@LBIsurf90 Near the City of Gloucester... actually, Minsterworth village is a closer mark. Yes, UK. Smallish tide. It gets about twice this size pretty regularly but this spot is always crowded with visiting surfers, so we tend to leave them to it and surf different sections. The wave runs upstream for over 20 miles, so there's no reason to surf in a crowd...unless you like that sort of thing.
@neilandfi awesome. I'd definitely like to try surfing a bore sometime, looks pretty cool. None near me though! Might try my hand at surfing a little standing wave near here, though. That might be kind of fun.
Do you guys ever make it out to the sea/ocean, or is this your main surf spot?
@LBIsurf90 Even small tidal bores are great fun. Just the fact of being able to stay on it for a mile or more.. a bit like skateboards.. you can use them in a half pipe or you can use them to do a local journey and make it more interesting. Surfing a tidal bore is just like doing that, going past farms, churches and villages etc. It's my regular spot as I live not too far away, but all the regulars also surf the nearest coastal spots when we can.
@MrSimMonster It's certainly silty, but no, not dirty. Nobody gets out of the water with any kind of foul diseases. Clean enough for salmon, porpoises, dolphins, mullet etc. If you look at where the Severn runs through it's hardly an industrial river. But it is a tidal bore river, so there is often wreckage coming in with the tide from debris washed down by the river over previous months. That usually starts turning up about 10 - 15 mins after the wave.
@marleySux True...which is why I was on the bank, not in the water. The wave runs inland for over 20 miles and this is the busiest spot. There are plenty of empty miles available for those of us who make the effort to find them.
@MikeDrohman Easy....let me know when you're in the UK. There's over 20 miles of this wave, and this is only one spot... the best known, but not the best.
@guydubonline On the river we tend to talk either in terms of waist-shoulder-head high etc, or actual imperial measurement...because we CAN. The wave passes landmarks and features of known size, so it makes more sense than other methods which work better on the coast. As for "cranking next week" that depends on which sections you're on and what the conditions are like, not JUST the size of the tide. Board choice is one of toughness and bouyancy...both are good. You don't need the length but....
@neilandfi You DO need the bouyancy because the salinity is lower. Hook up with some regular bore riders if you really want to know what's going to work on the day. And don't go trusting in some of the BS I've seen online about it today... it's not a regular wave and there are a few ppl around who may rip on a regular wave but they know precisely jack about this little beauty.
But mostly.....good luck. Hope you get a good one.
Finally, ALL of the surfers are on long boards, the wave they are catching is atleast +6-8 feet ("chest-neck high"). In texas we commonly have weak +2 to +4 waves. All you have to do is lean forward on a long board and you've caught the wave. That simple. So they are either stoned as all hell, or they have never surfed longboards before.
That's what my point was. I fully appreciate the badass-ness of what you did here though, and apologize if my criticism sounds rude -- is not how i intended.
@Juppie7 Not taken that way I assure you. I agree with most of what you said...except for the guy who got nailed against the banks. He probably would have made that drop if the boat wake hadn't kicked his board at the critical moment. From what I saw elsewhere on the river he was a far better surfer than the others. Either way, few can ride this wave like the regulars do. It takes a long time to learn it's foibles and weirdness, especially as there are only 2 waves per day (inc the night tide).
@Juppie7 6-8 foot is much larger than chest-neck high. 6-8 is a few feet overhead. These waves are waist high at most. 4 footers are actually good sized waves, that's around the average for southern California.
@GuyWithCameraTV I always steer clear of the wave size arguments, because they never end. What I WILL say is that on the Severn we tend to talk in real measurements because it has meaning. We can see how big the wave is as it passes landmarks on the riverbank that we all know well. Generally this wave gets up to about 2 ft overhead max. Biggest sustained wave in living memory was 2.8 metres for around a mile back in the 70s. Anything close to that size needs a lot of respect...very powerful
@2:26+ , they are in the absolute worst positioning to catch the wave. They should have been left-center. This is why half of them got chewed up by wave blowout as it peeled off the shoreline.
@2:36 whoever that idiot is trying to catch it, he failed so bad that he missed the one-time wave. Any experienced surfer would be sitting on his board laughing at him, and silently crying because he wasted a chance to nail something extraordinary.
@13sublime Don't blame you for not wading back through the comments before posting that, but if you did, you would find out something more about it. They're NOT the local crew.
@chuckolove We can get several launches on the wave with each run of the tide by using vehicles to get ahead of it. We leave this spot to visitors who don't know the area well, because the crowds make it pretty pointless,so they can have it! There are plenty of quiet spots, at least 3 launches are possible on each run of the tide, and an average ride would last between 5 and 10 minutes. The longest ever ride on it lasted 1 hour and covered over 7 miles.
@13sublime Speed depends on the section. The record ride started at Arlingham and ended near Minsterworth. That's mostly on the wider, shallower sections where the wave tends to be travelling at around 4-6 knots. At the top end it travels almost 3 times as quickly. But even so, that speed is relative to the land. The river is still flowing until the moment the wave hits, so the speed across the water is actually much faster,because he was surfing into water which was actually moving toward him.
@Hopediscbrake Agree. Glad the Harbour Trustees/Harbourmaster have started taking action, and we've seen much less of this sort of crap since last March when he banned a couple of pilots from his jurisdiction.
@mccoy217 cmon its on a fucking lake.... I bet these guys are stoked... I wouldnt even touch the water there, we got enough real waves here at home, tropical weather
@mccoy217 Biggest tide of the smallest year in average conditions. Sometimes lame, sometimes powerful beyond believe, wavelength of well over 10 miles puts it in the same league as a small tsunami for power a lot of the time. Have a look at my vid called "faceplant" for a better wave. I took the same hit as that guy on the bank @ about 3 mins, and I'm just about to end 1 year out of the water because of injury and the surgery required to fix it.
@OmegaPirate He was laughing about it 5 minutes later, unhurt. I got trashed there a year laterand got hit so hard that I'll be out of the water until some time in 2011.
haha, this should be titled 'Watch 30 guys splash about while a wave goes past'...! Nice helmets too...! I'm even more appreciative of living by the sea now - watching this def made me feel good about my life!!
@maddogguitars They were a water polo team. This spot is generally one we leave for visiting surfers, because they know where it is. I only very rarely get in there. Can't be bothered with the crowds. Nice guitar by the way..Big fan of innovation with music.
@neilandfi That was some of the worst surfing I have EVER seen in my entire life.
I surf down in corpus Texas, and we got tiny stuff compared to that, except during hurricane season. Point is, that was SO SO SO weak. People running others over, all wearing white caps, and furthermore trying to catch a wave next to rocks and failing to do so!!!! Not only fatal on livelihood but also sad as all hell. Especially on long-boards , i mean really...
