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LBob2 - 5 years ago

What a coincidence, we were learning in school about fluid mechanics and pressure

Drisse Ettybe - 5 years ago

https://youtu.be/EZoGKCs_Nho

Peter Okorn - 5 years ago

Great animation!

This Is Mii - 5 years ago

Beaches all around here but where I live there is still snow ...

James At - 5 years ago

I thought crest was usually with egg.

Purple Xans - 5 years ago

So that why the water behavior on the movie Interstellar acted so strange.

Brain Trainer - 5 years ago

cool video :)

Beau Dobson - 5 years ago

I love it!

Lily Sign - 5 years ago

they don't now anatomy though, lol that head is almost as small as my future

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MorkSD - 5 years ago

awesome animations!

the doydoy lord - 5 years ago

Really solid educational video one again, can't get enough of these well prodused videos :D

Dhonath Maxsuel Alves da Silva - 5 years ago

Falta só a tradução para português! ;)

Agent Ham - 5 years ago

2:51 With the best barrels you can pull in and just get spit right out of em. And you just drop in and you smack the lip! Woh pah!! You drop down and sbaaaaah! And then after that, you just drop in and just ride the barrel and get pitted... so pitted...

adwait bapat - 5 years ago

wow now i see ted ed liking comments

Judean People's Front - 5 years ago

I don't surf but I love surfing.

Yves Belliveau - 5 years ago

Thought this would teach me the physics of the actual act of surfing, not physics of things related to surfing :(

i.m. Me - 5 years ago

Guys I figured it out. TED stands Technology, Entertainment, and Design. I guess you learn something new everyday sometimes

Santi Delina - 5 years ago

love the animation ❤

Fernando Romera - 5 years ago

So beautiful

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samsamsam - 5 years ago

#Giveanimatorsaraise

The Download Hub - 5 years ago

But I didn't understand how we're not slipping off the board as the board is moving with the current,
wait
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.
.
aah
Now I know,
the center of gravity and all that! right?

Jeremy Ashley - 5 years ago

This addresses short boarding. What about long boarding?

Heron Alexandria - 5 years ago

Most surfers are Male. Because this is TED though, they need to take every opportunity to virtue signal. This is why greatness eludes you.

t s ó l a r i a - 5 years ago

Oh... Beautiful

Fernando Lemus - 5 years ago

Ted ed music?

Paul A - 5 years ago

It's crazy cause I just saw the wildly acclaimed Guinness surfing ad (well, allegedly anyway. I personally thought the ad was meh at best, but whatever) and was wondering how surfing works when Phill recommended this video.

TiagoTiago - 5 years ago

The drawing style reminds me a lot of the painting Abaporu by Tarsila do Amaral

JohnnyDaPrankstaGangsta - 5 years ago

Why make this in a cold March...............

I wish I was at the beach now!

Chris Holscher - 5 years ago

Greatest unsolvable question... how do surfers afford to surf all their life around the world?! I’m lucky enough to surf once a decade!

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Christian Williams - 5 years ago

The physics of pole vaulting would be awesome

Bigattck Firecat - 5 years ago

3:36 When a ted-ed video shows up

Jessica Jayes - 5 years ago

Here's a tip, the biggest waves are on Hawaii's northern shores during the winter months. That's because Alaska storms blow all the way south to Hawaii, and with no land to block it, the waves are epic.

GeminWanzo - 5 years ago

sorry but this art styles was a little too weird for me

Patrick Hultquist - 5 years ago

I really like physics. Dr. Hawker is a cool teacher. F=ma, d=1/2at^2 with a = 9.8 m/s^2 and when an object is starting at rest. Here is the force: F=ma, so F=m*9.8. F is in N and m is in kg.

Sour ManJoe - 5 years ago

Well done Ted Ed! Great video and animations but I found it distracting when trying to take in information over the slightly too loud music. Thank you for teaching us something new and interesting everyday

Midnight Sky - 5 years ago

As much as I loved the video, I couldn’t understand at word. Be back in 10 years time then!

Charnock Games - 5 years ago

Poor Crab 3:21 :(

Wilford Pongyan - 5 years ago

I thought this was the physics of suffering.

Oh well.

Quahntasy - Animating Universe - 5 years ago

The physics of suffering.

That's what I read.

GameSquid - 5 years ago

I hate this artstyle, lol

Akuma - 5 years ago

Ted-Ed I don’t care if this has anything to do with myths and legends I want a video on Atalanta or Achilles.

