Category: Hawaii – Jaws, Maui ; Pipeline

Thurs, Friday, Saturday surf coming … , SHANE DORIAN BEST WAVE EVER, BIGGEST BARREL PADDLE IN MAYBE EVER VIDEO!, Tuesday night October 29 , 9:45 PM Surf Update , Surf Report ,Surf forecast for Cape Canaveral , Cocoa Beach and Satellite Beach , October 29, 2013 posted

by oldwaverider, posted in Big Wave Video & Photo Locations, Brevard Surf Predictions Cape Canaveral, Cocoa Beach and Satellite Beach, Hawaii - Jaws, Maui ; Pipeline

Will there be a glassy juicy day with size coming this week?  3 days running now, Saturday holds to be the glassy rib to maybe a chest high day down south only, and Friday appears to be the biggest day with a chance of glassy from South winds but only South of around 13th Street, where the South winds breaks start.   More reporting down below the video…

January 11, 2013, Shane Dorian paddled into the Biggest Wave and Ride of his life at Jaws.  Breaking further outside than the lineup, and he was further out than the others;

Wednesday, the winds swell is rolling in, but weak and onshore in the 12 mph range and building thru the day, but, it will be a little rideable, and show waist high sets once in a while.

Thursday, thoughout the day, an East-Northeast windswell rolls in, probably giving us some thigh high waves at the Cape, and waist high down south with ESE winds starting probably 10 mph at daybreak, and increasing to 15 plus thru the day.  Nothing to get excited about, but hey there will be waves.

Friday, late morning or early afternoon, an almost groundswell or a groundswell pushes in the back of the windswell and should give us waist to chest high waves at the Pier, and rib to some shoulder high sets in Satellite Beach.  Direct South winds, in the 8 to 15 mph range, up until afternoon, and then the winds turn SSE.  Playalinda , Sebastian, Spanish house it will be total offshore winds.  At the Cape and North CCB, it will be onshore winds.  From 13th Street South, it will be 5 to 10 degrees offshore depending on your break.  South is the only place to go 🙂

Saturday, should be solid waist high, with some possible chest high sets down South.  Winds should be offshore in the 10 to 15 mph ranges, Westerly mostly, and increase in late afternoon turning more NNW.  But it is still early to call the winds until 48 hours out, so we’ll keep you posted.

Enjoy, looks like at least two solid fun days of waves!

Oldwaverider

HAWAIIAN: THE LEGEND OF EDDIE AIKAU Directed by Sam George was on ESPN , so watch when it comes on again, posted October 01, 2013

by oldwaverider, posted in Big Wave Video & Photo Locations, Hawaii - Jaws, Maui ; Pipeline, Miscellaneous Stories n Articles, Miscellaneous Videos, galleries, etc.

Wonderful story of a Man with so much guts, inspiration, love of people, and a great Surfer.  If they show this again, be sure to watch.  The image below is from ESPN here:

10-01-13-espn-eddie-aikau-documentary

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Wipeout of the Year Nominees for the Billabong XXL Big Wave Award

by oldwaverider, posted in Austrailia - The Right, Big Wave Video & Photo Locations, California - Mavericks, Cortes Bank, Hawaii - Jaws, Maui ; Pipeline, Portugal - Nazare

Tuesday night April 17th Surf Report/Update 9:00 PM , Big Wave Video 40 to 60 foot face Paddle In at Jaws, Jeff Rowley, Shane Dorian, Greg Long, Surf Forecast for Cape Canaveral , Cocoa Beach and Satellite Beach (April 17 2012 posted)

by oldwaverider, posted in Big Wave Video & Photo Locations, Brevard Surf Predictions Cape Canaveral, Cocoa Beach and Satellite Beach, Hawaii - Jaws, Maui ; Pipeline, World Big Wave Events and Articles

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 the U.S. almost..……………….This is a video covering the two big massive Paddle In Sessions at JAWS/PEAHI, from January 4rth and then January 30th, 2012, Yes, this year.    THIS VIDEO IS SO INSANE!  GREAT DROPINS,  WIPEOUTS THAT LOOK LIKE DEATH. You will be amazed at Jeff Rowley and his wipeouts, and perfect ride of the year.

Many of the big name Surfers are in this including a not so big name, Dave Wassell who may have the respect of the biggest wave paddled into EVER!.  Possibly  60 foot face paddle in.  Also Albee Layer, Shane Dorian,  Greg Long and a host of others, including some names we may not be familiar with.  Jeff Rowley paddled into a 50 to maybe 55 foot face and is nominated for The Ride of the Year nominee for the 2012 Billabong XXL Awards.

