Looked like a great day. To get back in the car and drive home.

Overcrowded spots are not even worth going in. I always end up going down the beach even if the waves are worse just so I don't have to compete with 5 other people for the same wave.

@jonathancox1231

Жыл бұрын

Right give me smaller alone and you can keep your peanut gallery over there

Lots of layoffs in the Tech industry lately it would appear.

@mimimillerbeauty

Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@11bravo18

Жыл бұрын

Exactly.

@mikeuptegrove

Жыл бұрын

Tech nerds suck! They always ruin everything.

The amount of people surfing hardboards these days that clearly should still be on foamies is mind blowing and extremely scary at the same time...

@jeffreyvonkphotos

Жыл бұрын

This video is a perfect example of that.. scary and sad to see..

@samp1568

Жыл бұрын

💯

Someone should set up a ding repair stand on the beach. These guys are nuts🤣

this vid is like one of those movies you catch on TV it's so bad it's good and you have to watch it

Hey! Man I love the style of your videos. Growing up in the 80s I would watch old surf movies from the 60s and 70s because it was really all I had beside the magazines. I can definitely see the influence in your narration, especially the humorous bits. I dig it! Anyway, hope you see the comment.

Choas!!!!😅😅😅 looks like a surfing course for beginners. Either way, looks like they're having fun 🎉

In just a few clicks, these videos have quickly become my favorite thing to watch as I lay in my comfy bed on the east coast.

It was painful 😂

i miss the good 'ol days where you were excited to have someone out to share the waves with. too bad this is the direction things are continuing to go. surf trip time!!

Drop knee on the Wavestorm 😂

Makes me glad I’ve moved. Thank you.

@RP-rq4in

Жыл бұрын

I don't recognize California anymore. It's not the place I grew up in anymore

@stevefink6000

Жыл бұрын

Me too! 🤣

Instant crowd just add water

this spring been so bizarre in socal

Thanks for the laugh b-rad.

Haha dude that’s insanity!

Almost everyone out there looks like they should be riding higher volume boards…

love to see all the Costco boards, lol

I saw you out there yesterday but couldn't get a parking spot close to the front of the lot (Edit: NVM I was on dawn patrol but saw a guy filming) but literally the whole lineup cheered when a wavestorm caught one of the outside waves when there was a mega lul in the waves

What kind of camera set up do you use ?

Cue the jaws music 😂

haha the thumbnail is funny and cool

Kooktown USA! Surfs up brah!

There's a beach called Reef Road on a "private" island in Palm Beach Florida which requires you to either live at a million dollar mansion there or own a jet ski or boat. That mitigates crowds somewhat but New Smyrna north towards the famous Daytona beach area is accessible to all so the crowds there are the same as in L.A. I won't paddle out when it's like that. Unfortunately it's getting more like that everywhere - Costa Rica, Bali, Australia. You have to go to Namibia or Ecuador or Scotland to escape crowds these days but L.A. is pretty extreme.

Looks like El Porto is now El Kooko

Partyyy Waves😊🏄🤙

All I need is a cool buzz and some tasty waves and I'm good!

So glad this isn’t my local break. What a mess

Typical springtime in the south bay

Didn’t see a single one of them all winter 🤔

I saw one dude rippin' ... one.

@markschram2703

Жыл бұрын

Yep white wetsuit, throwing some water around for sure👀🤙

Linda Mar: Hold my beer

Are you in a trd pro 4runner?!

Wow only two skilled surfers, welcome to Florida! 😂😂

I asked a lifeguard driving by Lowers one crowded day how more people don't get hurt down there on a daily basis and he turned and looked at me- "I HAVE NO IDEA!" he says. It was Jeff Kramer if you know who that is, San Clemente legend. like 20 something years ago btw.

El Porto looks more like the Barn Yard!

On days like this me and my friends just drink a bunch of beers and then we go out with no intention of surfing but just to mess with people and get in the way and then play dumb.

