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"If sharks really were man hunters, surfing would never have been invented."
"Surfing was invented in Polynesia and that art was brought to Hawaii where it became a worldwide sensation."
"A Brazilian surfer breaking the record books one wave at a time."
"Never underestimate a wave like Cho-Poo or any wave for that matter. They're all pretty dangerous."
"Some of my highest highs have been from big gnarly wipeouts. There's something about it."
"Ultimate surfer, able to surf your emotions."
"I respect your skill and your surfing, I respect how you want to present yourself." - Jonah Hill
"Surfing is not racist, especially in Southern California."
"Sally Fitzgibbons: a champion in the world of surfing."
"Professional surfer survived unharmed after being struck from behind by a shark."
"Rodrigo Coxa broke the world record for the world's biggest wave."
"Dungeons, the man-eating monster wave spot of South Africa."
"Garrett McNamara won the previous world record for the largest wave ever surfed."
"California surfer Dana McGregor has always been stoked to catch a wave, but he says it was even more rad when he took his pet goat along for the ride."
"Surfing isn't just a sport; it's a dance with the ocean, a thrilling art form."
"Surfing's needed something like this for a while."
"Life is like a surfboard, you're going to get thrown off which doesn't matter as long as you know how to get back on."
"The best finless surfer in the world's probably Crooky, I don't know, I mean gotta pay respect to Derek."
"It's the most exciting time in your surfing career because there is an endless road of improvement waiting."
"One of the few rare things in the world, surfing can bring people together."
"Pop culture has been mixed up with surfing ever since."
"If there's anybody who knows about ruling, it's Kelly Slater, the Michael Jordan of surfing."
"In Australia, surfing is like the national pastime."
"You're gonna ride the wake of a supertanker for two or three miles, you'd better put aside a good portion of the afternoon."
"That was the biggest wave I ever had in my life!"
"I'd say the best surfer in the world is the one having the most fun."
"Opportunity is just like waves, you know, if you like surfing, it's just like waves."
"It's such a big swell hit such shallow reef that it makes the whole ocean break."
"Number one goes to unbelievable island of Char Gal, Char Go also known as cloud nine is Surfers Paradise right off of the ocean you're getting the incredible waves crashing in on the shore."
"The FlowRider brings the excitement of surfing out of the ocean."
"With the motorized jet surf, you can now make your own waves anywhere."
"Maya Gabera surfed a 73 and a half foot wave at Nazareth, it was the biggest wave ever surfed by a woman."
"Surfer Dan looks like a surfing hero, covered in ice."
"When you go in the water and you're surfing in Montauk, you come out, it like cleans your soul."
"Trust yourself to ride the wave completely."
"Any kid that grows up surfing remembers their very first love affair with a surfboard."
"Just makes you forget about all your worries, and you know, it's just... this makes you feel good for some reason. It's a good thing."
"When I grew up and we were skating the ditches, we want to pretend that we were surfing."
"Born and bred from the beach in Christchurch, this Kiwi quickly made a name for himself on the waves of Bondi."
"Jaws, I grew up at the beach, I was a surfer."
"I love surfing... catching waves, not babes."
"Waimea Bay: This is the spot where big wave surfing was invented."
"That's the way a movie should end, this is just about pure family love, support, and the love of surfing."
"Skateboarding and just like surfing, it's a language, it's a language that you communicate through movement."
"So just cruising waves at the moment Guys these are yeah between one to two meters steep face at times you this is where you get the sensation of being in the water rather than on the water."
"This area rich in natural beauty is not only about the thrilling surf but also serves as a gateway to exploring adjacent national parks."
"I love talking about surfing I think you can tell again thank you for taking the time to talk to us."
"Since about 2007, I've been just totally relaxed in big waves"
"It's only the third time Caroline has been surfing at Bondi."
"Dude, as soon as there's even the slightest of waves, he just falls and he's like [ __ ]."
"Bondi's Rising swell turns the beach into a surfer's paradise."
"I want to go on a month-long surf trip throughout Indonesia and just hop from island to island to surf break to surf break and do nothing but surf and relax and chill."
"Wave pools offer a supportive tool to enhance your ocean experience."
"I surfed a wave above the Arctic Circle in the winter. It does not get better than that."
"Surfing etiquette: Meet new friends and, most importantly, have a blast."
"Here, surfing in the ocean is about much more than a multi-billion dollar industry. It's the root of Hawaiian culture."