 

The moving Swell "Period" chart for Friday morning, 4-20-2012 at 6 AM. It appears to be an almost perfectly uniform shape. Very rarely seen like this. Closeouts may not be as bad as other long period swells. Complliments of Magicseaweed.com
The moving Swell "Period" chart for Friday morning, 4-20-2012 at 6 AM. It appears to be an almost perfectly uniform shape. Very rarely seen like this. Closeouts may not be as bad as other long period swells. Complliments of Magicseaweed.com

Upcoming Surf!  Thursday late afternoon or evening an Easterly swell rolls in,  so in Satellite Beach some waist high waves may come in with South to SSW winds, maybe.  The way the period is lined up,  it may not be to bad on closeouts.

Friday morning awesome glass!, models have been indicating for a few days in a row of providing us a 3 foot at 11 or 12 second period ground swell.  With offshore winds up until late morning.  Easterly swell,  so we could see some waist to rib high sets at the Cape or at least the Pier,  and Chest high plus down South in Satellite Beach.

Saturday could have some knee to rib high leftovers going from the Cape to Satellite respectively.  Winds maybe brisk South, maybe a tint of offshores, but hard to say right now.  Late Saturday a South weak wind swell rolls in for a couple days, but don’t expect much form or anything but slop chop.

That’s if for now.  Get excited about Friday folks.  Sorry for the back log on updates.  We have been blessed for having to burn the midnight oil to get jobs done.  Such is life.  Thursday night we’ll confirm the Friday wind situation.

Billabong XXL Big Wave Awards Nominees 2012 Video plus Lazy Update Wednesday afternoon at 3:30 PM with 48th Annual Easter Surf Festival , Huge Paddle in session at Jaws Video with 50 foot plus faces with Jeff Rowley, Wednesday afternoon April 4rth Surf Report/Update 3:30 PM , Surf Forecast for Cape Canaveral , Cocoa Beach and Satellite Beach (April 04, 2012 posted)

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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 size produce chest high at Perkins, but in this case, I go with knee to waist high, North going South.  Saturday some time the big wind swell starts pushing in, bring big chop waves for the Easter Surf Fest, yeawwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sunday big overhead chop, Waves should be here thru Monday still overhead with reduced onshore winds for Monday, and maybe some Tuesday rib high glass.

Be sure to check out the 48th Annual Easter Surf Fest at Shepard Park and the Ccocoa Beach Pier.

Everything below is from Surf Report that I did on Tuesday April 3rd.

Upcoming Surf for maybe Wednesday waist high somewhere and overhead windswell for Sunday , Monday ………….in a moment 🙂

BIG JAWS/PEAHI PADDLE IN SESSION VIDEO WITH JEFF ROWLEY

This is spectacular video footage of Jaws, from one of the two big paddle in sessions, this one on January 4, 2012, this year.  Wave size was 45 to 60 foot faces, approx.  The music, the insane rides and drops, totally awesome,  especially from Jeff Rowley, the newcomer to Peahi, who is from Australia.  Jeff is nominated for the Billabong XXL Ride of the Year award.

Surf Update;  Tuesday night a maybe ground swell rolls in, and for Wednesday morning, possibly thigh to rib high waves and brisk offshore winds. 

Thursday morning leftovers probably, and then flat till Sunday for the most part.

Sunday could be some overhead chop down south and maybe some chest high stuff at the Cape.  The swell angle is NE,  so we will get some blockage, how much, can’t say 🙂  We should have more big chop with winds backing off on Monday to under 15 mph possibly, but we’ll know more definite on Saturday night.

Oldwaverider

2 New Faces at Peahi and the Best Paddle-In Video footage at Jaws I’ve seen, Surf Update Tuesday night 10:30 PM February 7 2012, Surf Report , Surf Forecast for Cape Canaveral , Cocoa Beach and Satellite Beach (posted February 07, 2012)

by oldwaverider, posted in Big Wave Video & Photo Locations, Brevard Surf Predictions Cape Canaveral, Cocoa Beach and Satellite Beach, Hawaii - Jaws, Maui ; Pipeline

Short Surf Report below…the focus now is big wave video, my drug of choice 🙂

I had better be seeing one of you Johnson Avenue (and nearby streets :),  Surfers asking Kelly Slater for the next steps you need to take to put yourself in places of Billabong XXL Surf locations.  Not everyone or anyone is a hard core adrenaline junky,  and not all adrenaline junkies burn their testosterone on the sport of Surfing,  but the one who is,  it’s a great chance to pursue your passion and live a dream of very few who have ever given it a try by just asking one of the folks in the Surfing World in Brevard how you can get started.  It can’t hurt to have God on your side too like Slater and a number of others 🙂  (this is a blog right?,  so I have to express opinions, you don’t have to buy them,  but I do hope to help with producing those videos in the future)

