Biggest Wednesday - Historic Outer Log Cabins Session - January 28th 1998
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- One of the biggest days in big wave surfing history shot on the North Shore of Oahu.
Outer Log Cabins January 28th 1998.
Photo by Hank Photo
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Footage taken from my film BIGGEST WEDNESDAY
Featuring;
Ross Clarke Jones
Tony Ray
Shawn Briley
Noah Johnson
Dan Moore
Ken Bradshaw
Troy Alotis
Aaron Lambert
David "Kawika" Stant
January 28, 1998 is aka the Condition Black day at Outside Log Cabins - when a giant, clean NW swell closed out Waimea Bay and shut down the Eddie, and inspired the US Coast Guard to issue a Condition Black kapu on going out to sea that applied to everyone - regardless of friendship, experience or connections.
The swell was too much for just about everywhere, but it lit up a reef a lot of guys had been looking at for many, many years: Outside Log Cabins. Tow surfing was around seven years old when that swell hit, but enough North Shore guys had taken up the rope and had the experience to have a serious go at some of the most seriously perfect, giant surf the North Shore has seen -- before or since.
Condition Black was the thrill of victory for a lot of guys -- Noah Johnson, Troy Alotis, the but especially Ken Bradshaw, who got whipped into a monster by partner Dan Moore, and raised the bar for how big was big in the late 1990s.
"The biggest thing I had ever seen, it was like looking at a four- or five-story building, going through the ocean," Bradshaw said in a 2008 interview with Jim Clash. "Without breaking. It was just a huge swell, moving through the ocean with tremendous speed. We were going 42 or 43 miles an hour with the boat, staying ahead of it, and began to reach the actual reef and then it shoaled up taller and taller. I let go of the rope, Dan pulls away and I began to drop down."
Bradshaw continues: "Was I scared? To finally have that wave happen, to finally be there for that day, to finally actually ride that place I've always wanted to surf my whole life, like 25 years of waiting for that day... no I wasn't scared. I wanted it. I wanted that wave so bad. I was afraid Dan might not want me to have it. I remember being at the end of that rope and Dan looked back behind me and I could see in his eyes -- I was afraid he was going to pull away: "Go! Don't you stop! Don't you stop!"
Condition Black was the agony of doh! for Brock Little, who got shut down by Hawaiian Marine Safety and ended up surfing the West Side. And it was also a rough day for tow partners Tony Ray and Ross Clarke Jones, who were giving it heaps until their PWC got flooded: "I got four and Tony said, 'let's change', but my greedy side said the dreaded: 'ONE MORE!'" Ross Clarke-Jones said. "That one more was the wave Tony and I got obliterated on. I actually overtook Tony who was driving the ski down the face and saw that he was too slow to outrun the wave. Our ski was running on one cylinder, I reckon. I was engulfed by whitewater and was lucky to ride it out quite far away from the impact while Tony copped the lip on the back of the ski and got launched into space. I surfaced about 100 yards closer to shore than Tony with the Waverunner seat next to my head. Not good."
Nope, not good. Clarke-Jones and Ray sat astride their PWC as they drifted away from history and through a minefield of seldom-seen outside reefs, all the way to Haleiwa Harbor - where they were shown some serious aloha by David "Kawika" Stant and Shawn Briley, who turned their back on history to help their fellow watermen make it to shore safely.
"What I saw was significant," Peter Cole said. "I would call them in the 35-foot range and maybe bigger, the way these people are calling the surf nowadays, with all that stuff they could add a lot more to it. What impressed me the most was the advent of the small board - the s-turning and maneuverability."
Condition Black still resonates on the North Shore as a memorable day, and those resonations crossed the Pacific to the mainland, where tow surfing got a credibility check: "From 1998 to now there hasn't been anything equal to it," Peter Cole said.
And Johnson was just jazzed to get a piece of it: "In the big picture, irrespective of all the little side stories, we are all pretty lucky to have gotten to ride some waves at Outside Logs that day," Noah said. "and I am grateful for having been able to be part of it. That day really left me with a weird sense of peace. It totally felt like the point of everything I had done up to then in my surfing life. Like being there for the fifty year storm or something."