@Juppie7 If you don't take the time to understand what's going on, who's surfing, and the context, then you were wasting your time watching in the first place. You will notice that I'm on the banks, not in the water, and I'm a bodyboarder, so I don't need to defend the surfing. But if you start from the position that you don't know much about tidal bore surfing, then you will never understand this, any more than you would understand the rules of any other pastime you've never done before.
@neilandfi Oh I fully understand tidal bore surfing, and appreciate both balls and timing it takes to ride the bore, plus it's a one time wave. However, I've seen 70 y/o's and children under 10 ride waves better than this group. That's all I'm stating. It may be a tidal bore wave, but it is still a wave, it has a height amplitude and phase, riding it takes basic skill or experience, which they clearly lacked. Not knocking your vid, just the fail sauce made evident by their attempt to ride it.
@MrSPARTANSUPERMAN The Severn estuary has the second biggest tidal range in the world, and combined with the shape of the estuary causes the tidal bore. Check out another video I made called "November tides: the Severn Bore explained. I get the top local surfer to explain it as clearly as he can.. then I show the locals surfing a different spot.
@Aptitude It's taken a while, but finally the Harbourmaster is monitoring the situation when the bore is running. After the last monster tides in March this year, he took action against at least 2 boats, banning them from his jurisdiction, which is the entire bore area. Before the September tides he posted notices on all the local slipwayswarning pilots about their conduct. One boat didn't listen, but mother nature laid down the law...see vid from last month by my friend NGM8X..natural justice !
@viccosurfer Well, it's happened at least twice since I last discussed it with you, one occasion witnessed by a few people, but nobody had a camera.Maybe when I'm fit to surf again I'll buy myself a gopro and get the video myself...can't keep you waiting forever,.
@newerawearer If you want to see better surfing, have a look at a few other Severn Bore videos. Everybody things they know something about surfing a tidal bore, right up until the moment that the first one they ever try hits them. After that, they start learning what they thought they already knew.
@neilandfi true, it's just dissapointing that these one off strange waves come through and they all muddle it up. it might not seem so, but somehow i thinki could surf this weird wave better than them, for one i can drop in properlly haha
Hmmm.. I don't know. This is THE spot for the "surf-it-once" tourists, but it is also treacherous, where the best looking take off is actually very dangerous..right on the bank where it goes critical. Even without the boat's wash, the wave will suck you towards the bank as it goes vertical and there's precious little chance of turning out onto the face . You have to catch it nearer to my camera position, further into the channel. That lesson cost me a broken arm.
@themadscientest If you mean what I said about breaking my arm.. It's called paying your dues. Don't want it, but I accept it as an occupational hazard..Ass handed to me on a plate one time, maybe next time I own the place. If it was too predictable it wouldn't be fun.
@neilandfi its a wave bud. doesnt matter how fast slow small big cold or warm it is if your good your good if you suck you suck. and they all suck. sorry i didnt see a single turn. barely any of them paddle straight on a perfectly catch and rideable almost endless wave. oh and a guy paddles onto the rocks.
@onthewave123 Truth is most of them were a water polo team visiting for a laugh, not surfers. The guy at 3 mins didn't paddle onto the rocks.. He took off in the perfect spot and the wake from the boatserved to amplify a natural push into the far bank ( which is strong, but not usually visible). Even so, this isn't a section for turning, you just need to set up to tuck in under the trees to stay on the wave as it goes around the bend. It works in a whole different way to a regular wave.
Go try a tidal bore if you ever get the chance, but best not make assumptions about how to ride them until you've done it. On surfline there's a vid called "old man river". It features Jon Rose surfing the Severn. He hacks it to pieces, but at one point He was alongside Steve King, who told him to calm down.. after almost 50 hacks he could barely stand.. he had to learn.. tidal bores.. you'll be on for a while, so relax about turning.
@MrDwayno The crowds at that spot? Yeh, that's why I generally avoid surfing there.
The boats screwing it up?
For sure...but we think the local Harbourmaster, who has jurisdiction here, has dealt with it.
The wave itself may be a little strange, but to me it is almost the perfect wave...it never ends, and if you don't like it, you just stay on it and wait, because it'll change every hundred yards or so...Fat..critical..hollow..wedge..soft..heavy etc
It seems like we might not have to worry about interference from boats any more. The Gloucester Harbourmaster has recently taken action against a couple of boats who were shown on video to be almost constantly on or ahead of the wave. They won't be coming back. He has also put up notices at all the local slipways advising pilots that this is not acceptable. Hopefully that will have an impact. There are big tides due in Sept 2010, and we'll see what happens.
@kiwirascal ....And it's a good sensible rule. But it means precisely jack here. One wave per tide and the DROP IN RULE DOES NOT APPLY here. If you're on the wave and there's someone waiting for it up ahead, make space for them.
@ktfukuda Not a problem. This isn't the best vid of this wave, though. Just the one with the highest hit count. Check out some stuff by jimmyboy1505 or NGM8X.
@ktfukuda Not a problem. This isn't the best vid of this wave, though. Just the one with the highest hit count. Check out some stuff by jimmyboy1505 or NGM8X.
@mehidunnoify There are places where it's possible to paddle back in, but it requires some experience of bore riding. If not then yes, you paddle back to the banks, but no, you don't go home, you get back to your car and get ahead of it ...try again. The surfable area of the severn is somewhat over 20 miles long. Most people look to get at least 3 launches. Average ride would be 5-10 minutes. Longest ever was around an hour.
@mehidunnoify Yeh, great fun, and you never really know what to expect. I live nearby so it would be stupid of me NOT to surf it, given that the coast is around 3 hours drive away. One successful launch will give me as much wave time as a whole session on a beach, and a good ride will give me as much as I might get in a week's worth of regular surfing. But bore riding isn't to everybody's tastes, fair enough.
@mehidunnoify Almost true. there's one wave per tide, so 2 per day, but one is usually at night. They get surfed as well, but that's best left to people who know the area well enough not to need much light.
Sometimes, particularly when the tide pushes down a long straight it will develop a wave train, and the trailing waves are surfable. Look for a video showing the Severn Bore from the air, there are a couple on youtube, and you will see this happening.
@hackman55able Depending on where you are and how much you travel, that's a possibility. Recommend you don't try one of the real mothers like the Araguari pororoca ( there are several pororoca, not just the monster on the Rio Araguari) until you've tried one of the smaller ones, regardless of surf experience, because river and tide conspire to make some weird and intense things happen..whirlpools etc. Check out google for Tidal Bore Research Society for a list of some of the better known ones
@hackman55able Correct. I use a custom bodyboard designed for the river. Whatever you ride needs about 15-20% more bouyancy than your regular board. Beyond that choice of board is down to personal preference and which tidal bore you ride..and which section. This section is typical of the sort I prefer, others are more suited to a 10 footer, but really, any board with enough float will be fine for anywhere on this particular tidal bore.
