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- Bodysurfing BIG WEDGE - (RAW Footage) 9-2-11
Epic day of bodysurfing at the World Famous Wedge, Newport Beach California! Witness this powerful day in this RAW video footage. Hope ya enjoy the clips, and thanks for watching! 🔥 Shop Wedge WALL ART & Riders GALLERY: society6.com/johnminar/collec...
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Fun to watch. Back from 1973 to 1980 I was out every big day at the Wedge and even the little days. I would ditch college classes, was fired from a job because I called in sick and they found out I was out. I broke my nose twice, dislocated my shoulder 3 times and finally tore my rotator in my left shoulder and could not paddle any more. I was known for my Superman style with both hands in front working like a foil. You see some vintage films from the time I am probably in them. I miss those days but then I miss being young and foolish. I still get out but 6-7 feet is max and I use a bodyboard now. Now I am the old fart making the kids on boards pissed because I make them look bad. Hand loose and see you at the beach.
@artist you might know. When was that Balboa Jetty completed that makes the Wedge wave. Why I ask, is did you know that John Wayne (Marion Davies) a school mate of my Dad ruined his shoulder body surfing Balboa, and could not be admitted into the service in WWII, so he went north and started working on sets in Hollywood. I am just wondering maybe he is one of the most famous casualties of the Wedge.
Good times😲
These waves give the name the Wedge to this beach. Wow, incredible. In the 60s I body surfed the wedge, and no one ever used a surfboard in those days; it was assumed you would just die if you did. Now I'm so old and decrepit, it's a challenge for me to conquer the big surf in my bathtub.
Same here, Toby. Flying out there tomorrow afternoon from Utah. Probably sit on the sand with the wife and tell her of by gone days.....splatting on 6 inches of water and calling it fun!!!
Not Angelina.....wonder how that happened...I'm her Dad??
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Do they need a specialized garment?
Like a wing suit but for water?
Ooops just gave away my next invention...Crap!
I used to body surf it back then as well. We would head down for the storm waves on red flag day. One day they would label epic today, me and a buddy were surfing with the names from surfer magazine who was there doing a special edition. We were in there with them, just not famous. After I caught a big one, one of the camera guys from the magazine came over to compliment me asking who I was. Ha, I told him nobody famous, The shot he got appeared in the mag, labeled unidentified surfer! Too funny! I’m 80 now but still go down to watch. Your body wears out but you never lose your eye for it. I can tell if they are in the right place to catch one and can still look out and see a swell that will be good! Bummer to get old.
How could you not love that video if you are a bodysurfer?!
Maybe somewhere close by other surfers had epic long hollow rides on cooking waves?
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Used to bodysurf here after light days water polo practice. FVHS, 83-86 and bodysurfed here in Speedos well into the 90s.
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The Wedge still has one of my Churhill’s!
Body-surfing is my favorite thing to do on this planet. I'm almost 6 feet tall and weigh about 170 pounds. These waves would snap my body in half. I don't see how these guys survive!
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They’re not little bitches
I am watching this again! I am 67, and still active with the churches ( swimfins). That inshore break- the sometime undertoe suck-out on the high take off! Not even the perfect practiced/WWE wrestling roll/ fall can save you on some of these!
Would I try it?!
F YEAH, but real REAL carefully! 6:33
I like the banter in the lineup. Like water polo. A guy got kicked out for cutting another dude off.
I used to body surf without fins in the 50s, 60s and 70s. I finally got a pair starting in the 80s and it made a world of difference. Never had a wetsuit so I didn't have that extra bouncy. After decades of competitive sports, outdoor 'fun' and a landscaping business my joints and body in general gave up. I'm only 71 but had to quit trying to play in the water at 68. I really miss it. I had never seen body surfing videos in big waves and now I'm thinking "my god, no wonder I'm in such bad shape now". In all those years I only had one time I really looked death in the face. Scared the hell out of me and I called it quits for the day. But I was back out there the next day. 🤗
In Surfing it's called
Wipeout.
In Body Surfing it's called
Getting Dumped.
Stay between the Flags people.
Love from The Land Down Under.
I think everyone on that beach Has To 'try it' at least once to truly appreciate what these Real B-surfers go through i.e. being dropped from 3 meters up into 2ft. of water and then with The wave pounding you into the sand is an experience!
I was born in LA in 1952 and lived in the area until 1992. I body surfed all the beaches from San Diego to Santa Barbara. I lived primarily in the So Bay and my go to beaches there were Hermosa, Manhatten and Redondo. I went to CSCLB and CSULB and loved hanging out at Seal Beach.
