THE WEDGE GIANT WAVES SEPTEMBER 4th 2023 | RAW | Newport Beach
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- 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. - Sport
Thank you for posting this awesome video! Love every minute of it! Lots of talent out there!
Thank you🙏🏼
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
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.
And anothers ended in wheel chairs due to broken vertebrea, only one damaged vertebrea is enough...
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
Definitely more dangerous for actual surfers with hard boards but both can get hurt …
@@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.
Brings back l the 70s and 80s surfing that crazy days Kmet rocks windsurfing was crazy
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
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
I remember body surfing that spot before Boogie Boards were invented. It was a back breaker.
Great stuff, the body boarder doing that kind of slide at 2.32 was epic.
2:32
I did this back in the day, fractured my neck and back, what fun that was.
I’m sorry to hear that
Such an awesome video and day. Excellent Wedge video 🔥🔥🔥
I love it there I have bodyboarded 35 ft waves during el nino it was awesome
As a chiropractor I totally support this surfbreak!
You mean The Wedge supports you..
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.
Mike Stewart!!!
That gigantic barrel roll was sick…..whoaaaaa
Great footage - thanks for posting!
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!
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
Nice filming Brent. Thanks!
One of the best tubes on the outside blowing spit goes unridden @11:29
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.
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
That was a great history lesson on the wedge.
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.
You go to Ensign Jr High ? Then onto Newport Harbor High. I went to school with Ethan Wayne
@@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
@@wallisliss Foothill. . . . Either Orange or Tustin? Sure do miss those days
good shape!
This is the most fun wave to watch develop/mutate IMO right up there with Shipsterns Bluff.
🌊 this is my dream of going out my way 🌊 ridin the biggest wave of my life 🌊 beautiful 🏄♀️
Sick line !!! 13:26
man them set waves no one's paddling for???? wild... looks fun.
That body border at 3:21 looks like he had fun
an old school friend was made a paraplegic right here in these conditions, right after graduation from high school. the wedge is no joke.
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.
bodyborarders- the real heroes of surf..... good lord... lol
🎉❤🎉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😅
Thank you!!!
Old mate @2:30 stylin like chad barber.👌🏼
young bloke actually
Those guys are getting pounded. All 50 of them. That would pound my old ass into the beach. What a way to go!!!
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. 😅
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.
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.
Ben Gravy is the GOAT #GravyNavy
Hey Brent, did anyone get swept off the jetty ? Looks like the boogs dominated?
Gnarly
A Gnarl-a-thon.
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.
Epic moment 4:10
i hope stay there..
water must have been cold everyones in full-suits. El Nino viene.
this wave is crazy 😂, why too big like this ?
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
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.
Was that mike Stewart in one the shots
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
Da boys getting a few wedgies.
I would go there on a Sunday with a cup of coffee, couple of donuts and watch the horror of it all.
🎉❤🎉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
😂😂 lambs to the slaughter
Boogey boards still rock
You guys are whacked. That thing is beastly.
Awesome place
Thanks for sharing. Did this loop a few times?
What's up with all the watches
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.
Jealous, I was there a month ago and it was flat.
Does anyone know if Chadwick Barber still graces this wave?
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Also his f-ing name is Chad Barba and he sucks!lol
The best to ever do it out there@@Dick_Simmons
sometimes, probably at night
That guy was such a dick back in the day. Hope he changed.
pretty small
Hang ten 🤙
We
What a zoo on beach.
That dog acting like he got brokin legs...lil faker just aftaid to admit he too scurrrd to shred the wedge.
This wave is meant to be body boarded not surfed, jmo.
The most democratic wave ever, everyone respects eachother no matter if its surf board, bodyboard, bodysurf or skimboard, even radio controled surf toy kkkkkk
Great video but annoying when you watch the same rides more than once….c’mon!
How many people get decapitated a year?
This is why America is great!
I don't live there
I got more than that sho nuff yes I do
Guaranteed to be slammed or your money back .
WHAT THE DOG DOIN??
Have fun drowning.....but, you can't skateboard on Newport P.D.'s gang turf!!!!
Hahahah
too many boogie boarders lmfao, so cringe
tudo noob eu faco melhor
We could have chopped this down to 4 min and got rid of all the boring sponger video
Loser
Boring
Hey does this beach still get blackballed at 10am?
Yes it does. Ends at 5PM