Fantastic coverage of my favorite spot. Makes an old man wish he still could do it. Fickle, super tide dependent and dreamy when you get it good. Thanks for the excellent vid. Caveman.
@ yep. I’m 80 now and had to hang it up a few years ago, but still can mind surf those late super committed drops. I note that there was quite a crowd out, but local knowledge is king there and hard won over many years of eating it big time. You have to sit inside the boils and risk getting smacked by the odd macker set.
@@jimmicane my wall photo is from the golf course of one of the biggest swells I can remember. 15+ stacked up set reeling off from Pump House to Marine street looking like point surf rights.
When I saw the 1st bit of footage of the Cove, I looked specifically for the reef's footage, THIS was what I was specifically looking for!- thanks for filming!🤙
Was there shooting stills Sun and Tue mornings - while I got some good ones, there's nothing like raw video to bring you back to the moments. Cheers for capturing them so well, with great (and not too @!%*&!) commentary. Was just right, these were waves that called for some flavorful narration - legendary day, eager to spread this vid far and wide!!
The only time that I caught an 18' wave and survied was at 18/19 Street Newport Beach Ca. And it was one of the smaller one's that day. That day broke surfboards, Piers and almost my back. I'll never forget it.
I've seen Horseshoe look like this many years ago but no takers. Skips wave is the stuff that Legends are made of!! He is the Undisputed Heavy Weight Champion of L.J.
Used to walk over before school in the 80s during big swells. Usually no takers but once saw a lone charger sending it. Just watching him alone I felt sick to my stomach.
I used to surf Horseshoe big and perfect 20 years ago. I only surfed Hospitals a few times!! I liked horseshoe so much more!! But all depends on Swell. Right??
Of all the years I spent out there in the past with the boys, I never heard one person outside of the krew call it by it's name in the winter... Nice job.
Pretty sure you had good style. Goofy. I shared one with you I thought you were not going to make the drop. Pulled it off, and no worries. My chick has a picture of it. Good times. 89”-91
Sorry for the burns. Have fun in my old stomping grounds. Keep it respectable and clean so you can pass those surf spots on like I did. But, I know. If I went a week or two without hitting my favorite surfspots, there would be litter everywhere. Stay diligent. Keep it clean. 🌊
From LBC, never surfed it, always read about it, saw gnarl/beautiful pics of it it in the mags every couple years since the 1970s. I’d always look in that direct from another spot, dreaming. If only this happened more than every few years
What wave is it ? The comments are very mystic, people saying that wave. I'm from SD and I can't figure out where this is. Likely one of the reefs in La Jolla. I have no interest in surfing this size waves but would love to watch in person
That’s weird 40 years ago when it was like that you could surf it alone now there 20 guys out darn it. Y’all brave that’s for sure regardless of world stage and those insane o s , the locals here are rad go get em guys. Lobster lounge got nothin on ya .
I'm the idiot texting foreground right in between taking stills - looked up halfway through the wave, and it was STILL an extremely long and miraculous tube! SO sick!!
Great video! Judging from the landmarks, that's Hospitals. Considering that it more or less sucks 99.9 percent of the time, it's not really a spot that needs secrecy. Especially since people are guessing nearby legit spots.
Clearly Southern California gets a lot of big swell but in either is wonky as hell or it just doesn't seem to ever break which is weird. This was perfection
Those cove's down there, sometimes it's just magic. We didn't have video cameras to vlog our beach campouts with. During the summer, every weekend camping at 1,000 Steps Beach over the weekend. My record was staying 7 days at 1,000 Steps. Alot of great times. Alot of great waves. No video, only memories. Carry on the tradition. Keep it clean.
As kids during 1979-1994, that place changes overnight with a good swell. 1,000 Steps Beach would be "Primal". Like when dinosaurs walked the Earth Primal. I witnessed the Army Corps of Engineers drop in backhoes to save the beach houses at I000 Steps. And please, when there, pack yours and other's trash. Mahalo. 🌊
No one is dredging South O. It's like the vacay rental owners live in some far off country & have no clue what's happening on Cassidy Street. Like wtf?? Isn't dredging a requirement to own or live on the beach!?
