When I was living on island in the mid 90s I went out here at 8 to 10 ft Hawaiian style and it was a life changer. I had been out several times on other north shore breaks and was able to hold my own but this place ripped me a new asshole. I had 2 friends with me. One was a fellow bodyboarder who'd never been out in shit like this. I warned him it's cool you don't have to out. He didn't have fins or a leash so I gave him one of my fins and my leash to make him feel more save. My other friend was a good bodysurfer and we headed out to the lineup. The friend I gave my stuff to didn't make it out. a huge set came in and I took the 1st wave of the huge set which I wouldn't suggest to anyone but I got barrelled then got smashed out the back of the wave it ripped my board away and took my shorts down to my ankles. I regrouped pulled my shorts up and tried swim to shore but the impact of the waves ahead of me were pushing me back out towards the sea. Thank God my body surfing friend noticed I started to panic. He swam toward me and calmed me down and treaded water with me until there was a break in the set and we both swam in like it was nothing. To this day I feel Mike kinda save my life. Thanks bro
Miss my old stomping grounds. . .I too, was a TOAD at Waimea back when EddieAikau was still a lifeguard. Mahalos, Eddie, for saving my life more than once🤙 RIP🙏 #TakeOffAndDie
RIP eddie and ivan friedman. These legends have already moved on. Enjoy life while you can. Waimea barrels are one of the most epic epic pits you will ever ever get. Totally worth it. Scary as hell though. lol
Me and a couple of my friends got caught at shorebreak during a rising swell. It went from head sets to triple overhead+ in an hour. Its very tough to get in, I dont even remember how I got in, I just remember getting in and looking out at my 2 buddies shitting themselves looking down over these huge ledges. Pretty nuts.
I remember the first time I went to the ocean. There was about a 4 foot shore break. My back was to it so I didnt see it coming. It slammed my body into the sand. I thought I was gonna die. Cant imagine these shorebreaks
Everyone enjoys there waves different. When I lived in Hawaii the first time I rode a shore break at sandies with big closeout barrels(no where like this video), I cared no more about trying to learn to surf. I left that day with a bloody face and a big fat fucking smile. One mans trash is another mans treasure. If this doesn't look fun to you then just move on.
i went over the falls at the wedge a few weeks ago on a six footer and i broke my back. this shit breaks way gnarlier than the wegde. i can only imagine what would happen in a situation like 1:49
Waimea bay has an area that is reef break further out and also on the right side, but everuthing you see in this vid is all of the shorebreak section of the beach.
WSB is heavier than wedge. Ive surfed both. I grew up bodysuring and bodyboarding WSB and the way the water moves there is like no where else. The waves are often unduckdiveable. You could duckdive perfectly and still get sucked up and over.
Was 1973 maybe early 74. Was going to school at Hawaii Loa College, sort of, more like party party party. Some friends say Waimea is breaking with big shore break and we were young and dumb and ready to do anything, so we dropped class and hopped in the back of Garys or Roys I dont know whos truck but it wa a sky blue toyota. Course we had to take a case of Primo (casue it was cheapest) and some smoke.I used to body surf SAndys and wherever we could so at least I had fins. Roy K didnt have any fins so I gave him one of mine, what a mistake but it probably saved Roys life. Most powerful wave Ive ever experienced, Ive done the Wedge and Sandys, Makaha, Pipe but Waimea is no shit. I caught the first wave I could after batting to get out and was crushed for longest hold down, then the next wave, and one more after it. The last wave I was almost thru, you know how its like ok I made it, Im almost outside. I kicked and must have been too weak but that sucker took me right over the falls. Thought for sure I was a goner. The foam was so thick, took forevver to get to the suface, finalluy got outside and my leg is cramping and Im now way down by the rocks but outside the break. Just floated on my back, switched fins and slowly worked my way back. Wasn't lifeguards then that I remember plus we were litrally the only ones on the beach.
You can hear those wave breaking for miles... the dry sand bouces up from the break. Its mean the jump rock gets covered and you know its a big day. You got to have balls or no brains to go out in that.
Paul O’Reily first off if you know what you are doing you know how to land and roll your body so you don’t get hurt. I have bodysurfed Waimea went it is breaking pretty much right on the sand and huge shorebreak when the North Shore was closing out never got hurt once. But it took many years bodysurfing almost everyday to get the experience to bodysurf the more extreme breaks, grew up bodysurfing the Wedge.
only a surfer or any one involed with rideing waves would understand its a feeling tht you become addicted to its an undescribable feeling i guess like being one with the ocean at its feircest and most dangerous point
and secondly Also I will never forget the beating I took that day(about 5 waves). It was enough for me not to go back when it is that big.Besides,Jacky told me he almost drowned that day too . I have been held under at Sunset. But Waimea shore break gives you an ass whoppin like no other.
my first time bodyboarding waimea was last year around oct and it was 12-15ft faces!! funny thing about it i was jus settling in from California. it was only me and one other guy catching that left from jump rock. everybody else was inside in the middle lined up from the lifeguard stand. bra let me tell yall it was one hell of a experience. very humbling. im blessed to be Hawaiian. CHARGE EM!!!
