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hookilledtobymilder - 7 years ago

Wow

Mark Cima - 7 years ago

Woahhh that's so cool!!!

Al Cervix - 7 years ago

That is so cool

James Friesen - 9 years ago

in the gulf off Mexico, just off of south padre island, I had the cool experience of surfing along side of a dolphin. It surfed the waves just the same as these dolphins.

Ryan Deane - 9 years ago

the wind to whisper "because you love Em"

Ryan Deane - 9 years ago

the wind to whisper "because you love Em"

fränky sommer - 9 years ago

why 21 people don't like it???
strange people...

tryptala - 9 years ago

Just the pleasure of doing it? Could there be any other reason why they would be doing this?

Henry Foley - 10 years ago

these images inspire me! save the whales!

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Mr1flyfisher - 10 years ago

Yum Yum. Dolphin look delicious! Chop up an make SUshi. Very Goooooooooo, very Goooooooooo...

skipperbonus - 10 years ago

Even the dolphins are cool in california

John Dingus - 10 years ago

pretty sure at least a few of those are sharks, you can tell by the way they swim. the surfers shouldn't be in the water

mirko personeni - 10 years ago

sharks and dolphin never swim 2gheter! and also sharks doesn't play with waves!
if u are a surfer know that if u see a dolphin u can be very relax because where there are dolphin there aren't sharks!

JJ ATLMan - 10 years ago

They are dolphins. If you look carefully their tails are flattened horizontally instead of vertically like a shark (and all fish). Besides, sharks only "breach" when trying to catch food above the water surface and not for "fun", and certainly not as a group the way dolphins do.

bobo - 10 years ago

i don't think so, but you could be right

Darya Brutoco - 10 years ago

where was this taken?
my husband last week just surfed with some in carlsbad.

• TooManyRaptors • - 8 years ago

The title says it. Kinda obvious

MOLLY Schreiber - 10 years ago

Awesome is as GOD does....

iLiveOnFijiTime - 10 years ago

Imagine being the first dolphin to actually surf a wave like a human would. Once they learn that trick, surfers watch out lol.

Gene Cardenaz - 10 years ago

Can never see too many of these clips, Dolphins are just too cool! :)

nuno1959 - 10 years ago

well surf dudes & dudettes…..that was pretty awesome !!

jfloyd wggmn - 10 years ago

The Japanese should no longer use the rationalization that Dolphin killing is 'Cultural' or 'Traditional' to Japan.. no democratic culture (not even the Japanese) any longer justify the political dominance of a king, an emperor, aristocracy as historically 'Cultural' or 'Traditional'.. the Japanese should hardly use this also as a justification or rationalization...

Tui Allen - 10 years ago

Thanks so much for this beautiful footage. The dolphins were so co-ordinated, it seemed to me as though they were surf-DANCING to shared inner music. In my dolphin story "Ripple," I have a scene where the two main characters fall in love while surfing. Watching this video tells me I got the description right. Before writing it I talked to lots of human surfers and watched other videos like this one.

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Kinipela S - 10 years ago

Absolutely beautiful to watch!

Julian Christian - 10 years ago

Screw you SeaWorld!

ben harper - 7 years ago

f seaworld

Nina Connoy - 10 years ago

love when I see that up here too

Richard Sioson - 11 years ago

jumping out the water right before it breaks haha awesomee

Bobby Position - 11 years ago

Dolphins are great SURFERS

okey-doke - 11 years ago

Why do you call it surfing? They are running with/inside of the wave, then turning and breaking through the back of the wave...more like a move made by a parachutist than a surfer.

mitchsfarm - 11 years ago

man, its sick asss fuuuuck

Jim Snow - 11 years ago

+mitchsfarm They're driving fish into the shallows so they are easier to catch...One of the dolphins many hunting tactics

mitchsfarm - 11 years ago

When they were all under the water, they were being towed in the wave that's pretty much surfing.

okey-doke - 11 years ago

yea....I guess I can see that now. Never surfed, but jumped a lot.

mitchsfarm - 11 years ago

more like they surfed it,, and when the first one broke the top, they all jumped..

toowaker37 - 11 years ago

Dolphins are best surfers in the world.

