Archive for the ‘World Big Wave Events and Articles’ Category

Tuesday Night Surf Update below following this awesome video, By the way, check out the Swell Period chart I added below for Friday morning at 6 AM. Very powerful, very uniform period, and you can see the fetch (width of distance wind travels over water to create swell) of the swell is as wide as [...]

Billabong XXL Big Wave Awards Nominees 2012 Video plus Lazy Update Wednesday afternoon at 3:30 PM  , Thursday may have some leftovers, but the offshore winds are blowing west out at the 120, so I wouldn’t count on much Thursday morning.  It shows a 1.5 foot ground swell which I have seen a swell that [...]

What’s down the Pipe on our local incoming Surf?…………….In a sec ,    a great Big Wave Video of 6 time Billabong XXL Award winner Shane Dorian. In 2010, Shane took a severe wipeout at Mavericks, and returns to the place of destruction again, Mavericks.  He is 40 years old and doing Big Waves strong as [...]

A VIDEO IN MEMORY OF MARK FOO AND SION MILOSKY I had to share this video in case y’all didn’t catch it on Magicseaweed.com or on Vimeo. It is not a clip that shows the long magical rides and drops at Mavericks.  It translates the feel of a huge wave wipeout, and what it’s like [...]

Today was really really fun!…………………Friday, better,  Saturday , maybe a touch of glass but only North and only at daybreak till 8 or 9 Am ?  More in a sec…………. The obsession for big wave watching has me thanking Magicseaweed.com for the great slideshow from a solid 15 foot swell that hit Dungeons & Sunset [...]

Created by JohnnyTwoTone100 This was so awesome to watch, this big swell that hammered the entire Pacific Coast it seems.  Y’all know my obsession with big wave video.  Yeah, the camera shakes a fair amount (the guy apologizes on his YouTube page because the boat was shaking so much), but just grab the rush of [...]

This is my 2nd favorite Big Wave video.  The sounds that go with this 1 plus minute video, and watching the footage they get from the back of the wave heading towards shore.  The back is like 25 to 35 foot back, so you can imagine the front. This one called “Passing the Torch” in [...]

I try to keep the Titles of my posts brief and to the point…;) What can I say?  A lot of stuff going on, such as my OBSESSION WITH BIG WAVE VIDEOS, when YouTube and/or Magicseaweed.com release the Mid-Year highlites for the Billabong XXL Awards (2012 now) I gotta put that one on the front [...]

Big Wind Swell coming Sunday! Offshore winds for Saturday morning , possibly rideable…But before we do that… Y’all know I love big wave stories.  It’s kind of a surrogate release for me knowing that I’ll never get the big waves I want here, and if I did, I’d most likely break myself anyhow The photo [...]

The surfboards in this photo are 9.5 to 10 foot plus surfboards, so it gives you an idea of stacking 4 to 5 board lengths to reach the height of the wave.  One guy, Lander, broke his leg in 4 places.  If you haven’t seen this video, check it out here and make sure and [...]