For a 55 year old surfer that used to live in HMB and surf up and down the coast this was a beautiful reminder of how OB can get. Now living on the east coast and it is snowing but still surf I can feel the burn of this paddle. You pull up and it looks perfect and easy paddle out. An hour later and 5 beat downs you make it outside glad to be alive and exhausted while your kook buddy paddle out and never got his hair wet, that is OB lol. Beautiful footage and dedication, thank you for sharing. Now I want a Tres Amigo's Burrito!
I'm that kook. 60 year old here. I lived on 8th and Fulton 35 years ago. After taking an hour to get outside, I never had the strength to do anything but go over the falls a few times, then head back in. I switched to boogie boarding. Regardless, the burritos afterward were the best tasting thing ever.
I am a 74 year old surfer from Manhattan Beach! I went to Mira Costa , and lived all over hermosa and Manhattan.....I now live in the Montana wilderness at the Canadian border.
Picture perfect waves, the kind I'd sketch on a Pee-Chee folder when I was in school. Thanks for sharing the waves with us my friend, good stuff indeed! 👍 👍
In the mid 90’s to early 2000’s I was out there every year about this time and I think I may of caught the place like that twice in that ten year span…great footage, thanks!
Beautiful footage, thanks for sharing! I do not recall ever surfing there with these type of conditions- looks like a rare gem of a day. Most times it was a cold grey hairy beast, even on modest days. Loved it though because it was so open and never had to fight for waves.
I lived on 48th ave and Judah 2 blocks from Ocean Beach in 1987 - 1991. I could see the waves from my living room and I had a roof deck and you could even see the sand. I saw many days with waves that good but often by the time you paddled out the conditions would change drastically. Wind or fog and it was really hard to keep from drifting south. A couple times when I didn’t bother to keep from drifting, I would end up a mile or more down the beach by the time I got out. It is one of the hardest places to paddle out anywhere. But in those days in front of my house I surfed alone most of the time. It could be scary out there all by yourself. I surfed many days as good as it got, alone. Often it was to big to go out. I remember one stormy day, it was the biggest I ever saw it or anywhere else by far. One wave continuously broke all the way from the outer reef (about a mile out) to the shore. It must have been a hundred feet high.
I was wondering if somebody was going to mention Huntington Beach cliffs. I used to surf it, and the very first time, like an idiot, I tried to stay in one spot. It didn’t take long for me to figure out I was wasting energy so, I let the drift take me, and then I would take the long walk back😂😂😂
@@jasonjackson5696 They had a Surfing Contest at the cliffs and all the competitors had drifted outside their boundary and I was the only one within their boundary, I guess you can say I won that day. Every Kook has his day.
Yep that's OB changes in a flash. That's when the line from "Endless Summer always came to mind "Should have been here yesterday, you really missed it."
Ocean beach at it's user friendliest. Not too many days like this happen so if you missed it you probably have to wait a year for the next one. I've caught a few days like this and I still remember them.
The best book about surfing I've read is, 'Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life,' by William Finnegan'. He was a staff writer for the New Yorker. He writes about many surf spots he surfed and has several pages on his days surfing Ocean Beach. They are the most intense pages in the book since big Ocean Beach is often really hard to paddle out and really hard to stay positioned with the currents. A fantastic read.
This looks like Indicators just North of Lanada Bay in Palos Verdes. Oh so many years to remember those winter swells. Nice peaks, good video....thanks for the memories.
I surfed there in the 90's. It's the toughest riptide I ever dealt with, sometimes where I paddled out and where I came back in would be over a mile apart. Only the best and most experienced are able to surf Ocean Beach. The guys on this video make it look easy but surfing Ocean Beach is anything but easy.
The more I learn about OB and the surfing scene in SF, the more I like it. It’s a shame I could only be there for a day, could have a blast just watching from the shore.
Good work Donaldson, If I ever re edit my Santa Barbara footage, I will run music over it with the type you used. It sounds like Trip hop or Ambient Rock with cool echo. If I can I will watch and hear your clip for years to come... you've got good taste
OB...........Damn, I miss that place. I went to college at SDSU back in the late 80's. Tuition was $500 per semester and my apartment in OB cost $450 a month. Man those were the days. Please someone! Invent a time machine. Take me back to 88. Things were really good and anything was possible.
@@weareyouthere ohhhhhh!? My bad. I wouldn't mind going back in time to SF. It used to be my favorite city in the world. We all know what happened. Hey watch out for sharks. They're everywhere down south these days. Big ones! Someone's bound to get munched soon.
@@andrewwhite9739 yeah I've heard about all the sharks down south. SF has always had it's ups and downs. There's lots to still love about the city. OBSF certainly has become more crowded on really good days, but there's still empty days out when the surf is wonky.
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Love the video, your garden variety surfers having a blast in great waves...Thank you...🙏
For a 55 year old surfer that used to live in HMB and surf up and down the coast this was a beautiful reminder of how OB can get. Now living on the east coast and it is snowing but still surf I can feel the burn of this paddle. You pull up and it looks perfect and easy paddle out. An hour later and 5 beat downs you make it outside glad to be alive and exhausted while your kook buddy paddle out and never got his hair wet, that is OB lol. Beautiful footage and dedication, thank you for sharing. Now I want a Tres Amigo's Burrito!