@hackman55able That depends on the conditions at the time. The wave runs for over 20 miles, so if you think...2 banks, 20 miles, in a sense, it's like you have 40 miles of pointbreak with different setups every hundred yards or so. Some are suited to one set of conditions, others to something different. Look at one called the bore by Jimmyboy1505 (this section at 3 mins) or mine called Faceplant (somewhere else). Different places firing under different water levels and tide heights.
@hackman55able Well yeh,fair enough, but they were there because it's a fairly good section that everyone knows about, so we ( the locals and regulars) leave them to it and go to different sections when the visitors are out in force. As for the proning...you need to know when to do it, and you need to be not too proud to do it. This section is forcing them towards the bank, and is incredibly powerful. More than it looks, and much more so than a similar wave on the coast
@hackman55able Boats ..yeh, absolutely. Everything else you said..no, sorry my friend, but you need to know this wave in particular before making that judgement. It's a whole different beast to a regular wave.
And none of them were regular bore riders.
And one of them, the guy who plops into the water at the start of the footage, Californian journo/blogger Michael Scott Moore. Read his account on his blog, Radiofreemike.
Sorry, I dont mean to be harsh but it just looks like a crowd of kooks amid a flock a barneys. 1 Guys paddling across the wave because they can't duck dive or turtle...or they're afraid of a little whitewater, ruining any chances of anyone surfing the tidal bore. 2 Out-of-control boaters. 3 Some guy padding into the rocks (I hope he was okay) 4 Belly-boarding a surfboard is just wrong. 5 Even Lake Superior gets a better/bigger juicier wave. BUT keep surfing or at least trying...props for that.
You can't duckdive a tidal bore..why would you want to? It's the only wave of the day. They all know that if you stand at the wrong time on a tidal bore, you get pitched off, and that the first breaking section of the wave throws most riders into the bank.
Most of those guys were NOT surfers. The bore riders ( local crew) don't surf this spot much, we leave it for the visitors..and the wave gets a good deal bigger than this. He was unhurt.
I stand by my comments.Paddling across someone on a wave will get someone hurt. Out of control boaters will kill you. The aquadynamics of a surfboard are designed for standing up... not belly down. That's why they make body boards. I'm not some armchair critic. I've surfed every kind water from oceans, rivers and lakes to wakes from tankers. I got the t-shirt and the video. What I saw was no way to surf a tidal bore...and I'm not alone in my opinion. I'm glad the rock-dude was okay.
Agree with you whole heartedly about the boats. The first boat in shot is normally pilotted by a Master Mariner, who is normally very good indeed. On that day, it was someone else, and their skills left a little to be desired. The other boats were clueless idiots. On tidal bores, sometimes prone is the only way, because of the dynamics of the wave..not the same as your regular wave. About 5 people there are regular surfers,none are regular Bore Riders. Which bores have you surfed?
Once with every tide, running for just over 20 miles. It breaks something like 100 days a year depending on the size of the tide. The year I filmed this was at the bottom of the tide cycle. This year the tides are much bigger
Only a few minutes later he was watching the video and laughing about it. He was fine. I had the same wipeout at the same spot recently and I've got a fractured wrist. Maybe he was a little lucky.
It is generated by the tide, so we know to within a few minutes when it will arrive. Check google for "Severn Bore Timetable"...this is about 4 mins before Minsterworth. At night, when there's less background noise, you can hear a big bore for about 20 minutes before it arrives. By normal standards, this isn't a big one, just the biggest tide in a year of small tides.2010 is much bigger.
Plenty more spots than just this for those that are prepared to do the knowledge and wear out some shoe leather....it doesn't have to be crowded you know....go look around a bit, you never know what you might find.
Yep. A wave that runs for 22 miles. A wave that has been ridden continuously for almost 1 hour by a local guy on a better tides. I'm past the point of trying to explain it, but if you ever get a chance to surf a tidal bore, give it a go.
I often wonder how come this video gets more views than my others. I don't think it's my best by a long way. When I'm not actually in the water I just film what I see. If you want to know what a tidal bore is, look at my November vid. If you want to see one section on a really good tide, look at one called faceplant. Others have done better vids than me but don't get the views. Have a look at a few.
Maoriboy is ok. We sorted this out via private message. Tidal bores are not easy to understand unless you have some experience of them. Thanks for the comment.
You deffo speak the dogs nads never surfed in the sea and nor do I plan to ..why do I need to when I have at least a monthly tide on a river on my doorstep. wait you may be thinking that someone who lives next to the sea can go every day but me ...I can get a weeks surf in a day.If you surf ? ..well try it ...then try at night and tell me you got no adrenaline from it.
@Harbertom 'at least a monthly tide'? are u kidding?! wow that pretty impressive... that must mean that you surf what like more than ten times every year?! jeez im jealous! why do i live by the sea...
@hendr1xm1ller It means there's a wave that runs for 2 hours twice daily for about 4 days a month. On one ride he can get more actual wave time than you would get in a month. And 3-4 attempts are possioble on eacj tide. Typical ride is 5-10 minutes, longest was over one hour. It's different to a regular wave for sure but until youve surfed on a few times it's unlikely you would understand that.
@hendr1xm1ller hey, cooooooome on, don't beat yourself up over this, house prices are falling, Iots of properties for sale in Gloucestershire anything is possible if you really want it....were you being sarcastic ?
Hi i used to own the big white house in broadoak right on the bank where the first take off point is on the river ive just read your comments about never surfing the sea and getting a monthly wave out of the river. im sorry boy but thats a load of B S.... having ridden it myself a few times i have to say its tottally shite and cant be compard with surfing the ocean. get your self down to the ocean. seven bore aint surfing its fucking about with a surfboard on filthy water.
@thepikeydavey what are you on about ? the first take off point ? that tells me your knowledge of the Bore isnt that great for someone who lived "on the river". I do enjoy the Coast , great if thats what you prefer, maybe like you said its not even surfing, whatever it is I enjoy it.
@thepikeydavey If you lived there then we've probably met, and you probably know the truth of it. Face it, it's too late to put the genie back in this bottle. The people who are genuinely interested know exactly how accurate the comment is. Whilst surfing a quiet wave is always desirable, those days are gone from the Severn. Having said that, if that WAS your motivation, I entirely understand it.
so, experts...tell me; this tidal bore happens ofcourse twice daily(mightly) but how many huge supertides are there, and is there like anual big ones...please explain a bit..
That's a big and complex question. The tides have several cycles that affect them. Obviously there's the straightforward 28 day lunar cycle, but there are several others that have an effect over longer time periods. The Nodal and Saros cycles for example are both somewhat over 18 years long. Also, sometimes, these longer cycles will very occasionally coincide with each other to enhance the size of the tide. But simply put, there is about an 18yr cycle..we're on the way up from the low end now.
