Giant Ocean Beach! Surfers Brave Paddle Out with Perfect Conditions.

[@christopherpakney8542]

Even at head high that paddle out is a chore and the waves are heavy. This is way more intense than it looks. Respect.

[@thomasmcglaughlin1410]

You guys have an awesome hard-core crew of 8 - 10 surfers who can actually paddle out into those freaking freight-trains and then have the heart to turn and drop into those bombs. Amazing, fun to watch! Great footage.

[@thelastrebelshow1627]

I’ve surfed ocean beach 6-8 feet and it’s a spooky place. Major under tow, rip currents, super cold water and super dark green water that leaves in in the pitch black every time you wipe out or just dive under a wave. And then there’s the great white sharks! Ya it’s a fun place! 😱🙈🙀 🦈🦈🦈 😹

[@reddiver7293]

Hats off to those brave enough to paddle out to this size where channels are hard to find.

[@scottgorman7166]

That's the way out on that size break. Nice waves brings back memories of 83/84 El Nino.....it was like this for 8 months.....wonderful time to live at the beach ( as a surfer) not a homeowner

[@oneoceanwander9551]

Seeing this wave from the top of Sunset is probably my favorite scene in any city

[@mikemontgomery2033]

Was my home break for 4 years, hardest spot to paddle out that I have surfed. Cold water, no channels, crazy current, endless duck diving. Keeps the crowds thin when it gets big.

[@tranzorbrad3292]

Thx for not putting some dumb music over the vid, nice to hear the water!

[@dontbugme7362]

nor cal locals say it's the hardest paddle on earth. i dont doubt it.

[@scottgorman7166]

At 5:20, when you see that dark line on the horizon your thinking "geez I thought I was out far enough " that surfing....the good and the bad

[@WebReels]

Some of the best Ocean Beach surf I have ever seen. Glassy and triple overhead bombs all day!!

[@skyrocketcoast219]

Those Big waves for winter surf ! We lived 1 mile from the Ocean , in Montara, Ca . And at night you could here the big Pounding of the big sets at Montara State Beach.

[@striper37]

So heavy. So much water. Love the Cargo ships. Thanks for posting 😊

[@retrain35yo87]

Wow those are huge beautiful waves! Thats 3x more overhead than we ever have here - great surfing! God bless!

[@barreldreamz7852]

As a dude who grew up surfing on the North shore and San Diego and Orange county with blacks Beach being my favorite when it was big just because of growing up on the North shore I've always still been deathly afraid of ocean beach in San Francisco! I've never surfed there but I think it was one of the dudes who pioneered surfing Cortez Banks that said it was just like a day with six to eight foot faces out there and he broke his neck and was almost paralyzed. You hear of this stuff on the North shore too and you hear ambulances occasionally when you're surfing on the North shore but still it never fazed me like seeing and hearing about big Ocean Beach for some reason and I think it's the sharks too and the fact that the waters never that clear LOL

[@reddiver7293]

I grew up on Kauai and Oahu, surfed winter swells and I agree that Ocean Beach is a scary looking place when it has some size. Shifting peaks and channels , sharks, cold water and, I'm sorry, just not a lot of make-able close out waves. Better odds than Puerto Escondido. But not by much. Still, if you or I grew up there, guaranteed we'd have charged those shifting peaks and walls.

[@stuarthayward2220]

That paddle out looks pretty hectic, especially if ya gotta board with lots of volume.

[@andrewcurgus883]

That paddle is tough, I've done the walk of shame more times than once there. When the fog is in and you have no idea if you are making progress......

[@nobiclarke]

I've surfed here at head high and at that size it's super heavy. Can't imagine the power here 😬

[@jeffreyhartwig4965]

Paddling hard and missing a bomb and turning around and seeing more beautiful bombs here is prolly the stuff of nightmares to locals.. much respect from SoCal

[@radical3869]

What most people don't know, the current is enormous at OB. A hell of a paddle but love this beach!

[@thanospat6400]

15 - 20 ft faces? Here in NZ that just looks like 6 - 8 with 10ft clean up sets🤷‍♂️

[@Chapat79]

Do you have to be vaxxed to surf it?

[@deanboful]

I thought it was Taranaki.

[@elricardophantasmo]

that's cause in nz you run out of fingers after you get to ten

[@weareyouthere]

Yeah, in SF we typically measure the size the actual face height, not divided in half or some other form of division.

[@dennismull147]

Yeah! The water avg.51° and you are on your own out there( except the great crew around you), and" Ice Cream headaches are the" Normal"..

[@mikemccourt6225]

4:43 - good example of the current at OB

[@arlojohnson7192]

Biggest rideable seen here for me ! Arlo JJ .

[@Hrmn8tor]

Had me holding my breath at 1:25

[@joniraggi2358]

Did you see that dark shadow in the wave as the surfer kicked out at around that time in the video. Great W maybe

[@pcmaclean]

Ohhh man , it looks cold out there…

[@hegofuchino1104]

jeez... this is super inspiring.

