BLACK'S BEACH GOES XL DURING CALIFORNIA'S 50 YEAR STORM

[@bldr-es9vq]

It takes at least some surfing experience to truly appreciate how skilled and brave these guys are. Even paddling out is unbelievably difficult.

[@lycheeznuts]

Why would you even paddle out it's big but junk. everyone just going straight and doing cutbacks. Was no where else holding?

[@JustGresh]

@@lycheeznuts Bro its so big that it's fun and scary enough just to go straight. Those waves like like 15-20ft. The waves aren't junk, just not "perfect."

[@3-d_waffle338]

@@lycheeznutsthis was probably one of the best waves breaking all along the coast. It was too big for most places

[@superorangeish]

@@lycheeznuts What are you watching? I see some good rides

[@nosoupforyou4307]

@mzr457 So a surfer stole your girlfriend 😢 It’ll be ok little fella, you’ll find friends in hillcrest

[@sierrasix2003]

Having surfed at Blacks for many decades, this is by far the largest I've seen in the last 10 years.

[@Cosmo-Kramer]

This is the largest it's been in my 28 years here.

[@BenniK88]

This video has some of the heaviest wipeouts I’ve ever seen. And I’ve watched a lot of surf videos. This is straight bravery. Hope all these legends are save!

[@DestroyAllWaves]

So many broken leashes and boards that day

[@adloutdoors]

LEGENDS?

[@tommyhofer1176]

@@adloutdoors LEGENDS

[@eganc1976]

Is this spot near El Slammo?

[@tommyhofer1176]

@@eganc1976 California, not New Jersey 💀

[@JustGresh]

That hold down has to be so brutal.

[@zachnewsom4071]

Really like that ride from Mick Davey @5:35 (Spot the double-up, turn and burn, nearly go over the handlebars, set the line, bottom turn kickout with control) 🙌

[@sbarzeeful]

Biggest I've ever seen Blacks. Awesome filming!! Brave folks in that cold heavy surf.

[@rickmorrow993]

Huge waves at Black's Beach. i was there many times in my youth. I never saw them this big, but it was always a good place for surfing. Fun to watch, but I would not go into the water when the waves are that size. Thanks for sharing.

[@stephanie-yu4ng]

Same here. Blacks was my beach of choice for years, but never this big. These waves remind me of Cortes Bank on a good day.

[@rickmorrow993]

@@stephanie-yu4ng Not sure if I want to listen to Surf's Up by the Beach Boys or Wipeout by the Surfaris after watching this.

[@stephanie-yu4ng]

@@rickmorrow993😂 Always go with Jan and Dean can't beat the guitar licks But the Safari's works too.

[@OTCZeke]

The Vid came out super sick!

[@josephm40]

Thank you God for such epic-ness! Great video man.

[@jrw4649]

love how eke gets an ad in here and a clip of him getting nearly destroyed at the beginning

[@franklinblunt69]

From memory of Blacks & that area shows fast rise then drop as quick, like said about the canyon slots that can provide unexpected sets but with that volume risk getting pounded...why not crazy fun😁coastal geography.

[@OTCZeke]

Epic Day Yewww🤙🙌

[@nicksinderson3302]

Is there a paddle out channel or is it like Ocean Beach in SF where you you have to make it through endless 6-12' lines of soup? The whitewater here looks powerful, l can't see making much headway paddling through that.

[@Longboarder0707]

There’s a bit of a channel if u start paddling out far south.

[@zachnewsom4071]

There really isn't any channel unless you know which bank is which, where the X-waves cross over, you can put yourself under the Out-to-sea bits of lesser whitewater. On the Out-to-sea bits of foam, you'll have to duck 3-4ft whitewater. On the Against-the-grain wedge convergence sections, you get anything from 5-15ft+ whitewater canyon set surge to the dome! To the far south is just less distance out the back on the right tide... 💯💯

[@troycote4503]

Huge!!! Beatings being served up!

[@Shoeless_DA]

Been waiting to see some Blacks footie - nice work 👍

[@alanreyes29]

Respect to these dudes 👏

[@computerguru70]

how did zeke get a key to the gate?

[@eugorov13]

Wondering the same thing, it’s not even a key anymore😂

[@clairereader3305]

Super locals have the key!

