This video has created an obsession for me to dedicate every minute of my life to learn how to surf..................I started last year but this video has reemphasize that all I want to do is surf. The only regret that I have is that I wish I would it started earlier. I am turning 40 next year. Any tips for a beginner? I currently live in Topsail, NC. BEST VIDEO EVER!!!!!! East Coast Surfer are the BEST!
Nice little surf film. Bodyboarded the Outer Banks when I was a Marine at LeJeune in 88-89. Mostly Cape Hatteras. One swell there were 4 storms in the Atlantic. And the waves I was dropping into would suck out 4 times before it broke on shore. Just drop, drop, drop, drop cover, and spitted skimming on the beach. Had to keep your eyes closed or they'd be filled with sand. Total shore mutants!
Been traveling all over the world (Indo, Tahiti, Fiji, Oz, New Zealand, Morocco, Canaries, Galapagos, etc...) over the last 40 years and surfed some amazing waves but there is nothing that beats the Outer Banks!
Wow! Going to the OBX is like a semi annual pilgrimage for me and I'm sad to leave every time. I love my NC mountains, but something about the OBX community just gets me. I just left last week and already can't wait to get back. You guys did a killer job telling this story.
Spent my teens and 20's through the 80's and 90's taking the East Coast pilgrimage down to Hatteras countless times each year to score epic uncrowded peaks along the OBX (and some crowded days at 3rd groin Lighthouse). I havent been back down in many, many years, but feel like I'm long overdue for a trip down for nostalgia's sake. ❤ Great piece!
Started on styrofoam, then a boogie board, then Natural Art boards. North or south, there's a wave. So glad to have experienced this gem in the Atlantic in my lifetime.
The OBX looks amazing, i grew up and still live in panama city Beach FL and it has become a tourist hell. No sense of local community left here, that died years ago, it all revolves around tourism now and you will never find an empty beach. We have three main breaks, all of them small and you only get good surf a handful of days out of the year. I sincerely hope it stays this way for you guys and doesn't get ruined by commercialism and over population. Guard what you have and dont take it for granted.
Thoroughly enjoyed this video! Thoroughly enjoyed my visit there from gulf coast TX. My son was married on that beach. Got outta the waves and Stopped for the wedding, then, right back in the surf!!! Spent the whole time in awe!!
Drove down by myself in 2005 with just a book and some maps. '89 Ford Bronco II. Had a bodyboard and some camping equipment. First wave I found annihilated me and I lost a swimfin - never to be seen again. I remember being raked across the bottom covered in shells and rocks. Rode one of the longest waves of my like in Ocracoke and almost drowned in the same day. Found some campgrounds to crash at and pitch my tent. No GPS, no cellphone, no digital camera. Just followed a book. You just can't get that experience anymore.
Live in NJ but all our family vacations were in Frisco and learned to surf there with my older brothers. Now have 18 year old twins that I taught to surf. They just took their first big surf trip there without us. Doesn't get any better than that
I love the outer banks. Spent a lot of time there through the 90's. I wanted to move there but I wasn't a commercial fisherman and I didn't want to open a tourist shop. So I chose CA and have lived and experienced more then most and have had incredible times in and out of the water.. Altough CA is great it has a lot of down falls. Obx has that sense of community and so mellow. I need that in my life more then ever now. A very special place indeed.
I learned to surf when I lived in KDH for six years in the 80s- early 90s. Mostly drove down to Rodanthe and Buxton for less tourists and better waves with warmer water. WRV and Hatteras Glass surfboards shaped by Redman. A few of those boards ended up in Costa Rica and Mexico, lol!
You managed to capture so much energy with this short video, not only in the waves, but also in the place itself and its people. Simply beautiful, thanks for sharing.
My first surf trip when I was young was here. I was so stoked. That was in 1976 with my good friend Dale Bennett. We had a blast and waves were bigger than anything we had ever seen. He still goes up there to shoot photos and respects that place so much.
What a beautiful film about an incredible place. No where else like it. The landscape, the beaches, the waves, all so unique and amazing but the people there make it what it is. I'd kill for an Art's burger right now 😂
wonderful film! I've made three trips to the OBX, as a moderator for the surfalorus film festival, and I absolutely love the place. I've met dozens of gracious and talented people there... I'm a born and bred californian surfer, but there's definitely a soft spot in my heart for the island... see you all again soon!
The OBX is a mystical place. I have caught some of the best waves of my life there. Everytime I turn on NC 12, I feel at home!! Its true. On any given day you CAN find a rideable wave somewhere on that island.
