Awesome! Seeing waves like this on the south side, between the pier and that jetty brings warmth to my heart. As a North OC kid, I'd always dreamed of that left breaking... so stoked you captured this on video! Thanks bro.

@kevinmendezphoto

Жыл бұрын

Hell ya. Glad you are as stoked as me on it. I heard so many stories about it breaking like this and finally got to experience it. So glad i got to capture it as well to let others enjoy it. Today was an awesome day!

@ugocdf7706

Жыл бұрын

I am originally from europe so I can understand those feelings and appreciate the footage There are some good peaks allthough a bit slow to be honest But still i would go out and catch a few It is also much less crowded than that swami video shot the same day I believe

Seeing two guys share a wave around 00:30 definitely warms my heart considering all the localism in surfing. Of course this kind of wave makes it possible.

@kevinmendezphoto

Жыл бұрын

I loved it too. Nothinf but good vibes out there

@T8minifreak

Жыл бұрын

looked like a father and his son. the son was the one in the pocket and the father kept looking back as if to guide him

That was fun. Thanks for filming my wave at 6:50. Giant mush burgers

@kevinmendezphoto

Жыл бұрын

Hell ya. Thats epic you were out there. Looked fun

Friends surfed here that day, I went to Sunset Cliffs. It was MACKING outside open water outer reef bombs. Way under gunned but grabbed a few. Next time I stay closer to town and score this UNICORN instead. Great vid. Thanks!

Nice post. Spent a lot of time surfing cloud in the 80's

@kevinmendezphoto

Жыл бұрын

I bet that was an awesome time

@davidmorse5690

Жыл бұрын

@@kevinmendezphotoI lived in Seal at the time, but to be honest, the waves in late February of 1983 at Redondo Beach Breakwater were the best I have ever surfed!

Thanks for documenting this rare wave. This would be a dream session for me. I never saw this wave before. Cool.

@kevinmendezphoto

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Im glad i got to record such a epic day

I enjoyed starting my morning with this vid! Looks like some huge friendly mushburgers! The inside by the breakwater looks very manageable, just don't put yourself in the wrong spot on the paddle and you can have a big wave session consequence free! Looks a little wilder down the beach tho. Good vibes, no music, my fav.

@kevinmendezphoto

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed the video. Wish i was able to surf right now. That stuff looked so fun

Kevin got some sick shots! Subscribed! Thumbs up!!!

@kevinmendezphoto

Жыл бұрын

Really appreciate it! Thanks a lot! 😁

Tanks brother,, pure coolaid ! 😎 .

@kevinmendezphoto

Жыл бұрын

Hell ya you’re welcome 🤘

Didn't see him personally, but the GOAT got a session in 🤙

So cool to see the south side breaking. If you go in the local surf shops you can see old photos of huge waves at Seal. I always wanted to experience that myself. But I've moved away. Thanks for the captures.

I was there yesterday too during my lunch break got sone good footage too. 🤙

@kevinmendezphoto

Жыл бұрын

Hell ya that’s awesome. I was lazy and didnt put my drone up. Kinda regret it lol i saw in my video a drone flying tho. Maybe that was you haha

Perfect waves for the foil

@kevinmendezphoto

Жыл бұрын

It really is

Thanks for sharing been some great footage recording historical surf

@kevinmendezphoto

Жыл бұрын

Hell ya. Thank you so much!

Thanks for your video !

That’s Drew!!!

@kevinmendezphoto

Жыл бұрын

Ayeee get it drew!!

I surfed this spot on a very user friendly day a few years ago. Thankfully I didn't wipe out or get caught inside, but, it was still very creepy. The way the water moves..the way it feels like you're in open ocean. It seems deceptively inviting, but it always felt like a spot that could turn ugly in a moment.

Great to see SB cloudbreak again. Surfed 1982-83 and remember being pushed into the bottom at 13th on a big cloubreak day. Thanks for the video. Kirk Augsburger and Cal VanZant rocked big 13th back then. Is Ester breaking? Landlocked now 😔

@Makai77

Жыл бұрын

82-83 was the last time I can remember it as well... fond memories.