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This was the only day in all my years on the NS that I saw the ocean wash across Kam.Hwy into the Shell gas station @ Shark's cove a footdeep @ 9:00am.spent the afternoon watching this part from on top the pupukea watertower.
Was truly Mindblowing.
A childhood favorite of ours! What a movie! Legends pioneering that stuff with no vests or air. Thank you for posting!
Anytime! It was the day of my surfing life! Biggest tube I've ever had!
I still have this on VHS. treasured but couldn't watch it any longer so thanks @surfing visions for giving us a slice
I was living in Hawaii from 96-99 and I was there to watch this. Insane. I grew up on the beach in Massachusetts and the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean are just 2 different things.
I love those drones of 1998. lol Oh those are helicopters! 🤪
3:41 Ski running for his life....can't out run that monster. Surfer finally panics and tries to doggy door the 10' wide lip. LOL.
I can't even imagine the decibel level of some of those larger breakers. I am certain it sounded like the world coming to an end .. . ......
2:14 watch as Dan looks at Ken with eyes filled with what can only be described as love.
I was there, saw it all :) Was a hell of a day.
Lucky
Was looking for this in the last week. Thanks Tim Bopython !!
awesome thanks again tim for sharing. started shooting peahi right around then. aloha
Aussie pioneers. Great this long lost footage has resurfaced. ps: they're still charging 2020,
If anyone is the guy that Video'd this day at Honolua Bay in Maui ( I think you said you lived in Cardiff) please respond. You filmed me on a 40ft faced wave ( 20ft Hawaiian.) I was riding a 9'0" neon pink and neon green Local Motion board (top) with neon yellow bottom. That was the wave of my life!
HE "S GONE TO THE DESERT ON A HORSE WITH NO NAME..... GOOD LUCK TO YOU
Honolua was 40 foot faces? I've never seen it over 3x overhead.
The good old video days. No bullshit
That was me in the video
Giant and perfect
Hope everyone made back to the beach safe awesome footage RESPECT
Eddie Thomas
Aloha Shane Horan
Cheyne Horan, my nephew is named after him 😊
This would be so much better without the music! The sound of the waves crashing IS music! Great to watch though, just turn the sound down.
Note to all..99% of surf movie music SUCKS..I turn off the sound before starting any clip...sooo much better...try it
Awesome memories
12:18 AWESOME ride
Epic coverage my friends on an EPIC DAY!!!
Historic swell.
Go, Captain Goodvibes!
No mention of the Willis brothers?
Goodvibes for President!
This is the beginning of tow surfing rite?
Probably early. Towing was in the endless summer 2 and that came out in 94.
If you can’t hold a rock underwater, and do big wave surfing, you could never do hell week in Coronado
Boas ondas gigantes!!!! Excelente.
it's funny, this 20 year swell would now be considered a small day at Nazaree.
Ken Bradshaw
large!!
Some of those jetski "drivers" suck. What an awesome video. Great stuff.
To be fair, this was not very long after tow-in surfing was even invented, so the Ski drivers were really making up the technique as they went along. But you’re right, plenty of times the jet skis are hitting the surfer with wake and even getting themselves into really dangerous situations.
When you see brown crap on the surface of the water in Hawaii like Puerto Escondido....YOU'RE IN TROUBLE!
Anyone know the name of the song that starts at 11.45? Cheers legends
I know it sucks to go in and revisit and edit, but sure could have used a lower third with who was riding which wave... I know everyone could spot their waves and would love to be tagged. Well done otherwise.
Damn!
😨😨😨😨 F*cking Awesome
the myspace link for the music 😎
Awwwwwww sum 😁
I was out there no one filmed me tho
Anyone have a timestamp of the thumbnail?
Loose the music and this would be an awesome vid.
Which one was Ken's wave?
It was that one wave
@@golfingfishermansurfer yep, Grant called it...
Legends. Would have been so fun just them locals and Cheyne and no blow-ins!
wow! this video needs to be disseminated asap!
I just can’t stand the stupid Headbanger music people seem to think they need to put to these surf movies
I agree.
It was the 90's guys, come on
Gayest comment honestly
The music sucked 👎👎👎
sounds gay im in