Mason Ho Surfing Very CRAZY Waimea River

[@thisismov]

Jamie and Mason are nuts for riding that!

[@johndoe1778]

Gnarly doodes

[@anthonypayne2526]

I was there in 2014, and we saw the river come to life as guys dug it out. We didn’t see it get quite this big, but it was just so cool to watch the standing waves form and guys go in.

[@HoStevie]

*So rad 🔥*

[@Sol_Weird]

So insane!! Glad y'all are okay and you even came home with those beautiful boards!

[@mariocondello2353]

Watching Danny Duncan surf that was very cool.

[@sferguson1130]

So gnarly. The amount and force of that water, is unreal. Not to mention navigating the mine field of debris, that rips through there.

[@Nikkii18]

I love the lifeguard on speaker “if you fall in you’re going out to sea” 😂😂😂 and when the dude belly flopped and they all in unison went “ohhhhh” 😂

[@Anonymous-tl6zu]

Nice artwork on those boards

[@_ghost_monkey]

I'm old lol. But...I did have an early morning slop session with you in 2004 before ECSC in VA Beach. Good to see the legacy continue. Mahalo

[@jacobejameson]

Absolutely terrifying, I would never think of going in that. Boys got some stones that’s for sure.

[@trevortimm2443]

Stout, kudos for hopping in this sans PFD. that is some gnarly WW

[@captainobvious9188]

It’s crazy that the ocean builds up that sand again in almost no time.

[@mr.smithgnrsmith7808]

Is it?

[@captainobvious9188]

@@mr.smithgnrsmith7808 It is to me!

[@nocomment2035]

We need more Mason Ho in surfing. Way more entertaining than pretty much any video surfline puts out.

[@jimrehman904]

A big wave surfing friend almost drown here.. We lost sight of him. He ended up way down the beach throwing up. He said he just couldn`t get to the surface. And it wasn`t as big as this!

[@mariohuerta6188]

Never felt so scared watching rivermouth surf!

[@Seadog22-]

Wow STUNT SURFER doing it again loved that clip stay safe mason yo thx

[@dsc7772]

the Gnarliest i ever seen it !!! jaimie on jerrys board toward the end was over head !!! awesome fun i like try think id need fins after getting sucked out to sea Aloha DSC777

[@Mitchlittleacademy]

Absolutely mental! Still one of my most favourite places in the world. Spent 2 weeks on the beautiful north shore in 2013. Great vid guys.

[@2011hib]

Time to go again ❤

[@Mitchlittleacademy]

@@saipan4209 it's such a great place. We stayed at turtle Bay resort.

[@Blu2oa]

@@saipan4209 where is it located

[@baguettenachos3239]

These guys are the guys who made the river at Waimea in which we see today, let’s be thankful they did this

[@santadam]

Mahalo! Some of the best and biggest river break riding yet.

[@needtashow]

The river was a giant firehose nozzle for a while there! awesome thank you

[@alexcarter8807]

My first experience surfing was on the little break created by the sand bar created by the river running out. Also, the first time I caught a fish was in that river there (I let it go because pilau water) I went to Waimea Bay sooooo many times as a kid!

[@greenwave819]

For me it was Eastern Lake ((inlet) Seagrove FL) when it was unblocked to the gulf and when the tides changed!!

[@Mr.REEP0]

What kind of fish are in that river?

[@hisbloodband]

Legend

[@OspreyVision]

Insane! You have the coolest boards on the planet!

[@nicscharing]

Looks like so much fun, Mele kalikimaka from San Diego!

[@framed166]

So much moving water!!!

[@alev4287]

Yeah dude that was mental, I saw that river and was like that's no joke, super gnarly. listen to da wisdom brotha

[@charlesford157]

At first I was like "What's the big deal?" That was gnarly af.

[@MrStepintoliquid]

Awesome 🤙

[@PLILLY514]

so gnarly!

[@GotSurf]

Haha...insane...I saw it when ya'll started digging it...Nope...I kept driving east...so much water in that thing! plus 12ft shorebreak. Viewers have no idea how crazy that was.

[@martinbiehl4596]

You are right. I have no idea whether this is dangerous or not. Can't really tell. But the fact that at the end where the wave is biggest and steepest people weren't going for it suggests that this is actually sketchy? Is it easy to drown there? Break your neck?

[@boogieheads]

even riding a 2ft standing wave can be scary

[@boogieheads]

@@martinbiehl4596 its way scarier, you literally get stuck underwater in a washing machine

[@fulltang1]

@@martinbiehl4596 double black diamond shit with a shorebreak that size. You'll get rocked and then sucked out into a rip

[@davidsnyder3799]

@@boogieheads I know that water is dirty, but that's scary if people are throwing old appliances in there.