@kevinmendezphoto

Жыл бұрын

That’s amazing. Im sure it was a blast. I experienced this today for my first time and i was pumped

@civilsocietyprivateinteres1711

Жыл бұрын

@@Makai77 ester did

@dennisdain987

Жыл бұрын

I could not remember if that was the last time this break went off. I was there in 82-83 as well. Took part of the pier down, those storms.

nice vid bud. well done. editing & all.

@kevinmendezphoto

Жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot!!!

Good stuff! Subbed. When I lived in HB in 2009, there was a monster swell which caused huge waves to break SS Seal Beach. I'd say 20foot + but breaking more in the middle. I think they call it Cable cars or something. My buddy paddled out, it was beyond my skill and ballsy level. He didn't catch a wave but saw shaper of my board Matt ? caught some huge left bombs triple overhead +. Haven't seen it that big since then.

so cool, surfed it in the 90's. Thank you for this.

@kevinmendezphoto

Жыл бұрын

You’re very welcome. Im sure you have some awesome stories from then

@brianrogers6059

Жыл бұрын

I also surfed this back in the 90's, needs a longer board and short rides. In retrospect, should of surfed further south that day.

@toddedmunds9672

Жыл бұрын

@@brianrogers6059 I would like to ride it on a proper log or 60's minitanker.

@toddedmunds9672

Жыл бұрын

@@kevinmendezphoto I do. Does Harbor House still have grinds Da Kines?

Sweet Kevin

8:41 that is pretty gnarr drop in quite nutty

@kevinmendezphoto

Жыл бұрын

There were some pretty gnarly ones today that i didnt get on camera too.

Nice. I surfed there in the late 70s

That’s how Doho gets on a huge hurricane swell … but much cleaner and longer. Shhhhh … see you next Summer.

The recent storm footage like this is an historic milestone - the first storm of this size to hit So Cal since the inception of social media and ubiquity of HQ video coverage. I can vaguely recall seeing storms on the TV news in the early 80's, wiping out docks and piers and such, but never throngs of surfers on monster waves in So Cal before lately.

Awesome coverage. Cool to see this spot get some recognition. Hope it doesn't crowd it up, though!

SEAL BEACH - It is rare there for a second break outside at the South side of the Seal pier. It is usually big shorebreak. I've surfed in RAY BAY in the San Gabriel River many times, north of Seal Beach. Edison's Alamitos Bay steam plant supplies warm water in the break. I used to take a few high school girls from Saint Joseph High School in Lakewood. I even got one fit nun went surfing with me and the girls. Years later, I'd sail from Catalina Island, tie up in Alamitos Bay, take my board on my dinghy and run out to the jetty to find sand bars way out beyond the break by myself, anchor the dinghy off the shoulder. So, with all the rains let out lots of sand from Huntington Harbor and from the San Gabriel River to make those offshore sandbars with those sloping, slow waves, pretty cool.

Nice shot’s 👍

@kevinmendezphoto

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much

Awesome wave

@kevinmendezphoto

Жыл бұрын

Thanks its a cool one

Very nice video,thanks

@kevinmendezphoto

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much glad you enjoyed it 😁

Gems. Looks like a mix between the wedge and trail 6.

I lived on seal beach Blvd and have seen these first hand and some of the rides are so long 💯

Surfed this a very long time ago 70s somthing was different sand more of it but it was scary by myself . Maybe a little bigger . Anyways great vid ..now the inside on fire .job well done

Not quite as hollow, as the one in Fiji...

@kevinmendezphoto

Жыл бұрын

I wish it were that would be epic

If shaggy was an actual person

@kevinmendezphoto

Жыл бұрын

Shaggy is the man lol

@anotherworldviewispossible

Жыл бұрын

Zoinkers!

"should i flip the board over and send it back to him?" lol the ocean doesnt work that way. These look like immensely fun waves. Looks easy enough to paddle out actually cause theyre a bit mush and although theyre huge, it doesnt look too punishing or difficult to take off on.

