SAN DIEGO'S BEST BIG WAVE SURFING SPOT

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6 ай бұрын

SAN DIEGO'S BEST BIG WAVE SURFING SPOT
Happy New Year! We are excited to share our another episode from this historic run of swell we had last week in San Diego. La Jolla Cove took the spotlight on Saturday December 30th. Surfline forecasted this day to have surf up to 15 to 18 foot faces. Cheers to a prosperous 2024!
San Diego big waves may be rare but when it happens San Diego can compete with the best locations in world. This large swell showed how many world class waves we are lucky to have here in San Diego and more specifically La Jolla. Enjoy this video on your smart TV in 4K for the best experience.
Thank you to Jay Manning for capturing the epic thumbnail. The spectators in the foreground give scale to how big the waves were this day.
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@djizzah 6 ай бұрын

Watching from Australia it looks like a bunch of dropping in and burning each other and kind of chubby wave

@davidanderson8469 6 ай бұрын

Yep.

@tuskedbeast 6 ай бұрын

Watching from the US it looks like that too :)

@davesprague1542 16 күн бұрын

Not a surfer. This video doesn't help market the sport for me. Tons of bait for Tigers and Great Whites, only this bait has the ability to slice open your forehead as it runs over you while you paddle up and over a wave. No thanks.

@jonb5397 6 ай бұрын

Love the etiquette given.. Ahh, I dont care if you got that wave, its mine now. the rules of etiquette have changed.

@MichaelODonovan-jk6uf 6 ай бұрын

12' faces, 10' boards. Roll in take-offs, and run to the shoulder on mushburgers. at 1:56 I thought I was watching an early 60's movie.

@scottmanville2465 6 ай бұрын

Exactly. They're log-riding. Boring.

@anchorsaweigh9893 6 ай бұрын

What a great holiday weekend! Great surf. I struggled but still managed to enjoy it. (Skill Level) It’s hard to not love living here 🤙🏽 Thanks for the Video

@user-ob8mk9zb3o 6 ай бұрын

And where are you from originally?

@kodman247 6 ай бұрын

San Diego’s EASIEST big wave surfing spot.

@bradleyjanes2949 6 ай бұрын

Happy new year, nice video😊

@chrisstevens4786 6 ай бұрын

Is this a vid if everyone snaking each other

@scottmooneyham5521 6 ай бұрын

Not a surfer, but based on what we saw, bigger at Sunset Cliffs on Sunday. At La Jolla on Thursday, guys having to wait a lot for good sets. Enjoyed seeing both, and seeing San Diego.

@surf101- 6 ай бұрын

Clean, perfectly formed waves!! 😂😂😂

@seeharvester 6 ай бұрын

not perfect. I've seen better

@user-ob8mk9zb3o 6 ай бұрын

Lol

@wakeupmofoers691 6 ай бұрын

lookin good, sd surf scene grown up !

@TheSurfingSushiChef 6 ай бұрын

So many burns in the lineup

@geoffreymilke5176 6 ай бұрын

I'm always surprise to see so many snakes at the Cove

@BootsEditor11 6 ай бұрын

Truly, it was the OG locals owning the waves. Good show, gents!

@nocomment2035 6 ай бұрын

While all the good surfers were hitting hospitals, cliffs, or blacks. These are the OG tourmaline locals who don't ride anything under 9'.

@vincentdegrasio2879 6 ай бұрын

Rhino chasers on 6 foot waves. Everyone is Laird Hamilton now.

@Raevenswood 6 ай бұрын

Original Grandpas

@wendy3992 6 ай бұрын

Faaaantastic! Guys/girls and there gunz!!

@machoninny2960 6 ай бұрын

That first wave! I thought he was late.

@tzt1182 6 ай бұрын

La Jolla Cove big wave mush burgers. It is amazing at how many people are out there now compared to like 3 decades ago. Back then you would only see maybe 2 people out catching the waves.

@jimijefferson82 6 ай бұрын

Eric Powers had to be rescued in 83, one of the strongest swimmers I knew.

@bwhit716 6 ай бұрын

For surfers and non surfers watching an XXL north swell at the Cove is like a mini version of watching Nazaré. lol What surprised me is no cameramen shot La Jolla Shores. I’ve seen a triple overhead barreling right break right out in front of the parking lot on a similar swell. Thanks SCS.

@Surferdadsocal 6 ай бұрын

Shhhhhhhh dang it 😂

@tzt1182 6 ай бұрын

I can't imagine the Shores ever producing anything.

@steven871 6 ай бұрын

Dangerous and rude drop in @1:10

@fronts3165 6 ай бұрын

Ben Gravy is out there.

@waxer420 6 ай бұрын

Please keep him. NJ doesn't want him back.

@teleyakco 6 ай бұрын

@@waxer420 Did he steal your RAZR scooter?

@baitbinder6862 6 ай бұрын

Good job

@murilocavalcante1335 6 ай бұрын

Ostar de Jornay is happy...La Jolla surf club

@harrywoodman2988 6 ай бұрын

I have no idea why this is titled the best big wave surfing spot in San Diego... looks like a bunch of kooks on Rhino chasers shoulder hoping each other... the real deal is at Blacks, Swamis or maybe Point Loma depending on the tides

@dannynysus 6 ай бұрын

You tell 'em, champ! Your geode must be acknowledged!