This video brought back a memory from 1982. Skied Mountain High, SoCal, December 31, Body surfed Newport Beach the next day. January 1st 1983. We drank Jim Beam in the mountains. My stomach really hurt, in the surf. Big swell with offshore wind. Big and hollow. With spray coming off the back of each wave. 🌊 At 15th Street, Newport Beach, it's all big "closeout" waves. The good ones are/were at 19/17th, Balboa peir, and The Wedge. Next to the Wedge, that Northside breakfast we would call it, "Gravels" because you would geta bunch of gravel of sand and pulverized seashells in your shorts. Who the fuck dicided to call it anything else!?! 🌊 🐚 🩳
I know every one of them actually. The only problem is, it was my first time using a new camera and the visibility in the digital viewfinder was super hard to see well. I’m using the Canon R5 Mark II here
the 1rst group of waves is South boomers ... generally a body surfing wave .... the next are some 200 meters south ... what's the name of that break ... I forget.
Back in the Eighties and Nineties, we salivated for big waves at the Wedge. Since 2,000, it happens all the time. Be prepared. Look at vidios of japan. When it hits, that's what's gonna happen to rich ass Newport Beach California. Great place to visit. Don't wanna live there.
Overall I would say it was just under last year’s quality. Didn’t have that moment where it turned completely on. Like usual, only a fraction of sets hit the reef properly and it’s hard to be under it when they do
I mentioned that spot just the other day (without naming it, just saying it was close to Birdrock) on a a video of The Cove and was comparing the two. The Cove is about having a hundred people watch you make a drop that then has a section you can't make or mushes; while the spot you named is about having no one watch you get a pretty workable wall when conditions are just right.
@ I have surfed Waimea a couple times when it was starting to show. In clouding on my 50th birthday. About triple overhead. But the biggest wave I ever rode was at Little Makaha about 2006. Had a 9’2” Glen Horn Gun with a Chargers Lightning Bolt on it. Also wiped out that day and had to retrieve my board in by Devils. Long swim and Long paddle.
@@stephentrobaugh8621 The biggest I surfed it was the El Niño 97-98. I grew up in PV. I surfed virtually every spot in La Jolla at least once. Little Makaha was the only one that gave me the spooks like the PV Indicator when it gets huge. It's kelpy, and you just know there are man sized holes and giant boulders you'll have to contend with if you fall at the wrong place. I preferred Little Makaha's summer sister 100 yards North. My favorite drop in SD was at that spot during the swell from Hurricane Nora.
I flew to Hawaii for that huge pipeline swell during Thanksgiving only to return to most epic swell in my own backyard. Love this time of year!
NICE. thanks for taking us there.
Fantastic coverage of my favorite spot. Makes an old man wish he still could do it. Fickle, super tide dependent and dreamy when you get it good. Thanks for the excellent vid. Caveman.
The real caveman? Spinning 360’s in the tube at YB’s?
@ yep. I’m 80 now and had to hang it up a few years ago, but still can mind surf those late super committed drops. I note that there was quite a crowd out, but local knowledge is king there and hard won over many years of eating it big time. You have to sit inside the boils and risk getting smacked by the odd macker set.
Awesome! Hope you’re doing good!
When did you surf there?
@ from the mid 60’s to the 10’s. Kneeboard rider, LJ local.
This footage is unreal. So cool to see these waves! Thanks for putting this out!
Love too see these So Cal winter swells. Thanks for all you do to be able to share your footage with us. It's appreciated.
Unique spot, unique video. This was amazing
10:03 this is such a sick angle Jimmy 👏🏼🔥
That thumbnail and them opening shots with the buildings in the foreground are incredible shot. Some super sick waves in that clip 🤙🤙
100%. Saw that I was like OMG !
Thank you! Years of searching for angles
@@jimmicane my wall photo is from the golf course of one of the biggest swells I can remember. 15+ stacked up set reeling off from Pump House to Marine street looking like point surf rights.
