the alleys a sick as spot to surf, typically its super mellow just rolling over until it gets to about 6 foot plus, then it starts to barrell. usually its super crowded with beginners and youd be lucky to get a wave but that stops at around 4 foot, when its empty its my favourite spot to surf
This my local break where I first caught my first wave at the age of 5. I'm now 43, mostly it a fun soft wave long walls through to laceys lane. Though went it gets 6-10feet it's heavy with thick lips and a good hold down which always fun.
Def some of the bigger makable ones. Cyclone Betsy at it's peak in 92 was perfect, clean, and 15ft - still the All-Time swell to hit The Alley (that I'm aware of in my lifetime - 45+ years). Sick slabby ones during Oma too, just not the clear, clean, and groomed perfection of Betsy which tracked as far south as the GC and was still categorised as a Cyclone. At that time ground swells were 5-6 metres and a 28 foot wave was recorded by a bouy off Straddie / The Seaway. The swell was at it's peak and perfectly clean for really only a day though at The Alley. Unfortunately it dropped SUPER SUPER quick too following the swing to persistent stiff offshores. Kirra was good too but HEAPS SMALLER. The Alley was out of control / not so makable for the few days prior to that one key perfect day. Can't recall correctly if it was Cyclone Dorian which came later that year or the next, but pretty sure that one tracked as far south as Sydney, but was classed a tropical depression by then, and unfortunately didn't generate as perfect a swell. The early 90's were sick for Cyclones, esp at Burleigh and Kirra. Then of course in the later decades Oma, Seth and Gita also produced amazing waves. In particular, how good / long did we get amazing waves for from Gita!!!!! Bloody wave machine.
@@ianrawlings2546 So I've heard (and seen) :( ...was just talking about this in the water this morning with one of my mates - how blessed we were to be getting 6ft barrels at our local with just 4 mates in the line up...was epic :)
I was a alley local in my grom and teenage years and I have seen cleaner bigger days than that and not a ski insight just Everyman hand his arms battling each other and the relentless sweep going from the pinnacle across to laceys and beyond
Kewyn Gold I believe he was singing “God said I don’t want to live like this”. Which is strange as we are now in a pandemic, and I would have thought that if there was a god that things would be better now. Nah just kidding, god never helps out when things are bad 😂
I love hollow rights. I love thick hollow rights. I love fast thick hollow rights. I love large fast thick hollow rights. I love large fast thick hollow unpredictable rights. I love this goddam video. Song fit with it nicely as well. This fed my AMP tingles after watching this. THANK YOU, I needed this to help recharge. F'n A.
There was a BIG WEDNESDAY back in April 2001. I have photo's i took and footage from CH 7, names like Shaun Munro & Munga Barry ring bells.. I think that was the biggest day yet..? I'll find the footage and post it. This is still insane right here though.. it's just nuts.
wow. Any kook can get towed in on that. They wearing floaty vests as well? Seriously the tow in kook s on the coast are a plague. Yeah yeah they even doin the two gun salute that they towed in on a wave.Woooh !!! you guys are the best. I see em towing in on 4 ft at burleigh. yeah you guys are awesome!!!!! yeah
j posner this is the wave that is very well known to the locals and underestimated buy the international’s (everyone wants to go to snapper, d-bah, Kirra and Burleigh cause the have been featured on the tour throughout the years) but the alley can be fun or epic when big and you can get different sections over a 1km stretch from out behind the keyhole and pinnacle a fast section on the mid bank another fast walking section crossing the bar into laceys and good beachy sections from laceys cross bank right up to gutter section walk back to bar paddle a short distance across the bar and back to alley to do it all again
@@benscott5481 ive never surfed in Oz would love to tho. spent a couple years on and off in java and surf at home on the east coast of england we've got some good waves but none like this!
j posner snapper has a different rock formation and also there are no JetSki’s allowed at snapper unless it closed due to swell contest or sharks and Kirra is no longer like the days of old the sand is out almost to the reef and works very differently all three waves have a distinct shape and take off points and Kirra now only works on medium size swells 3ft + snapper always is surfable and on a small wave the alley doesn’t work all the way across the bar it will have 3-5 distinct breaks from the keyhole seperate section across the mid bank nothing infront of deep water from the bar and sometimes unmakable closeouts at laceys, it has been a significant amount of time since I have been out there as I now live in southwestern Victoria but over my junior years it never really changed to much apart from Kirra which cause of the sand pumping jetty at Fingal it changed that break a hell of alot
call me crazy, and BTW I have surfed neither place but this spot looks like half the size of proper Jaws while simultaneously looking like double the pain if you eat it. Am I wrong? anybody out there eat shit in both spots and live to talk story?