[@clairereader3305]

Yep, Harris =👄 🍆

[@thomasbrewer6284]

From Rusty!

[@mattjones4581]

How did he get the 🔑

[@jsurfslammer]

Good stuff, didn’t know rinse kit had an auto pump now, but yeah the hot shower is the best 😎

[@brentduanefoster]

Those waves are BANANAS!!!

[@garyjohnson4575]

Amazing Rinsekit!

[@HunterWeiss]

best footage of the day ive seen

[@DestroyAllWaves]

Sick ones 🤙

[@Summerneverdies]

Is that Josh Kerr on the red board @ 4:48?

[@skatepark1ful]

1-9-23. OOOPS!!! My big mouth and ASSUMPTION!! Waves WERE HUGE!! This and other vids proved me wrong!! THANKS AGAIN FOR THE VID!!! Cheers to all good people!!

[@timhalley6987]

Legit big Black's. Pretty clean too.

[@johnthompson6374]

The Dude dropping in at the 4:00 mark getting ejected in a spectacular fashion.

[@luxuryhomes8889]

perfect day for the wavestorm.

[@franklinblunt69]

From memory of Blacks shows fast rise then drop as quick, like said about the unexpected canyon slots but with that volume get pounded😁

[@nicscharing]

I watched the whole zeke ad, that man is the homie

[@tr7b410]

Dudes are out on their Rhino chasers.Maxed out Blacks.

[@nicscharing]

It gets bigger

[@adloutdoors]

That's not maxed out. I remember 04 or 05 when it was bigger ..... and WAY less kooks in the water!

[@benrhynsburger3275]

@@adloutdoors I kept thinking get out of the way through the entire video. Nothing worse than waiting an hour for a set and someone is right in the only line you can draw to make the wave.

[@brendonmasters]

Going straight

[@philmiller4961]

WE ALL HAVE SEEN BLACKS PEAK GET PRETTY GNARLY BIG, THIS IS AMAZING.

[@kirrasdad]

thing about Blacks is its basically a gigantic beach break when it gets big!

[@GuitarWithBrett]

4:14 wondered where he was haha

[@scottgorman7166]

Oh damn those were freaking pumping.

[@IRHankNewton]

I would just like to say Wipeout 🤙🏽🌊

[@Galidi1969]

Waves of consequence for sure. I love surfing bigger waves in the 8-12ft range but not sure I could handle getting caught inside here or handle the HEAVY wipeouts.

[@freefall9832]

I remember it breaking big in the 70s and we went out in the fog, crazy days

[@scottgorman7166]

Yea I'm remembering winter 82-83...El Nino slammed the coast for months

[@ProfRybczyk]

So clean!

[@donh3590]

thanks. woot. these guys were styling in beyond heavyness.

[@sirsurfalot99]

Bros getting straight up handled out there. Tbf this is big Blacks, but not the best shape. A lot of closeouts. Respect to the madlads.

[@CatSharkie]

Incredible footage!

[@elmoblatch9787]

This surf is big from the ol' computer screen. To lay on your belly and look up those walls of water? Holy mother of god.

[@reggierico]

Blacks is one of the most powerful waves in SoCal. It is really hard to paddle out and the power that the waves carry is somewhat deceptive.

[@gordonquigg9389]

I counted close to a fifty foot face on this wave, forty at the least. But the massiveness of this triple up A-frame wedge I simply shocking. I counted 14 guys in the frame of this footage that got rolled on this wave, at 1:37. The two that actually took off, to no avail, and the guy paddling out between them that goes over the falls in the apex of the lip of this monster, guarantee got the worst of it, and are lucky to survive, if they did... And good luck to the rest. If anyone were to have been able to make the take off on that wave manage a bottom turn, pull up into it, and hold a line, I think that thing was wide open till the last drop of that extreme shoulder. That's one for the history books.

[@JoeRobisonGFD]

Those are some funky side peaks

[@megawavez]

Huge stuff !

[@mrsteveinsandiego]

Whoa, nice south swell.