In 2006 when I was 6, we went on a surf camp trip that was before I really surfed, my brother and I boogie boarded and my dad surfed. We went there for 5 days I want to go back after I finish college!!! I’m from West Michigan and I’m a Great Lakes surfer
This made me think a lot of Les Landes region in France. Very similar type of surf and empty beaches from Hossegor and up North on a good 100km. Great video!
Very similar to a endless Hossegor with no real access aside parking at a mile marker and running over the dunes 1/4 mile or 60 ft depending on where you are. Then novelties like the inlet that's just crazy how different it can be day to day or a shipwreck just out the breakers and the lighthouse draining point similar to desert point. Finding people to surf with was a issue especially in the winter.
Wow, what a bunch of legends! Volleyball is getting big on the outer banks, both indoor and beach. The local high schools recently put in beach courts and have beach club teams.
The rips bruh, the rip tides will FORCE you to learn the currents and the swell directions-no place like Hatteras Island-it got put on the map when they moved the Lighthouse in ‘99- fck I miss the island
Finally made the trip and it was everything I expected. I didn’t want to leave and I can’t stop thinking about the OBX. Waves, wildlife, beautiful scenery. I wish it was my home.
Camped at the lighthouse during the 70s and 80s, the lighthouse was insane then and the locals ripped it.Jimmy Crickets, Gingerbread house, 8oz Rolling Rock, Frisco on wind shift great memories.
Been visiting the OBX 3-4 times a year since I was 10 years old. I’m 20 now and after visiting plenty of countries and surfing countless waves, all my best surfing memories still live in the banks. This video just got me so stoked for my next trip. Hopefully waves soon🙏🏻
I love the outer banks for kiting and winging. Spend 3 weeks there every fall. I will be interesting to see how many foil surfers i will see this year, prone foiling and wing foiling in the surf. Downwinding from 38 to the lighthouse is one of my favorites. Thanks for this awesome movie showing the awesomeness of OBX. Because there is miles of beach there is room for everyone. Larry
Great video I really loved it but you forgot about alot. Native of Hatteras island my father Garland midgette Johnny conner and many others were the fathers of surfing on Hatteras island. Just do your homework but still great film
Every time there's a vid, it's always the same 3-5 doods. It used to be annoying how there'd be a bunch of photogs on the beach, but they'd NEVER take a pic/clip of anyone except the same ol' 3 ppl, even if you were ripping just as hard as they were.
You opened the video with Mr. Scott Busbey, one of the finest humans I have ever had the pleasure of meeting. If you are visiting the area, please stop by Natural Art Surf Shop.
Great video I live in Wilmington now but used to live in VB, and am glad to call North Carolina home so that when I go up north ( used to be go down south), I’m no longer a vb kook. I’ll have no problem with the outer bankers against vb wankers
Big shout out to the whole OBX crew of rippers from Carolina Beach. Brooks Pearce says hello to the NA family. Hope all is well. How bout that quiver Brett Barley. Yeeew
Great surf film and some fishing but nothing in the great wind sports??. Windsurfing and now kiting, foiling etc! I learned more windsurfing in 1-3 years then in 25 surfing!
its a very unique place..but 1 hurricane and cut those islands in 1/2...its happened before....if youre out there and a hurricane comes..watch out...its another world out there.
Yeah spread the word that affordable housing and abundant job opportunities abound. We are a fertile ground for your up and coming small business. Just move down and figure out the rest later.
The guy said its hard living there. In what way ? Guys got planes , two story joints everywhere,epic surf. Pretty sure there's a supermarket. Some people's idea of a hard life is alot different others. Doesn't look too hard to me 😂😂😂. It actually looks like a dream.
Almost all of those big ocean front two story joints are empty 9 months out of the year, the locals don’t live in them. Living in a coastal place takes it toll, your constantly doing home maintenance because the salt in the air literally corrodes everything, you’re vehicle will start to rust out, you don’t have the cleanest water on tap at your home. You’re guaranteed some kind of storm each year, may be one that shuts down the road then you’re stuck with what supplies you have until the road is opened back up ( hopefully you have enough supplies because you could possibly be stuck for weeks without power on top of that). Down in Hatteras your not really close to anything also, so if there’s a medical emergency it’s a long drive to get to a hospital, and if it’s real serious it’s an even longer drive to Norfolk (maybe they brake the helicopter out, not sure how that works) The local job market is limited and most of the locals are not rich. I would think that it would be harder living there but the pay off would be so much more worth it
Those big houses are weekly rentals that go for $2k+ per week. When I was growing up, you worked at a restaurant in the summer and construction in the winter - there were no big box stores. I remember when K-Mart opened up in KDH, lol. People were hanging out there because there was nothing else to do. Need I mention the storms, and what comes with that. Yeah, definitely much different living than most of the country.