the alleys is so over rated, so many kooks going right , but it definitely a left , i've got so many barrels going left, and guys always snaking me going right that's why i don't go there ,
I disagree with this online marketing strategy because it’s just your opinion, man. Watch surfers of bali if you don’t like the jams! I like heavy riffs and waves! 🔥🔥🔥🔥😎✌️
the alleys a sick as spot to surf, typically its super mellow just rolling over until it gets to about 6 foot plus, then it starts to barrell. usually its super crowded with beginners and youd be lucky to get a wave but that stops at around 4 foot, when its empty its my favourite spot to surf
I’ve lived legit 200m back from the point for 5 years and seen it 3 foot perfect barrels doesn’t need to be massive to barrel
mate half of that is wrong
Wow. You can't surf can you? You are wrong about the Alley 🤣
I've done a few 360 backward tunnels behind the rock airs and everything at 18ft÷
What a insane slab of a beast. The surfers have some steel balls. Imagine the view looking into the pit chunky thick raw power👍🤙
This my local break where I first caught my first wave at the age of 5. I'm now 43, mostly it a fun soft wave long walls through to laceys lane. Though went it gets 6-10feet it's heavy with thick lips and a good hold down which always fun.
Truly epic champions... get amongst it.. how good is Straya
My new favorite break to watch on TH-cam.
Austin powers surfs the alley
More Alley please
Should have shown how they got going on the wave. I want to see the whole ride.
They’d be ashamed.
Can’t believe how long and how many barrels these dudes get in one wave 🌊 so cool
@0:12 - haven't seen many backdoor waves look like that.
Def some of the bigger makable ones. Cyclone Betsy at it's peak in 92 was perfect, clean, and 15ft - still the All-Time swell to hit The Alley (that I'm aware of in my lifetime - 45+ years). Sick slabby ones during Oma too, just not the clear, clean, and groomed perfection of Betsy which tracked as far south as the GC and was still categorised as a Cyclone. At that time ground swells were 5-6 metres and a 28 foot wave was recorded by a bouy off Straddie / The Seaway. The swell was at it's peak and perfectly clean for really only a day though at The Alley. Unfortunately it dropped SUPER SUPER quick too following the swing to persistent stiff offshores. Kirra was good too but HEAPS SMALLER. The Alley was out of control / not so makable for the few days prior to that one key perfect day.
Can't recall correctly if it was Cyclone Dorian which came later that year or the next, but pretty sure that one tracked as far south as Sydney, but was classed a tropical depression by then, and unfortunately didn't generate as perfect a swell. The early 90's were sick for Cyclones, esp at Burleigh and Kirra. Then of course in the later decades Oma, Seth and Gita also produced amazing waves. In particular, how good / long did we get amazing waves for from Gita!!!!! Bloody wave machine.
2000 was epic eh
I will never forget the trial and error of timing the swell to leap off the rocks. I should be dead haha
Yep if you miss time it jump from ither the cove or of the front it sucks. I have seen many guys get smashed through there, even myself included
What's the music track,please anyone?
I had to freeze the frame at 0:09 and just stare at it for a good while... I have to come to Aus one day.
Nah, please don't, you wouldn't believe how crowded that spot is.
@@ianrawlings2546 So I've heard (and seen) :( ...was just talking about this in the water this morning with one of my mates - how blessed we were to be getting 6ft barrels at our local with just 4 mates in the line up...was epic :)
That bank is running so fast and hard nice.
Sick!! Absolutely loved the music as well! What's the name of the band??
th-cam.com/video/X_Yohxtd1xw/w-d-xo.html
The day 16 jets skis stole all the waves from the local paddle surfers when it was paddle-able. Then threaten us for getting in their way
What size would you call this? And where are you from?
Bit of a rarity for what is usually a 2 foot longboard wave
I was a alley local in my grom and teenage years and I have seen cleaner bigger days than that and not a ski insight just Everyman hand his arms battling each other and the relentless sweep going from the pinnacle across to laceys and beyond
remember surfing this swell got some of my best here
That closeout at 2:20 😨 that break was firing...
Yes the break was firing. And now all the surfers on job keeper
What!!not one paddle in surfer.
Yeahhh!!! Song?
Great song. What is it???
Kewyn Gold I believe he was singing “God said I don’t want to live like this”. Which is strange as we are now in a pandemic, and I would have thought that if there was a god that things would be better now. Nah just kidding, god never helps out when things are bad 😂
Where are the music credits?
Nice edit! 👍 Who does the music?
Imagine looking into them from the water.
imagine if the camera angle was not so terrible!
@@krusher74 don't think you've been to the alley ,wanna film into the barrel you have to go a mile up the beach.
Nothing like a good wave slap...
I prefer the music of ocean swell, heavy surf!
Best make an edit then champ
Ao why the big secret about the track? Whats the name of the Artist?
th-cam.com/video/X_Yohxtd1xw/w-d-xo.html
Music credits?.
I would be running for the channel nonstop . These maniacs putting the brakes on damn
Awesome footage cheers
I love hollow rights. I love thick hollow rights. I love fast thick hollow rights. I love large fast thick hollow rights. I love large fast thick hollow unpredictable rights. I love this goddam video. Song fit with it nicely as well. This fed my AMP tingles after watching this. THANK YOU, I needed this to help recharge. F'n A.
Guacamole could be a solution. Some soft guitar
Great footage 👍
Watched with volume at zero.
