I've never seen the Surf reported "EPIC". Big Wednesday

Blacks Beach Surf Wednesday January 12th, 2022
This was the first time I've ever seen Surfline post "EPIC" for an afternoon report. The surf was big and the shape was mostly really good. Yeah, there were a few close-out but aren't there always?
What do you think, does this surf session deem worthy to be called "epic"?
Check back soon as I chased this week long swell and will be releasing those episodes soon.
Thanks for watching, I'm Brad Jacobson and I'll see you on the sand.
Music (in order of appearance): Alec Slayne, Arc De soleil, Addie Horner, Arc De Soleil, Addie Horner, the Elloquent Jims, Jules Gaia, OTE and a Month of Sheep

[@AlexAnder-ky2ce]

When I get a notification of a Brad Jacobson video I know the forecast is EPIC for great surfing content

[@wormgun9586]

Right? LA TO SD SOCAL BABY

[@Smason432]

You can say that again!!!

[@steveperreira5850]

Great job Brad! I enjoyed it while having dessert after a hard day at work. Just wonderful, thank you, Steve

[@ainaculture6501]

That was a hard-core kook session in relatively good surf

[@jaydickey1049]

Not very stylish surfing.

[@harrywoodman2988]

So strange, I surfed Blacks for years since it was right on my back door to work. I can't believe these guys made it through the shore break. That and all the music takes away from the magic of blacks... days like that you can hear the lip sizzle as the wind blows off of it and go blind while taking off. All the same, the local crew was not out for the photo session

[@reefmcnall4833]

Lmao bad surifng in fuckin good waves

[@recneps6194]

No way I can't believe you were there! I was there shooting mid-morning around 10ish when the swell was peaking and it was absolutely firing. Those canyon sets were huge, definitely the biggest waves I've seen in person

[@danetyvoll797]

Blacks is amazing. Surfed there this morning. So much fun

[@sum2chan]

Crzy week of crzy waves. Thanks for all the POC featured here. Makes a difference for the rest of us.

[@bradsillasen1972]

Style and production work for me ...Great job, great entertainment!

[@BradJacobson]

Thanks 🙏

[@glennsak]

Joel on the yellow and white striped egg.

[@hookilledtobymilder]

Is that a wavestorm? haha jk

[@BradJacobson]

He was charging as usual

[@samueljames576]

That Wednesday on the 12th of January was a great day to be a Californian!

[@BradJacobson]

And the week afterwards. Been a good run

[@alexpolakis2016]

Scored huge clean freight trains at an sc point break that day

[@isoulsearch411]

these endless summer narration vibes man, you really capture the soul in surfing

[@krusher74]

If that's "epic" they are going to have to start using double epic and triple epic for when the waves actually have good shape.

[@tylerh1648]

Yea not really Epic for blacks beach. Ive seen legit clean A frame barrels before. This was only good for the size.

[@harrywoodman2988]

@@tylerh1648 they were probably forecasting wind conditions and yes, it hardly does the place justice. A little more power and those guys flopping all over the waves would have never made it out

[@Canadian9525]

Very Awesome Mr. Brad!!! Thank you for Posting and Sharing

[@tzt1182]

Half of the guys out on this day had no business being out in conditions like this.

[@YayaJalisco]

It should be a crime they're putting so many in danger.

[@YayaJalisco]

@Fish Bowl I'd back this 100%!

[@thegreatestadvice88]

That's one of the shittiest parts of Blacks. Nothing worse than a bunch of bug eyed buoys.

[@kylewattssurfing3266]

Amaaazzzinggg waves and great angles and cuts!!!

[@calebrichter2565]

Great video! Can’t wait to see other clips of the swell. It was a fun run of surf. Still pretty good down here.

[@batman50ish]

Easier said then done as they say... but kinda surprising there are so many average surfers out in bigger conditions like this.

[@tobysurfs]

I wish my local break had the potential to get this big

[@1234waveskier]

Nice job Brad, my first visit to your channel and I’m really glad I found it. I like the presentation from your narrative to the music. Oh yes, great surfing clips!

[@BradJacobson]

Thanks! Stoked you found my channel.