Looks exactly like Pacifica 🤣🤣🤣. EXACTLY like Pacifica

Every time there's a swell where I live here in Japan (Shonan area of Kanagawa), this is what it looks like, if not worse... don't think I'll ever get used to it LOL

El Port-o-let

Water was murky af too

water was super cold for socal too, about 56

@stevefink6000

Жыл бұрын

Normal winter temps in LA OC beaches

This makes me appreciate the marginal lefts I scored by myself on Sonoma County the other day. The water temp was 48 degrees so maybe that kept the crowds down.

@smelltheglove2038

Жыл бұрын

Yikes! I’m old, I like 70+ degree water, haha. I had plenty of cold sessions in my teens, twenties, and thirties. If I can’t do a 3/2 with no boots I’m not going. 49 degrees is pushing it. The water never warms up like it does over here though, huh? You get 89 degree water on the outer banks almost every summer. Makes me appreciate the Gulf Stream. Hahaha

@jonathancox1231

Жыл бұрын

Brrrrrr

@jonathancox1231

Жыл бұрын

​@@smelltheglove2038 loved the outer banks, when their was waves you could find a little bump almost anywhere away from the peanut gallery,

@craig8638

Жыл бұрын

@@smelltheglove2038 47.1 this morning. Never gets much above 55. 4/3 year round for me. Many people choose a 5/4 most of the time.

KOOKY!! 🍪

This is a good equivalent to all the fun things humans enjoy. Can't see the sights cuz too many people in the way; lining up for an hour to buy a meal from a truck; paying $100's to attend music festivals and being OK with standing a half mile away from the bands on stage...

pure kookorama

10,000 gumbies sprawling...

Not many future world champions here.

Yup, that's the El Porto I know.

What I noticed in the footage of the large amount of low skilled surfers with technique and etiquette . Yes you will have a certain amount of novices in the water but this seems to be like a surf camp model with no direction . Chaos as you perfectly stayed .

My shoelaces were stolen in that parking lot.

damn, I'm so happy where I live seeing this mess...no crowds/localism, year round chest/head high waves and clear warm water. Definitely not the biggest and best, but fun and relaxing with the odd pumping groundswell, so i'll take it anyday over this. Only problem is sourcing equipment i guess. California has such a huge coast, so i would assume tonnes of great breaks, so is it that there really are SO many new surfers or is it more that most surfers are clustered together in certain areas of the coast etc? I don;t get it, I'd rather drive 2 hours to a nice non crowded break, then again I don't know much about Cali so just wondering

@gundolarry

Жыл бұрын

This crowd is a combination of lazy + parking lot. Things have changed.

@clintjones9848

Жыл бұрын

A lot of California outside of SoCal and the bay area is deserted. It's just SoCal that is ridiculously packed.

@jonathancox1231

Жыл бұрын

A lot of them are" look at me " surfers, not really about the glide but" I'm a surfer " types

Crowds bug. Thanks for the content tho!

Nothing about that looks fun.

3:37 pain.

I call these the covid surfers

Even filming this must've been frustrating

i cannot beleave it

You have to suck and start somewhere. I love that there is one shredder guy out there sticking out like a sore thumb with his light colored wetsuit.

Dear surfing industry, happy now?

French guy in white wetsuit ;)

kooks galore

all the "work from home" transplants from NoCal session....

King Lamb for mayor

1990s was the last of the best for surfing

I really would've just did yoga on the beach cause ain't no way.

The end of it😢

Great waves! People having fun

at 1:00 my boy thomas from France! haha

@williamabraham

Жыл бұрын

Who is he? I've recently seen that same guy, with the white wetsuit, surfing down at venice breakwater.

@SurfMastery-kz6je

Жыл бұрын

​@@williamabraham Yeah thats where I met him too, during the last storm. He moved here a few months ago from France. I know hes been on the QS a couple times. Just give him a hoot next time he busts an air and he'll have something funny to say back lol

Leashes and wetsuits are great, however they also make surfing accessible to anyone all year long.