@@jimmicane yeah that was a legend shot right there my man good find!
This footage is fantastic...Thank you so much for sharing!
When I saw the 1st bit of footage of the Cove, I looked specifically for the reef's footage, THIS was what I was specifically looking for!- thanks for filming!🤙
Unreal, thanks Jimmy! More commentary please. And let's see that Blacks footy!
Great shots! Thanks for posting. Always like to see cousin Skip. Thanks again, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Serious juice. It's pumping here. Guys are rippin it. Good goin. Good filmin.
Best edit of that swell at that wave on you tube by far. Thanks for sharing. Skip 🤴 Tanner and Dylan Amazing
Thanks! That was Dylan Hord on the two deep ones by the goofy footer. Tanner got a couple too
Was there shooting stills Sun and Tue mornings - while I got some good ones, there's nothing like raw video to bring you back to the moments. Cheers for capturing them so well, with great (and not too @!%*&!) commentary. Was just right, these were waves that called for some flavorful narration - legendary day, eager to spread this vid far and wide!!
Hope you got some great photos!
Hugh Jass!!! Sick ones, James!❤🤘🏼
WOW! Skip fry my good friend from years ago. He shaped my boards for me. He is still surfing?? excellent!
This is sic. Can't wait to see some of that drone footage
Great footage!
The only time that I caught an 18' wave and survied was at 18/19 Street Newport Beach Ca. And it was one of the smaller one's that day. That day broke surfboards, Piers and almost my back. I'll never forget it.
Niiiice footage !!! Thank you!!!
I've seen Horseshoe look like this many years ago but no takers. Skips wave is the stuff that Legends are made of!! He is the Undisputed Heavy Weight Champion of L.J.
Used to walk over before school in the 80s during big swells. Usually no takers but once saw a lone charger sending it. Just watching him alone I felt sick to my stomach.
I used to surf Horseshoe big and perfect 20 years ago. I only surfed Hospitals a few times!! I liked horseshoe so much more!! But all depends on Swell. Right??
It would be worth it just catching one of those waves! Looks mental out there
Excellent filming, epic angles
Thanks!!
Watch out Zeke might get pissed because you are filming others. Ha!
Great video yet again.
Some of those looked like mini teahupo’o crankers. Fun.
Of all the years I spent out there in the past with the boys, I never heard one person outside of the krew call it by it's name in the winter... Nice job.
Pretty sure you had good style. Goofy. I shared one with you I thought you were not going to make the drop. Pulled it off, and no worries. My chick has a picture of it. Good times. 89”-91
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Thank you,,,,,that was great..............
Wow...Grandview is pumping
That spot really changes character on big swells.
This was my weekdays spot in mid-80s. But, to your point, I never surfed it remotely like this.
Very clean, fun fun fun
Sorry for the burns. Have fun in my old stomping grounds. Keep it respectable and clean so you can pass those surf spots on like I did. But, I know. If I went a week or two without hitting my favorite surfspots, there would be litter everywhere. Stay diligent. Keep it clean. 🌊
Tourmaline going off!
That definitely was some heavy swell!
the wave Skip got that Stab posted was mental
He’s automatic out there
From LBC, never surfed it, always read about it, saw gnarl/beautiful pics of it it in the mags every couple years since the 1970s. I’d always look in that direct from another spot, dreaming. If only this happened more than every few years
Guys (and gals) were charging! Unless you’ve been out there, you’ve no idea how intense that wave is.
What wave is it ? The comments are very mystic, people saying that wave. I'm from SD and I can't figure out where this is. Likely one of the reefs in La Jolla. I have no interest in surfing this size waves but would love to watch in person
That is insane. I dont think I have ever seen it THAT big. Perhaps 2007 or 1998 (Thanks Giving El Nino). Thank you for sharing.