[@ibjayo]

Dope video

[@samanthab1923]

Wow! Haven’t been there in over 40 years! Takes me back ⭐️

[@boristherock8279]

Thanks for not putting a sound track over this ...I usually have to hold a seashell up to my ear

[@simrdownmon6431]

If that rinse kit is a successful business venture, I'll be amazed. People don't more sh!t to achieve happiness, we need less. and that's doubly true in SoCal.

[@jakemarlow8998]

Agreed ... way too many trinkets these days. By the way, I first learned about RinseKit around 6 years ago. So it appears it has been a successful business venture.

[@josephm40]

If you don’t like it, that’s fine, but I love mine. I shower, dress and get to work on time. Peace.

[@JustGresh]

I think it's perfect for people who live in a van and surf. If you're just driving from home to surf though I don't think it's really necessary. Just more stuff to lug around.

[@latentsea]

My girl bought me one because the salty dog was Chappin her hide.

[@beavercleaver4381]

hot water jugs in the cooler....

[@stephendaniel168]

The guy at 0:20. 😂But much respect. Some these guys prob need therapy after this. Doesn’t look like it let off and the paddle out was prob horrifying if you went left and got stuck in that spot.

[@ryancuda45]

that canyon can hold swell and triple overhead schoolbus wide open barrels. one of those days i was the only one out way outside.

[@surferdude800]

yeah out beyond where they were breaking no doubt

[@adrish83]

Yew!!🙌

[@The-GreenHornet]

Dude...Like Totally Awesome! There just needs to be a huge white pointer to show up.

[@Hollowsmith]

The San Diego area normally has small to medium sized waves. But occasionally it will get a large swell and have 20ish foot waves like this. When that happens, there's a lot of brutal wipeouts because you get a bunch of San Diego surfers confident that they "know this surf break well", but they don't realize the hydraulics of surfing a 20 footer is NOTHING like surfing the same break as a 10 footer. So a lot of local surfers go out there with big balls but very little 20 foot surf break experience, and the result is the brutal wipeouts seen here.

[@Cosmo-Kramer]

Other than the drop being a bit steeper, the hydraulics are the same--it's just the size that does them in.

[@kirrasdad]

BS. Alot of Pros were there that day with plenty of experience on the North Shore, Portugal and Mavericks beyond 20 feet. San Diego is home to plenty of the best surfers in the world. I grew up there surfing blacks during south swells

[@fwk32]

Some of us are more realistic about our abilities. No chance I'm paddling out in this.

[@aarondrake8502]

I was boogie boarding in morro bay there too many rocks on that beach. Every part of that beach theres a rock almost hit a couple

[@worldwide_wes]

Wild

[@rickyfandango6054]

Whatever happened to the bottom turn?

[@benrhynsburger3275]

Beach break and gunny boards usually means you get left behind trying a bottom turn.

[@michaelpanagiotis7109]

Gotta have Phi Beta Capa knowLedge of the Line up on day that massive . . .

[@pineapplesurf]

Brooo that wipeuts!!!

[@ericholland-cr1nt]

How big was it this day

[@Surfssmallwaves]

What you don’t see is how after taking that relatively mushy right, you usually need to scramble for the horizon on swells just 1/3 this size. I can’t imagine how dearly you’d have to pay for it on this day.

[@bluewaterhunter1]

On my 2nd Rinse Kit-both tanks cracked…good idea but junk :(

[@kirrasdad]

when the F did everybody start getting past the gate at the top of the access road? In my day maybe 6 guys had that key allowing vehicle access

[@pg5420]

This here be wild country

[@brycegutierrez3483]

50 Year storm. What is this.. Point Break? “Cliffs on both sides, I’m not gonna paddle to New Zealand!

[@bradleyjanes2949]

65 yo and never seen waves like that at blacks 🤔😝😝😝

[@jamesklinckman2363]

Cold water Wash, Rince and Spin Dry and hung out to dry.

[@zachnewsom4071]

Was this on Thurs or Fri?

[@xolomartinez6036]

Why is that everyone almost always turns left riding the wave. This different in the southern hemisphere?

[@chir0pter]

You can tell us SoCal surfers are not used to these kind of waves 😂 I wonder if there were some epic waves filmed at Cortez Bank or some other location during this recent storm

[@dk4232]

Cortez Bank has to be very still. Wouldn't be worth the boat ride with so many other options

[@clementdoherty9722]

Todos Santos was the spot some of the legends went to,

[@scottgorman7166]

Could only imagine!