6:10 gotta give this guy credit for dropping in with the san o logger the gun would not flop up and down like that but he held his line

@travisguide4516

Жыл бұрын

7:52 this is one of those moves that really works keep it in the cards you go right then decide left now the open face is in your face and you get a extra second or two in the middle of the chaos play that stall right take the elevator up point the board straight down good to go

@kevinmendezphoto

Жыл бұрын

@@travisguide4516love the break down. Might need to have you do a voiceover with some play by play commentary 😎🤘

The swell was at 19 seconds this morning. There's a lot of water moving in those deep water breaks.

@kevinmendezphoto

Жыл бұрын

The water movement today was insane. Props to the people that made it happen today

I actually thought I was going to Fiji 😂

nice... not quite past teh jetty but lookin real nice

@kevinmendezphoto

Жыл бұрын

Ya there were some when i first got there but didnt get any good shots

What happened to people not saying the spots name? I know most surfers know the spot but it keeps a few vals out of the water next time it breaks.

@bfraz76

Жыл бұрын

Com’n man with google now a days “secret” spots are toast.

@kevinmendezphoto

Жыл бұрын

I leave spots nameless that are low key and dont have surfline cams.

@kevinmendezphoto

Жыл бұрын

@@bfraz76surfline lit this place up hard when kelly was at seal the other day. Couldn’t believe the press it was getting

@bfraz76

Жыл бұрын

@@kevinmendezphoto the perils of the internet…. Understand.

@justintime5918

Жыл бұрын

ONLY us ol school locals did that secret name spot, NOW everything and everyone knows

👏🏻

@kevinmendezphoto

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!!

I was like who is that on the foamie way out there at 9:00? Is that Blair?

I was out surfing this spot earlier in the day. Gave me major wood just paddling out. Epic session! 🤙

@kevinmendezphoto

Жыл бұрын

Hahah hell ya i bet. It looked fun

Dude: "...Dude" Dude(1): "Dude...." Dude: "Doooood!" *points* Dude(1): "DoooHooHooHood!" *amazed* Just another day at the beach in So Cal. 😂

Just like a big day at Waikiki.

@kevinmendezphoto

Жыл бұрын

Its really is lol

Perfect for Foiling

Never heard of this wave. Was expecting Fiji. Still, great video!

@michaelmcconnell7302

Жыл бұрын

first ive heard it called that but that wave is a ghost

Was KS out there?

@kevinmendezphoto

Жыл бұрын

I wish. That would have been epic. Im disappointed i missed him the other day

John Alexander would go. #OurBoy

Ive seen it break near the oil Derek

''About as much fun to watch as watching pineapples grow'' (quote in surfer magazine, 1984, by some tourists, for color commentary)

@kevinmendezphoto

Жыл бұрын

That’s hilarious hahah

What happened to the drone Fellini ? That was useless.

@kevinmendezphoto

Жыл бұрын

I got lazy lol

California version of waikiki,lol

@kevinmendezphoto

Жыл бұрын

I can see it lol

SS CREW

Total. Mush burger

Giant mushburgers.

@kevinmendezphoto

Жыл бұрын

Mush burgers gotta get eaten

This is the wrong one it’s 11 months ago sorry

Damn thought that was Cloudbreak Fiji. Why call this one Cloudbreak as well ???

@kevinmendezphoto

Жыл бұрын

Lol guess California needed a cloudbreak of its own.

Awesome!!! no reason to go North LA stay home!

@kevinmendezphoto

Жыл бұрын

Cant beat home base ❤

This swell was overhyped.

@kevinmendezphoto

Жыл бұрын

Ya not much goin on at many places. All of HB was filled with closeouts it seemed

It’s a burger

@kevinmendezphoto

Жыл бұрын

You hungry?

Cloud break? Lmfao that's not in Cali kook

@kevinmendezphoto

Жыл бұрын

Lol thats what it called kook.

@kevinmendezphoto

Жыл бұрын

Never seen these emojis before lmao