@glenbradley1046 6 ай бұрын

No kidding…. ALL OF THEM ARE ALL IN THS WAY OF EACH OTHER….. BOARDS WAY TO BIG …. Nonn n e of them can surf…. And NO jet ski rescues out there….. how did those kooks get out there…. At least the crowd has something to laugh at ….. lolooololo goofs

@miguelmurill1 6 ай бұрын

Welcome to the internet?

@thegentleorchestra 6 ай бұрын

Rad 🤙🏽

@user-ml7dh5ft1b 6 ай бұрын

Never throws a barrel. Fun for old timers.

@seeharvester 6 ай бұрын

I'm an old timer and it doesn't look good to me. Kinda mushy.

@user-ml7dh5ft1b 6 ай бұрын

@@seeharvester I'm getting up there, maybe one day we'll be stoking on 5ft mush. Maybe

@Ethan-bu2zy 6 ай бұрын

Needs an even bigger swell for that to happen.

@jimijefferson82 6 ай бұрын

@@Ethan-bu2zy or different tide and wind

@Ethan-bu2zy 6 ай бұрын

@@jimijefferson82 very true. There are several spots in San Diego that are very tide-sensitive. Luscombe’s at Sunset cliffs can go from thick and kinda bouncy at high-tide to a grinding screamer with a negative tide. Lived in San Diego from 89-93 and never saw La Jolla cove at size. The El Niño winter of 91-92 had stretches of 6-10 foot surf with sunny skies and offshore winds that lasted for weeks. We actually had to take days off for recovery because the surf was so consistent during this period. Kinda crazy. 🤪

@fergferguson7370 6 ай бұрын

I guess this is big by socal standards…average by NorCal standards…looks fun easy paddle out

@nocomment2035 6 ай бұрын

Wow 3:12, that guy doing the burning is prob the scum of the earth on land. He sees the guy and says, "I'm still going to drop in right over him and try and catch this and make it look like he burned me."

@matthewlinkous4779 6 ай бұрын

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

@mikemcfall6318 6 ай бұрын

La Jolla Cove ? Starting at Wind N Sea ?

@kenklosowski2927 6 ай бұрын

A lot of Ben Gravy and Zeke

@matthewlinkous4779 6 ай бұрын

I'm Sure You Know But So Does Oceanside&Carlsbad~WaayDownSouthImperialBeachCanSwellToo🎉🎉🎉

@cool_christian92 6 ай бұрын

La Jolla cove. It’s like the Waimea bay of socal

@glenbradley1046 6 ай бұрын

WHY TAKE OFF IN FRONT OF YOUR BUDDY…… foolish goofs…. Flat out stupid……both get hurt too

@richardgrant9367 6 ай бұрын

A lot of un cool shoulder hopping going on ….

@nickc3856 6 ай бұрын

Welcome to SoCal lol

@timothytice3074 6 ай бұрын

love bump thumpers

@JustinBleeder Ай бұрын

Slow rollers like that would have been fun on a longboard more so than a gun.

@philipchesley9615 6 ай бұрын

Yes the thumbnail was MAJOR epic, thanks JAY!!! Never had a clue La Jolla could produce this! Such an epic week! Thanks guys! Cheers!

@jasont2443 6 ай бұрын

Cove always produces this on large swells .. Stop saying cheers It’s not cool and your not a bartender

@philipchesley9615 6 ай бұрын

@@jasont2443 Edit: Cheers!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@howdy1487 6 ай бұрын

@@jasont2443CHEERS!

@anthonylove821 6 ай бұрын

Some of these surfers aren’t ever going to learn. Surprised a fight didn’t happen. Too close and on top of each other. Someone’s going to get hurt badly by someone else’s board etc.

@S0ulinth3machin3 6 ай бұрын

those waves are small compared to La Jolla Cove 1982. It was so big there were only 3 guys out. One got caught inside, couldn't make it back out and was lucky to make it onto the rocks alive. The other 2 got plucked out by a Coast Guard helicopter. After that, no surfers went out. I've never seen the ocean be that violent before, the swell was big enough to catch some deep underwater feature to the south and if a wave was big enough, a ripple would propagate up the lip of the wave northwards at an insane rate. My buddies and I stood out in the cold rai for a couple hours, watched, and felt the ground beneath our feet vibrate when the waves broke. Unfortunately, I've never seen anything like it since.

@SoCalSurfer 6 ай бұрын

Wow! Great story and memories. I hope to experience a swell of that magnitude during my lifetime. Thanks for sharing.