(continued) Even so, the tide on this video was the biggest tide of the year which fell at the bottom of the cycle. This year has a few which are significantly bigger. If you check out Proudman's oceanographic website, you will see the tides of 2015 are huge by comparison. But there are a few very large tides before then..I believe there's one next year. The biggest are usually around the equinoxes. Big tide doesn't always mean big wave. For academic info, The Man is Dr Hubert Chanson.
(continued) Further enhancements to the size of the tide will come from other planetary alignments coinciding with spring tides. Also, whilst not strictly speaking part of the tide, the amount of water coming in with the tide can be increased by storm surges,if the storm is in the correct position at the right time. A following wind will also add to the water in the estuary. The size of the wave is not wholly determined by the size of the tide. Freshwater flow is also critical for that.
Well, yeh...already answered that one. This wave has a regular crew, none of whom were in the water here. We know it gets busy, so we tend to surf elsewhere. The wave breaks upriver for over 20 miles, so there's no shortage of other places to get in. But if you think I'm going to show you one of those spots....
this is in the UK?
LBIsurf90 6 days ago
@LBIsurf90 Near the City of Gloucester... actually, Minsterworth village is a closer mark. Yes, UK. Smallish tide. It gets about twice this size pretty regularly but this spot is always crowded with visiting surfers, so we tend to leave them to it and surf different sections. The wave runs upstream for over 20 miles, so there's no reason to surf in a crowd...unless you like that sort of thing.
neilandfi 6 days ago
@neilandfi awesome. I'd definitely like to try surfing a bore sometime, looks pretty cool. None near me though! Might try my hand at surfing a little standing wave near here, though. That might be kind of fun.
Do you guys ever make it out to the sea/ocean, or is this your main surf spot?
LBIsurf90 6 days ago
@LBIsurf90 Even small tidal bores are great fun. Just the fact of being able to stay on it for a mile or more.. a bit like skateboards.. you can use them in a half pipe or you can use them to do a local journey and make it more interesting. Surfing a tidal bore is just like doing that, going past farms, churches and villages etc. It's my regular spot as I live not too far away, but all the regulars also surf the nearest coastal spots when we can.
neilandfi 6 days ago
fuckin nubs, all nubs
harrisonhatton 1 week ago
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chayote96 3 weeks ago
@MrSimMonster It's certainly silty, but no, not dirty. Nobody gets out of the water with any kind of foul diseases. Clean enough for salmon, porpoises, dolphins, mullet etc. If you look at where the Severn runs through it's hardly an industrial river. But it is a tidal bore river, so there is often wreckage coming in with the tide from debris washed down by the river over previous months. That usually starts turning up about 10 - 15 mins after the wave.
neilandfi 2 months ago
those boats need to f off
SuperProwler2010 3 months ago
I have to say that was pretty funny! Lol
jasason10 3 months ago
looks like a 1 man wave, yet theres 15 people after it. just like california!
marleySux 3 months ago 3
@marleySux True...which is why I was on the bank, not in the water. The wave runs inland for over 20 miles and this is the busiest spot. There are plenty of empty miles available for those of us who make the effort to find them.
neilandfi 3 months ago
I would love to surf that without all those logs in the way
MikeDrohman 3 months ago in playlist Tides
@MikeDrohman Easy....let me know when you're in the UK. There's over 20 miles of this wave, and this is only one spot... the best known, but not the best.
neilandfi 3 months ago
@neilandfi Thanks It may happen one day hopefully..
MikeDrohman 3 months ago
that was at most 1-2 ft ??? 6-8 ft is way bigger its a cranking though next wednesday so going to grab it for the first time
Just deciding which board to take - my 9'6 or an old 8'3 that can be bashed around
guydubonline 5 months ago
@guydubonline On the river we tend to talk either in terms of waist-shoulder-head high etc, or actual imperial measurement...because we CAN. The wave passes landmarks and features of known size, so it makes more sense than other methods which work better on the coast. As for "cranking next week" that depends on which sections you're on and what the conditions are like, not JUST the size of the tide. Board choice is one of toughness and bouyancy...both are good. You don't need the length but....
neilandfi 5 months ago
@neilandfi You DO need the bouyancy because the salinity is lower. Hook up with some regular bore riders if you really want to know what's going to work on the day. And don't go trusting in some of the BS I've seen online about it today... it's not a regular wave and there are a few ppl around who may rip on a regular wave but they know precisely jack about this little beauty.
But mostly.....good luck. Hope you get a good one.
neilandfi 5 months ago
And so the boats destroyed the shape of the waves
zuluamuse 7 months ago
dangerous people!
need to learn more how to surf! padle and catching a wave!
its nice video n' thanks.
awalbrando 7 months ago
those boats are sick
gefeize 7 months ago
what the hell???is this surfing??
gefeize 7 months ago
Finally, ALL of the surfers are on long boards, the wave they are catching is atleast +6-8 feet ("chest-neck high"). In texas we commonly have weak +2 to +4 waves. All you have to do is lean forward on a long board and you've caught the wave. That simple. So they are either stoned as all hell, or they have never surfed longboards before.
That's what my point was. I fully appreciate the badass-ness of what you did here though, and apologize if my criticism sounds rude -- is not how i intended.
Juppie7 8 months ago
@Juppie7 Not taken that way I assure you. I agree with most of what you said...except for the guy who got nailed against the banks. He probably would have made that drop if the boat wake hadn't kicked his board at the critical moment. From what I saw elsewhere on the river he was a far better surfer than the others. Either way, few can ride this wave like the regulars do. It takes a long time to learn it's foibles and weirdness, especially as there are only 2 waves per day (inc the night tide).
neilandfi 8 months ago
@Juppie7 6-8 foot is much larger than chest-neck high. 6-8 is a few feet overhead. These waves are waist high at most. 4 footers are actually good sized waves, that's around the average for southern California.
GuyWithCameraTV 6 months ago
@GuyWithCameraTV I always steer clear of the wave size arguments, because they never end. What I WILL say is that on the Severn we tend to talk in real measurements because it has meaning. We can see how big the wave is as it passes landmarks on the riverbank that we all know well. Generally this wave gets up to about 2 ft overhead max. Biggest sustained wave in living memory was 2.8 metres for around a mile back in the 70s. Anything close to that size needs a lot of respect...very powerful
neilandfi 6 months ago
@2:26+ , they are in the absolute worst positioning to catch the wave. They should have been left-center. This is why half of them got chewed up by wave blowout as it peeled off the shoreline.
@2:36 whoever that idiot is trying to catch it, he failed so bad that he missed the one-time wave. Any experienced surfer would be sitting on his board laughing at him, and silently crying because he wasted a chance to nail something extraordinary.