@George Kafiridis nah, I listen to the roar of the crashing waves LOL 😎
There was a BIG WEDNESDAY back in April 2001. I have photo's i took and footage from CH 7, names like Shaun Munro & Munga Barry ring bells.. I think that was the biggest day yet..? I'll find the footage and post it. This is still insane right here though.. it's just nuts.
Looks like a good day for me to hang out on the rocks!
Great video! Which is the song?
Everyone who has surfed here knows that the sweep there would be fucked on a day like this
What, no big cutbacks?
No lip hacks? What's the world coming to
I'm starting to think Australia has waves.
nah no waves here, just house sized sharks
Just redbacks and koallabies
Sickness rating of 9.2 with The Slab being a 10
Who's the artist?
Poseidon
That was epic. Can't believe how much everyone charges these days. Go boys
Would they be so brave if it wasn’t all recorded for the world to see.
Mit Seraffej of course , it’s called surfing
Steve Don . Yes but there is nothing like a camera or an audience to up the anti.
Mit Seraffej maybe but most will still do it for the love of it, no better feeling
Tow-ins on 6-8ft ain't really charging but
i will never forget the day my dad went out and ripped on these waves
Warrior of the ocean, like george constanza but different
I'm pumped. Great music.
This is sensational
wow. Any kook can get towed in on that. They wearing floaty vests as well? Seriously the tow in kook s on the coast are a plague. Yeah yeah they even doin the two gun salute that they towed in on a wave.Woooh !!! you guys are the best. I see em towing in on 4 ft at burleigh. yeah you guys are awesome!!!!! yeah
Holy Crap!!
song title band ???
Paddle into em.
Brah What! 😳🤙🏾
Freight trains
Holeyyyyy shiiiiiiiiiit that fucking huge and ruthless. Big kahunas all around 🤙🤙🤙
Aloha insane🔥🔥🔥✌🤙 massive skills
Snapper 2.0
is this kirra?
j posner this is the wave that is very well known to the locals and underestimated buy the international’s (everyone wants to go to snapper, d-bah, Kirra and Burleigh cause the have been featured on the tour throughout the years) but the alley can be fun or epic when big and you can get different sections over a 1km stretch from out behind the keyhole and pinnacle a fast section on the mid bank another fast walking section crossing the bar into laceys and good beachy sections from laceys cross bank right up to gutter section walk back to bar paddle a short distance across the bar and back to alley to do it all again
@@benscott5481 thanks ben! sounds sick! i wasn't sure because the take off and first barrel section looks like kirra/ snapper.
@@benscott5481 ive never surfed in Oz would love to tho. spent a couple years on and off in java and surf at home on the east coast of england we've got some good waves but none like this!
@Abu Dabu shut up
j posner snapper has a different rock formation and also there are no JetSki’s allowed at snapper unless it closed due to swell contest or sharks and Kirra is no longer like the days of old the sand is out almost to the reef and works very differently all three waves have a distinct shape and take off points and Kirra now only works on medium size swells 3ft + snapper always is surfable and on a small wave the alley doesn’t work all the way across the bar it will have 3-5 distinct breaks from the keyhole seperate section across the mid bank nothing infront of deep water from the bar and sometimes unmakable closeouts at laceys, it has been a significant amount of time since I have been out there as I now live in southwestern Victoria but over my junior years it never really changed to much apart from Kirra which cause of the sand pumping jetty at Fingal it changed that break a hell of alot
its nuking as Ben Gravy would say..but he says that when its 2 foot slop haha
A 3 foot day at pipe
You need a new measure stick!
Yes Adam, it's not pipe though.
sickkk next time leave the original audio
Too many jet skis
Sickk waves
Gnarly!
Great footage!!!!!!!!! Fucking cool music!!!!
call me crazy, and BTW I have surfed neither place but this spot looks like half the size of proper Jaws while simultaneously looking like double the pain if you eat it. Am I wrong? anybody out there eat shit in both spots and live to talk story?
Sick
Firing.
unreal!!!those aussies fn charge it
This would of been truly epic if you just have the sound of the ocean with out that music , apart from that awesome 👏
🙌
Poor camera angle 🥜
Shame about the music. Apart from that,whoo hoo!!
Well, not everyone can live up to your impeccable musical tastes there, Quincy Jones.
Personally thought the music was class
Nice jet ski rides... I call pseudo surf...
the alleys is so over rated, so many kooks going right , but it definitely a left , i've got so many barrels going left, and guys always snaking me going right that's why i don't go there ,
Hahahahaha
hideous soundtrack.....lifetime waves
Great footage, though possibly the worst music ever attached to a surf clip and there have been a lot of contenders.
I disagree with this online marketing strategy because it’s just your opinion, man. Watch surfers of bali if you don’t like the jams! I like heavy riffs and waves! 🔥🔥🔥🔥😎✌️
@@7hhuman995 Have rewatched the clip numerous times. Have to admit that damn song is beginning to grow on me...
How about just the roar of the ocean Geez why surf vids always need irritating music?
Shit ones like this
That's a terrible song choice 👎