The best surfers always see I rideable wave when no one else does. JJF is known for this, dragging his brothers with him to surf weird North Shore sandbars and such. Good stuff! Everyone is surfed out from all the swell and we have another SOLID week ahead!! 😀
Love that spot. Learned to surf just on the other side of the rocks, but caught this spot a handful of times in the past 35 years or so when it was really fun. Very rare that it ever breaks, except right on shore.
glad these guys had fun with what the ocean provided for some most welcome out of town visitors. This spot is usually good for learners because of the protected small waves, if there are any, but not today. I highly respect anyone who can recognize fun in what the ocean offers when it is being very selective with the welcomes.
Used to bodyboard this Topaz Street shorebreak back in the late eighties. Cool spot down on the Torrance Esplanade. Breaks best at high tide when the waves are too big and sloppy anywhere else.
That's probably a very VERY special trans am. The very first original production trans am was released without the Phoenix decals , they did not come with it. After going back and reviewing that trans am was in the original color the first three colors available were red white and blue. I'm not quite positive but I believe if I remember correctly that was the only three colors available on the first release trans am.
I like this little novelty left in the seal beach jetty except i go straight towards the rocks where a sandbar keeps it alive. Then I go over the shoulder before the he wave hits the rocks its pretty mellow. On the Long Beach side of the seal beach jetty there is a spot towards the end a few people have surfed during really large swells it will fire hollow standup barrels like nobody’s business and the dudes seem to stand in the barrel very close to the rocks its magical
I did too. 1970 they built it. I was 15. The Topaz locs didn't let my 13 year old brother and I over a couple of times. Single fin then a little wing pin twinny in 72 then back to single...all pre leash untill 73. Cheers for winter windswells and the occasional early summer ones, too.
Brad, Love your content..! If you are interested in some insight from a 60yr old that surfs all the time up n down the coast… It would be nice to see some of the footage from different perspectives if you can adjust while filming a session. Just like a zoom in and out occasionally. I grew up surfing in the So Bay. Sapphire on stormy days is what we did as often as possible. I would have loved to see how the rest of the lineup looked or to see the boys from a distance on waves. We also Surfed inside the the horseshoe pier on stormy days and nights. Keep up the content. LOVE IT!
Not a bad sesh at all there was only one wave I thought a little bit too close to the rocks but other than that it looked really fun 😊thanks I enjoyed watching
Trav been watching too much Mason Ho and Ben Gravy. Nice to see he still surfs the same style as the world tour days, just a little bit dikker around the boep.
I've surfed in parts of the Puget Sound in Washington state , US that are too far inland to get swell but if you time a wind storm right you can do it. Usually the wind is so strong either you and a buddy team up carrying the boards or you have to get down near the ground just to get to the water . I have an old beater board for it because of all the rocks but you get a few .
@@MrGogogordo I mostly see coastal kites hunting in that area, smaller than a hawk, and hovers to hunt, while I think hawks use more altitude, and certainly smaller than an osprey, or sea eagle. I have seen those birds often, and with great appreciation, but would have to watch again to want to contradict your identification with any certainty I did just briefly check again, and didn't see any red in the tail, or the characteristic square shaped tail. However I am far from an expert, so without knowing the size of the bird, I can only guess from what usually hangs out at those cliffs..
@@MrGogogordo there is no red in the tail. Osprey like to hunt fish and they are common along the water.. check some google image of Osprey - i'm more confident now
You and the guys that know of this spot should never filmed it . Now there is going to so many other new bees and beginners want to surf there . Then you got guys does not know about his spot . Now they well want to surf it . They all know when it windy with a certain direction, they well be there . This lags .
the peak at pipes beach next to swamis only breaks from 10-15 both ways. Don't pass up on this delight once in your life. blacks is best in the winter when the other breaks are only 3 feet. the jetty at silver strand beach in Oxnard breaks twice as big as blacks but blows out easily. don't get punched out, the rich guard this break religiously. el cap on a huge swell is a right-handed pipeline but has heavy sharks because it is close to Gaviota. Good luck.
Wow, loved seeing that hawk surfing the air waves so close … great footage!
If you show up, you surf. Words to live by. Liked the go attitude and nice footage of the hawk. Thanks for sharing.
Amen! I like that.