Gayane Gabrielyan - 5 years ago

LOVE THX

Harvey Sun - 5 years ago

The new ted-Ed’s are mostly narrated by Addison Anderson.

zeref 2112 - 5 years ago

Can you makea video about Thomas Young

OH yeah yeah-Call ? - 5 years ago

I feel intelligent just reading the name

Leroy Liu - 5 years ago

Too bad I’m not a surfer

Rebecca Hughes - 5 years ago

What a beautifully made video!

Leto85 - 5 years ago

Knowing all this I now feel even more proud of my shiny surfing Pikachu. :)

Rav3r916 - 5 years ago

This was so rad

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BlueFox94 - 5 years ago

T U B U L A R

Anton Wylaars - 5 years ago

Top big wave surfers are absolutely aware of the weather in the south Pacific. Or the weather in any of the oceans for that matter. They're constantly looking at the weather and ocean currents and fly around the world to where they predict the best waves to be

Zawadi Bunzigiye - 5 years ago

So cool!

Exxelenen Setijadi - 5 years ago

What does the fin under the board affect while on the water ?

Handy Fox - 5 years ago

I wasn't paying attention. I was distracted by my thoughts of how Skateboarding isn't popular anymore.

Michael Leveille - 5 years ago

Anyone else notice her polka dots were moving?

Did you just assume my gender - 5 years ago

Johnny Tsunami Man

heri styono - 5 years ago

neeeeeeeerd

Cynthia Essiambre - 5 years ago

Tubular!

Tain Jamir - 5 years ago

Hi dude can you plz make a video about why till now we haven't sent a drone to mars for survey. I mean drones can cover large distances quickly and one doesn't have to worry about collision as there are no buildings in mars

Paco Piedad - 5 years ago

This was such a fun video!

kirby march barcena - 5 years ago

"Surfers are masters of complicated physics" and they don't even realize it.

Harrison Gerdes - 5 years ago

I love these videos .

Harrison Gerdes - 5 years ago

I thought the moon also played a part in making waves

Paul Banta - 5 years ago

If Killgore says it's safe to surf this beach it's safe to surf this beach!

huntererobbins - 5 years ago

Awesome video! The University of California at San Diego actually has a class called "The Physics of Surfing", a one-unit seminar course taught at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography. I highly recommend it to anyone presented with the opportunity!

jujucatjuca - 5 years ago

fantastic animation!

Reece Gallagher - 5 years ago

Oh they make it look so easy...

Kinio Rabbit - 5 years ago

Fav fav fav fav.

Gaming with Dan - 5 years ago

This is so AWESOME, nice job Ted-Ed!!!

Erick peanut - 5 years ago

Love the animation really made it simple to understand

Kenneth Drake - 5 years ago

“Surf’s up, Dude!”

I'm a faggot but, - 5 years ago

So the earth is flat?

Naomi ! - 5 years ago

I never wanted to surf so badly :(

Mira 88951 - 5 years ago

every TED-Ed video: good music, good diction and speaking, easy to understand concepts and education, amazing animation = i really want to learn surfing, good thing that i live in CA

ShpookyBear369 - 5 years ago

I'm scared of the ocean.

Abbieq11 - 5 years ago

The video I always needed for my life

Bob Beadle - 5 years ago

This once over lightly you call "physics"? Since the first, widely used oceanography text I consulted about waves at UCLA in 1960 that told me, trust me, that "waves FEEL the bottom" as they break- I've discounted much of what physical oceanography has to tell us. For example, mind stating that as a wave doubles in HEIGHT, how much does its VOLUME change. I'm no physicist nor wish to be, but my from the hip guess is that a wave's volume increases approximately 2X the increase in wave height. I fully admit I am probably wrong. The thing is, what IS the answer? Of course you don't have a clue. Please take the pedantry elsewhere, you're totally out of touch with the ACTUAL physics of breaking waves.

Val Ivan - 5 years ago

Tfw you plobably will never surf, cause you're an inland dweller and also too broke to travel to the sea or ocean :(

Taikamuna - 5 years ago

I found this video while surfing the internet

Bulingir Nadvidov - 5 years ago

No, taikamuna, not this time.

matthew styles - 5 years ago

Wat nightmare inducing animation choice is this. Omg is that supposed to be human!!??

Dai 大 - 5 years ago

I never understood why the animators are never credited..

Derk Lord - 5 years ago

Me neither

PIKLE - 5 years ago

I rreeally want to learn how to surf.