My brother it's life long excellent coverage 😊
Always gigantic wave
Bunch of Monkey's
You will always be a friend
Hermosa beach body surfing is perfect.
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My gosh. That's a short but flippin epic ride!!
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Aloha to all this heroes🙌🙌🙌🙌
Mastered the plant your head in the rock and sand of the shallow waters then tuck 'n roll. Get up when you can stand and doing it again.
Thank you Andre and glad you liked the video. I had the pleasure of meeting Bruno earlier this summer when he was here at the wedge! Great guy and awesome bodysurfer!! I keep up with the Brazilian bodysurfing scene through Bruno on the Wedge Crew site on Fb.
Ride safe my friend (=:
Finally some footage of people who know what a hand plane is!!
Wheres the plane
Grew up in South Bay and had decent surf in Manhattan Beach, etc. But we all had The Wedge in our heads for ultimate body surfing. Those jetty rocks are death.
A couple really good rides here...and a few awesome falls. So glad I could see Lewis getting pitched on that one set wave.
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heavy heavy heavy waves! holy shit!
Some of the best times I've ever had was body surfing at Atlantic city in the 70's. some of them waves pounded me so hard I almost passed out holding my breath while getting pummeled by brute Mother Nature force!!
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Very good, my dream and many a friend here in Brazil, Bruno Rodrigro (the teacher) met this amazing beach and amazing people, videos posted and congratulations for the disposition of
you ... God Bless ...
André, Brazil Surf ... bodysurfing in action!!
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I really love the slow motion because it helped show the true height of the wave. Great video, keep up the good work!
Thanks, Carter!
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I love It !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Solid 6’ Hawaiian scale day at the Wedge!
fall of 77....me and one other guy chased all the bobbers out and gave a clinic..I remember getting to a crowd of 500 giving me an ovation..I kept looking back at the waves but all had quit ....my girl kathy met me getting out of the water and I asked her what isall the screaming for...never forget her response..."you dumb ass"
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god i love where i live... california coast is so pristine and beautiful.
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Ah, Newport how I miss you.
its crazy when ur out there!
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Terry “CASHBOX” Kennedy…one of the boyz back in the 80’s
Solid session
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I did this stuff in the late 60's and early 70's. I never used a boar, I escaped with my life.
In the wedge, there's very little time to align Some of the longest runs are in great silent swells at Longnook beach on Cape Cod.
Wedge can be such a monster when conditions are just right.
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Please could somebody film from the begging to the end- I mean the entering into the water , the swimming to the wave and of course the catching of the wave ( bodysurfing) and after how the swimmers get out of the danger? It’s interesting me and maybe others! Thanks
There is a shortage of video resources on swimming skills for the surf zone. One reason is perhaps that people swimming among, and into, waves are hard to catch. People on boards, easier. People on wave faces, even better.
My question is how do you brace yourself for the aftermath of when the wave tumbles you to oblivion? I bodysurfed 20 footers ONCE and let me tell you the tumble was insane.
Tumbled. Seriously. Stay loose and on "all fours". And hope you don't fall into the wall... :)
sure they weren’t eleventy hundred foot
sure they weren’t eleventy hundred foot
Surfed it about 20 yrs ago and was nearly buried by the rescue boat,didn’t see me over the break on the outside 🙂
i love livin in long beach newport is just a little drive away
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California Dreaming '68-'69!
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The Army Corp of Engineers destroyed the Wedge. Instead of pulling up the huge boulders and putting them back in place they put small boulders and granite shards on the jetty. It has never been the same. Now it's a huge clamshell into the sand. I had the good days there. Then I moved to Ventura Country and had Zuma all to myself on waves over 8 feet. I rode 17 ft perfect lefts and rights and I was the only guy out. The lifeguards would sit in front of me, and old gray haired man and watch in amazement. Yours truly, Frontslider.
Machine waves
I feel like they are sacrificing themselves to an angry beast.
I understand
The ride is so short & violent,but thats the wedge, & thats why people wear helmets there.
I wonder what was the average consumption of salt water that day per person? Perhaps a gallon?
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Dear God. Ive watches hours of video from the wedge. Some with just bombs coming in. But ive never see a crowd that big. RLTW 3/75
What is really dangerous at the wedge isn’t the size of the waves. It’s what you don’t see. They break so close to the beach the water is only 2 or three feet in front of them. Fall out of the wave and break your neck or back
If bodysurfing means "getting tossed around in the water like a ragdoll," then this a great video.