Dude that hawk!....what an awesome shot you got......the perfect hunter....he was laser focused on you....pretty cool
Amazing shot of the Hawk!
The best surfers always see I rideable wave when no one else does. JJF is known for this, dragging his brothers with him to surf weird North Shore sandbars and such. Good stuff! Everyone is surfed out from all the swell and we have another SOLID week ahead!! 😀
Never heard anyone refer to Saph as a “novelty left” 😂 looks fun though!
Wanted to See what Zapo was breaking like, never caught a glimpse..
Missing the ol stomping grounds..
The shot of the hawk staring down at the camera man was dope.
I was surprised not to see Ben Gravy out there, being our king of novelty waves !! 🤙
ZAPOT crew for life.
Great footage of old man Logie! Loved the Red-tail, Brad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nice footage . . . the Hawk too.
Travis is a powerful surfer . . . most dudes don't have the leg muscle to handle those type of conditions.
Props.
Love that spot. Learned to surf just on the other side of the rocks, but caught this spot a handful of times in the past 35 years or so when it was really fun. Very rare that it ever breaks, except right on shore.
glad these guys had fun with what the ocean provided for some most welcome out of town visitors. This spot is usually good for learners because of the protected small waves, if there are any, but not today. I highly respect anyone who can recognize fun in what the ocean offers when it is being very selective with the welcomes.
As a non-surfer all I can see is rocks, and I’m like freaking out!
Well done fellas!
Watched that wave so many times as a kid 40 years ago. Nostalgia and novelty is one. Thank you. Good surfing too!
Love the violence on the cutbacks, to the points the rocks are watching and wondering who these boys are
Used to bodyboard this Topaz Street shorebreak back in the late eighties. Cool spot down on the Torrance Esplanade. Breaks best at high tide when the waves are too big and sloppy anywhere else.
They did a lot better than I expected!
It was fun to watch them out there. Crappy conditions but has power.
So beautiful to watch 🏄♂️.
South Redondo is paradise! 🤟
Amazing! Wish we had in Nevada👏👏👏👏
Looks Excellent!!
That's probably a very VERY special trans am.
The very first original production trans am was released without the Phoenix decals
, they did not come with it.
After going back and reviewing that trans am was in the original color the first three colors available were red white and blue. I'm not quite positive but I believe if I remember correctly that was the only three colors available on the first release trans am.
Gorgeous hawk!
That guy has a beautiful roundhouse... so quick and seems like he can do the whole maneuver in a 3 foot circle...
Rad
Reminds me of south mission beach. Always a nasty looking paddle out right next to the rocks but, it works. Great shot on that hawk.
Topaz/sapphire my first backside wave I ever stood up on. Ave C local from the 80’s reporting in. "Zapot"
That's insane! South bay is looking epic these past weeks.
1:29 nature steals the show yet again WOW!!! Lekker bru! Makes me wanna go surfing. (in NZ)
Hawk war eyeballing hard 😂
Fantastic
I like this little novelty left in the seal beach jetty except i go straight towards the rocks where a sandbar keeps it alive. Then I go over the shoulder before the he wave hits the rocks its pretty mellow. On the Long Beach side of the seal beach jetty there is a spot towards the end a few people have surfed during really large swells it will fire hollow standup barrels like nobody’s business and the dudes seem to stand in the barrel very close to the rocks its magical
Purely a wind swell spot.
I surfed out there in the late 60s and early 70s it was going off while they constructed the jetty.
I did too. 1970 they built it. I was 15. The Topaz locs didn't let my 13 year old brother and I over a couple of times. Single fin then a little wing pin twinny in 72 then back to single...all pre leash untill 73. Cheers for winter windswells and the occasional early summer ones, too.
Amazing surfing and camera work.
You kept the camera nice and steady in all the wind!..
Brad, Love your content..! If you are interested in some insight from a 60yr old that surfs all the time up n down the coast… It would be nice to see some of the footage from different perspectives if you can adjust while filming a session. Just like a zoom in and out occasionally. I grew up surfing in the So Bay. Sapphire on stormy days is what we did as often as possible. I would have loved to see how the rest of the lineup looked or to see the boys from a distance on waves. We also Surfed inside the the horseshoe pier on stormy days and nights. Keep up the content. LOVE IT!