Thanks! Saw it surfed bigger once. Damien Hobgood and Stephen Kaltenbach 2015/16 winter. That day was washing through from the outer reef
Jimmy you should be commentating on the world tour 😊
Epic. 🤙🌊🦆🔥💯
That’s weird 40 years ago when it was like that you could surf it alone now there 20 guys out darn it. Y’all brave that’s for sure regardless of world stage and those insane o s , the locals here are rad go get em guys. Lobster lounge got nothin on ya .
8:48 is a crazy one
I'm the idiot texting foreground right in between taking stills - looked up halfway through the wave, and it was STILL an extremely long and miraculous tube! SO sick!!
Wave of the winter that one
Dylan Hord (*Lord)
All Time Newport Beach! Swell of the Century! Haven’t Seen Newps this good since 1997 (the year Dylan Hord was Born)
This is whispering sands beach for anyone wondering!
Thought it was The Shores 🧐
The first El Nino Storm was Epic and Historical. 🌊
It’s clearly La Jolla Shores my guy you can see hotel La Jolla in the foreground!
Swell, of This Century. Mahalo.
OMG incredible and to think I was surfing right there in1978-1981
Me too. Great place when working and the Rock and the Shoe are crowded out.
7:22 🌊👌
Great video! Judging from the landmarks, that's Hospitals. Considering that it more or less sucks 99.9 percent of the time, it's not really a spot that needs secrecy. Especially since people are guessing nearby legit spots.
technically its horsehoes... and it changes when the swells get big..
technically there’s no s it’s called horseshoe
Legend Jimmy
Looks like low tide ice age cloudbreak, some of those waves seriously looked like teahupoo
Landmark Larry strikes again
😂😂
I grew up on LJ Shores, 50 years, I never seen the Cove like this
Clearly Southern California gets a lot of big swell but in either is wonky as hell or it just doesn't seem to ever break which is weird. This was perfection
It gets like this more then you know I live on Marine St.🤙🌊🦆⚡⚡
This is La Jolla? I was born and raised there. Brings back a lot of memories. Great footage.
Sick bruh
Those cove's down there, sometimes it's just magic. We didn't have video cameras to vlog our beach campouts with. During the summer, every weekend camping at 1,000 Steps Beach over the weekend. My record was staying 7 days at 1,000 Steps. Alot of great times. Alot of great waves. No video, only memories. Carry on the tradition. Keep it clean.
Blacks??
As kids during 1979-1994, that place changes overnight with a good swell. 1,000 Steps Beach would be "Primal". Like when dinosaurs walked the Earth Primal. I witnessed the Army Corps of Engineers drop in backhoes to save the beach houses at I000 Steps. And please, when there, pack yours and other's trash. Mahalo. 🌊
No one is dredging South O. It's like the vacay rental owners live in some far off country & have no clue what's happening on Cassidy Street. Like wtf?? Isn't dredging a requirement to own or live on the beach!?
Word of the session that was make able. Props to to the chargers. Kinda like a do or die situation.
This video brought back a memory from 1982. Skied Mountain High, SoCal, December 31, Body surfed Newport Beach the next day. January 1st 1983. We drank Jim Beam in the mountains. My stomach really hurt, in the surf. Big swell with offshore wind. Big and hollow. With spray coming off the back of each wave. 🌊 At 15th Street, Newport Beach, it's all big "closeout" waves. The good ones are/were at 19/17th, Balboa peir, and The Wedge. Next to the Wedge, that Northside breakfast we would call it, "Gravels" because you would geta bunch of gravel of sand and pulverized seashells in your shorts. Who the fuck dicided to call it anything else!?! 🌊 🐚 🩳
damn tourmaline was pumping
Those waves were beautiful 7:30
1975 The Monster from new Zealand! North birdrock about 40ft faces and offshore howling! Bonzer!
i bet Todo Santos was as big as it gets .. wonder if anyone has any footage
Mother naycha making America great again!
Del Mar going off
Curious of the whereabouts, I have an idea though....
Check out 10:05
That’s Skip!
Don't see any photographers out there but your right. That was a pretty ride. Magazine material
Is this footage from Black's Beach? Yeah? Nice!
