Right on brother

Give me your tears gypsy

Watch raw beefs then

And also showing the action AT SPEED. There is way too much slow motion in surf videos.

Pipe-esque!

6-8ft Pipe, minus the reef the drop and the power.

@@jackstrada5263 Who cares man

@@Aromatic-ring Obviously YOU 🤣

@@jackstrada5263 Not really, I’m not the guy downplaying every break in the world trying to preserve Pipeline’s reputation

+Eric Day These guys are XXL.:D

Eric Day These guys are actually Hawaiians and a few locals who come here when they learn of the wave forecasts. I was out on this day and talked with a couple of them. Nice guys when they're here surfing but total assholes when you're over there surfing their waves. Good surfers but they've been groomed with perfect waves with perfect conditions year in and year out so they better surf good.

Yeah, biggest I've surfed it was 8-10, in the fog it's spooky.

Pretty much every street in West Newport up to River jetties is the same wave. I don’t know why, but the point doesn’t seem to get as good as it used to. I remember days in the 90s right in front of Stuft surfer on 15th St. just firing. Not so much anymore..

I'm down with 54 and prospect

I’m going to rob both of you fools watch y’all backs living in the Balboa Peninsula 😂

@@MikeguapojrWe don’t like your kind here.

Nice to hear from you Doc, get that soft top ready, with- in the next 48 hours its on thanks to our buddy hurricane Eugene! July 11-12 2017

Dr. Chem = you didn't by chance go to Uni high in Irvine did you?

Dr. Chem we will contact the life guard. 😂👍

Yes that was Hurricane Marie, one of the biggest and cleanest swells in a long time! If you look up some other spots like “ 56st Hurricane Marie” or “Cottons” it was off the charts on that swell. It was peaking this day , but lasted for a few days solid, great swell..

I like hearing great surf stories like that!

@@henryssurfshowcase pretty sure you like perving out on underage HB girls more

Hell yeah brother

I've seen 2000 California surf days like this. I guess I'm luckier than I thought.

dude that wasnt even big!

Shawn Soltero for socal that’s pretty big

And to think there are places in the world where you'll get months on end of these kinds of waves smh

Considered a big day now at what we call The Sleeping Giant. But growing up on 18th in the 80s and before the sand bar shifted, this would have been a moderate day. A big day was 30+ with the horizon filled with yellow boats and a beach full of broken boards, photogs, crowds, fights, ambulances.......kinda like the wedge now on a big day. Epic times!

The streets in the west jetties were all awesome also for days! 28th was like 4-6 faces, 32nd 6-9' 36th 8-10' easy out, no side current 40th 10-12' very few guys out especially past 48th-56st 10-16+ with heavy side current, long deep spitting barrels..

Same here

I've tried to paddle out on days a bit smaller than this at Newps a few years ago. It was above my skill level and endurance. Had to check my ego at the door and call it. The real walk of shame.

You can paddle out way down the beach, south of where you want to surf. It's still big, has more closeouts to duck dive, but also a rip to get you out to the lineup. Since the current pushes towards the pier, if you paddle out to the right (north) of the waves, but then it's a pain to paddle south to the actual peaks where people surf.

You know the break area well !!

Awesome to hear from you Ron, it's a great wave for sure when it's on !

Nice having The Point video California Pipeline. I was very local to that place for some years before Surfline. Not often but 4-5 times a year when it gets a large swell from the right direction it breaks EPIC. Double overhead with thick square barrels. The sand on the beach vibrating sometimes. Some of my best most memorable barrels from there. No time for bottom turns LOL

@@brianbirc dude that is sick

It was pretty good last week with Hurricane Paine, and should be decent Thursday morning 9-29-2016

parabola Yes it does I lived on 23rd for years. Right behind the owner of Visions ocean front pad. I had 4 other local Zooport places too. I was the last promoter of the Thunderbird on Fridays too. The shity councel shut it down and kept it vacant on Via Lido Island paying the taxes + I think for 15 years. It became a workout place. Good times with an unlimited bar tab booking Sublime, Manic Hispanic, Goldfingers first or only OC show and Dramerama. So many other great bands like Hed Pe, Burning Grove, One Hit Wonder, All Day, 96 Decibal Freaks, Knockout etc..Plus the go-go dancers I hired. After party fun at my jacuzi and bedrom after the club closed. Good times LOL EPIC HUGE BARRELS at The Point 3-5 times a year and great barrels many times too. Its the California Pipeline with the correct incoming direction of a good south swell.