@S0ulinth3machin3 6 ай бұрын

@@SoCalSurfer my pleasure. Here's more: the dude that got caught inside got steadily pushed further and further in. Finally, he ditched his board and chanced getting washed up with the whitewater. Lucky for him, he didn't get smashed into the rocks and was able to land on his feet and scramble up. So lucky. Afterwards, he just sat there for 45 minutes with his head down, kind of in shock. He just had a near death experience and I'll speculate his adrenaline was completely empty. That must've been a terrible feeling as he got more and more exhausted. But dude got lucky. After that, the lifeguards must've called the helicopter in. There's no way they could go rescue someone in that maelstrom if someone else got caught inside. Also: how did we hear about the swell? The radio. It was so huge it was all over the radio, on music stations. It ended up being on the cover of Surfer magazine the following month, but the photo didn't have any people in it so you couldn't tell how huge it was.

@0dbm 6 ай бұрын

Red / yellow board , had the day

@jywave1969 6 ай бұрын

That's ben gravy

@xeicv 6 ай бұрын

Nub nation FTW@@jywave1969

@TheAwakenHD 6 ай бұрын

Why are they dropping on each other ? Is it normal on that spot ??

@davidmehalko5631 6 ай бұрын

I was wondering that as well...

@rmazocar 6 ай бұрын

Every wave in San Diego is a party wave.

@ChickenJoe-tq6xd 6 ай бұрын

So many kooks out😂

@user-glennbob 6 ай бұрын

damn

@haveaday1812 6 ай бұрын

Man…. People sleep on sunset cliffs so much when we have these swells. Lol. They think it’s just a joke. Indicators was so big the day I was out there it looked like blacks. Easily this size if not bigger. Broken boards everywhere.

@seeharvester 6 ай бұрын

Should build the board with an aluminium inner core.

@davidanderson8469 6 ай бұрын

It was big on the 29th. Not the cleanest swell but one after the other. Indicators is a great wave when it's big. I wish I'd gone out to Dolphin Tanks that afternoon to watch. Donuts too.

@erikhancock98569 6 ай бұрын

Isn't that a good thing that people sleep on the Cliffs when there is swell? Places like La Jolla cove and Lunada Bay are a complete shit shows with dudes that have oversized boards and a lack of surf etiquette. If I was a Cliffs local I'd want everyone to sleep on my spots.

@evanmacelwee6816 6 ай бұрын

Hit one of the reefs on the second big day and was out there alone 🤙 so much fun

@vg3pics 6 ай бұрын

theres also a big wave spot nobody talks about when it gets big… it can be way better out there, but its not for the faint of heart as a boat ride to the lighthouse is required. Thats all ima say about that.

@WaltayrDantasFilho 6 ай бұрын

Nature background sound is too much better than any music.

@derekjenkins1878 6 ай бұрын

Eddie wouldn’t go

@mzr457 6 ай бұрын

KOOKS

@user-cl5gi6uz1p 6 ай бұрын

Is that Ben Gravy and Zeke at 4:40?

@thomasbrown9599 6 ай бұрын

Yeah it is lol

@ChickenJoe-tq6xd 6 ай бұрын

Better not show Zeke this video, he will run to Instagram and start whining that he got posted in something that’s not his vlog

@jeffcundiff2128 6 ай бұрын

Why can't this wave just have a peeling top to bottom barrel for a couple hundred yards.

@whistleblower4631 4 күн бұрын

So - it's La Jolla COVE. ||| I Live in CARLSBAD. ----- When Big Waves come, Everyone says, Go NORTH. ------- North County can't handle Bigger Waves. ◼️Doheny ◼️ Dana Point

@Raevenswood 6 ай бұрын

I prefer some fries with my burger

@jimr5793 6 ай бұрын

Drop in and say Hello!

@ED-wj5tp 6 ай бұрын

Aircraft carriers plus close outs makes for zero fun

@1234waveskier 6 ай бұрын

Slow and easy.

@JB-rt4mx 6 ай бұрын

Lumpy😂

@LFUFMNX 6 ай бұрын

That thumbnail is fake news.

@StefanMichaels-ut9jg 6 ай бұрын

Shark infested waters

@sarahjane4908 6 ай бұрын

That’s California

@matthewj9832 6 ай бұрын

how lame, a mushy close out that guys on 10ft guns drop i n on each other like it’s malibu

@Akooks 6 ай бұрын

Swamis was just as big, but a thousand times worse with the crowd. Blacks looked like the spot to be. Too West

@davidhavard1908 6 ай бұрын

Not to be rude but I’d rather surf 6 to 8 ft east coast Heavy Barrels than that mushy roll in mess that u got ride a 12ft board. No offense 😂

@ChickenJoe-tq6xd 6 ай бұрын

New Jersey was so much better than this slop, comparing this to numb skulls video than seeing cali douches talk about how their swell was better is hilarious

@jasonjackson5696 6 ай бұрын

I live in San Diego, no offense taken, and I totally agree with you.

@MartinezC. 6 ай бұрын

Just something different otherwise I’d rather ride Tahiti than little East Coasts 6s and 7s fog can’t even see 2 feet down 😂

@Leadslinger619 6 ай бұрын

All while catching hypothermia 😂

@jamesescamilla1112 Ай бұрын

I'm from CCTX and I'd rather surf 1-2 ft brown wind chop than all those good waves you lucky assholes have! 😢