Lake Superior storm surfing. Fresh water surf at its finest.
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- Lake Superior surfing during one the biggest storms of the year! After learning how to surf in Tasmania and traveling the world in search of waves I was blown away to discover that the Great Lakes have some amazing surfing. Fresh water surfing at its finest.
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Oh Man!! Your parents are WONDERFUL... Your folks gave you a wonderful start in life... Blessings to you and your family!
They are the best ever!!! Thank you!
A wave is a wave,,,,fresh, salt, mudwater.... SWEET..... FUN....from a CA surfer......Nice!
Couldn't have said it better! Cheers Bro!
Aloha from Ca., that is some legit surfing...proud of you boys!
Thar looks around what would equate to a 9 or 10 second swell period here in the Gulf of Mexico on the west coast of Florida, with that swell coming in from more miles away. Lines that long on the lake is what boggles my mind. I can understand the wave heights getting up there with the depth of the lake and how low the pressure gets in those storms. Some are hurricane force. What I don't understand is just how long the lines can clean up and spread out to with their short length of travel after the winds switched or let down. Simply amazed! Go glad yall are up there enjoying your local resource of fun.
It's actually a short window where we get solid clean conditions. You need to be on the spot when it happens.
Frozen! You can see how exhausted/stoked you guys are🤙
I absolutely LOVE this video. It's well done and I can totally relate to your journey. I grew up in northern WI and began surfing on the east coast at 26. Surfed for 15 years (East Coast, So Cal, Mexico, Peru, etc.) before moving back to WI where I raised my family. At 52 I just started surfing again a couple months ago on Michigan and Superior. I am amazed at the waves and so thankful that surfing is back in my life…for good.
My story is somewhat similar for sure. So stoked to know the possibilities the lakes can produce very high quality waves. I've traveled to some of the best waves on the planet and hold Lake Superior as one of my favorite places ever. Keep the dream alive brotha!
Scat 4 shit flipturn
Jordan
Thank u for not raising your family in California! Don't need any more indoctrinated weirdos in this country!
Superior it's said never gives up her shred.
Haha!!
Lol
Nice, must be good not having to worry about the men in grey suits 🦈
True. Just be careful to not drown if you ever go to Lake Michigan. Waves can get huge and choppy, very dangerous :3
@@Great_Lake_Surfer_ thanks bro
All right!
Calling it head high waves!
Respect for freshwater surfers.
That’s some of the best and cleanest lake surfing I’ve seen to date! Love your guys’ passion and devotion to the sport...35-40°F is pretty hardcore. 58°F is cold for me lol
It's unreal how good it can get when everything lines up and this was good but not epic conditions and it was actually kinda warm since we didn't have icicles growing off our hoods.
I grew up surfing New Jersey in the winter. Which can get pretty damn cold. Nowhere near this though.
Best lake waves I have ever seen, nice video!
This is so wonderful to see. So stoked for you guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Actually....fresh water surfing is prolly a great way to learn for the rest of the globe. Very nice and peaceful too. Cheers.
Man I can’t even imagine man I surf New Jersey winter and think it’s cold! Respect for that man
I don't know man. I grew up surfing in NJ too and it was pretty extreme. I remember surfing a day back in the 80s when it was negative 30 with windchill factor, 3 feet of snow on the beach, and ice chunks coming over in the lip (i.e., frozen water and snow got washed out from the jetties into the line-up). When I was done, my toes and fingers were so numb I almost went to the hospital because they weren't warming up... But eventually as they "came back to life," the pain and throbbing really set in. That was as extreme as anywhere on the planet I'd say. Everywhere, even NJ, has its extreme days I suppose. Keep on rippin 😎🤙
Nope, wouldn’t surf either place as I’d get cold surfing in south Florida! Props to anyone who surfs above NC in the winter.
@@brentparks3669 thank you😂🤝
@@brentparks3669 the 5/4s keep you really warm sometimes it’s just you can easily get a brain freeze lol
@@yxngbt387 plus the wetsuit technology is WAAAYYYY better today than back when I surfed winters in NJ. Now I'm permanent in Australia so a 3/2 is as thick as I go these days!!