Good times in Newport! Are you talking about the guys that owned Vision Skateboards? I remember them there. My buddy Eric Nash skated for them. We were always hanging out at the volleyball court right at 24th St. A guy I work with now was the guitarist for Homegrown and he worked at Peer Records so we trade Newport Beach war stories all the time. Such a great time!! Surfing Blackies in the winter was the best!

parabola Yes he was the owner of Visions I believe ocean front there. Homegrown is a good band I had them play T Bird a few times. Had to kinda sneak them in at that time and they wanted to play early. I said what do your parents want you home when the street lights come on? They were not booked as the opening band but I let them play before the last. They have done well I think and are still playing I hope. Blackies was good sometimes El Nino was great. Big waves pounding waking me up is great. If he has been the guitarist from back then tell him I said hello I did Friday night (Eck and Birch) I still listen to homegrown semi regularly.

Yah I'm pretty sure he was with them back in the day, but not 100% sure. I'll tell him about our conversation. His name is Ian!

Hi Paterno, was that you at Anderson St. during that big hurricane swell back then? It was pumping empty left , but very hard with that side current from what I remember. Everybody got washed into The Hole, it was good there also and less current..

@@henryssurfshowcase Yes That was Me Henry The current was so bad that day. No one could fight the current for long and one by one we all got swept into the hole. It's great to talk to you again Henry

I remember that left top to bottom rifling off Anderson St. I could not hook up also with that current. I was in good shape also just back from Hawaii. When I was out there that empty barreling left was just a few paddles out of my reach every time. I paddled out way up the beach also. Getting out there was not that hard, but staying in place to get that wave was basically impossible. I think that was one of the most pumping days ever that I have seen there?..

@@henryssurfshowcase Yep Henry, that day I Don't care how well conditioned any Surfer was. After me, one by one I watched every single Surfer get swept directly to the hole. Mother Ocean had her way with us all that day. LOLLLL

The Hole was actually pretty good also, but had a thick crowd. Nothing like that empty barreling left off the Anderson St. point though. It was still fun trying to get 1 of those..

i member that swell trestles was pumping. then late sesh at creek

Did you hit brooks st. Oak street?

@@johnmartin2079 yep. My 12 your old self was fighting for my life to scramble over the set waves. Second reef was breaking almost every wave and third reef was breaking on some of the bigger sets

+Ho Stevie! Thanks for comment! Check out this Lunada Bay Palos Verdes south Los Angeles Ca. Video I taped on 1 of the biggest days you may find on KZfaq! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/f62dlLhzmanTloE.html

henryssurfshowcase wow that's huge!

artic Wright The jetties can be good when big BUT when The Point gets a big swell from the direction it loves (I will not post that direction ) It is called California Pipeline for good reason. It may only get epic a handfull of times per year but has nice barrels on south swells more often so checkit out just a ways North ! of 56th on a big south everyone if you can handle big powerful bsrrels! and do not listento anybody saying it is somewhere else if you do not see it breaking there try The Wedge but be carefull there many are injured there!

That was almost 40 years ago you old fucking geezer!

@@kookseatpussy7228 You don't even know old young fella. Watched Illia Kalama and 1 other out, on real big boards, the day it was named 'Newport Pipeline'. About Fall of '67.

doubt it

Hi Alexander, it seemed liked 7'0'' to 7'6" was about what most of the shredders were riding? Maybe a little thicker than normal for the paddle? The guy in the thumbnail photo seems to be on a slightly rounder nose but only about 7'0"? The guy who broke his board in the very beginning of the video 0:01 seemed to be very under boarded 6'6"? if it is even that, smaller would be crazy! If you go too long in hollow waves you can easily pearl and catch the nose on the bottom trough. On my channel thumbnail Redondo Breakwater and the bigger picture in Maui I'm riding a 6'10" medium thick. On this Hurricane Marie swell after video taping I was riding my trusty 7'4 over at 48th-52nd street, is was not as jacked up as The Point, but way less crowded with top to bottom focused rifles off those jetties! A hand full of guys were doing 56th street it was insane, although much more side current......

I don't know Mark? Is there anyone out there that knows who that is??

+Christopher Ciquera Thanks for watching , It is called The Newport Pipeline when it is on like this! But Banzai Pipeline is still a much heavier wave, plus has hard reef bottom and not just sand like this place. It was an amazing swell from Hurricane Marie, past 10:35mins it starts with the dawn patrol from The Newport Pier. This was the biggest day, but the waves were still solid for the next 5 days! An interesting video shot is at about 11:35min from the Newport Pier. You can see how SE or sideways the swell split from the deep offshore trench which bends the swell back to 18th street on the southside of pier, and splits it to the north 56 st. That wave almost 1/2 mile out is cresting! Here are some of the wave heights, The Wedge was easy 20 feet plus, Newport Point what you see in video 10-18 feet plus. Blackies 22nd 1-3 feet, 28th street 4-6 feet, 32nd 5-8 feet 36st. 6-9 feet. 40th. 7-12 feet, 44th 8-14 feet 48th, 9-15 feet 52-56st. 10-17 feet. All spots west Newport were good! The side current was a big problem starting 48th north thru 56 but guys were still out ripping it up! Water temps were around 70 degrees, air temps morning lows upper 60s, upper 70s-82 for afternoon highs mostly sunny. light winds! Check out my KZfaq Channel: "henryssurfshowcase" kzfaq.info

Yes, that and getting plowed inside! Actually when outside a little the current swirls back to the south a little. Inside current rips to the north..