[@mikemoloney506]

Keep it up Brad Jackson... great footage, excellent music.. bomb commentary. The vlog keeps this land locked oldtimer smiling ... thanks

[@mikemoloney506]

Sorry for the misspelling Mr Jacobson... Mr Jackson is my fly fishing guide

[@markd1057]

Well we had an AKA for Surfline and I am sure it sticks ‘till today. “Surflies!” I ended up using a NOAA site and my own forecasting for swells and winds and did a much better job reporting. The waves were good for sure and big enough to possibly weed out the meatballs from the spaghetti, but apparently not. It still looked pretty kooky out there. Nice video and the waves looked fun.

[@BradJacobson]

"weed out the meatballs from the spaghetti" is one of the best phrases ever! I'll have to borrow that.

[@ShaglusZ]

wouldn't be so cal in winter without a sky full of rain killing chemtrails....

[@wisefpv5398]

Hell yea Brad I was out there wish I would’ve bumped into you but awesome footage

[@BradJacobson]

Thanks! Hope to see you out there sometime

[@kei_kobayashi1]

Super sick Brad 🤜🏻🤛🏻

[@BradJacobson]

Thanks!

[@danrichardson3765]

You're missing shots of the crowd. How crowded was the lineup? otherwise this is stellar work, feel like i was there.

[@BradJacobson]

The crowd was thick but there were a few peaks.

[@polyduckwanaland]

You shoulda seen my secret spot in Rhode Island! It was double overhead and almost barreling!

[@polyduckwanaland]

@@singlevideoofafoot5123 they aint secret lol. The spot isnt on aquidneck.

[@BradJacobson]

I gotta get up there 👍

[@polyduckwanaland]

@@BradJacobson it’s great if there is a groundswell, hurricane Larry brought us solid overhead surf for days!

[@utubeskreename9516]

Insane! Gotta be pushing close to 15' in a few of these shots! Where is this exactly?!?

[@BeeskieMICA]

If anyone wants a good kick, put the playback speed to .25 and listen to Brad talk. Sounds hilarious!

[@Bello..]

Those guys in the midlenghts were ripping

[@kei_kobayashi1]

Let’s link up soon 🙏

[@BradJacobson]

Absolutely, it’s been a while

[@michaelcomazzi5047]

Thanks for sharing this with us. Surfing heals us from our demons and past traumas. It's a spiritual thing. Yeeew!😎

[@BradJacobson]

I fully agree.

[@kendal3711]

Awesome video! Pretty sure that's me eating it at about the 2:05 mark. Any chance i might be able to get that clip?

[@gregpacificair]

Nice jams and epic waves

[@UnderConstructionSurfClub]

SICK

[@BradJacobson]

Thanks Matt. You’re in an upcoming episode! We scored a few too

[@cameronbahar2871]

Are the people surfing these waves considered big wave surfers

[@hahahahahahahahahahahahaha7725]

Never seen so many guys get lip axed in one day.

[@ericjames9087]

Anyone know the name of the song at 2:30?

[@glasses3880]

What’s the water temp at blacks

[@thegreatestadvice88]

38-46 degrees

[@ignooooo128]

Nice vid brad

[@BradJacobson]

Thanks 👍

[@wisterV]

This whole video is a TIKTOK! Epicly latered

[@bonsummers2657]

Bags under the eyes means you're eating starches,… being the key problem,… and possibly excesses of some other things.

[@wuuzzup5450]

I see you go south , ever head past Malibu ?

[@BradJacobson]

Occasionally but not often. I’ll head north more this year 👍

[@Hrmn8tor]

This ain’t Newport man, bunch of goons down there last Wed dropping in on everyone and flailing

[@MariaEbenhoch]

I guess we can say that this made up for the terrible past weeks we've had down in here in SoCal

[@BradJacobson]

Heck of a run of waves. It took me longer to edit because I was always filming

[@Mikeempting]

Brad it was epic suns out slight offshore hollow long left and right handers not to crowed I say epic get back down to HB need more vids

[@hewonyew]

Surfline called my local break 4-6 foot on Thursday. It was 2 foot at BEST. jerks.