"Almost 100 years after his success, surfing made its debut in the Tokyo Olympics."
"None more so than Hawaii's queen of surfing, five-time world champ Karissa Moore."
"Everyone surfs there, everyone enjoys the ocean, because after all, it's, you know, it's everyone's ocean."
"Technological innovation literally transformed surfing."
"Surf legend Joyce Hofmann was a pioneer, the first female international surfing star."
"We surfed the whole way back into shore, the two of us on this giant 10-foot longboard."
"This is an area Bala California Mexico that's very popular uh among Surfers in fact growing in popularity over the past few years."
"It's like so many different poses and and the weight of the surfer on top of that board it's always very sound."
"Being able to be a dolphin and still have the ability to surf would be sick as well."
"A good wave will work wonders wherever you go."
"Surfing had always been popular, but the counterculture movement took it into the mainstream."
"It's so rare that you're up and actually surfing. You know, you could go for a three-hour surf session, but maybe only get like 12 seconds of wave time."
"Surfing brings out every flaw that you have. If you're trying to paddle and you're trying to breathe and you're trying to balance and you're trying to do all this stuff, and there's just like, I mean, the only way to relate to snowboarding is like mini avalanches."
"...there was just something about riding down the face of a monster wave that gets me going back into the water year after year."
"He was big in the surfing and he wanted to stay out there and break up the bromance... yeah, he swapped right there."
"In his retirement, he also became an extremely talented surfer."
"There's nothing quite like feeling the wind blow through your hair as you carve a giant wave as it begins to break. But sometimes it can become far more extreme than any surfer would want it to."
"Surfset Fitness is surf inspired exercise equipment and group fitness classes."
"Right now, success is easy and effortless. You can be assured that you're entering a time when you can ride the wave of abundance. The tide has turned and you can put your surfing skills to the test."
"So this guy just popped out of the middle of nowhere and just caught the wave of the day."
"That was pretty incredible when you think about someone who's completely blind at the ocean catching waves."
"There's not a feeling on earth like surfing. It's just there's a big rush inside your body."
"You want the wave to pick you up at the precise moment when it has the right shape. It's not about paddling harder, it's not about paddling for longer, it is about using the wave, tapping into acceleration provided by gravity."
"The single biggest mistake a beginner-intermediate can make whilst learning to catch unbroken waves is not looking back at the wave."
"So much of catching unbroken waves is about timing, not just timing yourself into the proper wave stage but also timing your head's weight distribution over the surfboard."
"Many don't realize - and strangely not many Sri Lankans realize that Sri Lanka is a tremendous surfing location."
"If you love surfing, you don't just catch one wave. Like, you have to evolve."
"Surf much bigger waves without getting a scratch."
"The worst thing you can be called in this world is a kook. You never want to be caught being a bad surfer."
"Late 1950s Australia, what was being developed there? Surfing."
"Surrounded by azure seas and edged with golden beaches, Bali is of course a surfer's paradise."
"Try surfing the snake in your own life."
"That's what surfing is, you caught multiple waves, you paddled into them yourself, and then you stood up."
"The best way to improve your surfing is video analysis."
"Just getting video feedback is the most helpful thing and it's just gonna really take your surfing to the next level."
"I'm actually scared of big waves because if I fall on a big ramp it doesn't come crashing after me and try to drown me."
"We catch waves, not feelings sweetie."
"There's no feeling quite like riding a wave."
"Surfing had a persona of blonde party-goer beach guys."
"Surfing still something I was just looking for."
"When you find the right wave, it's effortless."
"I just got a passion for and a love and I'm not ready to stop you know it's there's nothing like getting spit out of a barrel there's just not it doesn't like it"
"If you're a surfer and you want to find the perfect wave, you better be at the beach."
"You want to ride the backs of those waves constantly."
"A lot of the big-name surfers have loved San Juan Eco."
"I go surfing. That's how you stay grounded."
"What do you think of your first experience surfing?"
"The best surfer is the one who's having the most fun."
"Let's live in Baz and we got waves out the front."
"We caught a few salmon, Sarah caught a few waves, and then we've come in."
"The best wave is different for everybody."
"...you can make your wave as simple and as basic as far as tuning and setting it up as you want to..."
"I am partial to the Centurion while surfing just because of the customizability of the wave."
"There's only one thing to do in a hurricane: surf it."