Rayce Sugitan - 11 years ago

GOTTA GET AIR TIME!

Derek Brainard - 11 years ago

awesome! Only if I could surf

BRYAN TOTTEN - 11 years ago

Good question Johnny!Good footage too.

okeep1 - 11 years ago

They've been surfing for 2 million years... We've been for 80 years? hehe

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riseredeos - 11 years ago

this is one way they hunt fish in the shallows. they've done this from the dawn of time, but it's nice to see them do it just to hang out with people.

1COMIXMAN - 11 years ago

funny and cool until a dolphin laughs at u on a cold day lol at that beach

Snowsong Video Pix - 11 years ago

Dolphins best surfers that can ever be! Wild and free in their home in the sea, safe with their families, how they wish to be, playful, wild, and free (>•_•)> ♥ Like if U agree!

Elaine Lighten - 11 years ago

This is how it should be! Wild and free! Lovely footage

Akix - 11 years ago

aww

hamsterjovial55 - 11 years ago

yeah dude you re right it s mermaids...

JohnFive Eagles Szuros - 11 years ago

They are extremely smart and very creative. To be creative you have to know how to have fun so your sense of play is well developed. And what better way to play and have fun than to do it with your friends, in front of the opposite sex to show off. And what better way to show off than to be acrobatic and athletic and soar with the waves. Good question who learned to surf first us or them, the chicken or the egg! Great post and topic. Thanks everyone.

aluapzurc2 - 11 years ago

yeah that totally makes sense, they learned sea tricks by watching us...

Christopher Urbalejo - 11 years ago

Yesterday I was swimming with to friends in Rosarito, Mexico, which is like 10 miles from San Diego, and we saw dolphins doing this. At first I nearly pooped my pants, because the fin came out first, then the huge dolphin attached to it jumped right from the top of a 3 meter wave. Then another did the same, afterwards we saw them just chilling a bit far off, a bunch of them, it was really cool.

888chupacabra - 11 years ago

hahaha! "These humans are onto something...."

bparno - 11 years ago

Just practicing for their world tour.

DeAnn Matheney - 11 years ago

AWWWW .......WOOOW WOW ......AWWW :) JUST WOW

kilpatrickfilms - 11 years ago

that's fake it's not dolphins

lamborghinimiura13 - 11 years ago

Nope just having fun ..they do it in front of boats moving fast..its the displacement of water ..kinda like us being on a elevator or escalator ..my bad not sure why im posting ,im no dolphin just surf with them all the time ...they surf too

ericjungleboy - 11 years ago

No, they just do it to have fun.

Epo123Drago - 11 years ago

Now thats cool, they must be hunting or something.

JohnFive Eagles Szuros - 11 years ago

That is so cool. I wonder if they learned to do that from observing humans surf riding or we learned to surf by watching them ride it?

lorraine green - 11 years ago

just as well it was'nt a great white

Ryan - 11 years ago

I remember my first time at blacks, I was paddling out to make it past a sneaker set and all of a sudden 4 dolphins popped out at me, 2 oh which almost hit me! It was crazy

James Anthony - 11 years ago

I wish I was a Dolphin

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James Anthony - 11 years ago

You must of stolen his wave lol

Edward Teach - 11 years ago

better than a shark

jx14aby - 11 years ago

Surfs up!

elle mary - 11 years ago

You should be glad it was a dolphin and not a shark :)

Becca Castleman - 11 years ago

@NormalRussianGuy......what a messed up freak you are, sorry but...... Eating dolphins????!!!!! Really!!!!!!!!!!

Mike Torrey - 11 years ago

Should say, "World famous Black's Beach, whiich is near a golf course". ;-)

wylder robison - 11 years ago

I bet there hunting for surf perch.Not surfing.

COLIN JOLLY - 11 years ago

Awesome

Anna Pelzer - 11 years ago

@Eli Coppock: take it easy... next time it will be a shark! lol

Nevarraw - 11 years ago

says the troll with ^ that name and despite your so claimed knowledge... no dolphins are not your cute happy mammals and for all their intelligence males dolphins in groups reproduce by hunting down tirelessly females until they wear them down and actually gang rape it, and believe it or not they sexually attack humans as well.

