Greatest Wipeouts Compilation | Best (as in worst) Surf Wipeouts of 2012 

I had a wipeout on a ~5ft wave when I was a kid that made me lose my sense of direction of up and down for about 5 seconds, which felt like an eternity at the time, and since then gained a very serious respect for the power of the ocean. I can't even begin to imagine what this stuff might feel like.

i used to watch surfing videos and be like... "doesnt look that bad its water". But now that I surf and know that even a 3-5 foot wave is kinda powerful. I cant imagine surfing big waves like that.

I can't imagine how horrible it must feel to be spun, flipped and nearly killed by waves that big! So much respect for these guys!

1:43 is terrifying. Never ever. Thank you

I wiped out in 3 foot waves at Croyde Bay and thought I was going to die. I can't imagine this shit.

Damn, and at the beach I cry if I stub my toe on a shell

Mad respect for all these surfers.

Big wave surfers are insane. But we love watching you! Stay safe.

The key is living to smile about it..........well done boys!

1:35 hahaha "ya know you can drown out there"

massive respect to all in this video

All respect to these guys! Wow just wow! Shoulder dislocation “not such a bad one”.

Mate I absolutely shit myself in like 6 foot waves haha. Can’t even imagine this...

Omfg this makes me wanna never surf again

That’s why I prefer to stay on the beach and watch.

My sinuses got packed with salt water just watching this.

Lovely. My motivation to learn how to surf!!

I had this wipeout in Cloud9. My board stuck between my legs. It hit me right there. So painful that i cant hold my breath anymore. And theres a set of waves coming. The third and biggest wave almost toke my life. I had this final surface and one last breath. Still lucky. Lesson learned. Never understimate the power of waves. One Love!

A friend of mine went over the falls on the first of a big powerful 11' set and was held under by ALL SIX WAVES. He popped up in shallow water with all his breath already exhaled and hauled air in for an age sounding like an elephant trumpeting. I'm so glad he made it because when he saw him go over I paddled in after him looking for him because I thought he was gonna drown.

Any tips on surviving things like this? Like what do you do when you're getting thrown around like that? Do you try to swim up, just lay there? What do you guys do? Trying to get into surfing, obviously I'll start way smaller than this but just in case I get caught in a tricky situation I wanna know what you guys do.

They are the only ones who know how does it feel like inside of washing machine.

Woow!!! Aloha from Brazil!!!

that last one was EPIC

I've never done that but I wouldn't be scared . I love waves

Fark!!! Epic stacks!!! Those blokes got guts and some massive balls!

i surfed in france and i fell from a wave like 2.5 meters and i was stuk and i was thinking im gona die i qas like for 10 seconds under the water and it cost so much energy like spining in the water ...if i look to this shit is can't believe the are still alive

was good to see ya down there

I got pitched at pretty big west swell sunset and landed right on my back and it knocked the breath out of me. then the whole ocean came down on top of me. got fucking worked through the impact zone over by boneyards. finally made it to shore and laid on the beach breathing for an hour. respect the ocean, and mother nature, or she'll snatch you in the wink of a pretty girls eye.

Nothing compared to this, but this summer I was surfing in OCMD and I was out in the water and there was a 6 footer coming at me. I knew I didn’t want to take it so I went to paddle over it. Just so you know, I’m 15, 90 pounds, and 5’2, and I had a longboard so I physically couldn’t duck dive under the wave. Anyway, I thought I was gonna make it over but the ocean had other plans. It flipped me and my board just as I was about to get over the top and I started falling backwards. My board came back and hit my nose (which broke) and I was stuck underwater for a few seconds with a headache and a bloody nose. It’s so scary when you have no control over your body and your just flailing in the water trying to keep everything in so you don’t break anything else. To make everything better (or worse) I was surfing in low tide because you’re on,y allowed to surf before 10 or something so I was dangerously close to the bottom. Anyway I came up perfectly fine except for my nose which healed in a few weeks because it wasn’t too bad. I kept surfing though even when I was supposed to “lay low with physical activity “ lol. A similar thing also happened to my friend but he sliced his stomach with his fiberglass fin when he wiped out. Good memories 😎🤙🏽🏄🏼‍♀️

keep the good work in 2013!

I got hit so hard by a 6ft wave and almost died😂😂

Deadass this is my biggest nightmare. I would rather see a tornado outside my window

That shipsterns wipe out at the end is terrifying.

Props to those with the best shots of them wiping out. Cameramen 🤙

Respect.

Damn, glad you guys are here to talk about it. I can't imagine getting nailed by anything over 8 to 10 feet but this! No way, I'll sit my sorry ass on the beach....... again.

over the falls at 3.20 that is seriously seriously sick!