I moved to Costa Rica 28 years ago... I used to surf anywhere I could. Cape Cod, etc.... but there’s something appealing about two coasts and 80 degree water that I’ve come to appreciate.
That is awesome man! And no shark's! 👍
Ripping, definitely can tell these guys have surfed all around. Looked like a fun session and by telling how well they looked on video (hard to look as good as in person compared to being recorded) easily can see the stoke and dedication! Glad your waves are uncrowded.
Gotta admit, I did not expect to see clean, head-high/overhead, long-interval groundswell. Very nice indeed my friend!
We get it about 10 times a year with several other windspell events
Just need a thick suit
@@bunt1691 any slabs?
@@boogieheads wear a 4:3
The Great Lakes can most certainly make big waves, from the Chicagoland area here. I know Lake Superior is cold even in the summer months so I could not imagine what it is like in the winter. Hats off to you. The video is amazing! I hope you enjoyed your hot shower after.
I usually go straight to the hotel in the wetsuit. Funny looks when checking in but the shower after is the best.
Yup might see one Day with water over 60-65. Cold and big
@@bunt1691 superior always delivers
I see a bunch of waves I could have potentially wasted. Lol
Some damn good surfing in this.
What an incredible wave for an inland lake! Glad you made that video - gives me hope having just moved to the south coast of England where the English channel is only about as wide as the Great Lakes.
Are you on the English side? SSW is preferred
The French side needs NNW
I've surfed the channel. You can do it
SICK!!! Aloha from Hawaii!
I'm on Maui!
@@getwildwithevan Honolulu here🤙
Aloha,. We do it because it's fun
Uff da! Aloha from a fellow Hawaii/Minnesotan 🏄♂️🏂
Awesome guys looks like a great wave!..
Dude, thats like totally gnarly man, like way cool.🤙🌴🌊
Heck yeah man! Get it!!! What a sick video.
Probably the best way to type shame out of the Great Lakes ...nice rippable fun waves
Brings back good memories Surfing Lake Erie on a 9ft. Wardy board..........and later..a 7ft. 11in. Greg Noll bug. No wetsuits,,,,,just 2 sweatshirts and a bonfire.
Where there's water there's waves!
Nice. Spot reminds me of my local in Scotland,North Sea.
Really, really cool.🥶❄️🏄
Wow! So many similar stories! I just love it! I too was born in Australia but grew up in Minnesota! I grew up getting "surfing magazine" for my birthday from my cousins and uncles down "unda!" After high school, I moved back to Oz and that started two decades of surfing around the world. I gave up surfing in 05 and moved home only to meet a guy that year who said he was going surfing up on Lake Superior. I had to pinch myself to make sure I wasn't dreaming. Then I had to change my shorts! I've seen and surfed Epic waves up on that lake. Epic! I surfed up there for over 12 years. Due to children I haven't been in the surf for a few years but that's going to change!
Get back in the water and find that flow!! I think surfing is so important for our mental state that we should never let it get too far away.
@@getwildwithevan Well said my friend and I appreciate the pep talk. It is SO important for the mental state but I've been taking great care of my boys which will also put the mind at ease. They're getting old enough now that I can start to work the things back into my life that I sacrificed for them. See you up there!
Cool video. We get spoiled here in California so it is cool to see how much you guys have to go through.
Fell in love with surfing after learning this year in Hawaii. I live in Minneapolis so I was bummed that I wasn't going to be able to surf unless I traveled. Not anymore. :) Great vid. Thanks.
Have you taken the Lake Superior plunge?!!
I learned in Hawaii as well
A Superior video and it's NOT StOn3Y?! Props for that. The Search is the most exciting part of surfing (not just the Lakes, but anywhere), an idea lost on the packs of Me-To's, posing for their Instagram shot, at the Point. Good on ya!
Some knarly waves man love the music
Thanks dude!
You're surfing in freshwater? What an amazing experience. You're so lucky to be able to have a go. I would love to do something so interesting.
It's an amazing experience for sure. Especially when it snows :)
These are just waves on a lake, right? the way that swell generates is because of strong winds blowing across the lake? Recently I bought into a resort on the edge of the Nam Ngum Reservoir in Laos, and I am wondering now if I will get the chance to try a bit of this freshwater surfing myself (without the snow). I never imagined such a thing possible. Anyway, great hobby and video. Pumped me up.