Juppie7 8 months ago
Goddam kooks
willsurfdude 8 months ago
lol... these guys are the shitest surfers ever
13sublime 8 months ago 5
@13sublime Don't blame you for not wading back through the comments before posting that, but if you did, you would find out something more about it. They're NOT the local crew.
neilandfi 8 months ago
that guy got pumped hard.
clapadamclap 9 months ago
They should give hefty fines to the idiot boaters, that would stop them
bigdnatl 9 months ago
what is thisÇ? where is it?
isurfvan 9 months ago
@isurfvan This is the tidal bore of the River Severn in Gloucestershire, England. The video was made near the village of Minsterworth.
neilandfi 9 months ago
2:56 asshole cut him off!
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atlanticcorner 9 months ago
What a bunch of turkeys....
TRKYFARM 10 months ago
Historical man, the place is freakin zoo-ed out! Dang these swabs are desperate.
chuckolove 11 months ago
@chuckolove We can get several launches on the wave with each run of the tide by using vehicles to get ahead of it. We leave this spot to visitors who don't know the area well, because the crowds make it pretty pointless,so they can have it! There are plenty of quiet spots, at least 3 launches are possible on each run of the tide, and an average ride would last between 5 and 10 minutes. The longest ever ride on it lasted 1 hour and covered over 7 miles.
neilandfi 11 months ago
@neilandfi --Thank you very much sir, for this insight; have a nice Stokin-Plus! day.
chuckolove 11 months ago
@neilandfi
lasted an hour and travelled 7 miles? Thats a pretty slow moving wave...
13sublime 8 months ago
@13sublime Speed depends on the section. The record ride started at Arlingham and ended near Minsterworth. That's mostly on the wider, shallower sections where the wave tends to be travelling at around 4-6 knots. At the top end it travels almost 3 times as quickly. But even so, that speed is relative to the land. The river is still flowing until the moment the wave hits, so the speed across the water is actually much faster,because he was surfing into water which was actually moving toward him.
neilandfi 8 months ago
@neilandfi
lasted an hour and travelled 7 miles? Thats a pretty slow moving wave...
13sublime 8 months ago
Had to turn it off towards the end.
The boat is totally messing up the wave.
Glad I wasn't there .. Would of been PISSED!
Hopediscbrake 11 months ago 2
@Hopediscbrake Agree. Glad the Harbour Trustees/Harbourmaster have started taking action, and we've seen much less of this sort of crap since last March when he banned a couple of pilots from his jurisdiction.
neilandfi 11 months ago
@mccoy217 cmon its on a fucking lake.... I bet these guys are stoked... I wouldnt even touch the water there, we got enough real waves here at home, tropical weather
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SurfCrewNoordwijk 1 year ago
fucking barns, jesus
MrTacoman300 1 year ago
@mccoy217 Biggest tide of the smallest year in average conditions. Sometimes lame, sometimes powerful beyond believe, wavelength of well over 10 miles puts it in the same league as a small tsunami for power a lot of the time. Have a look at my vid called "faceplant" for a better wave. I took the same hit as that guy on the bank @ about 3 mins, and I'm just about to end 1 year out of the water because of injury and the surgery required to fix it.
neilandfi 1 year ago
Looks good but what a fuck wit!!!
tinman13xxx 1 year ago
3:46 surfer gets friendly with the rocks, Ouch!
OmegaPirate 1 year ago
@OmegaPirate He was laughing about it 5 minutes later, unhurt. I got trashed there a year laterand got hit so hard that I'll be out of the water until some time in 2011.
neilandfi 1 year ago
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jojoclement 1 year ago
Never seen so many kooks at one same spot!! Yous are hopeless
macarreti 1 year ago
@macarreti Great ! An expert on surfing tidal bores has finally arrived to show us all how it's done !
neilandfi 1 year ago
that boat absolutely ruined that wave
kipptain 1 year ago
haha, this should be titled 'Watch 30 guys splash about while a wave goes past'...! Nice helmets too...! I'm even more appreciative of living by the sea now - watching this def made me feel good about my life!!
maddogguitars 1 year ago
@maddogguitars They were a water polo team. This spot is generally one we leave for visiting surfers, because they know where it is. I only very rarely get in there. Can't be bothered with the crowds. Nice guitar by the way..Big fan of innovation with music.
neilandfi 1 year ago
that looks so shit
nawbruv 1 year ago
@nawbruv Good. Don't come here then.
One less.
neilandfi 1 year ago 5
@neilandfi That was some of the worst surfing I have EVER seen in my entire life.
I surf down in corpus Texas, and we got tiny stuff compared to that, except during hurricane season. Point is, that was SO SO SO weak. People running others over, all wearing white caps, and furthermore trying to catch a wave next to rocks and failing to do so!!!! Not only fatal on livelihood but also sad as all hell. Especially on long-boards , i mean really...
No sir I will not be watching this again.
Juppie7 8 months ago
@Juppie7 If you don't take the time to understand what's going on, who's surfing, and the context, then you were wasting your time watching in the first place. You will notice that I'm on the banks, not in the water, and I'm a bodyboarder, so I don't need to defend the surfing. But if you start from the position that you don't know much about tidal bore surfing, then you will never understand this, any more than you would understand the rules of any other pastime you've never done before.
neilandfi 8 months ago
@neilandfi Oh I fully understand tidal bore surfing, and appreciate both balls and timing it takes to ride the bore, plus it's a one time wave. However, I've seen 70 y/o's and children under 10 ride waves better than this group. That's all I'm stating. It may be a tidal bore wave, but it is still a wave, it has a height amplitude and phase, riding it takes basic skill or experience, which they clearly lacked. Not knocking your vid, just the fail sauce made evident by their attempt to ride it.
Juppie7 8 months ago
@nawbruv you must have been the one in the boat =)
cammmmmaaaa 1 year ago
@nawbruv you must have been the one in the boat =D
cammmmmaaaa 1 year ago
@MrSPARTANSUPERMAN The Severn estuary has the second biggest tidal range in the world, and combined with the shape of the estuary causes the tidal bore. Check out another video I made called "November tides: the Severn Bore explained. I get the top local surfer to explain it as clearly as he can.. then I show the locals surfing a different spot.
neilandfi 1 year ago
Someone should kick some boater ass.