No. It's LA Jolla.
@@Deanguilberry so is blacks
Corduroy ocean is what dreams are made of
Skip for governor of CA
OMG COULDNT GET OUT THERE FAST ENOUGH
11:57 a 18 seconds wipe out 😱
I was genuinely concerned on that one!
Zero chance he knows the guy on the wave each time! Makin up names for the channel lolol...hell yeah :)
I know every one of them actually. The only problem is, it was my first time using a new camera and the visibility in the digital viewfinder was super hard to see well. I’m using the Canon R5 Mark II here
Newport Beach is an Epic BnB destination.
Just to help, I subscribed.
Guy at 1:39 is a beast
Oliver Kurtz! He had another one at 12:50 too
@@jimmicane That was one hell of a punt
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The wave @ 9:00 mark was insane
That’s Dylan Hord! Such a good read
For y’all wondering where this is its 15th & Imperial
the 1rst group of waves is South boomers ... generally a body surfing wave .... the next are some 200 meters south ... what's the name of that break ... I forget.
Dude is that ocean beach sf dude
nice stuff...
shhhh...
Funny reading comments from clowns that think this spot is some big secret 😂
No such thing anymore
There were at least 100 cameras on the beach a year ago, and the same this year
Wut spot
@@maynardshighway5765 hot dogs
Chris O Roake is still in the barrel in back of you. Surf and live. Amen
Point the cam towards Big Rock?
@@MrCalifman too much size for BR. Closes out over 8.
stopped watching after that guy made that wave at 8:59...sick.
Back in the Eighties and Nineties, we salivated for big waves at the Wedge. Since 2,000, it happens all the time. Be prepared. Look at vidios of japan. When it hits, that's what's gonna happen to rich ass Newport Beach California. Great place to visit. Don't wanna live there.
Better than last winter?
Overall I would say it was just under last year’s quality. Didn’t have that moment where it turned completely on. Like usual, only a fraction of sets hit the reef properly and it’s hard to be under it when they do
Bolsa Chica was better that day.
Probably one guy out at Little Makaha. To far off shore for the video freaks. It’s all about the pub now.
I mentioned that spot just the other day (without naming it, just saying it was close to Birdrock) on a a video of The Cove and was comparing the two. The Cove is about having a hundred people watch you make a drop that then has a section you can't make or mushes; while the spot you named is about having no one watch you get a pretty workable wall when conditions are just right.
@ I have surfed Waimea a couple times when it was starting to show. In clouding on my 50th birthday. About triple overhead. But the biggest wave I ever rode was at Little Makaha about 2006. Had a 9’2” Glen Horn Gun with a Chargers Lightning Bolt on it. Also wiped out that day and had to retrieve my board in by Devils. Long swim and Long paddle.
@@stephentrobaugh8621 The biggest I surfed it was the El Niño 97-98. I grew up in PV. I surfed virtually every spot in La Jolla at least once. Little Makaha was the only one that gave me the spooks like the PV Indicator when it gets huge. It's kelpy, and you just know there are man sized holes and giant boulders you'll have to contend with if you fall at the wrong place. I preferred Little Makaha's summer sister 100 yards North. My favorite drop in SD was at that spot during the swell from Hurricane Nora.
@ Yep.spent many a day at North Bird.
Is this chalcendony street?
Sometimes the rights are better. Shorter, but more makable, and still extremely hollow.
Newport? San Diego?
10:03 is what you came for
Nice waves. Whats the name of this spot?
What break is this?
I don't get it. When you want to feel solid and make the wave ride a 6'8 or even a 7'4
Joel Tudor definitely has a point with what he was saying but I think Skip rides a 6’5 and makes it look easy
Is this an OC break or a SD break?
15 footers?
Did Alyssa get one?
No zeke in sight
Good camera lens. You need a very thick filter, for your voice. ( Just saying).😂
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don't blow up the spot!!!!!
lol just jokes! epic vid jimmy
Thanks Tucker. Need you to come get the 🦅 angle next time