[@belo1971]

Intelligent and ecological !!!! 👏

[@Pazair-nq6gl]

Bueno hombre, deja que los chicos se diviertan; a quien cuernos le importa la sequía, el daño medioambiental y que la 1/4 parte de las personas lo tenga jodido para encontrar agua ? (se notó lo suficiente el sarcasmo, verdad ?)

[@livedeliciously]

This is first river wave I've seen with an actual lip.

[@thetawater]

It almost barreled

[@dsc7772]

look up african river wave zambese i think ?

[@AnaSilva-zc6ny]

Wowww, sooo cool. You guys!!! 🎉😯🤩

[@doodooswirl]

Hope someone got some footage of that sandbar 😂

[@John.D123]

That escalated quickly lol.

[@TheWilliamHoganExperience]

That's the gnarliest rip I've ever seen.......

[@805centralcoastcalifornia4]

The Ambassador of Fun Mason Ho Ripping the Waimea River Love it. Merry Christmas 🎄🎄🎄 and Happy Holidays to all the Ho Ohana 🌊🌊🌊🤙🏽🤙🏽🤙🏽

[@feelinghealingfrequences7179]

JOB was ripping HO just stood up

[@stupid7648]

Does this happen every day with the 🌊 tide

[@cudavrage]

Got sucked out at night...paddle in was one of the most scary situations of my life.

[@zerox020]

Dude gnarly

[@apache5841]

I get sucked too sometimes

[@samueljenkis6253]

I'm *always* down with getting sucked

[@davidsnyder3799]

@@apache5841 And you should get a paddle in for that one.

[@thePhished]

double overhead waimea river, hows that for a surf forecast.

[@scottmcwave9479]

Biggest one yet!!!

[@ianbowden7912]

Weird question! But does that go back to how it was and if so how??? Cool video though

[@ShakaLakaMTB]

GNARLY!

[@Flutewala..]

Broooo wot🤯🤯 this is unreal

[@PowerlinesProductions]

Epic 🔥

[@rdeezer9845]

awesome

[@sanfranciscobay]

6:10 Nice paint job on that Surfboard.

[@MrHailteam]

Pretty cool

[@J_Smith7]

Massive!

[@Hai2021]

Is it dangerous to get between that river and the ocean?

[@rosstempletonogskater]

Does that section of the beach ever get filled back in, or is that permanent?? Pretty Wild & it happened soooo quick

[@CocoCrispy_]

Yeah pretty sure tides currents and waves fill in all the sand again. This happens naturally they just sped it up a little haha

[@thedak808]

I was there 3 days after this storm and while there was a low area, the sand was back and the river was blocked again. Pretty quick

[@GrandChessboard]

All the freshwater fish are like, "Ahhhh, it burns this water burns. Is this fish hell?"

[@pregooooooooski]

The overflow eventually happens. It’s part of the rainy season, probably one more strong rain would have triggered what they did. I live in at a beach in Nicaragua where this happens every year in all rivers.

[@outsidechambaz]

@@pregooooooooskio add to that, if the river is not emptied before it gets this full many homes up waimea valley get flooded. This past rainfall caused flooding because they didn’t breach it in time

[@walteringham6920]

@Alberto D. Prego Estrada Good to know. I was wondering if this was bad or good for the river.

[@missinglinq]

That section at 5:48 is gnarly.

[@FrenchFk420]

gnar! crazy spot

[@scorncrypto8879]

Yeah, full send..

[@robbieevans6536]

Sick!

[@StCyp]

mental. Always wondering how the beach recovers afterwards.

[@outsidechambaz]

Swell and current brings all the sand back and river runoff is actually very healthy for marine ecosystems to flourish

[@alexcarter8807]

It's a natural process. Rivers do this routinely.

[@fraser15432]

Do you guys make it happen or does it just happen. I find it so cool. We don't have that in Scotland lol

[@ajc1080]

@@fraser15432 Both. In the video it was dug out, but if people don't breach the berm the river will do it eventually when it's raining.

[@TrophyNZ1]

How long was river blocked for?

[@ryanthecox1]

I shattered my collarbone on my honeymoon on that beach one winter. It’s called “breakneck beach” for a reason. Most beautiful place in the summer with no waves when I went back. Got to swim with dolphins.

[@greggreg2263]

Wow, at the end, there was some serious water coming out of The river shooting into the ocean. Pretty scary.😮

[@ronanlogsdon2456]

How do you stop it and what do you do when your done does it just keep going forever?

[@riordanpringle2003]

the river sealed later that day.