C’mon home kid 😁
Yeah but what a day!
I used to live down in PB , same generation, right on. These waves are beautiful!!
I'm that kook. 60 year old here. I lived on 8th and Fulton 35 years ago. After taking an hour to get outside, I never had the strength to do anything but go over the falls a few times, then head back in. I switched to boogie boarding. Regardless, the burritos afterward were the best tasting thing ever.
I am a 74 year old surfer from Manhattan Beach! I went to Mira Costa , and lived all over hermosa and Manhattan.....I now live in the Montana wilderness at the Canadian border.
Picture perfect waves, the kind I'd sketch on a Pee-Chee folder when I was in school. Thanks for sharing the waves with us my friend, good stuff indeed! 👍 👍
Old school😂
Nothing compares to bigish and big OB 🎉 Thanks for this, great job.
Absolutely beautiful surfing video.
Thanks for a great video! Brings back lots of good memories.
Awesome video, Music and photography were spot on.
Much appreciated!
Wunderschöne Bilder und Wellen!👍👏🏄♂️🌅
In the mid 90’s to early 2000’s I was out there every year about this time and I think I may of caught the place like that twice in that ten year span…great footage, thanks!
Excellent drone capture Jamy. Thank’s for the link. Yeah, definitely good size & perfect too.
Definitely one of Cali’s best waves🏄 Just subscribed🤙🏼
Have to admit these are Good waves!!
The one time the youtube algorithm worked perfectly... thanks jamy I needed that.
🙏🏻🍻🌊 algo rhythm of the ocean
Simply amazing what a good offshore wind can do to a wave!
Beautiful footage, thanks for sharing! I do not recall ever surfing there with these type of conditions- looks like a rare gem of a day. Most times it was a cold grey hairy beast, even on modest days. Loved it though because it was so open and never had to fight for waves.
Nice video, thanks for sharing
Aaahhh...Beautiful peaks...
Beautifully done! Loved ending with the sunset.
Awesome job as always
Thank you🍻
I lived on 48th ave and Judah 2 blocks from Ocean Beach in 1987 - 1991. I could see the waves from my living room and I had a roof deck and you could even see the sand. I saw many days with waves that good but often by the time you paddled out the conditions would change drastically. Wind or fog and it was really hard to keep from drifting south. A couple times when I didn’t bother to keep from drifting, I would end up a mile or more down the beach by the time I got out. It is one of the hardest places to paddle out anywhere. But in those days in front of my house I surfed alone most of the time. It could be scary out there all by yourself. I surfed many days as good as it got, alone.
Often it was to big to go out. I remember one stormy day, it was the biggest I ever saw it or anywhere else by far. One wave continuously broke all the way from the outer reef (about a mile out) to the shore. It must have been a hundred feet high.
When it was big Huntington Beach Cliffs had a very strong current, we would put in near the pier so we could ride a wave or two.
I was wondering if somebody was going to mention Huntington Beach cliffs. I used to surf it, and the very first time, like an idiot, I tried to stay in one spot. It didn’t take long for me to figure out I was wasting energy so, I let the drift take me, and then I would take the long walk back😂😂😂
@@jasonjackson5696 They had a Surfing Contest at the cliffs and all the competitors had drifted outside their boundary and I was the only one within their boundary, I guess you can say I won that day. Every Kook has his day.
Yep that's OB changes in a flash. That's when the line from "Endless Summer always came to mind "Should have been here yesterday, you really missed it."
@@Moondoggy1941 😂
Nice vid! Was a fun day. Gracias
🍻
Sunset was the best!
Sunset Clifts.
What a gift. Thank you for making this.
Thank you!!
Ocean beach at it's user friendliest. Not too many days like this happen so if you missed it you probably have to wait a year for the next one. I've caught a few days like this and I still remember them.
Love OB & watching from shore. Great footage, thanks 🌊❤️
The best book about surfing I've read is, 'Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life,' by William Finnegan'. He was a staff writer for the New Yorker. He writes about many surf spots he surfed and has several pages on his days surfing Ocean Beach. They are the most intense pages in the book since big Ocean Beach is often really hard to paddle out and really hard to stay positioned with the currents. A fantastic read.
my coz
I second that! A great read, indeed!
Yes! Not to mention all of Finnegan's crazy stories about Mark "Doc" Renneker!
This looks like Indicators just North of Lanada Bay in Palos Verdes. Oh so many years to remember those winter swells. Nice peaks, good video....thanks for the memories.
no such wave never existed and never will
Thats not Ocean Beach SD When it paned out u woulda seen the pier.
That’s just epic world class waves
Pardon, are those waves south of the pier?
Aint that called SUNSET CLIFFS? Sure looks "swell", none the less!!!!!!!!!!
cheers to all good people
I surfed there in the 90's. It's the toughest riptide I ever dealt with, sometimes where I paddled out and where I came back in would be over a mile apart. Only the best and most experienced are able to surf Ocean Beach. The guys on this video make it look easy but surfing Ocean Beach is anything but easy.
