Surfers dig a channel thru the sand, releasing the Waimea river water trapped behind the beach. They surf the resulting standing waves for several hours.
This is actually a stationary wave. The wave form stays in one place. In a standing wave, the surface goes up and down at the crest/peak position and stays the same at the nodes.
This is the real deal in Standing Wave Surfing.. Only in the North Shore of O'ahu when they remove the sand to let the Waimea river empty out to the ocean.. Unlike those water park versions this one you gotta evade the other surfers/body boarders. Thanks for the upload.
whats with all the hating on kayaks and bodyboarders? I'm a surfer, and sure, we all get annoying everynow again, but surfing, kayaking and bodyboarding is all about the elements and nature, dont go arguing about it.
Awesome, I remember seeing this happen in 94 and I think it became illegal after that to artificially open the river ???? Can't stop kids having fun though. Wish I was out there with ya's.
I grew up in this town. The river only does this occasionally. I wish it was all the time. Still a lot of fun when it does. And yes the water from the river is pretty dirty but some times you have to risk a little staff for a good time.
@Thespotrocksthehouse This actually happens all the time, its a natural process because sometimes the river leaks into the ocean by itself and the tide fixes it by itself, this time the surfers just did it by themselves
@yamflak thank you for refreshing my primary school science lessons man. However you cannot deny the fact that this afternoon of fun absolutely ruined the beach, and that the process of evaporation will not compensate the amount of lost fresh water before a long time.
@Thespotrocksthehouse actually, water is evaporated from the ocean leaving the salt behind, therefore creating freshwater. what, you think it rained saltwater in the ocean?
Yeah a couple times a year. The waves wash up a new sandbar that blocks the river. The water builds up behind it, then you dig a channel through the sandbar again.
Thanks for the positive feedback guys. The songs are "Come Around" by Collie Buddz and "Why I'm Hot" by Cham and Jr. Reid. They're also listed at the end of the video. You can buy "Come Around" on iTunes. I'm not sure about "Why I'm Hot". Peace
Science Lesson: River builds up behind sand berm at High-Tide level (at many rivers around the world), you wait until low-tide and breach that sand berm and allow the river to resume flowing and then surf! Next high-tide rebuilds the sand berm/beach, and river backs up again. No environmental damage, no ruining of beaches, no wasting of fresh water or diluting salt water. Just letting the stagnant river flow again. chill dudes... :)
Not only does the north shore get probably the best surf in the world but there's a good standing wave too?! We'd kill for something like that round here!
whats the song??? the only thing about this is that, the sand was brought to hawaii, just take sand from places in the northern hemisphere were no one plays on the beach and bring it there
how sick would that be if you could make a standing barrel??? i know, they have those in some water parks, but that would be awesome if you could make one at a rivermouth deal...
!!!!!!!!!!!!!ilario surf de varias maneiras..........mas sempre com o respeito a natureza....porqua sem sla nada disso seria possivel...surf ao extremo do prazer........uhu............
@RAQUELandCRYSTAL There is a place called Massagua's River (laguinho) in Caragua, Brazil. Exactly like Waimea River. But, a lot of localism. It's a secret point of Brazil.
@truecrime80 This actually happens all the time, its a natural process because sometimes the river leaks into the ocean by itself and the tide fixes it by itself, this time the surfers just did it by themselves
@Taino656 no when the water level gets high all u gotta to is make a like foot wide little path then the water builds like a 30 foot wide one on its own ahhaa but this wave only lasts like 2 hours or so
@2121pooper you have to dig it out when the river is close to the ocean you take a shovel and dig it out and then the rushing water creates little like dunes and the water runs over them and you can ride the waves and it goes away aver a little bit it only last like one day but you cant do it just any day
its a river upstream which is 20 feet higher than the ocean when the water gets free of the collection obviously it has a gravitational pull moving down the river to the mouth of the ocean and goes over the banks cuasing these "waves"
That shit is maaad illy!! SICK! Its normally not like that...... that river most of the time is just a trickle.. and the song name is in the description my friends!
where's the longer video? it shows them actually digging the sand to release the floodwater... miss that one when you all start out by walking down to the shore :(
how do you make one of these. our local council had to make a channel because our river was blocked off from the sea and this is all I could think of was making one of these. It's swift as but everyone uses it for fishing and stuff so I might go down one night with a shovel and try.
ANYONE remember the Mountain Dew commercial from the 80's that had guys doing this out west near the grand canyon??? been trying to find that commercial on youtube....