Jocky Rohnson brah what chu talking! I 40% Hawaiian you lolo. both my parents born n raised Kahaluu. they grad 1980 from Castle HS and moved to California, went Santa Rosa JC. My Woolsey bloodline come out from Manoa Valley.. fuck outta here you freak. you one Chinese or Haole guarantee brah
Strange how you went from speaking decent english in your first post to speaking straight up pidgeon english when the guy questioned your authenticity. Just saying. I am Haole. God bless you in Christ!
i went there on a small day last year.. just to check it out. cant imagine what thats like.. how can it be fun when ur getting beat up all the time haha
I,m a stand up longboarder and wouldn,t take a surfboard in there but I do get it it sure looks like fun and believe me its probably a lot less painful than marriage
You ride them for their power and to survive. Where else can you go to get a shorebreak like this? Doesn't happen frequently, and who knows, you may be a decent ride, and you're definately going to get experience in a huge shorebreak.
exactly all the people here in florida who drown in the rip currents are from the mainland, my parents are always like "now you be careful of those rip currents" if anything i use the rip currents for an easy paddle out, and when the news is broadcasting on the ocean they make it sound like the waves and rip currents are gonna bring down a fucking cruise ship
we dont drown becuase people who have the guts to take waves like that had to have ben boogin (bodyboarding) for years atleast (or reely stupid) so after years of doing it u develop massive lung power..
When I was living on island in the mid 90s I went out here at 8 to 10 ft Hawaiian style and it was a life changer. I had been out several times on other north shore breaks and was able to hold my own but this place ripped me a new asshole. I had 2 friends with me. One was a fellow bodyboarder who'd never been out in shit like this. I warned him it's cool you don't have to out. He didn't have fins or a leash so I gave him one of my fins and my leash to make him feel more save. My other friend was a good bodysurfer and we headed out to the lineup. The friend I gave my stuff to didn't make it out. a huge set came in and I took the 1st wave of the huge set which I wouldn't suggest to anyone but I got barrelled then got smashed out the back of the wave it ripped my board away and took my shorts down to my ankles. I regrouped pulled my shorts up and tried swim to shore but the impact of the waves ahead of me were pushing me back out towards the sea. Thank God my body surfing friend noticed I started to panic. He swam toward me and calmed me down and treaded water with me until there was a break in the set and we both swam in like it was nothing. To this day I feel Mike kinda save my life. Thanks bro
Miss my old stomping grounds. . .I too, was a TOAD at Waimea back when EddieAikau was still a lifeguard.
Mahalos, Eddie, for saving my life more than once🤙 RIP🙏
#TakeOffAndDie
I'm from Virginia Beach where the lifeguards post red flags if the waves are waist high. Thanks for posting. Enjoyed the Editors!
RIP eddie and ivan friedman. These legends have already moved on. Enjoy life while you can. Waimea barrels are one of the most epic epic pits you will ever ever get. Totally worth it. Scary as hell though. lol
Ooooowww, Awwwwww, Oooooohhhhh... Love the background commentary! Especially the part where three dudes wipe out in one wave.
RIP eddie solomon what a legend!
Me and a couple of my friends got caught at shorebreak during a rising swell. It went from head sets to triple overhead+ in an hour. Its very tough to get in, I dont even remember how I got in, I just remember getting in and looking out at my 2 buddies shitting themselves looking down over these huge ledges. Pretty nuts.
My thoughts exactly, the tube is one of the best parts of surfing.
omg you bodyboarders are MAAAD!!!! im kitesrufing and i can't imagine what a threat to life these monster waves are!
I remember Pat Caldwell...one of my heroes. Whammy's was my spot a decade ago...sick vid, thanks for posting
I remember the first time I went to the ocean. There was about a 4 foot shore break. My back was to it so I didnt see it coming. It slammed my body into the sand. I thought I was gonna die. Cant imagine these shorebreaks
0:51 "When the wave breaks here, dont be there, or you gonna get drilled."
and i thought 4-5 foot shore breaks were hectic
are you 10?
bigeggmayo123 nahh fuckhead
james thomas lok Mad????
dude this video is sick...
well gooooood..
that break has always amazed me..keep them coming
i dont board anymore just sk8board.
