THE WEDGE GIANT WAVES SEPTEMBER 4th 2023 | RAW

THE WEDGE GIANT WAVES SEPTEMBER 4th 2023 | RAW | Newport Beach

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10 ай бұрын

FINALLLY WE HAVE SOME WAVES!!!! After a summer of terrible big waves we are finally starting to see some action. Today was the best and biggest day in at least a few months. A lot of backwash made it tough to ride but the guys were chargeing. The GOAT of Bodyboarding made an apperance Mike Stewart. Tanner McDaniel was giving flying lessons and Tyler Thornsely and more were making some awesome peak drops.
#thewedge #rawfootage #hugewaves #hurricane #Giantwaves #wedge #raw
Surfers include: Tyler Thornsley, Bobby Okvist and a lot more
Bodyboarders include: Mike Stewart, Tanner McDaniel, Craig Whetter, Cory Bolter, Derek Hameister and more.

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@desireediana2501 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for posting this awesome video! Love every minute of it! Lots of talent out there!

@BrentWeldon 10 ай бұрын

Thank you🙏🏼

@davidmiriani8672 10 ай бұрын

Well.... I live in Detroit....work at Ford Motor Company......I look forward to watching these wedge videos. You guys( the ones in the water) are crazy. I wouldn"t get in that water. Does anybody ever get hurt or drown......my god that huge wave throws you in the sand. So unpredictable Did any of those people on the breakwall get swept away???? Out to sea??? Living in Cali... what a life! Enjoy my friends....life to short to waste in a auto factory

@bobbressler231 10 ай бұрын

It's killed a few, the first time I surfed it , a guy died , broken neck on the sand , and it was only 8 ft day.

@yanoll6981 10 ай бұрын

And anothers ended in wheel chairs due to broken vertebrea, only one damaged vertebrea is enough...

@BlueRusso 10 ай бұрын

The Wedge seems to have a lot of injuries, some very bad (neck injuries, and a severe broken leg in 2021) but very few deaths. California has very few beach drownings while some parts of Florida have clusters. In California, the chilly water may limit who gets wet, and southern California has great lifeguard programs. There's Great Lakes beach safety programs, including efforts to increase awareness of rip currents. www.weather.gov/safety/ripcurrent-fatalities

@TruthIsNot4Sale 10 ай бұрын

Definitely more dangerous for actual surfers with hard boards but both can get hurt …

@nocomment2035 10 ай бұрын

@@TruthIsNot4Saleexactly. Anybody can sponge this with flippers. Those who are courageous enough to paddle in especially on shortboards are true psychopath watermen I tip my hat too.

@user-wo3xq4bu7g 10 ай бұрын

Brings back l the 70s and 80s surfing that crazy days Kmet rocks windsurfing was crazy

@danielcraft3727 5 ай бұрын

Fun in the sun. Kmet or Klos rocking the beach. Not exactly what i would call giant waves and rip tides, I thought I was on my way to Catalina a couple of times

@sylviasavio1685 5 ай бұрын

K M E T rocked on, Jim Ladd was the best I was there 70’s and 80’s Best years of my life We lived down by Orange and PCH

@vertstang123 10 ай бұрын

I remember body surfing that spot before Boogie Boards were invented. It was a back breaker.

@markeggins890 10 ай бұрын

Great stuff, the body boarder doing that kind of slide at 2.32 was epic.

@storm2000808 9 ай бұрын

2:32

@user-cd9gk7lj9p 10 ай бұрын

I did this back in the day, fractured my neck and back, what fun that was.

@BrentWeldon 10 ай бұрын

I’m sorry to hear that

@richardperez6225 10 ай бұрын

I love it there I have bodyboarded 35 ft waves during el nino it was awesome

@jakemadeitusa 10 ай бұрын

Such an awesome video and day. Excellent Wedge video 🔥🔥🔥

@mrthunder8190 10 ай бұрын

Great footage - thanks for posting!

@reggiebald2830 10 ай бұрын

Nice filming Brent. Thanks!

@kainuisocean 10 ай бұрын

Anyone remember "The monster from New Zealand" swell. Remember the picture of Ron Romanowski (I think) at the top dropping in and the caption, "How much fun do you want to have" when it was like 30 feet!?! Love to see after decades, every generation hits it !!! And great film work!

@michaelmonahan2832 9 ай бұрын

Yes.....I kinda remember the swell called "Thunder from Down Under," or something like that. I can still see Romanowski at the top of that wave. The thing was gigantic. I also remember meeting Rob Romanowski. Skateboarder. I don't know if it was the same person or if they were related. I heard there was a skateboarding accident and he was injured, but I moved away shortly after and don't know what happened....these memories (from 40 years ago?!) came flooding into me after reading your post, and I only boogie-boarded that place with many insane wipeouts....somehow I survived

@bsw5127 10 ай бұрын

Mike Stewart!!!

@AMOKIAN 10 ай бұрын

That gigantic barrel roll was sick…..whoaaaaa

@dtracy735 6 ай бұрын

I remember going here in the late 90s and early 2000s. Would watch the sets come in. Crazy but good to watch. Watching on New Years eve, guess I miss California.