[@stuffathouse]

you should use rope between to have something to catch to... in this fast water. river surfwaking :)

[@xAllSystemsReadyx]

Would love to see a Drone view of were the lake water meets the ocean water.

[@marcelodeandradehernandes5499]

You can see it here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/h4fXg2V_mqdqpas

[@xAllSystemsReadyx]

@@marcelodeandradehernandes5499 Wow dude that was sick as hell. Thanks for the share man.. 🤙

[@sikhswim]

You guys are INSANE! Stay safe and have fun!

[@emisurfchannel2280]

Eccolo!! YEWWW

[@hughmac13]

I'd love to see drone footage from above as it goes from a trickle into a torrent.

[@iansilver-ramp595]

Curious, is this a man made thing, and is it just a ton of beach erosion?

[@cherylb2008]

I would never let my kid anywhere near that, to watch as a bystander. That sand can just wash away in no time.

[@Mephistopholies]

1996 "fish" as in made in nineteenhundred and ninety six?

[@ТимурПахомов-щ5б]

Где продолжение? Что стало с озером?))

[@johnweeks3105]

Does the river heal from this?

[@yh-yd8ku]

It seems that even Mason was out of his depth this time.

[@saltydog888]

Mason doing foreplay on the bump😆

[@MichaelDavis-si9bv]

It looks almost as hectic as a big day at Pipe.

[@6atlantis]

I know this happens naturally but was this done at a time when the river was about to spill over anyways? If not was it the best idea to accelerate the process?

[@6atlantis]

I actually just watched the drone footage and didn’t realize how close it was to spilling over anyways.

[@safaljsingh]

Are these the people whose video has been circulating of them connecting a river to an ocean?

[@dannylujan3619]

Seen the same October 2014..

[@camronbay1]

Will the sand eventually block the river again.

[@riordanpringle2003]

yes, the same day the water levels even out and the river is blocked again.

[@camronbay1]

@@riordanpringle2003 Thanks for the response.

[@albertmogzec1231]

Best damn river surfing in the Ho world 🤙🏼🌺

[@nickmukai8507]

What causes this to form?

[@BarrelKilla]

a lot of rain accumulates upstream above Waimea Falls. the river mouth isn't open, so the water collects until it's about to overflow. sometimes people will dig with shovels to connect the river to ocean, this time it didn't take much effort to break it open with the rivermouth almost touching the shoreline. we also had 15ft waves this day that were battering the shoreline. madness!

[@Jake_wheelies]

Bro how did the beach managers let u do that

[@chetrocket]

These videos are always so entertaining

[@georgepaolucci9029]

Mason you should have the next driver 4.0

[@akgoldbear7669]

Have you dumped a whole lake into the sea? 🤔

[@zacharyrowe8667]

That was wild

[@Msgetbad12]

How did you know this was going to happen I miss hawaii

[@infinityiznow]

River was full from rain, dig a trench and start it up

[@ehlava]

I got an ear infection out that way and the doc gave me a handful of blue antibiotic pills, he handed them out like candy, probably gave me 30, and said on chocolate days to take a gram after surf, once, to knock out whatever, lepto, dunno, other bacterias. seemed sketchy but I did take them once or twice I think. mason got the natural immunity

[@cjyoung7372]

Is it better to let the water go on a high tide or a low tide? That looked pretty knarly and fun👌

[@ralphiewigs2208]

Stick to dry reef surfing, it's much safer.

[@jacyfisk7437]

😂

[@gen.arnavpoe4633]

Why even surf reef...surf at a wave pool even safer..

[@toppershots5528]

Don't look too dangerous mate 💯

[@ValleyOn483]

Shhhh

[@yes55504]

@@gen.arnavpoe4633 why even surf? Just stand it's safer

[@christianislas9275]

Surfer of the year

[@darrenjohns5096]

That is a class 5 rapid other wise know as a drowning machine

[@christianestrella98]

eso esta bien ? esa no es agua dulce ? no es malo para el medio ambiente ?

[@3rdtonefromthesun]

Actual deathtrap

[@eionmark7424]

That was crazy

[@daviddurand6504]

Where does all the sand come from? Is it being pushed in from the ocean or being pushed out by the river? Awesome video! And love the artwork on your board!

[@ForzaMonkey]

pushed/pulled out by the river when they break the natural dam formed by the sand, but the ocean does dump all the sand off eventually.

[@wesleyturner1979]

For a second I was like who’s that old guy with grey hair that’s going to send it. I did a double take because I saw no soft top log!

[@goprotravelvanuatubyjulian8901]

Eddies on Sunday.. No fear surfing

[@lifeisthepittz]

Gnarliest Waimea River

[@tupid11]

I love it when they do that