[@brendoncassidy1316]

Biggest I’ve ever seen OB. Wonder what Mavericks looked like this day

[@SurfRinseRepeat]

We just released a video of Mavz this day take a look here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bYu1qGOGadaWsNE

[@danielpestle3491]

Up past sf has been on for the past month

[@sunsensational]

This place breaks different than most other waves of equal size. It is so heavy. I wouldn’t go out at double overhead let alone 3-4x. It is so thick and powerful

[@anotherworldviewispossible]

So if those guys weren't all in the Ocean Beach Double Overheard Club... They have their admission tickets punched, now.

[@nicktrueman224]

Are you guys at OB close to the continental shelf? It's beach break right? I ask because that is holding up to the size well.

[@drewmesiano7602]

Ok what happened to the sailboat ⛵? Did they collide?

[@AavonorcaA]

Where on OB is this? Noriega? Quintara? Soccer fields? Safeway?

[@SurfRinseRepeat]

Nori

[@mogoes96]

It’s about 10-12ft

[@alicechang7074]

omg I remember checking Surfline and saw those bombing days

[@superorangeish]

That's serious!

[@markdittbenner9949]

..nice day out there..it was even breaking on the way out side reef...

[@SurfRinseRepeat]

You got that right!

[@weareyouthere]

Yeah the great bar, all sand, when it starts breaking that far out the beach is getting close to being overloaded. The great bar runs in a U shape outside the Golden Gate, the furthest part of the U is about 3 miles out.

[@Carlsbadsurf1516]

What happened to Rincon?

[@ShaglusZ]

good to see the container ships are moving again!! what waves.....

[@ekphotography]

Biggest set was coming through and you cut it off...

[@MattRobbinsMusic]

What is that outside break going off at 5:20?

[@weareyouthere]

The great bar, runs in a U shape outside the Golden Gate. Basically a giant river mouth, where the bay exits. It's sediment from the bay tide shifts.

[@anotherworldviewispossible]

Either an outside bar...or perhaps what they call Potato Patch.

[@johntuttle9544]

That's SF bar. When it's super huge that breaks hollow every 20 years. Mysto break.

[@harryknackers7892]

Ocean Beach was named after Billy Ocean.

[@williamhanley7031]

I prefer 4 to 6 feet in the corner .number of Wave compared to our there. Over the plumbing to. 30 years of duck diving that stuff you just grow old of it. Plus when you get out your 2 miles from where you parked. Haha. Ob is insane and if you can surf there like that you can surf anywhere if you ask me. Props to the chargers

[@EpicKook]

Are you using sound effects ?

[@SurfRinseRepeat]

Nope

[@ponytah1735]

Looks fun 🤩

[@keylandro7450]

IF I actually managed to get out there and IF I caught a wave I’d just ride it back in 😮‍💨

[@fernandofalcon6700]

10 to 12 ft. Not even 15ft

[@tlamb7]

Paddle out looks like a ball ache.

[@dillonhall266]

I’d say more like 6-8ft maybe pushing 10 on the bombs. Still solid! Looks fun

[@pikiwiki]

that water is so cold

[@midi1529]

Pretty mushy just like other beach breaks

[@weareyouthere]

Depends on the tide, when low enough it gets hollow, and the paddle gets harder.

[@emisurfchannel2280]

Glassy bombs 🤩🤙😱

[@benmaxton2837]

Reading barbarian days. That’s how I ended up here.

[@barreldreamz7852]

Did anybody get barreled I didn't see it but I skipped around looking for it so maybe I missed it but if nobody did then the only sketchy part is paddling out there and beefing it on a drop in Edit: and obviously the damn sharks! That place sketches me up

[@jerometotes5311]

At the time of videoing nice and peaky making for relatively user friendly conditions.

[@wendellfugate4225]

Natsukashii desu yo.

[@kayejesperson2520]

3ft Hawaiian style

[@larrydecoursey8056]

meanwhile at half moon bay....

[@leehughes7031]

Crumble burger 🍔

[@schreds]

i don't know for a beach break it sure doesn't seem to have much punch to it ,, never see anyone even coming close to pulling in

[@weareyouthere]

Oh there's punch there....just the white water sure will give you one

[@anotherworldviewispossible]

It's got power, more like West Peak Sunset, than 1st Reef Pipeline.

[@adamm8206]

These OB vids always look so intense to start but end up disappointing by rarely producing any quality barrel rides.

[@johntuttle9544]

It's cause if you go down you're likely done for the day cause there's no channel. Go down on a big one and it's all the way back to the beach. Everyone sits on the shoulders.

[@gilltan4280]

Need to get it at low tide

[@markdittbenner9949]

...you guys need to cheat and get a ride out with a jet ski.... hahahah...naw it's better to do real surfing..