"If I had two options if there was a wave beside the mushy wave over here that is like a foil playground and little bumps all over the place or like a shoulder-high like barreling wave 100 every day I would choose surfing."
"You're getting a brand new custom surfboard with your name on it."
"People just want to ride with the guy they like watching surfing."
"That is the ultimate dream surf trip."
"All of a sudden it's very polarized on like oh shoot like I thought this guy was the best surfer in the world and now he can't catch a wave."
"...you go out and you cannot not be present yeah right everything on land gets forgotten you're in a constantly moving it's like a force and you're trying to ride waves."
"I just saw a wave, I'm gonna go out. I surfed by myself, two hours in this reform, catching it right, doing carves into a left, getting barreled."
"I think I've surfed nearly as good as I used to. I know what people sense. It doesn't matter to me."
"I think the beauty of surfing is letting the wave be the center point."
"Guys will be like 'I don't want to go grinded out looking for a wave in the ocean, I'm just going to the pool.'"
"Surfing is one of those things you can do until your time is up."
"There's no feel losing it. I mean like you're just at some wave with your buddy or a couple buddies and you're just getting barreled back to back to back and no one else around. No, it's the dream."
"There's not many feelings that compare to just a massive wave hitting you. No, and especially when they hit you like how you're talking about, like you in the right place at the right time to be in the worst spot. That feeling is so crazy."
"It's crazy dude, there's not many feelings that compare to like just a massive wave hitting you. No, and especially when they hit you like how you're talking about, like you in the right place at the right time to be in the worst spot. That is that feeling is so crazy."
"Having a good hot wax job on the bottom of your board really, really makes a huge difference."
"No matter what you read on the internet, there are no rules to when you should wax your board."
"Surfing was the only thing that helped Graham unwind after 8 hours of hoisting building materials at a construction site."
"Surfing, you get to pick your crew, you get to pick where you go, you get to pick how hard you want to go and how complicated or easy you want to make it."
"The best surfer in the world is the one having the most fun."
"...an incredible exercise for your body, but also for your mind. Like you leave all your problems on the sand so when you paddle out you can't really think about anything other than just surviving or having the best time and just trying to catch as many waves as possible."
"It is the most magical experience when you figure, and I think it's what happens to people when they catch a wave."
"Surfing's about harmony with nature and with your friends."
"So my buddy was like 'oh he's gonna come surfing with us' and which is cool totally cool 100% but it's like it's always a little bit weird I just never really know what to do when someone doesn't know how to surf."
"We're married again you guys. You missed our last video. Adam lost his wedding ring surfing so he's been a single man for a bit. But now we're married, we're back!"
"Sharon often talked about running away from Texas to surf in California."
"When a big wave is coming towards them, they will ditch their board."
"I do more bodyboarding than surfing because it's so much easier just to get the boogie board down to the beach than it is to bring the surfboard."
"My legend of the week is my soft top longboard."
"If you ever go surf Bull Bay or other spots, kind of around south coast of Jamaica, there's a lot of sea urchins."
"We want to make sure that we're surfing somewhere that's safe."
"Have a look at this one, carves through the lip, big opening hack, and again, just in full control. He's keeping these turns really tight in the pocket. Judges are really noting where the maneuvers are done, the most critical part of the wave."
"Just a beautiful view there, Cocoa Beach and also the Cocoa Beach Pier, popular surf spot."
"Surfing has so many different things like, you gotta paddle out, you got this and that, then you're finally riding the wave and you're like, 'Wait, how do I get off my board? I'm gonna hit the sand or I'm gonna hit a cliff, so yeah, you gotta learn how to end your wave too.'"
"I realized the North Shore is different."
"The North Shore is the center of the surf community."
"He was winning world titles before a lot of the guys on tour right now or were born."
"Sometimes you'll see surfers, but I think the main surf spot is way further down there."
"Changu is famous for its amazing surf. So if you're a surfer, Changu has to be on your list of potential places for you to live."
"We became the chassis of this thing, you know, the engine is our sail and we drive that engine's power through our body into our board."
"HE AIN'T GOING TO CARE. COME ON, THEY'RE SURFERS. THEY'RE GOING TO BE LATE."
"This is my trophy from the 2004 pipeline master, super cool. Like a fiberglass barrel with like some like rocks that look like pipe underneath it's pretty cool right here."
