its crazy that now, 9 years later, there would be 10x as many surfers out crammed in the water at blacks

LOVE this and all your surfing and beach videos/pics. You're amazing. Thank you so much, Mark!

its so glassy ,breaks so good, that knee boarder was fantastic. some of most beautiful surf I've seen.

Dude took that one right on the head at the end there/ and was looking like at least one more behind it. Blacks is no joke. Beatings on days half that size.

Surfed Blacks in the '80's-heavy wave, you need to have your A-Game on big surf.

Nice video! That was my home beach for many years. I have many fond memories of it.

beautiful footage man.. really a treasure. and the lack of music is perfect.

favorite, yet most feared spot for me in San Diego

Getting caught inside on days like this can be a board and body breaking event. I was out at Tourmo. I caught some big ones though not this size. Blacks is San Diego's Pipeline. The wave hits that shelf and jacks up big time.

Looks like 7-10 feet from the back. We may have another big day coming up ahead of us this Sunday at Blacks

had thought that this was footage of a wave in South Australia with the same name........break is similar, only that the South Oz wave is a bit heavier.....Mad footage brother...Lovin it!...

I've been looking for this for years!

I use to surf everyday even on this day out here an I remember never ever seeing the waves like this in my entire life living in mission beach but as soon as I got home I got word that my father had passed away earlier that morning, I always think it was a sign for me to take my ass home an see what was goin on bcuz it was definitely intense an cold an I had no business out there especially seeing all my buddies that were way more experienced getting worked

Surfed Blacks when I could back in the mid 80’s (was stationed on Carrier “Connie” at north island). Had many good days but nothing like this size! Spent a fair amount of time on Oahu and Maui though and swell like this was common there in winter. Nice warm water!

The footage that you promised to put up a few years ago! Finally!

Nice, the lack of music and glare add to the pure experience

Nice footage, great music!

Thorpe, Injun ron and some other guys where down at B rock and it sucked there too. Only the cove was ridable that day and it was dump to even paddle out there, but some did and that video is up on youtube too.

That last wave I was like god save the queen!

Surfed Laguna on this swell couple weeks after my 18th birthday, I remember it like it was yesterday

Wish we had jet skis for big Blacks in the 70s. Not for tow ins. For tow outs. That long paddle was brutal sometimes. 😄

I surfed rincon this day. Biggest day I've seen at the point. EVER!!

That was a great swell, we were north at Trestles, not as big but the usual long lines .

What a hunk of a wave....demands respect...I am OCEAN...

Epic fog swell 10/87 that was killer- nice vid here

I was out that day. Video much better than the wave actually is/was

What a wave! Scary!

We were the poor kids from Mira mesa eeking out a living to get the gas money to drive the ten miles to Black's. It might as well have been a hundred miles . always the outsiders but we persisted.

I really liked this video. Lots of guys getting tossed over the falls too.

impressive stand-up surfing.

8:40 OUTSIDE!

Music is awesome!

Can't imagine the crowds there these days. I was really lucky to be going to UCSD in the early '90s before all the internet forecasting garbage that has everyone there from wave one when a big swell comes in. I caught a number of days when a new swell started to hit in the evening with DOH barrels with only twenty guys out from the road all the way up. Blacks and Oxnard Shores (have never surfed The Strand) were my two favorites.

Surfed there almost daily in mid 70s. Fun times

Chris O'Rourke. Epic!

The camera angle is steep making it hard to tell but that's like 3-5 X's overhead at 8:36. I've caught Blacks like that with a handful of guys & news cameras out but not that clean.. Sick day! Q:>> Does anyone still take the "Ho Chi Minh Trail" down the cliff anymore??

8 minutes of that day before that spot was a complete disaster closeout mess.... then later it was ridable again for about a hour. I was there.

cranking !Does it often get glassy like that ?

Nice, very nice

Body boarder kills it at 4:42 / Knee boarder was badass too..

Pipeline comes to California. Great surfing. Highest level.

Actually, my footage was separated from me for 7 years, but who's counting. and fuzzy, not a re-post.

10 years ago to the day

I was born this day

You can talk all the smack you want about how great this wave is.Looking at it,it's not worth it.The water's ice cold,you have to walk down a slippery goat trail to get to it,and there are rocks falling off the cliff down onto the beach.I lived in N.P.B. and have checked Black's a dozen or so times,and never paddled out.Why would I when you live across the street from the beach,56th St.Great footage though.

looks like it slows down when it gets 6to8 feet!!!looks mellow,easy drop, smooth sailing!!!!