Nevarraw - 11 years ago

careful dolphins rape people! :O

Lana Dobbins - 11 years ago

awesome

iamfavianok - 11 years ago

I remember when I was 9 I went to Long Beach and I saw a dolphin, I ran out for my LIFE! I was scared cuz I thought it was a shark... I didn't go back in... I was to scared.... oh memories

R Bhandalx - 12 years ago

Stunning =)

SeiNj - 12 years ago

when i grow up, i want to be a dolphin

i69edurmum - 12 years ago

I bet you woke up out of breath.

ChangingOld - 12 years ago

that was beautiful

TheKverchi - 12 years ago

that looks so fun!

prod - 12 years ago

You know exactly what I'm talking about hahahahaha never again

eyeontruth - 12 years ago

and you unknowingly walked right thru the middle of the gay dudes so your horror is completely understandable ,bet you wont do that again .

eyeontruth - 12 years ago

This is common at backs.Every one who surfs there often has experienced this up close many have ridden waves with them it is an amazing ,place just dont wander too far north unless your into old naked gay dudes .

element509 - 12 years ago

Look at those douches dropping in on eachother!!

João Castro - 12 years ago

Dide the dolphin got injured?

BianchiRoadshow - 12 years ago

Loves me some dolphins! =)

Gabriel Perez - 12 years ago

dissagree. Dolphins are Ugly </3

Gabriel Perez - 12 years ago

dissagree. Dolphins are Ugly </3

001just4fun - 12 years ago

very cool!!

Ramirez Vibe - 12 years ago

Dolphins are beautiful <3

prod - 12 years ago

Accidentally walked from torrey pines to blacks beach. It was horrible.

Jason T - 12 years ago

The dolphins at Sea World are better.

stanger619 - 12 years ago

Sweet vid. Love body surfing and seeing these guys up close and personal... HATE seeing seals, those guys scare me more than seeing sharks.

Eva Tinker - 12 years ago

ok, one, two, three, let's all hold flippers and..........

Idriss Alaoui - 12 years ago

they don't even take off and you say it's surfing ?

Kristen S - 12 years ago

not sea worls ocean

Kristen S - 12 years ago

i saw dolpins in san diego like 3 weeks ago in 2012

Julie Prescott - 12 years ago

this is awesome i would love to be out there surfing with the dolphins in Oceanside, CA :)

donkiyboy - 12 years ago

I'm really neg on the whole word, local. Yeah those are the locals and they don't care if we snake in behind them or anything. The waves are for everyone and there is always a nother set coming. Chill if you think you own any beach. You don't.

vootie99 - 12 years ago

very cool

CautionChildrens - 12 years ago

thats where all the cool dolphins hang out... at the wave.

oceantam - 12 years ago

They are spinner dolphins. You see them often way out in the ocean in giant schools of 100-300 dolphins jumping out of the water, they usually don't make it this close to shore. Usually its the porposes close to shore. They probably chose Black's because of the deep canyon just offshore.

MsCussout - 12 years ago

Amazing! I've been to Torrey Pines above Blacks Beach but never saw dolphins surfing. Just some dude way down on the beach in a "skin" colored bathing suit.. hehehe Great footage, thanks for sharing!

Stanislav Khaylov - 12 years ago

Dolphins know WHATS UP!

christianne1985 - 12 years ago

Same way we do. They talk to each other. In their language of course. I don't understand their language, but they understand some of ours if they hang around us long enough.

christianne1985 - 12 years ago

Aw he was just sharing the surf with you. I know he didn't mean to do it. It was an accident.

christianne1985 - 12 years ago

Of course they are intelligent. Most animals are (I wonder about some human creatures tho). :) Dolphins are mammals, just like us, but fish, tho not mammals, are also extremely intelligent. I love them all.

Bo Noir - 12 years ago

Now that's how you share a wave!

Casas fourthregion - 12 years ago

huge aerial!

h2omanz - 12 years ago

the only true locals...

SeabearVideo - 12 years ago

@elizabeth112k7 What is a "camrea?

Corzodrilo - 12 years ago

Increible, buenisimo!!! Totalmente, los delfines divirtiendose, como que toman la ola pero a la inversa. genial - gracias por subirlo

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Eli Coppock - 12 years ago

A dolphin jumped out of a wave and knocked me off my board the other day.... Scariest shit of my life.