Blessed to call this place home and raise my children here. Words can't describe this island. 🙏🏝️
Sorry
Blessed to have surfed the outer banks in the mid 70’s…only people around after Labor Day were surfers and fisherman
This video has created an obsession for me to dedicate every minute of my life to learn how to surf..................I started last year but this video has reemphasize that all I want to do is surf. The only regret that I have is that I wish I would it started earlier. I am turning 40 next year.
Any tips for a beginner? I currently live in Topsail, NC.
BEST VIDEO EVER!!!!!! East Coast Surfer are the BEST!
Nice little surf film. Bodyboarded the Outer Banks when I was a Marine at LeJeune in 88-89. Mostly Cape Hatteras. One swell there were 4 storms in the Atlantic. And the waves I was dropping into would suck out 4 times before it broke on shore. Just drop, drop, drop, drop cover, and spitted skimming on the beach. Had to keep your eyes closed or they'd be filled with sand. Total shore mutants!
Been traveling all over the world (Indo, Tahiti, Fiji, Oz, New Zealand, Morocco, Canaries, Galapagos, etc...) over the last 40 years and surfed some amazing waves but there is nothing that beats the Outer Banks!
Wow! Going to the OBX is like a semi annual pilgrimage for me and I'm sad to leave every time. I love my NC mountains, but something about the OBX community just gets me. I just left last week and already can't wait to get back. You guys did a killer job telling this story.
From Plymouth n.c. we skipped school when the waves were good. Got caught twice. But still keep doing it. Now I skip work.
Spent my teens and 20's through the 80's and 90's taking the East Coast pilgrimage down to Hatteras countless times each year to score epic uncrowded peaks along the OBX (and some crowded days at 3rd groin Lighthouse). I havent been back down in many, many years, but feel like I'm long overdue for a trip down for nostalgia's sake. ❤ Great piece!
Started on styrofoam, then a boogie board, then Natural Art boards. North or south, there's a wave. So glad to have experienced this gem in the Atlantic in my lifetime.
The OBX looks amazing, i grew up and still live in panama city Beach FL and it has become a tourist hell. No sense of local community left here, that died years ago, it all revolves around tourism now and you will never find an empty beach. We have three main breaks, all of them small and you only get good surf a handful of days out of the year. I sincerely hope it stays this way for you guys and doesn't get ruined by commercialism and over population. Guard what you have and dont take it for granted.
Thoroughly enjoyed this video! Thoroughly enjoyed my visit there from gulf coast TX. My son was married on that beach. Got outta the waves and Stopped for the wedding, then, right back in the surf!!! Spent the whole time in awe!!
Tears of joy on my face and I have no words to describe the beauty of OBX and its people.
Cant wait to get out there again
Same here brother
Drove down by myself in 2005 with just a book and some maps. '89 Ford Bronco II. Had a bodyboard and some camping equipment. First wave I found annihilated me and I lost a swimfin - never to be seen again. I remember being raked across the bottom covered in shells and rocks. Rode one of the longest waves of my like in Ocracoke and almost drowned in the same day. Found some campgrounds to crash at and pitch my tent. No GPS, no cellphone, no digital camera. Just followed a book. You just can't get that experience anymore.
Nicely done, and yeah, they're a different breed out there...........tough and optimistic. And REALLY good surfers.
Live in NJ but all our family vacations were in Frisco and learned to surf there with my older brothers. Now have 18 year old twins that I taught to surf. They just took their first big surf trip there without us. Doesn't get any better than that
I love the outer banks. Spent a lot of time there through the 90's. I wanted to move there but I wasn't a commercial fisherman and I didn't want to open a tourist shop.
So I chose CA and have lived and experienced more then most and have had incredible times in and out of the water..
Altough CA is great it has a lot of down falls. Obx has that sense of community and so mellow. I need that in my life more then ever now. A very special place indeed.
I have been going down to the Outer Banks since 1986 and I am glad I can show my kids the beauty of the island. Hopefully 1 day I can move there.
I learned to surf when I lived in KDH for six years in the 80s- early 90s. Mostly drove down to Rodanthe and Buxton for less tourists and better waves with warmer water. WRV and Hatteras Glass surfboards shaped by Redman. A few of those boards ended up in Costa Rica and Mexico, lol!
You managed to capture so much energy with this short video, not only in the waves, but also in the place itself and its people. Simply beautiful, thanks for sharing.
My first surf trip when I was young was here. I was so stoked. That was in 1976 with my good friend Dale Bennett. We had a blast and waves were bigger than anything we had ever seen. He still goes up there to shoot photos and respects that place so much.