What the hell, I Clicked the video expecting to see large african american men surfing

It was a kind of long time ago but a great day surfing Blacks. We went down one morning it looked crowded and not that great. I climmed into ,my board bag and was taking a nap , Iwas woken up by a friend with us telling me to get up it has got alot better. When we got there the wind was not strong but blowing on shore. There was a lot of surfers that had just got out of the water waliking in tward the hike up the hill. The wind had stopped blowing on shore . It seemed to be a mild off shore direction then. I got up and it looked good way better than our arival. it was not crowdedanymore at all and we padded out. I took off on my 1st wave that day and was getting some good speed down the line making some carves so=praying off the top. Then it started to barrel. I tucked down some and was in for a ride . I made it out and pulled out off the wave a little further. When back out my friend that woke me said nice ride how was that barrel? I said How would you know from behind the wave He replied I saw spray after spray like 4-5 times then nothing and you poped over the topway down there. Oh I see.It was a nice wave took off and it was a long steep well shaped wave then started tio barrel as it headed inside. I was init for a while made it out then pulled out and paddled back here Nice waves now after so many left now today we scored get some they are great and just start to barrel as it gets inside a little. Had some more greatwellover head waves before noodle armed and hiking back upthe slope to the top of the cliff. I was stoked getting some great and big waves at Blacks. It is a drive from my local in Newport but great waves. I cant say the best I have been blessed to surf but close for sure. The best has not been beatenbyone place very close to a little studio on top of a house one house abehind oceanfront . Just a small ally behind the owner of Vission's ocean front house. He is a nice and cool man, I bought my 1st snowboard from a Vission Sims outlet back when snowboards started to be allowed on the resorts. I wish I had a chance to show him a picture I had framed and hangs on the wall of my house. A pic took my myfriend and D.A.M.M. drummer skateboardiing a kind of secret big old left hand kidney pool on top of a large hilll in north tustin in Orange County near where we lived at our parents houses we practiced at his very close to a friend in some good bands that he plays Bass guitar for. He is with and might have started Mohawk radio on the internet.The place I had the best waves and best most memorable barrel rides by far was California Pipeline! THE POINT not consistantly at its truly -epic days about 6-8 times a year on big swells fromthe right degrees it goes off double overhead thick square bowls where notto many knew it was doing this before surfline and big and harsh looking thick barrels crashing much further infront of the wave than the many and some good breaks that barrel good I have surfed. Many not willing to paddle out. It is a strong wave with a quick takeoff required no big bottom turns.I did not see many or any that could make one . Just no time really. Pop up quick and start trying to make or get speed fast because a thick barrel is over you fast and getting thrown over the falls there is scary and rough. It snaps boards easy and I have been in the washing machine untilI could push off the sand to get up for air.Lucky it does not btpreak a long ways out. It is a very different atmosphere and sound than any other barrels I have had only a few places kind of the same but not as amplified. It is not as dramatic as FiGI looks on video I have seen but I would not paddle out or onto big waves there.I have lived at K38 Baja oceanfront in the small cliff overlooking it at K38&1/2 almost K39 in an abandon house I knew of. when kicked out of my parents house by my Mom opening my bedroom door one morning with a girl fI met in my bedrom a concert I snuck into the night before. Not having sex aT THE TIME but when she asked who that girl in my bed was I had to ask her her name again. IT WAS CONSENSUAL just a late night she needed a place to sleep too. Leaving that morning toloadmy 4x4 with board and gear to head south to that spot I was shown by a friend stayed a few times and cleanedwhile there briefly.My dad was sitting on the couch shruged his shoulders looking at me walking by with a smile but said nothing. Iwas there most of that summer and was a great place at the end of my Jr year of HS at 17 loved surfing and surfed Baja onnce or twice every two weeks with my drummer from The Punk bandbhe and I started together. We met in aclass both surfed and would surf before school in the dark with the lights next to the HB Pier! I played guitar so we started playing and formed a band we named it D,A,M.M. Drunks Against MADD Mothers a good name for our Punk Rock Band that played KeG parties some bigones too, a lot of fun and good memories playing lead guitar if front of my full stack with 150 watt Randall head with a Gibson Les Paul THE PAUL and was the singer with a 350 watt 6 ch powered mixer with big speakers I was able to buy from a friend that was replaced for a friends dad i tink that was at channel 4o He is a great guitar player also that playedin bands with the Bass Player Rich Great bands ike Box Car Wino I was/am friends with in HS. I was offered and took a Fri night booking bands and promoting a great nightclub in Newport Beach that was called The Thunderbird Had great shows and bands came through with everything I said when booking a band Money number of people on tbhe guest list etc.. Box carwino was feATURED ON QUICKSILVERS SURF/SNOWBOARDING VIDEO CHEAP AND DEEP THAT YEAR and namedthe same as one of the songs on the video. The first Friday me and my friend did was a FRI right betweene the OPPro and US Open that sumer. I new a friend and was my neighbor living very close to RJ's the boarder betweenHuntington & Newport. He was a rep for QUICKi ASKED HIM TO MAKE IT A QQUICKSIVER PARTY WITH BOXCAR WINO FROM THEIR VIDEO THAT YEAR HE ASKED AND i WAS PERMITED WITH THEM HEADLONING.HE NEW THEM TOO. JUST NO FUNDS OR RESPONSABILITY FOR QUIFK SI.VER. wE PROMOTED MOSTONLY AT THE BEACH AND CLOSE the first night WE ech and Birch productiuions went of! the head bartender of many great ones told us to see him afterthe show . I asked did we go over our bar tab we had ? He said NO this is niot about that he spoke with a bunch of tghe bartenders upstairs thay nightand it was the best FRI they could ren=member having. I was able to get a round for great bands that I stil listen too. BURNIN groove the first night after we left and joined ALTON AT EMPIRE BALLROOM he started a fri night there and hgad Sun at Tbird and some other places and did very well I booked them that night they area great band just a little late and said OH its for you The GOod Promoter a good thing to hear and reputatiion to have when many could not come through with the money other things and crowds then and probably still They oened for SUBLIME WITH bRAD BACK THEN hE PERFORMED 5 FEET FROM ME GIVING ME THE KNOD LIKE THE SA,ME US LOCAL SURFERS GIVE EACH OTHER. i BOOKED A BAND I GOT THE HOOKUP FOR ON A BLIND DATE WITH A PORN STAR AFRIEND OF THEIRS WEARING THEIR TSHIRT WITH THEIR NAME GOLDFIMGER THEIR FIRST ORANGE COUNTY SHOW ON MY NIGHT THEY WERE GREATAND STILL ARE OF COURSE. ONE HIT WONDER WITHDAN ROOT ALSO THE GREAT STEVE SOTO RIP WITH JPYRIDE BOTH THOSE GUYS ARE WITH THE ADOLESCENTS DAN WAS GREAT GUITAR AND VOCALS WITH ONE HIT AND A COOL GREAT PERSON Steve also playedwith and I think started AGENT ORANGE a GREAT Old school PUNK BAND I HAVE LISTENED TO BEEN AFAN OF FROM THE FIRST TIME I HEARD THEM I MET THEMAT THE SKATE POOL I MENTIONED AND SPENT MANY DAYSAND HOURS AT YE AGENT ORANGE AT THE GREAT POOL NAMED THE ORANGE BOWL! LAST TIME I SAW THEM PLAY THEY HAD STILLBEEN TOURING THE WORLD IN PLACES