Nano~San78 - 12 years ago

YOUR WORDS: Torrey Pines Golf Course. Blacks is known for many things, great waves, dolphins, scenic beauty, dangerous sandstone cliffs and of course, that it is a nude beach. What were you doing at Nude beach with a camrea????

Rod Templar - 12 years ago

cool, I could watch them all day!

colindominy - 12 years ago

Yep .. nice footage .. they're chasing baitfish .. our beloved local Oz dolphins do the exact same thing at my local beach (One Mile Beach, Forster, NSW, Australia). Love the way they come in real close to shore, in the curl .. then pull out at the exact right moment ..

bimota_rider - 12 years ago

Those are duuuuudephins!!!

jjrat5pack - 12 years ago

Simply beautiful! I love the part where there are 5 dolphins all leaping out of the same wave. I live in SD County, but not near the ocean, sadly. Thanks for this.

Myranda Ells - 13 years ago

Love this thanks for letting us see these amazing animals.

smiley chalfant - 13 years ago

Awesome, thanks for sharing.

ohanaphotographers - 13 years ago

big smiles :D pure awesomeness.

petrsson - 13 years ago

That's their way how dolphins fishing,but many people thinks ,they do that for fun ;-)

kingoftroy05 - 13 years ago

@GIA13615093 dammmn! where do you have the farm?

Mary Wilbur Reed - 13 years ago

If I believed in reincarnation I'd want to come back as a dolphin no question about it!!

lily5490 - 13 years ago

I have seen dolphins body surf Torrey Pines too. The water was clear in the morning sunlight, and the dolphins stood out perfectly. I wished that I had my camera that day. I am so glad you posted this! Thank you!

Nick Diviesti - 13 years ago

That's friggin awesome!

caiettia - 13 years ago

... Blacks Beach is a nude beach...

HIVisaLIE - 13 years ago

@GIA13615093 -wow that is amazing :) where is the farm ?

Kelly Charp - 13 years ago

Great video. Gives you perspective on why sharks mistake surfers for dolphins...

Soraya Martinez - 13 years ago

it's a shame that the japanese are slaughtering thousands of dolphins each year...:(

Chay Kastlie - 13 years ago

I live in san diego (:

konopelli - 13 years ago

I've surfed with dolphins. Off Fairgrounds, in Ventura. There is very little that can compare to being out in the ocean a couple of hundred yards, and to suddenly hear the splosive puff of a dolphin exhaling mere YARDS behind you, where there shouldn't be any noise like that at all? It's quite an experience.

Linda Lewis - 13 years ago

They're having so much fun! I love it!

Glenn Swafford - 13 years ago

So Sweet thanks for sharing

MsPinkwolf - 13 years ago

10 people thought the dolpins were going to be on surf boards :)

TheBlackycat - 13 years ago

@williamsond1 Okay. That makes sense.

David Williamson - 13 years ago

@TheBlackycat - Uh, the dolphins are eating fish. Sorry if I should have spelled that out.

TheBlackycat - 13 years ago

@williamsond1 Dolphins are not fish. They are mammals. So it cannot be fishing since no fish are involved.

David Williamson - 13 years ago

This is called fishing, not surfing

emiloveyouful - 13 years ago

That's so adorable! Synchronized swimmers..er, surfers!

Korpöga Eriksson - 13 years ago

Looks like so much fun! I wanna!!!

cosmoblivion - 13 years ago

weeeeee!

cosmoblivion - 13 years ago

weeeeee!

TheDolphinwhisperer - 13 years ago

love it!!!

bettydaw1970 - 13 years ago

dolphins= humans that stayed in the water 500 million years ago rather then go on land..

KingMufasa415 - 13 years ago

beatiful i dont kn ow how to speel sory heahehahehahehaeha

AweSomo84 - 13 years ago

@ZaneMarley19 yeah sea world is freakin sad i will never go to there ever again!

dan Love - 13 years ago

Fuck you dolphin!

dtomermusic - 13 years ago

dolphin olympics!!!