[@BradJacobson]

Gotta love when that happens... :(

[@Shorepoundsound]

Don't leave the Bubble you'll only get in Trouble!

[@DanHomeAtLast]

"See you on the sand" ?? you wouldn't if I were there

[@jimmyfranks8854]

EPIC!!!!!!!! HA,,,

[@danielpestle3491]

Average size day during the summer up here in PNW

[@piercecurry6756]

I split my head open at sunset cliffs that morning and missed the rest of the swell. Bummer

[@TheTruthIsOutThurr]

Did you pass away?

[@piercecurry6756]

@@TheTruthIsOutThurr nah. No concussion or skull damage, just a nasty cut

[@TheTruthIsOutThurr]

@@piercecurry6756 Ok, well Rest In Peace bro.

[@bonsummers2657]

Do you surf?

[@jonederful]

That’s Fair to Good at best. Surfline lying about conditions, what else is new

[@ShaglusZ]

the sun would occasionally pop out from the haze... that haze is a geoengineered sky, since they began that shit we have way more perfectly glassy days and way less rain. what a shame....

[@bradsillasen1972]

Can you provide some credible documentation for that assertion?

[@ShaglusZ]

@@bradsillasen1972 here's a beginning, and also watch your skies. I'm 53 now and have surfed been outdoors my whole life, taken lots of weather/geography related studies in college, by the mid 90's lots of weird airplane generated clouds and trails started showing up, and only increasing over time until now we get frankenstein plasma screen skies, and they occur at the onset of fronts. also notice how many moistureless denuded clouds come in off the pacific these days, where'd the moisture go? cirrus are the wispy types, but they are rare, now they call them, no joke, cirrus aviaticus. anyway, there's a whole lot of research out there on patents, military papers, look up operation popeye, in 1976 a weather warfare treaty was passed in the UN, not that i think the UN anything decent, the list goes on and on. and think about it, what doesn't the military industrial complex mess with? scarcity is the first law of economics, you really want all the reservoirs full? here's a club of rome quote from way back: "in searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill....all these dangers are caused by human intervention....and thus the "real enemy, then, is humanity itself..." and finally this paper. wild times bra!! www.wanttoknow.info/g/weather-owning-weather-2025-military.pdf

[@ShaglusZ]

@@bradsillasen1972 and in this age of total censorship and media mayhem, my question is who, in your eyes, is a reliable source? serious question. cheers.

[@tzt1182]

@@ShaglusZ Not you.

[@bradsillasen1972]

@@ShaglusZ No one source is reliable unto itself. The question of credibility is huge and needs now more than ever to be discussed. It would take a book! But in a limited context, I look for corroboration among otherwise disinterested parties whose careers and alliances depend on a record of validations and legitimacy. Even so, any such may error or be subject to corruption. Such is the human condition.

[@oleksandriovenko9715]

Surfline has to stop scoring surf(BS good, epic, etc), period. Just post the surf size, tide and wind conditions.

[@oleksandriovenko9715]

​@@singlevideoofafoot5123 and by posting "EPIC/Good" Surfline attracts many beginner surfers who should NOT be there

[@bwagner76]

Good footy. Needs a better soundtrack though.

[@jameshunt1221]

So many bad comment kooks. Epic surf, but I prefer reef break, ab.

[@JLT3]

No not that car

[@theskepticalskeptic]

Ive watched 5 sec's; lemme guess....BLACKS.

[@555_MACH]

That's what all those guys that think they rip really look like....lol they are on it though unlike my kook ass

[@crunchers9]

Too bad most of the surfing wasn't epic. So many kooks, riding 10-20 feet ahead of the curl, in a straight line...

[@ShaglusZ]

good thing you're not a kook.

[@tylerh1648]

You cant blame us socal guys, this is like a once a year swell, so we dont get much practice. Unlike Hawaii where it's pumping half the year.

[@Danielslifern]

It really wasn’t that good, Surfline over exaggerates all Californian surf reports. People who saw epic on the cams don’t know any better

[@Danielslifern]

Not epic blacks, don’t get carried away by over exaggerated reports