a sandbar on the inside and the waits were not as long as sitting on the outside unless you went surfing on the outside around 5pm when the swell peaked
Wow awesome
What is the bottom like there. Like sandbar. Or sharp ass rocks
Yeah I think it's all sand and reef. The reef is generally not too sharp out here.
How in the world would a beginner surfer dip and dodge all those other people? Are collisions frequent?
Yeah, I'm sure there's some collisions but on a big day most of the true beginners can't make it out past the whitewater, so generally the people out there know how to dodge to some degree. Things usually work out.
How did it compare to other big south swells? Also how big was that face at 0:20? Seeing visible size on a GoPro at Canoes is impressive.
This was actually the smallest wave I got at canoes yesterday (although probably the cleanest). This wave was probably around 6-7 foot face, but the biggest ones were about 12-15+, especially at publics. I'm still editing the full video where I went to publics and queens as well. This is definitely the biggest of the season and bigger than the Aipa swell last year, and a lot of people are saying it is the biggest since 1997.
Are you kidding? This swell was historic. It had over 20 ft + in some places. That wave was like 3-4 ft AT BEST.
@@howzt Yeah 3-4ft Hawaiian, probably 6-7 face.
@@_aidan_b NOOOO WAY, maybe for YOU that was a 6-7 ft. face. He had to pump that board like it was a dying fish. That was barely a 3-4 ft face. Did you see the little white water crumbling in the back? With a long board like that on a 6-7 ft face, that thing would not have even needed to barely paddle. He was paddling for his life.
@@howzt Were you out there that day? The waves are super hard to get into, people were barely catching them out the back at canoes. You have to paddle really hard to get into them, and then they back off and you have to pump to ensure you can make the section. When halfway through yeah it's 3 ft, maybe even less but when I dropped it it's easily overhead.
Very nice! I just can't forget the massive crowd Waikiki is :P
Hello people a storm in Pacific is going by. So why all the surprise. Don't you watch the weather
Threes?
No this is outer canoes but hopefully I'll go to three's either today or tomorrow. Looks so crowded there and lots of drop ins.
Looks like “Threes”.
It's actually just canoes!
@@_aidan_b ah…I stand corrected. Aloha brudda
Log ride
Stay Psyched
Great wave but that’s maybe 3 feet so massive is what we like to call an exaggeration
That's why it says massive SWELL, not massive wave. This was the biggest swell in 20+ years to hit the south shore of oahu and some of the waves I surfed that day were way overhead so I think massive is an apt word to use.
How were the crowds?
It was extremely crowded, probably 300+ people at canoes, queens, publics and in between but super spread out so didn't feel bad at all. Lot's of in between waves that only come to life on big swells.
The lifeguards were doing work on the beach and on the jet skis keeping the real bad kooks out, for most of the day until it really calmed down in the evening it was super spread out
@@mattu5118 Yeah those guys probably lost their voices yesterday haha.
Long board heaven for older chilled guys or people learning to balance. U,s border laws are ridiculous I've knocked on your door why won't you just let me in....
Yeah it's such an ideal wave to learn on...I spent a lot of time here when I was a beginner. Hopefully you can make it out.
Wish I was there!
I'm definitely glad that I am!