Goose bumps just looking at it!
MAGNIFICENT!!!
WOW its so lush, my type of wave bro, if only!!!🤗
This has got to be some of the best ocean beach. unreal conditions
Nice Wave!
Down in SoCal, during the winter, we would snowski at mountain high, then catch waves the next day. I miss that.
I’m a Hawaiian who is comfortable surfing lava rock slabs and I can say with confidence that OB is the heaviest spot I’ve ever surfed.
Awesome ! Thanks
Much woosh. Much smoosh.
Looks more makeable than Escondido but harder to paddle out.
Thanks for this video!
Some really good riding on primo waves
The more I learn about OB and the surfing scene in SF, the more I like it. It’s a shame I could only be there for a day, could have a blast just watching from the shore.
OB's interpretation of Cloudbreak. Great video!
Thank you🤙🏼
perfectly stunning
Sandbars keep it interesting. They keep you guessing. Surprise as you paddle out
Awesomeness!
Freak 'in Awesome...Love it.
Freakin thank you!🙏🏻
Nice tunes to add to the stoke. Thanks!
On fire 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Surfer Duck approved🤙🌊🦆💯💜🇺🇸
you make this best
Whoever was out surfing that day was living the dream. As a San Diego Local, it doesn’t get better than that. Absolutely breathtaking.
it’s OB in SF
OB SAN DIEGO 🌊🌞🌊....& San Francisco! Excellent....🌊...🆒-📎...🌊
Woah…. That A~Frame is PERFECTION!!!😇
Rootin' tootin' Clean!
ob great place too surf
Beautiful videography.
Wow. OB is beautiful.
Best surf edit I’ve seen in a while
how the music fits the motion. very good
Really nice footage!
... and dedication! You put in some hours on that dune!
That’s a fun left fo shoooooooo…..cheers….🎉
I’ve never surfed before but if I did, I would definitely be surfing this day.
Look at those numbers!
Nicely done
Fun sized.
Incredible Footage, nice work
Thank you photo Boss!🤙🏼
With warm weather allover the east and no snow..its bound to get some drifters ready too.
Surfed here for Years. It is Rarely like this. Nice footage!!
They are free 🏄♂️
I wonder if Bill Martin , Chief Meteorologist and KTVU Fox 2 News was out on this day? He be a waterman , and a pretty good one too!
Awesome.
Nothing but glassy goodness
This is good as the CITY gets…long interval no wind….paddle out easy for OB
This is warming this old goofy footer’s heart!
Wow, a really excellent peak for a beach break... like pipe.
One of Cali’s best waves 🏄
geez thats a pretty wave
Sweetness
Are there any more peaks in the world as beautiful as these ?
OB in San Diego? Whoah!!! 🙌🏄♀️😊😊
Nope, user comments say SF. When it panned at 1:31, I was hmmm, shoreline is very different and no OB pier.
OB San Dog? My fave surf area from Sunset cliffs downward toward the pier, goofy foot heaven.✌🏻
Peaky with soft shoulders makes for a long surf session. How I miss those days.
most of those got hammered on those lefts.
What a beautiful break - both ways.
Nice one
I will live here and never leave😮
what an epic day 🤩
Only drones could muster this task … love ‘em or love em
Good work Donaldson, If I ever re edit my Santa Barbara footage, I will run music over it with the type you used. It sounds like Trip hop or Ambient Rock with cool echo. If I can I will watch and hear your clip for years to come... you've got good taste
Stick Figure are awesome!!
OB...........Damn, I miss that place.
I went to college at SDSU back in the late 80's. Tuition was $500 per semester and my apartment in OB cost $450 a month. Man those were the days. Please someone! Invent a time machine. Take me back to 88. Things were really good and anything was possible.
Actually this is OB in San Francisco
@@weareyouthere ohhhhhh!? My bad. I wouldn't mind going back in time to SF. It used to be my favorite city in the world. We all know what happened. Hey watch out for sharks. They're everywhere down south these days. Big ones! Someone's bound to get munched soon.
@@andrewwhite9739 yeah I've heard about all the sharks down south. SF has always had it's ups and downs. There's lots to still love about the city. OBSF certainly has become more crowded on really good days, but there's still empty days out when the surf is wonky.
Surfed sunset cliffs just a mile south of ob in the 70's it was like this
Amen
Perfect clean day at OB. Great footage, those days are very rare there. Where at OB is it taken from?
Ocean Beach San Francisco, not Ocean Beach Dan Diego.
Looks like an easy paddle out. 😂😂😂😂😂
Heavyyyy
Great shots. Location? Noriega?
Usually OB peaks and freaks in November
Was this the 12th of May or 5th of December?
Love it. Use to go to Cal Western in 72 last year before it became Nazarene collage. My dorm room overlooked this. Surfed this a lot
I think this is different OB, in SF. I know where you're talking about, what a great place to go to school! I learned to surf there...
Ahhhhhhhhhh……..
Thanks for this, amazing drone work terrific footage
Many thanks!
MY FAVORITE SPOT......🏄♂️🤙