Its the rush of being in the barrel of those shorebreak waves
that make it fun
Great video, good music, love the lead-in and end... you guys are good.
Thanx for the info and cheers from Germany :)
Everyone enjoys there waves different. When I lived in Hawaii the first time I rode a shore break at sandies with big closeout barrels(no where like this video), I cared no more about trying to learn to surf. I left that day with a bloody face and a big fat fucking smile. One mans trash is another mans treasure. If this doesn't look fun to you then just move on.
Theses are the types of waves where when someone wipes out I think to myself "how is he still alive?"
i went over the falls at the wedge a few weeks ago on a six footer and i broke my back. this shit breaks way gnarlier than the wegde. i can only imagine what would happen in a situation like 1:49
beautiful
That's nightmare shorebreak and those guys are out there just having fun. Incredible.
"Surfs gravin!"
"Not bad."--How cool can you make yourself sound?
Yup... deep water then a nice shallow sandy shelf. Saw schools of aku swimming just outside the break.
Tim Jones from Australia was the most crazy bodyboader to ever drop in at wiemea shorey he ruled that shit!!!!!!
Farrrr out! Thanks for posting!
Waimea bay has an area that is reef break further out and also on the right side, but everuthing you see in this vid is all of the shorebreak section of the beach.
WSB is heavier than wedge. Ive surfed both. I grew up bodysuring and bodyboarding WSB and the way the water moves there is like no where else. The waves are often unduckdiveable. You could duckdive perfectly and still get sucked up and over.
AWESOME!!! I love this!! These guys rock!
That is some mean spirited surf man.
incredible..and the fact that its a shorebreak would make any falls so much worse.
"Oh surf looks good huh Vince"
"Aww not bad"
Was 1973 maybe early 74. Was going to school at Hawaii Loa College, sort of, more like party party party. Some friends say Waimea is breaking with big shore break and we were young and dumb and ready to do anything, so we dropped class and hopped in the back of Garys or Roys I dont know whos truck but it wa a sky blue toyota. Course we had to take a case of Primo (casue it was cheapest) and some smoke.I used to body surf SAndys and wherever we could so at least I had fins. Roy K didnt have any fins so I gave him one of mine, what a mistake but it probably saved Roys life. Most powerful wave Ive ever experienced, Ive done the Wedge and Sandys, Makaha, Pipe but Waimea is no shit. I caught the first wave I could after batting to get out and was crushed for longest hold down, then the next wave, and one more after it. The last wave I was almost thru, you know how its like ok I made it, Im almost outside. I kicked and must have been too weak but that sucker took me right over the falls. Thought for sure I was a goner. The foam was so thick, took forevver to get to the suface, finalluy got outside and my leg is cramping and Im now way down by the rocks but outside the break. Just floated on my back, switched fins and slowly worked my way back. Wasn't lifeguards then that I remember plus we were litrally the only ones on the beach.
Awesome story Thomas!! Thank you for sharing. 🙂🤙🏽
song is "Lights" by Editors
You can hear those wave breaking for miles... the dry sand bouces up from the break. Its mean the jump rock gets covered and you know its a big day. You got to have balls or no brains to go out in that.
I don't have the balls to do this, but I DO have the brains not to do this. You guys are nuts! ROCK ON!
waimea, the heaviest shorebreak with da meanest current
remember early 90's joneys bullet and tully were the ones that were the first too be filmed charging hugh waimea shorebreak
Ozzie legends. 🤙🏽
Paul O’Reily first off if you know what you are doing you know how to land and roll your body so you don’t get hurt. I have bodysurfed Waimea went it is breaking pretty much right on the sand and huge shorebreak when the North Shore was closing out never got hurt once. But it took many years bodysurfing almost everyday to get the experience to bodysurf the more extreme breaks, grew up bodysurfing the Wedge.
Shorebreak looks beautiful but the wave will eat you up every time.
that was fricken INSANE, you just eat it everytime there, HARDCORE!
these guys have got to have balls for doing that. well done
fantastic, georgeous,wish I was there xxxxxx
I hurt my spine just fucking watching this.