Very well done...Like watching a Bruce Brown movie. Love to see so many of the locals that we've met over the years, each August.
What a beautiful film about an incredible place. No where else like it. The landscape, the beaches, the waves, all so unique and amazing but the people there make it what it is. I'd kill for an Art's burger right now 😂
wonderful film! I've made three trips to the OBX, as a moderator for the surfalorus film festival, and I absolutely love the place. I've met dozens of gracious and talented people there... I'm a born and bred californian surfer, but there's definitely a soft spot in my heart for the island... see you all again soon!
It’s y’all haha
@@jodyratcliffe9825 good point! sometimes this californian forgets who he’s talking to 😉
Making me miss home.
These folks are the real deal
Beautifully put together.
“If we lose the sense of the outer banks, it’s not gonna be that feeling of the outer banks anymore. It’ll just be… plastic buildings.
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Never made it that far, but what a wonderfully put together doco. You can sense the pride and community in every scene
awesome video makes obx look good
The OBX is a mystical place. I have caught some of the best waves of my life there. Everytime I turn on NC 12, I feel at home!! Its true. On any given day you CAN find a rideable wave somewhere on that island.
Manteo H.S. Class of 90'-91'!!!
This was so well done!
Awesome video. So well done. So fortunate to live in Currituck and have these beaches.
He comes the influx...great video!
In 2006 when I was 6, we went on a surf camp trip that was before I really surfed, my brother and I boogie boarded and my dad surfed. We went there for 5 days I want to go back after I finish college!!! I’m from West Michigan and I’m a Great Lakes surfer
Live your dreams ...while you're still able !
Get out here man!!!
We’ll keep the light on for you.❤
This made me think a lot of Les Landes region in France. Very similar type of surf and empty beaches from Hossegor and up North on a good 100km. Great video!
Very similar to a endless Hossegor with no real access aside parking at a mile marker and running over the dunes 1/4 mile or 60 ft depending on where you are. Then novelties like the inlet that's just crazy how different it can be day to day or a shipwreck just out the breakers and the lighthouse draining point similar to desert point. Finding people to surf with was a issue especially in the winter.
Wow, what a bunch of legends! Volleyball is getting big on the outer banks, both indoor and beach. The local high schools recently put in beach courts and have beach club teams.
Great video Daniel. You have amazing talent
Def feel blessed to have grown up in coastal NC! OBX is a special place!
The rips bruh, the rip tides will FORCE you to learn the currents and the swell directions-no place like Hatteras Island-it got put on the map when they moved the Lighthouse in ‘99- fck I miss the island
i reallyyyyyyy love living here cannotttttt beat this swell
Finally made the trip and it was everything I expected. I didn’t want to leave and I can’t stop thinking about the OBX. Waves, wildlife, beautiful scenery. I wish it was my home.
Camped at the lighthouse during the 70s and 80s, the lighthouse was insane then and the locals ripped it.Jimmy Crickets, Gingerbread house, 8oz Rolling Rock, Frisco on wind shift great memories.
That was dope . I’ve been in those waters . It is a special spot .
Great Edit . Sick .
Well done y'all!
I have been there twice in summer -- this vid brought me back for a quick moment in life.
Great short film! Proud to be generation local. Stay tubed
Awesome! Love OBX!!
Nice one Daniel! I still think your mural at The gingerbread house is awesome!
Been visiting the OBX 3-4 times a year since I was 10 years old. I’m 20 now and after visiting plenty of countries and surfing countless waves, all my best surfing memories still live in the banks. This video just got me so stoked for my next trip. Hopefully waves soon🙏🏻
Great video!
Wow.. amazing vid!! Special place!! 😎🇿🇦
Worth the drive from VB, erry time!!
From VB , but this was my surf home .... Good Job !
Favorite place in the world to get down to from VA. I have many of those pics hanging in my office! We spend as much time as possible down there. 🤙🏻
And great film. Amazing job!!
I love the outer banks for kiting and winging. Spend 3 weeks there every fall. I will be interesting to see how many foil surfers i will see this year, prone foiling and wing foiling in the surf. Downwinding from 38 to the lighthouse is one of my favorites. Thanks for this awesome movie showing the awesomeness of OBX. Because there is miles of beach there is room for everyone. Larry
Great vid! Really enjoyed it
My old Carolina home. Miss it so much.
epic video!!!!!!!
Great video I really loved it but you forgot about alot. Native of Hatteras island my father Garland midgette Johnny conner and many others were the fathers of surfing on Hatteras island. Just do your homework but still great film
Every time there's a vid, it's always the same 3-5 doods. It used to be annoying how there'd be a bunch of photogs on the beach, but they'd NEVER take a pic/clip of anyone except the same ol' 3 ppl, even if you were ripping just as hard as they were.