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I think 09 was epic
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I was going to try this but after watching I think I might pass... These guys are nutts..
Good call A P! lol..
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1:41 that had to hurt. awesome rides though
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Nice! Any chance you have a version where the drop-ins aren't slowed way down?
Sorry about that.. I had just learned how to do slow motion and got a bit carried away! haha... Might have to do a re-edit someday!
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the balls to take off at the max height of these waves , knowing that you are going to get pounded no matter what, is beyond belief. how are they able to survive even one ride ?
you become one with the wave and roll with it....it all sand where they break....just dont go head first
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Bro said 30 footers 😂😂
No surfers just speed bumps ?!
Po só camaradas bom em no surf
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7:48 HILARIOUS!!!
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@@HBSTONELIGHT I posted on that vid today that I thought one of the waves was in my opinion the largest ever ridden @ the Wedge. I now feel that looking back at that epic, historic swell from Marie that ride 4:26-4:36 is the biggest ever ridden. The frame grab @ 4:32 would make an epic poster!!
Lol 1:30 that was funny dude crzy
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Nature and fools.
I've seen bigger waves in Maui and I tried to be cool and bodysurf them...did not turn out to be cool
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CRAAAAAAAZZZZZZZY!🤪
You know it's goona be big at Newport when there's a sand cliff running down the beach...
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More like diving!
most unpredictable wave of all time?
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Lol can u even ride it that big. I mean it looks fun as fuck but mostly everyone looks like there wiping the fuck out!😂
Nop. show some respect to Itacoatiara guys.. true body surfing.
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The larger waves were obviously too powerful for a true complete bodysurfing ride. The human body in relation to that much size and power can only accomplish so much. You'd have to have tow-in bodysurfing or something like that. The power of the waves in the larger waves here sucked the guys to the peak from which they simply dropped. That's a failed take off. Some of them recovered from the drop, and being able to recover in waves like that is definitely impressive, but a really impressive ride would have been being able to hang that face and ride the shoulder into the tube. Only the rides on the smaller waves were accomplishing that, but even then, the tubes on the smaller waves were not that clean or accessible and their bodies were being sucked too far back against the tube. Here's a large wave very successfully ridden by knowing how to choose a wave and positioning correctly to avoid the peak and find a rideable shoulder into a negotiable tube:
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It's not the size of the wave that is the problem, it's the SHAPE of the wave which is determined by the ocean bottom. I've successfully bodysurfed waves this size in Hawaii, in a hurricane swell at Makapuu on Oahu- this ride is so short, it's not even worth doing in my opinion
A huge crowd like that just watching people have fun gives me uncomfortable creepy vibes.
I love this stuff never surfed the wedge but coming from Australia we’ve got some banana spots to body and surf so when you get the chance come to Maroubra it’s where one sorts the men from the boys 🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻👀🙈
Not body surfing, Body wompping!!!!
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2:39 is me all day
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Pure unadulterated watermen!
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That's 12 ft. 30 ft?
what is black balled?
There are certain times of the day where the bodysurfers have the waves all to themselves. Sunrise to 10am during the summer months. No boards allowed during those times.
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No surfers or boards allowed in the water period cuz its black balled when it's a massive south swell like that...epic
Back balled during the summer months sunrise to 10am, bodysurfing only. After that it's a free for all! haha..
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30 ft?
Es demencial
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Its just too steep to ride
When they kick surfers and boards out
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Note to self: 6:30
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are you fucking kidding me
Is Anyone allowed to do that? Because there werent many people in the water
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2:38
25-30 easy ! 2009 on my day check 7/24/09
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1:28
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more like bodyfalling rather then bodysurfing!
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submachinecam
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Makes me home sick :(
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Where are all the badass equal rights chicks?
You have not really body surfed till...you've been stomped at the WEDGE
Hijo del mar>( TH-cam channel)
Any victims on this swell?
never 20 but still not 3 ft
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20' waves? More like 3 ft swell,heavy beach wedge,but not very big.
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I don’t understand all the people standing on the beach and not playing in the water. What are they even doing? Why stand around aimlessly when you could jump in!!!
body trying surfing *
Is that actually surfing or the equivalent of runing along a road in pitch-dark hoping not to run into something. I can appreciate surfing but this looks kinda absurd and we'll pathetic
It’s beach break. It’s a lousy place to body surf unless you enjoy getting pounded into the sand. There are much better places to body surf not far away. Huntington Beach, for example.
Really narly
5 gaLLons of water weighs 40 pounds !