Barnes and noble

At 4:45 someone almost got a longboard to the head

So many Covid surfers

Hard to keep up with proper surfing ettiquette with conditions like that.

surely weekday mornings would be less crowded due to people being at work? 🤔🤔

Kookville

I just gotta ask WHY?

Oside born n raised. Seems to me the problem has been social media. Every kook just wants to take the 10am "dawn patrol" selfie. 😂😂

@jonathancox1231

Жыл бұрын

Pacific point apartments, years ago , oside was fun but had to run the gauntlet of Samoan bloods every day coming home from work

@josemanuelgarciaotero9393

Жыл бұрын

Dawn patrol 10am???

Mush

twice as many as last year, half as many as next. Get used to it.

Most are learners than can barely stand. If I see that I would save myself to have to rinse the wetsuit after the shitty sesh. No way I'd get into the water

thats like your average”good” surf day in Florida

@markschram2703

Жыл бұрын

when it does break here, it's never ever that crowded, ever lol

Beginners are nothing new. What's new (like 25 years) is surfers crowding garbage surf, and all paddling for the same waves. Don't know where that came from. We knew "one man at a time" as kids without being instructed.

@botaccount3449

Жыл бұрын

New era now. Same at my break when it gets good. Literally people paddling AFTER me down the beach,” like why? Just leave me alone, you dont want these waves”

When it gets like this it's time to do something else.

It's exactly all I HATE about surfing...

Crazy why do so many go there the surf looks terrible even

@jonathancox1231

Жыл бұрын

Mush

You'd probably be better off body surfing the tubes on the inside.

Hawaii is the same now too: kooksville 24/7, everyone, “surfs”. The rules are gone. It’s a wholly tolerant, inclusive, NON counterculture, sport, now for the nerds and activists of the world.

Why? Just...why???

Looks like people knew it was sh!t and ridiculously overcrowded so they just tried to make the best of it. Nothing wrong with that.

Look at the boards these fools are riding! Lol

Did you really film yourself for the intro while driving 🤦

Why couldn’t these people take up golf instead

I used to live right up the street from El Porto, in El Segundo. I rarely surfed there because most of the time the surf sucked. The same could be said for the surf in SoCal in general. Yes, the surf can get great but there are long droughts in between. I've taken up other sports.

man I was cringing lol. No F's given lol

Only one rule in surfing and that’s don’t snake anyone. All these beginners were never taught anything, another reason localism is coming back.

@jonathancox1231

Жыл бұрын

Snfl.....surf Nazi,s for life!!!

The El Porto effect has hit many other spots worldwide. Uluwatu is mostly a clustering of chaos. Many lightly traveled spots in Sumbawa are inundated with with the low skill clueless. The Mentawais are absolutely packed. Traveling up North to Simeulue is a wast of time, as it is crowded with folks who saw youtube video of surfing in their land locked country and decided the surfer life was for them. Surfing is no longer dominated by meatheads or highly evolved spiritualists - Surfing is mainstream. Everyone surfs now and the very thing that surfers sought to get away from is now permanently installed in the line up

This is so embarrasing to watch. OMG! Surf stoke, out of control. Clueless! Don't bring this to my beach, it won't go so well!

This is the result of commercializing surfing...the WSL picked up where Gidget left off... But hey I'm not jaded I milked the surf industry like a swollen utter. How else would I have been a "pro surfer" from age 18 to mid 30's( late 1980's forward) avoid having to "get a job" proudly smoke weed all day every day, party and travel, have tons of sick clothes and surf equipment, connections at heavy and/or localized surf spots around world, free places to stay, VIP concerts, "pro ho's" and cheap drugs at my disposal everywhere I went..thank you for the ride Corporation Surfing... hahaha