Xattheend 1 year ago
@Aptitude It's taken a while, but finally the Harbourmaster is monitoring the situation when the bore is running. After the last monster tides in March this year, he took action against at least 2 boats, banning them from his jurisdiction, which is the entire bore area. Before the September tides he posted notices on all the local slipwayswarning pilots about their conduct. One boat didn't listen, but mother nature laid down the law...see vid from last month by my friend NGM8X..natural justice !
neilandfi 1 year ago
bastards
jamesmcgirr 1 year ago
those boats really did wreck the waves. Ever managed to find any footage of somebody getting shacked?
viccosurfer 1 year ago
@viccosurfer Well, it's happened at least twice since I last discussed it with you, one occasion witnessed by a few people, but nobody had a camera.Maybe when I'm fit to surf again I'll buy myself a gopro and get the video myself...can't keep you waiting forever,.
neilandfi 1 year ago
these kooks jsut wasted a fun idea!
newerawearer 1 year ago
@newerawearer If you want to see better surfing, have a look at a few other Severn Bore videos. Everybody things they know something about surfing a tidal bore, right up until the moment that the first one they ever try hits them. After that, they start learning what they thought they already knew.
neilandfi 1 year ago
@neilandfi true, it's just dissapointing that these one off strange waves come through and they all muddle it up. it might not seem so, but somehow i thinki could surf this weird wave better than them, for one i can drop in properlly haha
newerawearer 1 year ago
Hmmm.. I don't know. This is THE spot for the "surf-it-once" tourists, but it is also treacherous, where the best looking take off is actually very dangerous..right on the bank where it goes critical. Even without the boat's wash, the wave will suck you towards the bank as it goes vertical and there's precious little chance of turning out onto the face . You have to catch it nearer to my camera position, further into the channel. That lesson cost me a broken arm.
neilandfi 1 year ago
@neilandfi thats called life
themadscientest 1 year ago
@themadscientest If you mean what I said about breaking my arm.. It's called paying your dues. Don't want it, but I accept it as an occupational hazard..Ass handed to me on a plate one time, maybe next time I own the place. If it was too predictable it wouldn't be fun.
neilandfi 1 year ago
@neilandfi no the thing about not knowing anything until its going on
themadscientest 1 year ago
@newerawearer ouch broken arm that sucks! ireckon there should be a lot leses people out
newerawearer 1 year ago
they all suck haha
onthewave123 1 year ago
@onthewave123 Until you've surfed a tidal bore, you know nothing, and so you're not qualified to comment..
There's a full range of abilities in the water, from nothing to pretty good.
neilandfi 1 year ago
@neilandfi ---looks like everyone's got the same ability in this video..........nothing!
benjah123 1 year ago
@benjah123 I'd be happy to film your efforts at the same spot. Probably best if I had the ambulance on standby
neilandfi 1 year ago
@neilandfi you wouldnt need the ambulance.... i agree with benjah lol.
WatchMusicTV 1 year ago
@neilandfi its a wave bud. doesnt matter how fast slow small big cold or warm it is if your good your good if you suck you suck. and they all suck. sorry i didnt see a single turn. barely any of them paddle straight on a perfectly catch and rideable almost endless wave. oh and a guy paddles onto the rocks.
onthewave123 1 year ago
@onthewave123 Truth is most of them were a water polo team visiting for a laugh, not surfers. The guy at 3 mins didn't paddle onto the rocks.. He took off in the perfect spot and the wake from the boatserved to amplify a natural push into the far bank ( which is strong, but not usually visible). Even so, this isn't a section for turning, you just need to set up to tuck in under the trees to stay on the wave as it goes around the bend. It works in a whole different way to a regular wave.
neilandfi 1 year ago
@neilandfi I mean the guy at 3mins45..
Go try a tidal bore if you ever get the chance, but best not make assumptions about how to ride them until you've done it. On surfline there's a vid called "old man river". It features Jon Rose surfing the Severn. He hacks it to pieces, but at one point He was alongside Steve King, who told him to calm down.. after almost 50 hacks he could barely stand.. he had to learn.. tidal bores.. you'll be on for a while, so relax about turning.
neilandfi 1 year ago
This looks like a fu@king nightmare....
MrDwayno 1 year ago
@MrDwayno The crowds at that spot? Yeh, that's why I generally avoid surfing there.
The boats screwing it up?
For sure...but we think the local Harbourmaster, who has jurisdiction here, has dealt with it.
The wave itself may be a little strange, but to me it is almost the perfect wave...it never ends, and if you don't like it, you just stay on it and wait, because it'll change every hundred yards or so...Fat..critical..hollow..wedge..soft..heavy etc
neilandfi 1 year ago
It seems like we might not have to worry about interference from boats any more. The Gloucester Harbourmaster has recently taken action against a couple of boats who were shown on video to be almost constantly on or ahead of the wave. They won't be coming back. He has also put up notices at all the local slipways advising pilots that this is not acceptable. Hopefully that will have an impact. There are big tides due in Sept 2010, and we'll see what happens.
neilandfi 1 year ago
damn boaters. go f*ck urselves
klaskixpo 1 year ago
so you hate boats/
koribryant 1 year ago
@koribryant Not at all.
I hate boats being used irresponsibly.
Nothing wrong with boats as such, but increasingly we are seeing some really stupid, dangerous pilotting on the tides.
neilandfi 1 year ago
international rule of surfing, DON'T DROP IN!!!
kiwirascal 1 year ago
@kiwirascal ....And it's a good sensible rule. But it means precisely jack here. One wave per tide and the DROP IN RULE DOES NOT APPLY here. If you're on the wave and there's someone waiting for it up ahead, make space for them.
neilandfi 1 year ago
i'm just f*ckn wit ya...thats some pretty cool stuff. you gotta do what you gotta do if theres no ocean around.
ktfukuda 1 year ago
@ktfukuda Not a problem. This isn't the best vid of this wave, though. Just the one with the highest hit count. Check out some stuff by jimmyboy1505 or NGM8X.
But bottom line...a wave's a wave.
neilandfi 1 year ago
@ktfukuda Not a problem. This isn't the best vid of this wave, though. Just the one with the highest hit count. Check out some stuff by jimmyboy1505 or NGM8X.
But bottom line...a wave's a wave.
neilandfi 1 year ago
aww you deleted my comment...I just wanted to let everyone know the truth.....
BOREing!!...haha get it??
ktfukuda 1 year ago
@ktfukuda I deleted by accident, sorry about that. But it IS a pretty lame joke
neilandfi 1 year ago
@ktfukuda Did I force you to watch it?
neilandfi 1 year ago
yea. i would too if i lived that far away from the coast...but i live alot closer to the beach.
mehidunnoify 1 year ago
also... if you fall off the wave halfway down the river..do you just paddle back to the bank and go home?
mehidunnoify 1 year ago
@mehidunnoify There are places where it's possible to paddle back in, but it requires some experience of bore riding. If not then yes, you paddle back to the banks, but no, you don't go home, you get back to your car and get ahead of it ...try again. The surfable area of the severn is somewhat over 20 miles long. Most people look to get at least 3 launches. Average ride would be 5-10 minutes. Longest ever was around an hour.
neilandfi 1 year ago
@neilandfi mad thanks... i think ill stick to surfing beaches but this looks awesome!