"Jay, fearless and focused, paddled hard towards one massive wave that stood out from the rest."
"Seconds heavy with anticipation ticked by until, against all odds, Jay emerged from the chaos, riding out the waves' tail end victorious."
"Jay left the world too soon, but his story and love for surfing keep inspiring all those who dare to ride the big waves."
"Just surf the wave, just ride atop of it effortlessly, no straining, and let everything unfold."
"Hanging five was the greatest trip you could do hanging 10 was like wow that was top in suddenly we had maneuvers"
"There's no better training for surfing other than surfing."
"That's really given that feeling that the surf is leaving the top of the way, that's that white water's just lifting off as the waves about to curl over."
"You know, when you're hitting the lip of this wave... you feel like you're going much faster than you really maybe are."
"I want to learn how to surf to the point where I'm like... I'm not this guy that just talks about it and doesn't do it."
"It's a fun wave to serve but yeah it's a gnarly wave for sure."
"You look how fun it is to surf on the front edge of a wave and how not fun it is to dog paddle on the tail end."
"You gotta ride the wave you gotta just accept accept it and just keep riding and surfing and um I feel lucky to call my job YouTube is really the you know the fifth wind in my surfing."
"Life is good I mean just enjoying traveling again now that I have a kid who loves to Surf."
"...when you're feeling it, you gotta kind of just go with the flow."
"...you're out there like picturing the wave that you want to come in and as soon as you see it, you're just like 100% going, so sick."
"First time surfers absolutely ripping. First wave they're on, riding away, living the dream."
"I think every surfer in the world, if they were smart, they would want to ride for Red Bull."
"I'm stoked for them and my best friend Levi he's like starting to go out there and starting to do the you know it's kind of like pipe in a way like guys go up and they work their way up the chain then there's Levi the one I got the crazy Barrel this winter."
"Foiling is really interesting. The eFoil allows me to enter the wave, and then the prop folds in and I'm just foiling the wave."
"Surfside Beach is known for surfing."
"I could see us surfing, cooking out, throwing the Frisbee, and really enjoying it."
"The waves were really nice, got some surfing in."
"Sun scene sex what more can you want you want to be looking cool you want to be looking like a surfer dude straight off the beach nice tan sex with beautiful women"
"Surfing represents a feeling of freedom."
"John shouldn't be blaming me for burning him on the wave because it was almost a wave he could have pulled into, but he, no, he's so strategic. I know he did this on purpose."
"There's a clip of a 10-foot gun just pig dogging a huge barrel, and this guy throws his board, and you see the rail of this thing just literally make contact on his dome."
"As much as we love it and have these goals in big waves, the feeling of accomplishing one of those big lifetime goals in big wave surfing... it can't be matched by anything."
"If you stay in it too long, it's the same with the wave. You're staying too long, you're going to get pounded."
"Despite the challenges posed by the harsh weather Jacob, a skilled Surfer who had grown up on the beach, remained undeterred."
"Surfing's like a meditation for me."
"Surfing kind of keeps me levelheaded."
"I'm just beyond stoked and grateful for the life I live."
"This is the best swell I've ever seen come in at Pipe. It was 11 feet, 17 seconds, which is exactly the numbers you want."
"It's about who got the best wave that day."
"It gives it a really surfy feeling."
"Surf was up there, him and Mook, that would have been the face right there."
"People out there from like Idaho or wherever you're from if you just surfed once you would get it it's something magical"
"John John needed something special and that's exactly what he did."
"Kelly and John John matched up once again, a dream matchup at lower trestles."
"That board is future. That's the future of big wave surfing."
"That adrenaline hits and you get the Superhuman feeling and you're kind of just like I'm gonna go on anything I can make it I know I'm good for it when that wave comes and that was the feeling I had literally."
"It can happen at the two foot beach break or the 25 foot Jaws Barrel it can always happen but if you're as prepared and control the things you can control then you're doing the best you can to avoid it."
"Great surfers, I call them wave readers."
"Stay passionate about stuff. Surfing's fucking cool, man."
"Actually, Mr. Carroll is the number one surfer in the United States, so rated by the U.S. Surfing Association."
"I'm not going out there to compete with other people. I'm going out there to ride a wave."
"Surfing needs a little bit of History, less claiming, more information."
"Well, it's just the pure athleticism of these surfers."
"Nothing feels quite like driving the rail through a wave like that."