[@dk4232]

I did see some footage of Cortez Bank. Epic wave and super glassy

[@johnnyv.5142]

Triple overhead for sure!

[@Cosmo-Kramer]

Quadruple, easy. A couple of them were 30+.

[@EB-fm8ib]

Is there an inside/shorebreak wave at blacks?

[@nicscharing]

It is a giant inside shorebreak

[@papadopification]

I've been surfing all my life, that white water will drown you quickly

[@liamlandy8308]

really??

[@skatepark1ful]

1-8-23!! Yep that’s some okay Blacks surf i will agree. AINT JACK SHEEEEIT!!! compared to El Nino of 1999 /2000 or big Wednesday-Dec. 23, 2005!!!! Those were MEGA HUGE and scary fun!!! Cheers to all good people!!

[@surferdude800]

you saw those waves on the news I take it?

[@bh2861]

Vince, you dont surf, you watch surfing, you're not even yesterdays hero...

[@skatepark1ful]

@@bh2861 i surf yor mamma!!! piss off troll!!! go ride yor spongeboard!! you spongebob!! go back to riverside!!![county]!!!

[@nathangriffith2737]

puertooo la jolla

[@aloeup2121]

That’s gonna be a no for me dawg

[@JEK]

Gnarly

[@jamespardue3055]

You can tell these guys don't get their big guns out very often. No lack of cojones though.

[@doctahhorsecawk3366]

They were getting worked out there!

[@dufferdude1205]

I surfed Point Mugo for years those had harder and in a way thicker lip but not the depth of power of blacks. Been there too.

[@1COMIXMAN]

I was more of a body boarder. 1989 I was living by ocean beach San diego. Pier was still closed then. We had 15to 17 foot waves. It was fun but I got pounded that day. The night prior I parked at the lot on the corner by the pier turned on my head lights and all I could see was the lights reflecting off of walls of water. They were 20 foot that night.

[@michaelstrauss6587]

Nice...I've seen much better there though. I'm an old guy living on the Oregon coast now for several decades.... but I've had some great waves there back in the day... some good stories... even camped there sometimes on the beach...

[@surferdude800]

sure you have

[@stevenleffler4525]

Tøsedreng med det varme vand. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@elmoblatch9787]

6:53 courtesy

[@tucko11]

So blacks pretty much the big wave spot ,( always been ) in SD county ? Bigger than swamis and trestles

[@stevencole7331]

No shorty's out today .

[@tyrese3745]

(laughs) Wipeout!

[@lukedivinere5522]

Lmao zekeie weekie

[@daniels3795]

It’s looking like mavericks

[@marksmith296]

And everyone is getting ripped off.

[@coolhand1377]

I imagine Johnny Utah is there still searching for Boadie...

[@theflanman1986]

Where is Bodie and Keaunu Reeves?

[@jazzandbluesculturalherita2547]

THANK YOU for being specific in your description of just exactly WHERE you recorded this at!!! SO MANY posters leave this vital information out, expect their audience to know the surfing locations as well as they do--NOT!!! Just posting a video does not necessarily tell the story behind your video, why you posted it, what is important to know, why we should be interested in watching it. THANKS AGAIN!!!

[@anotherworldviewispossible]

Blacks Beach is no secret. That's why he can name it. But really - how does knowing the location - "tell the story" - better than just saying "San Diego Beach break goes XL..."? As far as I can tell - the only way it matters - is by generating more clicks for the channel, potentially. That helps the channel more than the viewers. Anyone who surfs San Diego knows-, or could figure out- 99% of the spots he covers, whether he names them or not.

[@andrewvare3173]

Freight trains...one positive thing is it keeps the kook ratio down. Barneys back off...

[@robertmaes5046]

50 year storm ? Yes big waves but far from a storm let alone a 50 year storm .

[@josegianella4266]

As they say in Hawaii pull in cuz. Nobody pulling in.

[@sbarzeeful]

Hard when you only get to practice once a decade in freezing water.

[@jackmalory3698]

I just use a gallon jug with warm water. Much cheaper.

[@mattshredzinski1473]

Unkle says that's small kine