:)
mehidunnoify 1 year ago
@mehidunnoify Yeh, great fun, and you never really know what to expect. I live nearby so it would be stupid of me NOT to surf it, given that the coast is around 3 hours drive away. One successful launch will give me as much wave time as a whole session on a beach, and a good ride will give me as much as I might get in a week's worth of regular surfing. But bore riding isn't to everybody's tastes, fair enough.
neilandfi 1 year ago
thanks looks mad but that stupid boat messed the wave up :(
mehidunnoify 1 year ago
is there only like one wave per day??
mehidunnoify 1 year ago
@mehidunnoify Almost true. there's one wave per tide, so 2 per day, but one is usually at night. They get surfed as well, but that's best left to people who know the area well enough not to need much light.
Sometimes, particularly when the tide pushes down a long straight it will develop a wave train, and the trailing waves are surfable. Look for a video showing the Severn Bore from the air, there are a couple on youtube, and you will see this happening.
neilandfi 1 year ago
Dumbf*ck boaters......
deluxelocker 1 year ago
Thanks for the info. I wouldn't mind riding that bore or any bore for that matter!
hackman55able 1 year ago
@hackman55able Depending on where you are and how much you travel, that's a possibility. Recommend you don't try one of the real mothers like the Araguari pororoca ( there are several pororoca, not just the monster on the Rio Araguari) until you've tried one of the smaller ones, regardless of surf experience, because river and tide conspire to make some weird and intense things happen..whirlpools etc. Check out google for Tidal Bore Research Society for a list of some of the better known ones
neilandfi 1 year ago
@neilandfi Also, fresh water makes it harder to float then salt water.
hackman55able 1 year ago
@hackman55able Correct. I use a custom bodyboard designed for the river. Whatever you ride needs about 15-20% more bouyancy than your regular board. Beyond that choice of board is down to personal preference and which tidal bore you ride..and which section. This section is typical of the sort I prefer, others are more suited to a 10 footer, but really, any board with enough float will be fine for anywhere on this particular tidal bore.
neilandfi 1 year ago
what a bunch of kooks!
billywillgo 1 year ago
@hackman55able That depends on the conditions at the time. The wave runs for over 20 miles, so if you think...2 banks, 20 miles, in a sense, it's like you have 40 miles of pointbreak with different setups every hundred yards or so. Some are suited to one set of conditions, others to something different. Look at one called the bore by Jimmyboy1505 (this section at 3 mins) or mine called Faceplant (somewhere else). Different places firing under different water levels and tide heights.
neilandfi 1 year ago
Yeah but at the beginning there is only two guys riding the bore in the pics. Thats what I'm saying. That whole clump of people was pure nonsense.
hackman55able 1 year ago
@hackman55able Well yeh,fair enough, but they were there because it's a fairly good section that everyone knows about, so we ( the locals and regulars) leave them to it and go to different sections when the visitors are out in force. As for the proning...you need to know when to do it, and you need to be not too proud to do it. This section is forcing them towards the bank, and is incredibly powerful. More than it looks, and much more so than a similar wave on the coast
neilandfi 1 year ago
Guys in the boat = Barneys
Guys lying flat on the boards = Barneys
Guy who took off in front of rocks = Barney
All the guys in big clump together = Barneys. Should of been only two guys riding the bore.
hackman55able 1 year ago
@hackman55able Boats ..yeh, absolutely. Everything else you said..no, sorry my friend, but you need to know this wave in particular before making that judgement. It's a whole different beast to a regular wave.
And none of them were regular bore riders.
And one of them, the guy who plops into the water at the start of the footage, Californian journo/blogger Michael Scott Moore. Read his account on his blog, Radiofreemike.
neilandfi 1 year ago
what a RIDICULOUS conversation that evidentally went no where.
JonathanReichert 1 year ago
...or perhaps we had a conversation via messaging, instead of here in public. That's what we did, and I have no problem with MarkRocchio's views.
neilandfi 1 year ago
Sorry, I dont mean to be harsh but it just looks like a crowd of kooks amid a flock a barneys. 1 Guys paddling across the wave because they can't duck dive or turtle...or they're afraid of a little whitewater, ruining any chances of anyone surfing the tidal bore. 2 Out-of-control boaters. 3 Some guy padding into the rocks (I hope he was okay) 4 Belly-boarding a surfboard is just wrong. 5 Even Lake Superior gets a better/bigger juicier wave. BUT keep surfing or at least trying...props for that.
MarkRocchio 2 years ago
You're not being harsh, just ignorant.
You can't duckdive a tidal bore..why would you want to? It's the only wave of the day. They all know that if you stand at the wrong time on a tidal bore, you get pitched off, and that the first breaking section of the wave throws most riders into the bank.
Most of those guys were NOT surfers. The bore riders ( local crew) don't surf this spot much, we leave it for the visitors..and the wave gets a good deal bigger than this. He was unhurt.
neilandfi 2 years ago
I stand by my comments.Paddling across someone on a wave will get someone hurt. Out of control boaters will kill you. The aquadynamics of a surfboard are designed for standing up... not belly down. That's why they make body boards. I'm not some armchair critic. I've surfed every kind water from oceans, rivers and lakes to wakes from tankers. I got the t-shirt and the video. What I saw was no way to surf a tidal bore...and I'm not alone in my opinion. I'm glad the rock-dude was okay.
MarkRocchio 2 years ago
Agree with you whole heartedly about the boats. The first boat in shot is normally pilotted by a Master Mariner, who is normally very good indeed. On that day, it was someone else, and their skills left a little to be desired. The other boats were clueless idiots. On tidal bores, sometimes prone is the only way, because of the dynamics of the wave..not the same as your regular wave. About 5 people there are regular surfers,none are regular Bore Riders. Which bores have you surfed?
neilandfi 2 years ago
How often does this wave break
BEANERSURFRAT 2 years ago
Once with every tide, running for just over 20 miles. It breaks something like 100 days a year depending on the size of the tide. The year I filmed this was at the bottom of the tide cycle. This year the tides are much bigger
neilandfi 2 years ago
What dicks in those gay boats..... Fucktards!
bodyboarding101 2 years ago
i hope the first surfer was alright.....
alohatic 2 years ago
Only a few minutes later he was watching the video and laughing about it. He was fine. I had the same wipeout at the same spot recently and I've got a fractured wrist. Maybe he was a little lucky.
neilandfi 2 years ago
Sorry MultiShamz..meant to click "reply"..clicked "remove" by accident.