@@anarchistangler yes made by wind. Lake superior is over 100 miles wide and super deep so swell has time to build and generate power. The reservoir your talking about is much smaller and very shallow but may have some really really small waves sometimes if you get any major storms. It also looks like there are a lot of islands though which may block the swells too.
Yeah right. Thanks for checking it out and giving your opinion. There is a fair bit of swell on Nam Ngum when there is a storm I have to plough through in my fishing boat, and some of the places I fish the driftwood and wave erosion is very high up the bank. It gave me some hope perhaps there might be a wave. I am going to check it out when next there is a huge wind. I can't offer you any surf probably, but you're pretty decent for explaining your hobby to me and entertaining my questions. If you would like to come and catch some prehistoric fish some time - some really gnarly predators - contact the Green View Resort Laos. I am going anyway, and I got a rod you can borrow. It is one of the last wildernesses on earth.
Living and surfing in So.Cal my whole life,this is fascinating to me
Epic! Looks so fun. Keep on goin
It's more about the experience than the surf! Thanks Brian!
Very dope
Some sweet nuggets coming through there. I'm super interested in the waves on Superior. My in laws live in Ghoulie Bay on the Canadian side. We live on Vancouver Island in Tofino, and I absolutely love surfing cold water. With modern wetsuit technology we are sweating even on the coldest days. Stoked to see your video. When someone says its to cold to go out, they are really saying "its too big for me."
Nothing is too cold these days!
Goulais Bay
That left looks so fun. Gotta try it soon!
Hoooweee! Head high sets and fresh water lol! Aloha u guys! Must of been so stoked!
The little warbler clips were special.
Awesome 👌🆒️
So sick man!!!! Greetings from Nicaragua
Love Nica!! Hope you're getting some!
Well done sirs..... well done
I can't believe that's a lake. Who knew
That's how I felt when I first started surfing up there.
I liked your story. Very cool
Thanks Corey! I'm gearing up to make better videos so stay tuned.
I was born in Virginia MN and have family there. I’ve lived and surfed in Florida my whole life. I’m gonna have to check on coming up there sometime to surf the lake
Great video! I am amazed how good and clean the waves in this video are. [Most GL vids are showing pretty choppy conditions]. If I'm ever up there I'll be checking the surf! BTW: I too have surfed a lot of good waves around the world but I'm always most stoked to surf my home breaks in NE Florida. Funny how that works!
I'm in Maui now. Surfing big outer reef stuff but yeah I still get excited for waves on the Great Lakes.
Beautiful tunes
People who’ve never lived on the Great Lakes will never get this
I live in Southern California and not only do I get this, I WANT TO SURF IN THE GREAT LAKES!
Only problem is, I’ll need a 6/7 wetsuit.
No sharks no jellyfish
@@nathanconley280 You forgot the stingrays. One got me about a month ago. Everyone in my surf group has gotten zapped by them.
@@ec1628 I'm dying to learn how to surf. I've been in michigan my whole life and am planning to take lessons soon. I'm so excited to start! The cold shouldnt be too much of an issue as long as you remain physically active :D just makes a hot shower feel better afterwards is all
@@Great_Lake_Surfer_ I hope to see you in the line up after you just finished tearing it up! It isn't easy to learn. Don't give up!
Beats our usual waves in Corpus Christi, well done.
True soul surfing.
Awesome video - really hard to believe it's a Great Lake however I first started surfing the Great Lakes in the early 1980's and o one back then was surfing Superior that I know of.
Props to yall, way too cold for this southerner.
Pussy
Gotta love Minnesota USA and its hardy "Minnesotans" !
Not the surf I’d have expected to see on a lake... wow.
Wow, scored. That is sick for LS.
Can't believe I never seen this. Great video, twice the length, and a spot or 2 more wouldn't have hurt, but ..
👍Floridian here as other commenter posted, I'd require a 6/5 , but one thing here is we have so much salt it irrigates your sinuses beyond belief. Loved the content.
4:3 works for most
6:4:5 at it's worst
that’s sick bro 🤘
YEW!!! Real good then...
Great story bro.