Hi Pete, it's 18th -19th street just south of pier, 7:50 everybody is cool just don't drop in on anyone and watch your paddle out interference, one of my summer favorites! Very rare needs a steep SSE swell, a hurricane coming up Baja in the narrow wave window 160- 175 approx will do it, likes lower tides....

John van ornam as well

small day dude!

I think Shaun Tomson made that claim during the '97 swell maybe? I hear the comparison all the time, but I think it applies to the really big and gnarly set waves. There are a bunch of waves for mere mortal on these days and they probably don't compare to Pipe. I'm sure Pipe is heavier, faster, shallower at a comparable size to this video.

Robert Laird ok little Robbie, keep lying to your self🤫🤥

@@jamessteel6574 Not lying. The waves were splashing the bottom of Newport Pier. This was back in the 80's. 27 to 30 face.

@@jamessteel6574 That's what I'm talking about. It was pumping and I was the only one of three people in the water that day. There was one dude with a movie camera on the beach. No wind and perfect lefts and rights. I had to paddle out in the natural channel, the submarine channel to get past the waves and then paddle south. I was on my boogie board.

Now if only you never made it back to shore, then that would of sounded like the perfect day.

@@jamessteel6574 Your just jealous that you've never had the balls to go out on a big day.

you're still doing excellent Even thou this was 2014

Thanks a bunch June!

Was that the Ed Farwell, John Van Ornum, session in Surfer magazine that put Newport Point on the map?

I was only 12, but remember the balboa pier shaking and the lil peaks on the sandy footprints leveling off because of the impacts on the sandbar.

Yes they were, and actually breaking out there also! There’s a 56St video on Hurricane Marie and shows that super far outside about the same time in this video..

@@henryssurfshowcase That's amazing looking and yes, I did see them breaking. I grew up in Newport/ CDM and now live in WA. I left when I was 27 and haven't been back. The beach life hear is much better than down their.

A lot of guys out for sure makes it hard to catch one. I had a few primo all time days at 56st and was stoked to catch 2 waves in about 3 hours. It happens especially when you don't want to drop in on the shoulder on someone..

Buoys.

Yes the swell from hurricane Marie was very steep, that wave on the far outside at around 11:40 was more of the true direction before it wraps to shore, coming in From about 160-165 degrees, The Point 18th street loves that! Pretty much running straight out from that pier there is a deep underwater canyon. Waves refract to shallow water, that is why some of the waves look like they are coming in from a more WSW direction making an underwater peaking wedge effect towards 18th - 19th. That wave on the far outside split off to the north from the south from the deep water canyon . It is the main reason the pier rarely gets hammered! This also helps the 52-56st funnel larger waves there on a more S SSW 180-195. At that southerly angle makes the point start to wall, and if too SW even though exposed totally miss! The Newport Point fires on steep SE swells. Mostly hurricane shorter period, but if steep enough SE long period will be heavy!!!!

henryssurfshowcase u know your stuff. Yeah, I surfed the Newport point summer of 16'. They got a swell that was surfable. Sooooooo much fun. Mike Lucas has a video on his channel. It says NEWPS in the title. Should check it out. That wave really is like a more forgiving pipeline when it turns on. What I don't get, is that the point almost faces the same direction as the wedge. And the wedge gets good on all south swellls it seems. Does the point also break on those swells, but just dosent have as good shape? Or does the underwater canyon kind of completely block the swells if they are more 180-220?

Yes at 180-185 it still can have some size but starts to wall, the Wedge will be bigger! 190-200 it will hit that deep water finger that runs out from the pier and curves a little to the south. Those swells will reflect north and channel right to 52-56-57st. On south swells 180-190 that is why the waves are more hollow and heavy, as opposed to 40-48 on a south, although smaller there the shape can be good with that shoreline bend and jetties. The Wedge will still be big and not effected by the Newport Pier deep water canyon. It was so big this day in video from the pier you could see the wave split. 11:40

It's crazy to see that, right? You should pull up a map of Newport and see how the coastline changes at Newport Pier.. If you look North from the pier (Blackies) you can see the swells paralleling the coastline before they head towards 54th street. Even there, the wave doesn't break towards the shore, but wraps along the coast like a giant pointbreak. If you return in the winter during a shorter period WNW swell, Blackies will be well overhead and the Point will have ankle high dribblers.