This footage, is the sickest, most close-up, crystal clear stock of up close Jaws paddle-in surfing of 45 to 60 foot face Jaws.  The day was January 4, 2012.  Yeah there’s been a number of videos lately on the two massive paddle in sessions at Jaws this year, including that awesome Jeff Rowley footage;  but these are 2 Surfer faces that aren’t seen there or haven’t been seen there before.  Alex Gray,  a balsy charger in the massive Cloudbreak, Fiji swell of July 2011,  and I know other spots in the last year and a half (just can’t remember right now, and I’m sleepy).  Plus, his eye for video and video creation and editing makes it that much more alive.  His friend Dave Wassell, another insane charger (also a life guard in Hawaii and a Comedian, go figures :), who also has a respected set of Testostorone producing big wave chasing _ _ _ _s, some images from Cloudbreak of Dave show his passion for big-wave paddle in.

This video is pure eye-candy.   I hope you have a Free Vimeo account so you can enjoy this puppy.  (Vimeo is the YouTube place but with super HD full screen video as a standard)

Peahi “Jaws” 1/4/12 from Turkeymelt on Vimeo.

The next few days we should have smaller than today down South, but more of the same, kinda of 2 to 3 foot swell that can be fun at the right tides. But Sunday night we do have a 5 to 6 foot swell rolling in that should be around for at least 2 to 3 days. The winds look to be N to NNW Wednesday Am in the 7 to 10 mph range and then going straight North.  At the right tide it could be fun.

When Sunday gets closer we’ll track the swell and winds a little tighter.  Have a great Wednesday hump day!

Oldwaverider

Belharra, France from March-April 2011, former XXL contender, plus Passing the Torch video Jaws, Maui with Laird Hamilton, Ian Walsh and Billy Kemper from 2010, plus Kelly Slater Surfing Jaws & Rob Machado surfing Pipeline Video

by oldwaverider, posted in Big Wave Video & Photo Locations, France, Hawaii - Jaws, Maui ; Pipeline, Miscellaneous Videos, galleries, etc., World Big Wave Events and Articles

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 Jaws, Maui, from January, 2010, and this one is my favorite Big Wave Video.

Laird Hamilton (around 46 to 48 years old)  the mentor for Ian Walsh (around 30?), and they are both mentoring Billy Kemper (early 20’s?).   The music by Guerilla Jazz is pretty awesome, and kind of ironic for a video of some incredible 50 foot tow in surf at Jaws.

I put both of these online in the last year, but if you have a nice screen to watch these, crank up the tunes and watch these, totally awesome.

This is called Kelly Slater @ Jaws & Rob Machado @ Pipeline

Thus endeth my obsession for the day of huge wave video.

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Surf report, Friday afternoon surf forecast (2:30 Pm) for Cape Canaveral n Cocoa Beach (posted 03/18/11)

by oldwaverider, posted in Big Wave Video & Photo Locations, Brevard Surf Predictions Cape Canaveral, Cocoa Beach and Satellite Beach, Hawaii - Jaws, Maui ; Pipeline, Miscellaneous Videos, galleries, etc., World Big Wave Events and Articles

My addiction of big wave footage continues…Another XXL contender video, of Shane Dorian, a very familiar participant in the Billabong XXL awards of recent years.  This was a massive perhaps 45 to 50 foot  paddle in wave at Peahi on 3/15/11.  He almost made it out of the barrell 🙂

SURF REPORT TIME: Okay, now to local matters;  It looks like we have a wind swell coming in starting sometime Sunday evening,  with the most size on Monday (overhead chop) , but strong onshore winds.  Tuesday morning looks to be head high and glassy (as the wind forecasts stand right now) for a session down south (2nd light, Perkins, RC’s, etc.) and waist high plus at the Cape.  The winds could go offshore until late morning Tuesday, and as the size drops some overnight a foot or two, Wednesday appears to be a day with offshore winds thru lunchtime.

As Monday approaches, we will track the 48 hour window of the weather channel to give more updates on the potential offshore winds.

It doesn’t look to be a ground swell, but it may very well be some decent size and power.

Later,

oldwaverider

The biggest wave ever surfed and caught on film this day, January 28, 1998, by surfer Ken Bradshaw.

by oldwaverider, posted in Big Wave Video & Photo Locations, Hawaii - Jaws, Maui ; Pipeline, World Big Wave Events and Articles

The biggest wave ever ridden captured on film, by Ken Bradshaw, January 28, 1998.  Estimated 85 foot face wave.

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