NC ❤
Amazing.....never caught it over 4', but, week o barrels more than year at Pt Judith all year!
well done all, well done OB and nice job Inertia.
in the early 80swe called scott and caroll john lennon and yoko ono and the in the eye logo is awesome
Gotta go to Higher Grounds Coffee and Icecream when in OBX ,NC .Right down the street from Wright Brothers Memorial.
So true. Every time we'd see Noah, Barry, Ryan, Craig, etc on the side of the road we'd flip a u turn to check it out. =]
after 25 years i hardly recognized Noah Snyder
Thanks for stopping by Oceans East at Oregon Inlet! The dock crew is the best!
Special place!
I moved here from Honolulu. These shore breaks are no joke.
So sick
Every time I see Barley surf, I wonder how he is not on the challenger series and possibly the world tour.
You opened the video with Mr. Scott Busbey, one of the finest humans I have ever had the pleasure of meeting. If you are visiting the area, please stop by Natural Art Surf Shop.
So happy to be raised here and one day want to raise my own family here.
Great video I live in Wilmington now but used to live in VB, and am glad to call North Carolina home so that when I go up north ( used to be go down south), I’m no longer a vb kook. I’ll have no problem with the outer bankers against vb wankers
LOL Outer Bankers against Wankers, wish I still had one of those tees!
Big shout out to the whole OBX crew of rippers from Carolina Beach. Brooks Pearce says hello to the NA family. Hope all is well. How bout that quiver Brett Barley. Yeeew
Awesome!
I have a lot of mixed feelings for my hometown. But this is a beautiful film. Good job.
You gotta swing by and see Super Shaper Mike Beveridge next time.
I remember his Surfblades boards, and WRV.
Awesome.
Shout out John's Drive In
"falling out of the sky and just pray you set an edge", ha yup thats obx for you
sic.
really sick
We go to Corolla every year but I honestly don't think I've ever seen anything over a foot or two
Lisa’s Pizza🤙🏻 best owners , great people….
really ironic. maybe consider this before you plan that 2nd trip of this year to HAWAII NEI ya? aloha
Sand with soul
Great surf film and some fishing but nothing in the great wind sports??.
Windsurfing and now kiting, foiling etc! I learned more windsurfing in
1-3 years then in 25 surfing!
Vacations in Southern Shores flat tops w/ no AC
Why so somber 🌿
they all have one thing in common, they all say home the same.
Stop making videos. Keep it a secret. Just saying 😊
its a very unique place..but 1 hurricane and cut those islands in 1/2...its happened before....if youre out there and a hurricane comes..watch out...its another world out there.
👋👋👋👋👋
Dang.
Only 17 minutes long?
Love OBX, but why does this title make it seem like a single town? It's massive
the name of the series...
Yeah spread the word that affordable housing and abundant job opportunities abound. We are a fertile ground for your up and coming small business. Just move down and figure out the rest later.
NC sucks. Don’t come here.
It’s too late brother. Miss the 80’s and early 90’s.
@@wewwajstudds9432 Man, you’re not kidding.
The guy said its hard living there. In what way ? Guys got planes , two story joints everywhere,epic surf. Pretty sure there's a supermarket. Some people's idea of a hard life is alot different others. Doesn't look too hard to me 😂😂😂. It actually looks like a dream.
And they got Spanky’s Burgers
Almost all of those big ocean front two story joints are empty 9 months out of the year, the locals don’t live in them. Living in a coastal place takes it toll, your constantly doing home maintenance because the salt in the air literally corrodes everything, you’re vehicle will start to rust out, you don’t have the cleanest water on tap at your home. You’re guaranteed some kind of storm each year, may be one that shuts down the road then you’re stuck with what supplies you have until the road is opened back up ( hopefully you have enough supplies because you could possibly be stuck for weeks without power on top of that). Down in Hatteras your not really close to anything also, so if there’s a medical emergency it’s a long drive to get to a hospital, and if it’s real serious it’s an even longer drive to Norfolk (maybe they brake the helicopter out, not sure how that works) The local job market is limited and most of the locals are not rich. I would think that it would be harder living there but the pay off would be so much more worth it
Those big houses are weekly rentals that go for $2k+ per week. When I was growing up, you worked at a restaurant in the summer and construction in the winter - there were no big box stores. I remember when K-Mart opened up in KDH, lol. People were hanging out there because there was nothing else to do. Need I mention the storms, and what comes with that. Yeah, definitely much different living than most of the country.