@rachelflair4835 10 ай бұрын

As a chiropractor I totally support this surfbreak!

@Eldorado66779 10 ай бұрын

You mean The Wedge supports you..

@danielcraft3727 5 ай бұрын

I certainly supported my local chiropractor. Growing up in Southern Cal was a bit physically damaging to say the least. A lot of too much fun and adventure and a little bit of stupidity thrown in.

@SBSSSEB.805 10 ай бұрын

One of the best tubes on the outside blowing spit goes unridden @11:29

@user-js1mx7dx1p 9 күн бұрын

Great place since the 70s 😊

@shainedupuis2649 10 ай бұрын

This is the most fun wave to watch develop/mutate IMO right up there with Shipsterns Bluff.

@ShaglusZ 10 ай бұрын

good shape!

@RNicolasRuvalcaba 10 ай бұрын

Sick line !!! 13:26

@ShaglusZ 10 ай бұрын

man them set waves no one's paddling for???? wild... looks fun.

@SurfinLifeCaliGurl 10 ай бұрын

🌊 this is my dream of going out my way 🌊 ridin the biggest wave of my life 🌊 beautiful 🏄‍♀️

@kaspar_1982 10 ай бұрын

an old school friend was made a paraplegic right here in these conditions, right after graduation from high school. the wedge is no joke.

@skybluemarshall 10 ай бұрын

I body surfed The Wedge several times in the 70s, in junior high. It was gnarly. If realized how dangerous it was, I might not have done it.

@y-u-do-yo 10 ай бұрын

That body border at 3:21 looks like he had fun

@wallisliss 10 ай бұрын

Grew up on Lido Island in Newport Beach. Started surfing in 1974 at 15. The older TOLD ME, DO NOT try to surf The Wedge. So I learned to body surf it 😂. This little spot creates a MUSCLE WAVE that eats humans. It's Balboa/Newport bays protective rock jetty used so boats and ships can get to the ocean during storm or large swells safely. During Southern Mexican hurricane like storms (among other ocean weather phenomenon) hat causes the northern side of the jetty to create this MONSTER BOARD AND FACE EATING wave. It's both the rather shallow bottom, thus face plants are common on the sandy bottom, as well as the HUGE rather sharp, granite mostly, boulders brought from various places in the early 1900's from our local mountains when the roads were cut out of the mountains by mostly convict labor. So, the jetty'sbrick extend OUT underwater. Jettys like these are SLOPING rock walls so if you wipeout early in the wave you can be dashed on the rocks. Sadly ,as a teen, I witnessed a surfer loose is and get sucked under and apparently thrown onto the jetty. His body washed up with his head mostly severed and bashed beyond belief. There were NO lifeguards on the ready during fall and winter. During really big days Newport would have an ambulance on the street culdesac at the beginning of the jetty. Normal it's a very small non threatening set of waves, so you can actually walk a flatish path on top to the end. It's been 40 years since I donned my trusty Duck Feet or Churchills and went out to body surf the MANEATER. It's us crazy fearless types that still go out there knowing a broken board, or broken bones are a VERY strong possibility. The of course you only live one. Namaste

@orthopraxis235 10 ай бұрын

That was a great history lesson on the wedge.

@phillipphinney206 10 ай бұрын

Well said and described. I still have my Duck Feet and Church Hills too, but way to old (and scared) to try and surf The Wedge again.

@sylviasavio1685 5 ай бұрын

You go to Ensign Jr High ? Then onto Newport Harbor High. I went to school with Ethan Wayne

@wallisliss 5 ай бұрын

@@sylviasavio1685 I lived part time with my grand parents on Lido Isle but I attended Foothill High where my parents home was. My so attended Mariners though. He was more a skater lol. He was not as crazy as his old man was. Thanks for asking though. Namaste

@sylviasavio1685 5 ай бұрын

@@wallisliss Foothill. . . . Either Orange or Tustin? Sure do miss those days

@JohnnygSawyer 10 ай бұрын

Hey Brent, did anyone get swept off the jetty ? Looks like the boogs dominated?

@saltyconvict7000 10 ай бұрын

Old mate @2:30 stylin like chad barber.👌🏼

@boogieheads 10 ай бұрын

young bloke actually

@dougkeller7922 5 ай бұрын

Is the Wedge back open to watch surfers all day again? I saw it was closed to surfers from 10am until late most months of the year.

@KariWickstrom 10 ай бұрын

bodyborarders- the real heroes of surf..... good lord... lol

@jefffoust6064 10 ай бұрын

This is a shore break and so dangerous. I grew up there but never had the desire to go in this one right heara. 😮 11 seconds of surf glory and mad respect to those that ride these. See you at Nazare. 😅

@timotmon 10 ай бұрын

Yeah I don't get it to be honest. It's entertaining to watch for sure and I guess it's bragging rights to say you pulled it off but all in all its kind of a stupid skull crushing wave.