TheMagicalSofa - 13 years ago

I wanna go there. D: I LOVE dolphins.! :D

Shanananananan Dlan'E - 13 years ago

this is so awesome!!!

firebaby7 - 13 years ago

nature's awesome...

Maggie Sorger - 13 years ago

@wildfratto and then 9 more idiots join them

knupder - 13 years ago

@barcawi87 dolphins are the rapists of the sea

Barcawi87 - 13 years ago

lovely creature wow

Miguel Jose Huapaya Pariona - 13 years ago

nice

AnimalMySoul - 13 years ago

Aww dolphins seem so happy all the time! Hehe :D

whirlwitch - 13 years ago

@wawashkashi It's a quote from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and it's said by dolphins, not about them.

simoncpu - 13 years ago

The music should be replaced with: SO LONG, FAREWELL, AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH!

jade esmeralda - 13 years ago

simplemente hermoso

mrstuperstefan - 13 years ago

@calebsmommy200 I just decided on octopus being mine.

Champs Visions 3D - 13 years ago

@GrahamChapman Dolphin are not fish.... just so you know. :)

GrahamChapman - 13 years ago

"So long, and thanks for all the fish."

aaweber - 13 years ago

when I die, I'm coming back as a dolphin

Matt Smudzinski - 13 years ago

silly dolphins waves are for kids

wendyoffroad - 13 years ago

@tatertotwebkinz4 Oh my gosh that is so funny!

bansheeboo - 13 years ago

It's amazing where your travels on youtube can lead you - what a fab vid!

Kook808 - 13 years ago

Silly Dolpin, Waves are for Kids.

Collin Evans - 13 years ago

6 people are afraid of dolphins dropping in on them

Diane Davidson - 13 years ago

This is beautiful footage. I want to come back as a dolphin in my next life! They always look like they are having fun (unless they get caught in excessive fishing gear like long trawlers)

maharley27 - 13 years ago

Ive seen them surfing by Duke's Malibu restaraunt that sits right next to the ocean! They really put on a good show while your sitting at your table eating!

Nelly Danielle - 13 years ago

aw pretty

umbra88 - 13 years ago

i've seen it been said but I guess now its my turn... seriously how could anyone dislike this?!

surf4food - 13 years ago

@Mindkrim3 Ur just jealous cuz the turned you away.

videobenji - 13 years ago

@Mindkrim3 Mindkrim, i'm sorry you experienced that. However, nobody ordered you to jump ass first into a pool of horny dolphins without knowing how to swim.

Family Fun and Kids Entertainment - 13 years ago

i just saw this on google+ someone was sharing the link.

videobenji - 13 years ago

@TheEEStudent "I define intelligence by the ability to exist harmoniously in nature, which makes humans pretty low on the chain."- Paul Watson

TheEEStudent - 13 years ago

Man thinks he the smartest species cause he found the fire, the wheel, invented writing, agriculture, industry, space exploration.. Exactly this is why Dolphins KNOW they are smarter (adapted from Douglas Adams) :-).

Grayson Beeman - 13 years ago

aww the dolphin got in a barrell

indi9o - 13 years ago

I was hiking Torrey Pines there a fews weeks ago (in June) and I also saw a dolphin pod of about 15 swimming southbound... but the pod I'd seen was further out-- too far out to capture clearly on video. Cool video!!!

Moe Carter - 13 years ago

they are amazing to watch. although when you see one out of the corner of your eye, it looks likea shark and ou get scared to death

Unstoppable Family - 13 years ago

Have always loved surfing Blacks with the Dolphins in the line-up....they always seem to be out! Cheers from Peru!

Fantasmorto - 13 years ago

I think every surfer or bodyboarder in the world wish they could do aerials as easily as those fantastic fellows do :)

Sevendaysfly111222 - 13 years ago

like 10 of em on the same wave and seem to get along just fine!

ZaneMarley19 - 13 years ago

no need to go to sea world just go to the beach

SeadartVSG - 13 years ago

Fantastic shot of the whole crew kicking out the back. A few years ago I used to see dolphins surfing almost every morning south of the Torrey Pines Parking lot , near clam rock. I don't think people realize that surfing with Dolphins can be pretty sketchy, they weigh several hundred pounds, and although they are much better surfers than I am, they could easily kill you in a collision ...never seems to happen though.