0:52 the moment when you contemplate even living anymore
Thanksgiving morning had a little bump rite on shore was pretty pounding nothin like this vid mac n shore break! but fun stuff thankx ;-)
cool vid... dig the north shore samples
i had this dream once where i drowned in waves like that. when i woke up, i was dead.
only a surfer or any one involed with rideing waves would understand its a feeling tht you become addicted to its an undescribable feeling i guess like being one with the ocean at its feircest and most dangerous point
Some hard charging and North Shore quotes. Can't go wrong (rip eddie)
0:50 WAS CRAZY AF
Thanks for putting that to a great band. :)
and secondly
Also I will never forget the beating I took that day(about 5 waves). It was enough
for me not to go back when it is that big.Besides,Jacky told me he almost drowned that day too . I have been held under at Sunset. But Waimea shore break gives you an ass whoppin like no other.
hahah the begging
"Ho surf looks good ah vince?"
i fcuking love that movie XP brah i miss bodyboarding waimeas
2:02...If you've ever seen that man walking down the beach, you knew it was fucking on. Rip Eddie.
if the wave smashed somebody, you might dig up the sand to found the dead body? This wave is a the biggest wave i saw on shore
@Mitchgz1 its all sand but when there is no sandbar its about 30-40 feet deep where they are catching those waves.
How you survive is mind boggling
Man those guys are MAD DOGS.. who does that lol i love my surfing but i take my hat off if i wear one!
Only a surfer/bodyboarder knows the feeling
LOL at 1:20, far out that waves a mess!, waimea shorebreak definitely is death at work :D
my first time bodyboarding waimea was last year around oct and it was 12-15ft faces!! funny thing about it i was jus settling in from California. it was only me and one other guy catching that left from jump rock. everybody else was inside in the middle lined up from the lifeguard stand. bra let me tell yall it was one hell of a experience. very humbling. im blessed to be Hawaiian. CHARGE EM!!!
Jocky Rohnson brah what chu talking! I 40% Hawaiian you lolo. both my parents born n raised Kahaluu. they grad 1980 from Castle HS and moved to California, went Santa Rosa JC. My Woolsey bloodline come out from Manoa Valley.. fuck outta here you freak. you one Chinese or Haole guarantee brah
You see, this is a prime example of a little known concept called racism.
Strange how you went from speaking decent english in your first post to speaking straight up pidgeon english when the guy questioned your authenticity. Just saying. I am Haole. God bless you in Christ!
i went there on a small day last year.. just to check it out. cant imagine what thats like.. how can it be fun when ur getting beat up all the time haha
1:55 OUCH i bet that giant wall of water must've hurt him pretty bad...
that is the most scariest wave i have seen
R.I.P Eddie! Forever CHARGIN 4 U BRO...HUHOY!!!!
Life is pain, Suffering is optional !!!!!
my back hurts watching that
this shit is totally amazing
that is a 20ft shore break...... gnarly
I,m a stand up longboarder and wouldn,t take a surfboard in there but I do get it it sure looks like fun and believe me its probably a lot less painful than marriage
You ride them for their power and to survive. Where else can you go to get a shorebreak like this? Doesn't happen frequently, and who knows, you may be a decent ride, and you're definately going to get experience in a huge shorebreak.
1:49 is just epic , totally swallowed by that wave
The Wedge still might be more gnarly shorebreak
1:26 i suddenly have a craving for a big ol frosty milkshake!
they have massive cahones.
ived surfed a 4ft shorebreak and taken a beating.. let alone that.
O.C. Buzz On er day!
THE Heaviest shorebreak in the world
R.I.P. Eddie Solomon
its a monster, but a beautiful one! check out 1:50 forms in the strangest way :P good video guys
holy shit, these guys are nuts
So, you take a finless sponge, go straight then get pommeled. I'll stick to surfing.
those guys are getting gobbled up by that wave shit!!! id need to practice holding my breath to handle that shit
exactly all the people here in florida who drown in the rip currents are from the mainland, my parents are always like "now you be careful of those rip currents" if anything i use the rip currents for an easy paddle out, and when the news is broadcasting on the ocean they make it sound like the waves and rip currents are gonna bring down a fucking cruise ship
probably the worlds heaviest shore break.
we dont drown becuase people who have the guts to take waves like that had to have ben boogin (bodyboarding) for years atleast (or reely stupid) so after years of doing it u develop massive lung power..
to get an awesome barrel view
if you had ever been in a barrel youd know
don't see the point of paddling into massive shorebreak, still fun to watch and those guys got balls...
probably only wave scarier than the wedge
Damn I miss Waimea bay.
u guys are nutz dats some heavy ones dont know how u survive
EPIC INTRO!🤙
The point is to get pitted and make it out. It might not happen often but it feels great when it does.
not here
@@Novascouse1 yes it is, have seen plenty of wamiea barrels made
q zarpado lugar, no se puede, creer es un paraiso
That was some crazy boogie boarding
yo fui a esa playa, yo represento a argentina en bodyboar, nunca me voy a olvidar lo qe me paso.. mucho dolor
Esa ola es un suiiiciiidiooo!!xDD
joderr valla escachaditas xdd
127 best of the vid. holy shit
Epic my Hawaiian!
ha ha - sheer torture chamber hey !! - full props to the maniacs but :) very pleasurable viewing . . .