Sick boyz! Get em eh! No matter how you say it this is charging!🤙
I once stepped into lake Superior in late fall, I was wearing rubber boots and reached into the water. It was so cold, I imagined that if I were to fall in and was not close to shore, I MIGHT survive the cold about 4-5 minutes.
Awesome
Hey Evan- Amazing video! I'd give ya 2 thumbs up if I could. Love it!
Really great video! I've been dying to surf the lakes, hoping to take the trip from New York!
It would be sick to spend Nov/Dec chasing Lake surf. Hope you do it!
@@getwildwithevan attempted lack Erie last winter! So tough to score tho!
Maravilhoso 🤙🤙🤙
Awesome. You would love Vladivostok.
You get waves up there?!!
That is stoke, right there!
With all of that rocky shoreline, there must be at least one place on the lakes where the waves come out of deep water and break on a shallow reef to make a hollow wave.
Yes indeed!
Awesome guys looks like a great wave!
Is it too expensive to live closer to the lake? That looks like a very tough drive..
Holding a beer when you looked so small. Gangsta
power to you buddy
That's SO cool. I'm curious how big freshwater waves could get (and the biggest surfed).
Waves have been known to reach as high as possible 40' out on the lake during gales. This estimate has been made by captains of the lake freighters. Closer to shore probably in the area of 10'. There are videos on U-Tube of waves splashing up & over the 80' cliffs on the North shore in Minnesota.
There were 20 feet a week ago on Lake Michigan. It can get pretty wicked during storms
Cold waters!!
Intrepid! Insane! Ice-beards!!
Awesomeness! It would be weird to not get the sinuses blasted out by salt water. Do you notice a buoyancy difference or board handling differences between fresh and salt water? Love the stoke! Thanks for sharing
Yeah man it's weird without the saltwater for sure. I tend to get a lot of sinus blockage after surfing freshwater. Taking a decongestant helps. Not as much buoyancy as well so your board feels a little sluggish. When duck diving you get held in a somewhat suspended area where you aren't rising back up to the surface. Almost a neutral buoyancy. Thanks for watching !!!
@@getwildwithevan Hey thanks for the reply man.
EPIC
Can not wait to foil surf in the lake, seems like these spots are so perfect for foil
Check that Superior surf style brah yeah buddy! Donnie also surfed the shores from Duluth to Wisconsins north west shore.
World class no, fun as hell yes!!!
World Class for a LAKE :)
😎🤙🏼🤙🏼
a trick: you can watch series at Flixzone. Been using it for watching all kinds of movies recently.
@Cyrus Zaire Yup, I have been using Flixzone} for years myself :)
I guess it all depends on how bad you want to go surfing
Always want it bad bradda!
Evan, it's cool that you're responsive to your listeners. And this music is more tolerable. But I think I'd rather hear the waves.
Musics fine man, I like it
Some game of beat
I get cold just watching this
Something really weird about no salt in the water. Still love that you are making it happen.
Crazy feeling but man it's a unique experience.
Very Cool. Hello from Michigan. Do u windsurf at all?
Just kitesurfing
I bet you could surf sea kayaks in that channel. which point is this? Just looking over the map and there are LOTS of points that I could see working. As a regular footed surfer I'd likely look for a right hander
Waves around every corner out there!
As someone scared of sharks I think this seems like a great alternative to surfing the ocean. I’d never surf in the ocean but I’d defiantly surf there it looks so much fun and it must be so much funner knowing no sharks are lurking around you.
Salt free and shark free!!
Dude there is ICE ON YOUR STICK in the racks...o my I was complaining bout wearing a spring suit this past weekend in NORTH FLORIDA.
All it takes is a 5:4 or a 4:3
@@bunt1691
Down south we call that a dive suit when your a 130 ft down shooting grouper 80 miles offshore
🤙
Totally normal!!!
Manresa closeouts double overhead and a half. Fall swell
well still better than any way pool!....
The classic cold water pipe
Do you ride a bigger board or at least one with more volume to compensate for the fresh water or is it negligible?
I usually ride the same boards I have for Hawaii and other areas but I should really have a small quiver of higher volume boards for the lake. My 8' walden is a wave catching machine because of the volume but it's doesn't rip like a short board.
I live in Tasmania! Good to hear u started in our cold waters
Cloudy bay brotha!