@suozdeco867 10 ай бұрын

this wave is crazy 😂, why too big like this ?

@lenirmarquesalves1694 10 ай бұрын

🎉❤🎉Tá tão bom de ver este vídeo com estes caras surfando que chega me dá uma sonera também vendo estas ondas.lindas maravilhosas eu aqui com este sofrendo com este calor terrível que esta fazendo aí ver está água deste imensso mar chego dormir sentada kkkkk😅

@BrentWeldon 10 ай бұрын

Thank you!!!

@evangeorge5898 10 ай бұрын

Was that mike Stewart in one the shots

@djsavage2421 10 ай бұрын

I’ve lived here my whole life only surface bought a couple of times. It’s a very short left barrel to a close out so I’d rather go to seal Beach and surf. The southside on a big swell. It’s not all closed out cleaner waves and brakes just like it does here. If not better.

@jonwinters5544 10 ай бұрын

Epic moment 4:10

@bobross5079 10 ай бұрын

Ben Gravy is the GOAT #GravyNavy

@Roost59 10 ай бұрын

Those guys are getting pounded. All 50 of them. That would pound my old ass into the beach. What a way to go!!!

@vajrapani6474 10 ай бұрын

Gnarly

@majorpayne8373 10 ай бұрын

A Gnarl-a-thon.

@edelarth8320 10 ай бұрын

Howdy,an old friends of James and Matt Weldon from the eighties and ninety's. Are you related? wipeout and river jetty Ed. Still Lives. Aloha

@BlueRusso 10 ай бұрын

Someone commented on the boring waves. On the 4th (Labor Day), they weren't. They changed from low tide near dawn to high tide and were arguably better during the morning murk. Farther west in Newport Beach, the high tide big shorebreak pushing water onto the usually-dry beach effectively closed the water for a few hours.

@mateocampos9190 9 ай бұрын

i hope stay there..

@tr7b410 10 ай бұрын

Da boys getting a few wedgies.

@mscott1961 10 ай бұрын

Awesome place Thanks for sharing. Did this loop a few times?

@gregwilson9523 10 ай бұрын

What's up with all the watches

@johnnynephrite6147 10 ай бұрын

water must have been cold everyones in full-suits. El Nino viene.

@goldsweeper7837 10 ай бұрын

Does anyone know if Chadwick Barber still graces this wave?

@Dick_Simmons 10 ай бұрын

@jangal4805 10 ай бұрын

Also his f-ing name is Chad Barba and he sucks!lol

@goldsweeper7837 10 ай бұрын

The best to ever do it out there@@Dick_Simmons

@boogieheads 10 ай бұрын

sometimes, probably at night

@jasonrentaponga7805 10 ай бұрын

That guy was such a dick back in the day. Hope he changed.

@itssryan8431 10 ай бұрын

Never get on the rocks at the wedge unless its low tide and the surf is low or your WILL get owned by those waves. otherwise have at it LOL

@gregwilson9523 10 ай бұрын

Boogey boards still rock

@justinf1343 10 ай бұрын

😂😂 lambs to the slaughter

@josephplatania5593 10 ай бұрын

You guys are whacked. That thing is beastly.

@lenirmarquesalves1694 10 ай бұрын

🎉❤🎉Ai que sacanagem ninguém merece eu aqui com calor ventilador ligado vendo este vídeo com este mar imensso tanta água eu passando calor kkk aí meu que sacanagem 😅😅😅kk

@kenogster3059 10 ай бұрын

I would go there on a Sunday with a cup of coffee, couple of donuts and watch the horror of it all.

@danielcraft3727 5 ай бұрын

Not exactly giant waves. My favorite day was 8 to 12 footers inside set and 12 to 16 outside sets. Double sets with crazy riptides. The experts say swim crossways in riptides but i used to float and relax on my back like my swimming teacher taught me and let it take you out, makes for quite the adventure. Especially if your not experienced trying to swim sideways is just going tire you out. If you get a leg cramp floating on your back and pulling your leg up towards your chest to relieve it. Waved off a couple of lifeguards that i was ok just a cramp. I'm no expert though.

@jennysalonga2772 10 ай бұрын

Jealous, I was there a month ago and it was flat.

@michaeltraeger3761 10 ай бұрын

pretty small

@Cargeartextsave 8 ай бұрын

@SurfinLifeCaliGurl 10 ай бұрын

Hang ten 🤙

@AtortAerials 10 ай бұрын

What a zoo on beach.

@jeffspicoli2742 10 ай бұрын

This wave is meant to be body boarded not surfed, jmo.

@ChannelGriffin 10 ай бұрын

Great video but annoying when you watch the same rides more than once….c’mon!

@captieye 10 ай бұрын

That dog acting like he got brokin legs...lil faker just aftaid to admit he too scurrrd to shred the wedge.

@kombibatuta 10 ай бұрын

The most democratic wave ever, everyone respects eachother no matter if its surf board, bodyboard, bodysurf or skimboard, even radio controled surf toy kkkkkk