I was GOING to say that the boats were even worse on this week's (much bigger) tides.
neilandfi 2 years ago
how long do you wait for that wave?
spadresurfer09 2 years ago
It is generated by the tide, so we know to within a few minutes when it will arrive. Check google for "Severn Bore Timetable"...this is about 4 mins before Minsterworth. At night, when there's less background noise, you can hear a big bore for about 20 minutes before it arrives. By normal standards, this isn't a big one, just the biggest tide in a year of small tides.2010 is much bigger.
neilandfi 2 years ago
man those boaters look like retards
vegasbaby412 2 years ago
great shots and camera work on the bore ...
groundlevelmedia 2 years ago
Well, it seems you know the spot!
Plenty more spots than just this for those that are prepared to do the knowledge and wear out some shoe leather....it doesn't have to be crowded you know....go look around a bit, you never know what you might find.
neilandfi 2 years ago
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what is lol i dont speak nerd
MAORIBOY1983 2 years ago
omg ? whats omg ? I don't speak nerd
TheSewagesurfer 2 years ago
oh my god....
keirus69 2 years ago
omg get some sand kooks
MAORIBOY1983 2 years ago
all that bull crap for 1 wave ?
MAORIBOY1983 2 years ago
Yep. A wave that runs for 22 miles. A wave that has been ridden continuously for almost 1 hour by a local guy on a better tides. I'm past the point of trying to explain it, but if you ever get a chance to surf a tidal bore, give it a go.
Reserve judgement until then , yeh?
Respect.
neilandfi 2 years ago
An afterthought.
I often wonder how come this video gets more views than my others. I don't think it's my best by a long way. When I'm not actually in the water I just film what I see. If you want to know what a tidal bore is, look at my November vid. If you want to see one section on a really good tide, look at one called faceplant. Others have done better vids than me but don't get the views. Have a look at a few.
neilandfi 2 years ago
ill respect when i see u in a triple over head barrel bra
MAORIBOY1983 2 years ago
Whatever.
neilandfi 2 years ago
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beboctopus 2 years ago
Maoriboy is ok. We sorted this out via private message. Tidal bores are not easy to understand unless you have some experience of them. Thanks for the comment.
neilandfi 2 years ago
You deffo speak the dogs nads never surfed in the sea and nor do I plan to ..why do I need to when I have at least a monthly tide on a river on my doorstep. wait you may be thinking that someone who lives next to the sea can go every day but me ...I can get a weeks surf in a day.If you surf ? ..well try it ...then try at night and tell me you got no adrenaline from it.
Harbertom 2 years ago 4
@Harbertom 'at least a monthly tide'? are u kidding?! wow that pretty impressive... that must mean that you surf what like more than ten times every year?! jeez im jealous! why do i live by the sea...
hendr1xm1ller 1 year ago
@hendr1xm1ller It means there's a wave that runs for 2 hours twice daily for about 4 days a month. On one ride he can get more actual wave time than you would get in a month. And 3-4 attempts are possioble on eacj tide. Typical ride is 5-10 minutes, longest was over one hour. It's different to a regular wave for sure but until youve surfed on a few times it's unlikely you would understand that.
neilandfi 1 year ago
yeah ok neil point accepted sorry dude! over an hour does sound alright... have fun!
hendr1xm1ller 1 year ago
@hendr1xm1ller No probs. If you ever get "bore-curious" and want to give it a go, get in touch and we'll point you in the right direction.
neilandfi 1 year ago
@hendr1xm1ller hey, cooooooome on, don't beat yourself up over this, house prices are falling, Iots of properties for sale in Gloucestershire anything is possible if you really want it....were you being sarcastic ?
Harbertom 1 year ago
@Harbertom
Hi i used to own the big white house in broadoak right on the bank where the first take off point is on the river ive just read your comments about never surfing the sea and getting a monthly wave out of the river. im sorry boy but thats a load of B S.... having ridden it myself a few times i have to say its tottally shite and cant be compard with surfing the ocean. get your self down to the ocean. seven bore aint surfing its fucking about with a surfboard on filthy water.
thepikeydavey 1 year ago
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Harbertom 1 year ago
@thepikeydavey what are you on about ? the first take off point ? that tells me your knowledge of the Bore isnt that great for someone who lived "on the river". I do enjoy the Coast , great if thats what you prefer, maybe like you said its not even surfing, whatever it is I enjoy it.
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Harbertom 1 year ago
@thepikeydavey If you lived there then we've probably met, and you probably know the truth of it. Face it, it's too late to put the genie back in this bottle. The people who are genuinely interested know exactly how accurate the comment is. Whilst surfing a quiet wave is always desirable, those days are gone from the Severn. Having said that, if that WAS your motivation, I entirely understand it.
neilandfi 1 year ago
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BOOOO
kinkytwista 2 years ago
What a bore! ;-)
rollstuhlmeister 2 years ago
Wow, you must have really had to THINK about that one. lol
neilandfi 2 years ago
the boat drivers ruined the wave, what idiots
adeunyc 2 years ago
so, experts...tell me; this tidal bore happens ofcourse twice daily(mightly) but how many huge supertides are there, and is there like anual big ones...please explain a bit..
mitchmitchell68 2 years ago
That's a big and complex question. The tides have several cycles that affect them. Obviously there's the straightforward 28 day lunar cycle, but there are several others that have an effect over longer time periods. The Nodal and Saros cycles for example are both somewhat over 18 years long. Also, sometimes, these longer cycles will very occasionally coincide with each other to enhance the size of the tide. But simply put, there is about an 18yr cycle..we're on the way up from the low end now.
neilandfi 2 years ago
(continued) Even so, the tide on this video was the biggest tide of the year which fell at the bottom of the cycle. This year has a few which are significantly bigger. If you check out Proudman's oceanographic website, you will see the tides of 2015 are huge by comparison. But there are a few very large tides before then..I believe there's one next year. The biggest are usually around the equinoxes. Big tide doesn't always mean big wave. For academic info, The Man is Dr Hubert Chanson.
neilandfi 2 years ago
(continued) Further enhancements to the size of the tide will come from other planetary alignments coinciding with spring tides. Also, whilst not strictly speaking part of the tide, the amount of water coming in with the tide can be increased by storm surges,if the storm is in the correct position at the right time. A following wind will also add to the water in the estuary. The size of the wave is not wholly determined by the size of the tide. Freshwater flow is also critical for that.
neilandfi 2 years ago
boat or no boat, there are way too many dudes in the water anyway!
su*ks!
tasdecons 2 years ago
Well, yeh...already answered that one. This wave has a regular crew, none of whom were in the water here. We know it gets busy, so we tend to surf elsewhere. The wave breaks upriver for over 20 miles, so there's no shortage of other places to get in. But if you think I'm going to show you one of those spots....
Now that WOULD be dumb, wouldn't it.
neilandfi 2 years ago
ahhhhhh ha ha ha they all suck, so stupid
deenuu 2 years ago
Aaaaahhhhhh, an expert on tidal bore surfing.