that was bad ass.

Epic double head high + day!

Nice roundhouse cutback 1:49

These old school surfers.

Why did you end it so abruptly??

Crazy

How big was that canyon set at the end?

Full gnar...

took you 8 years to be satisfied with your final edit?

WOW!!!!

Nice day

go the kneelo !

looks like the tide is a bit high or something. Kinda slow and lumpy. Still though,ooohh eh!!

That guy is the beast 1:39

La Jolla, Ca actually.

Gnar for sure

Close to dis 1-6-23

I love karma! 2:29

great music choice, None!!!

Looks as good as new zealand

Being a San Diego native and surfing here and there at blacks over the years I don't really like the wave. It seems like she usually huge and nobody is making tubes

That knee boarder totally cut that other guy off lol

Looked like a toy boat haha at the start of the vid

Fukin grinding

It looked like there was some good waves, but still looked a bit sloppy

no way thats blacks

I surfed it, just like this--maybe better.

why there's never vídeos of big 'sunday', big 'monday', big 'tuesday'? Lol, it's almost funny to hear someone saying big Tuesday. It's always 'wednesdays'.

Watch. 22adaynoway

maaacho

check out the half man almost standing up at about 2:30.... but alas, he aborted and stayed on his knees.

the last wave is 30+ feet..... may be stupid to say this but on these kinds of days at blacks there could be an XXL event....

Doesn't anyone know how to surf in SD?Pretty fucking sad to see the best over all surf spot in Cali and not one surfer in this clip even surfing good. Oh did I forget to mention that it's also fucking going off and no one even killing it!! SAD....