Not a bad sesh at all there was only one wave I thought a little bit too close to the rocks but other than that it looked really fun 😊thanks I enjoyed watching
Flooding, mudslides, people without electricity and evacuations but you're going surfing. Unreal.
I went to school with Travis in SA, a few years ahead of him. Give him a hi fom Jason Wardell
Crazy wind days its fun there
Well done.
Nice...can't beat black and white ...and no crowd!
Trav been watching too much Mason Ho and Ben Gravy. Nice to see he still surfs the same style as the world tour days, just a little bit dikker around the boep.
I've surfed in parts of the Puget Sound in Washington state , US that are too far inland to get swell but if you time a wind storm right you can do it. Usually the wind is so strong either you and a buddy team up carrying the boards or you have to get down near the ground just to get to the water . I have an old beater board for it because of all the rocks but you get a few .
The shoe ,or palms would be the call
You guys scored!!
Sapphies "aka kiddie bowls"
please include the day of the waves
Wow!
Fun !
beautiful shot of the Osprey (pretty sure) love your footage and thanks for all your hard work :)
Redtail hawk
@@MrGogogordo I mostly see coastal kites hunting in that area, smaller than a hawk, and hovers to hunt, while I think hawks use more altitude, and certainly smaller than an osprey, or sea eagle. I have seen those birds often, and with great appreciation, but would have to watch again to want to contradict your identification with any certainty
I did just briefly check again, and didn't see any red in the tail, or the characteristic square shaped tail. However I am far from an expert, so without knowing the size of the bird, I can only guess from what usually hangs out at those cliffs..
@@MrGogogordo there is no red in the tail. Osprey like to hunt fish and they are common along the water.. check some google image of Osprey - i'm more confident now
The beautiful osprey and the ocean are some of nature’s finest…
That's making lemonade out of lemons 👍
Legends
It was firing 2 days ago.
Travis needed some waves
Bravo serfista
He did well, take that Jamie O'Brien!
Ripping!
Seen better days at Saphire. Was Aite.
Sapphire spotlight
Reminds me of goat island...
Go left or get wrecked...lol
Hey!, whose 71 Trans Am? (By the way, you guys are crazy good. Nice work)
Novelty Waves,,Ben Gravy will be out there next week 💯⛑# No Crowds
Yeah. that novelty wave is awful. Don't ever go there on a big northwest swell. It is terrible.
Ben Gravy would be proud
Was it worth it? YES
My home break I surfed there as a kid throughout the 1970's.... Don't miss it...
..........VICTORY at SEA..................
well damn, if u can surf there, can surf EVERYWHERE XD
Johnny contest shralp style
go right.
You and the guys that know of this spot should never filmed it .
Now there is going to so many other new bees and beginners want to surf there .
Then you got guys does not know about his spot . Now they well want to surf it .
They all know when it windy with a certain direction, they well be there .
This lags .
don't worry pal..... nobody be clamourin so surf that spot
I have to agree, sorry Brad. At least ask people not to name it in the comments por favor.
Im already there!!
Chris ripppppps
the peak at pipes beach next to swamis only breaks from 10-15 both ways. Don't pass up on this delight once in your life. blacks is best in the winter when the other breaks are only 3 feet. the jetty at silver strand beach in Oxnard breaks twice as big as blacks but blows out easily. don't get punched out, the rich guard this break religiously. el cap on a huge swell is a right-handed pipeline but has heavy sharks because it is close to Gaviota. Good luck.
Proof TL has no idea when it’s good. WSL still effed.
HORSESHOE ...NEXT...
That was a fun break before the pier burnt down!👍
Hell, that looks rideable and fun. I’ve surfed worse waves for sure…!!
1 foot Hawaiian, at best.
this is surfing: absolute garbage chaos waves with tons of wind, and stoked to make the best of it
I've had a lot worse sessions!
"Novelty wave" is a ridiculous phrase. It sounds stupid.
kook
He was right on top of the rocks on a couple of those 🧗🏼♂
Lol. Victory At Sea conditions. Man I haven't heard that in forever.
Come to Florida, that’s all I know how to surf lol
South Africans in the south bay aweehhhhh
We call this side of topaz, "Mexico-USA." FWIW