Oh the goosebumps!!

lol they should make a "fail of the season" video xDDD some hilarious spills out there xD

1:48 - Bye Mom!

The fall is bad enough but that's only the beginning!

Getting dumped by the very regular waves at any given beach as a once every few years bodysurfer is pretty damn brutal.. i can't even conseptualise what its like when you scale up to these waves.

I have eaten it a few times on big waves and if you panic your chances of drowning are very real.

Don't know how some of these guys are still alive!

Mannn these are crazy

Scary shit.

legends

"Bad Posi", love it.

The waves are beautiful, I want to see what it feels like to surf a big wave or get smashed by one

I wiped out on a 15 footer in Mexico, it was quite peaceful when the sand settled...

When the waves are literally above my head they are also figuratively above my head.

Glad to see I'm not the only sucker who's gone over da Falls. Ha Ha !!

It does if they all disliked it so much that they made extra accounts and disliked it twice each.

3:00 Grant Twiggy Baker going over the falls and you can see his little speck of a body going for the ride. He probably made a complete 360 degree rotation in that wave. Fell on the face, over the falls and back to the same position where he started in the white wash.

@Peter94686.- Hilarious spills? You obviously have never surfed mate. Even a 3ft grungy wave can work someone ove. My limit was about 12 ft, and that was scary. But Shipsterns, Teahupou,. Mavericks, etc. That's life and death! Fun to some but even Kelly Slater said " Anyone who isn't scared of teahpou at 8ft is crazy". I had my steamer stipped of me at 10 ft 'Caves' at Cactus. It didn't worry me, but no way would i have the balls to surf these Death waves. Fun for me is 6-8 ft. Fun to others is mental. Glad to watch though.

You should see the rollers in Texas. When one of them bad ass container ships cruise by we get towed into some three foot curlers for days. Heathcoat McGuilicutty.

should have a go pro camera on one of these wipeouts

the seven dislikes on this video are seven of the surfers featured in this video.

Had my fair share with those down here on Oahu up North during winter swell... and let me tell you airdropping like that gotta be one of the most helpless and shittiest feeling lmao

Sick vids duudes 🤙🏼

That's gotta be scary not knowing if you'll ever breathe air again after getting the wind knocked out of you. Good thing you're buzz numb all over from the first slam or it would really hurt.

Respect!

That's pretty neat

Holy Shit

greatest wipe out ever braddah Jay at Mavericks....priceless RIP my braddah much aloha

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These guys can all hold there breaths for 4-5 minutes plus. Just when the force impacts your stomach and knocks the wind out of you as your gasping for that calm cool breath, thats what causes the deaths. That and entrapment under water. But these big wave surfers are so fit, show no panic and hold there breaths so long.

0:39 antena de tubarão.

It's all what your use to until something allot bigger gets you... respect to these chargers

Droppin in!

TIGHT

you really havnt lived until youve survived a wipeout like any of these!

People watch horror movies? This is the shit that makes me lose it

if the wave lip hits your back and its big enough will it break it

Pipes going off right now

Amazing!!!

Cover your head and relax. Just think happy thoughts.

same I agree

its not that the water 'knocks it out of them' if anything it would just knock out carbon dioxide. just when you panic all of your muscles 'eat up' all of the oxygen in your lungs. But you are also right in the fact that the pressure acting on their body would cause their muscles to tense up and hence same process. Thats why they all say they just try and relax.

🇧🇷 👍 São Paulo/ Itaquera. 2018

Some heavy ones there...

ouch... and then some.

just gotta be respectful towards the ocean.. glad all of them survived

The ocean is unforgiving. HOWEVER the feeling you get while surfing is worth the risk in my opinion. WHEW-WEE!

Epic wipeouts but cutting right to the next one without seeing the guys resurface feels like only half the story

gnarly

That thumbnail photo isn't a wave, it's a giant hole that opens up in the ocean letting show the nice reef bottom. " Death Bowl ".

serious question but how in the world do they honestly survive these kinds of monstrous wipeouts?

How are these guys even alive!? I get dumped on a 4ft wave and nearly drown. Some serious balls involved here

Lovely sea 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊

I live on fistral and it can produce 20 to 30 ft waves but I on board 8ft and that’s scary enough

I'm still freaked out by 6 foot waves, when I look at this vid I just think; "THIS IS FUCKED!'

Has anyone else noticed the shark at 0.40 ??

"it was just another where im like, Youre gonna die on this one"

They missed my classic fail at playa grande

Dude there was a wave almost twice as big as me and I got wipe out and it felt like hell my nose started bleading

Never going to the beach again

You should of seen mine mine I was like a crum to it I loved it as a memory now

1:43

I got hit by a 4 inch wave and almost died