Michelle Lau - 5 years ago

If you guys can do more myths and legends around the world, that would be amazing! ❤️

Gabriel Smythurst - 5 years ago

This video has gotten me so pitted, almost like WA-PAH

Gavin M - 5 years ago

Can you collab with kurzgesagt?

Ananya M - 5 years ago

These animations are amazing

Ghost Of Razgriz - 5 years ago

Being a surfer makes you a master of complicated physics

Something tells me that doesn't work on a resume or PHD submission.

Ghost Of Razgriz - 5 years ago

This is the first animation you guys have done with which the images on screen are distracting from the script. Had to watch it twice just to catch things I missed.

Social Mathematics - 5 years ago

I found it wrong: 0.15 The Science Of Surfing...
I would prefer: The Science Behind Surfing...

I found it correct: 4.02 The Art Of Catching The Perfect Wave...

SubsidingJoshua - 5 years ago

Good video

Fredtality - 5 years ago

Information I retained from this video:
Water is blue, waves are formed and off you GOOOOOooooooooo

tim packers - 5 years ago

Love how that water tank scene's animation took in the refraction of light
(1:30)

2000 subs with just one video - 5 years ago

Didn't understand but sounds good

Jeff Ca - 5 years ago

this is honestly the cutest animation style I've ever seen

Kat Chen - 5 years ago

Thanks

Tarta - 5 years ago

The animations are so good!

HEETKAILASH JARWANI - 5 years ago

CAN'T SIMPLY RESIST CLICKING ON A NEW TED ED VIDEO NOTIFICATION..
....AND ESPECIALLY ON A FASCINATING TOPIC

Quality Person - 5 years ago

It's still winter. Sigh.

Eduardo Cantuaria - 5 years ago

I loved this animation, for some reason reminds me of my childhood .

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Ace Bioco - 5 years ago

sharks have entered the chat.

Nathan Davenport - 5 years ago

Can you do History vs. George III?

lovejilly7 - 5 years ago

This is SOOO COOL!!!!!!

-Lil Orinoco- - 5 years ago

This was really cool especially since I wanf to learn how to surf.

lim9998 - 5 years ago

As always......

Dr Woo - 5 years ago

Didn’t understand any of that! ☹️ not Ted’s fault!

Qlegal - 5 years ago

Ted-ed has always been a great teacher and channel for me. Adoooooooro.

Ardy Aryan - 5 years ago

14 kooks unliked this amazing video

AllHailTalib - 5 years ago

Skateboarding

Kaci Jordan - 5 years ago

Are there Oscars for videos.. it should be. This is amazing.

Saatvik Agrawal - 5 years ago

Love the narrator!!!

Андрэ Баханов - 5 years ago

The worst explanation ever. Animation makes it even more complicated. Don't like

Mac Loud - 5 years ago

When will TED finally show himself?

NewMEndy 19008 - 5 years ago

This channel is just great, I’ve been watching it since a kid

Scarletpooky - 5 years ago

It's not the size of the board, it's the motion of the ocean.

Oscar Hernandez - 5 years ago

Had to watch the video twice because I was so distracted by the amazingly cute animation :)

NewOnYouTube - 5 years ago

Oscar Hernandez me too

Changchen Yu - 5 years ago

Nice happy beats in the background!

ANOLDMASTERJUKZ - 5 years ago

_ Because you mentioned that surfers seem to experience a shift in there perception of time when in the tunnel , our brains went crazy with postulations. Considering time dilation, considering the amount of mass in motion , in a spinning tube, where the velocity of the spinning mass is greater than the surfers forward velocity, and its water, consider it's weird properties ( water bridging ext ) . May be there is more to it than perception, may be it is time to put a very precise water proof atomic clock on some surfers arm, or some where ? ( use your imagination ) . Look for actual time dilation. Ps. We added this video to our Time Travel play list.

The Meteor - 5 years ago

1:43 I see a boober

Ilianaboo f - 5 years ago

Hey Nick...

I wish your last name ended with the letter A...

Then it would be Pizza :)

Ilianaboo f - 5 years ago

Umm....Oh...Oops

Ilianaboo f - 5 years ago

Oh really? What are you doing then?

Ilianaboo f - 5 years ago

Ya so?

Ilianaboo f - 5 years ago

Wait did you just respond to your own comment?

Ilianaboo f - 5 years ago

Ya me too

Michael Dayrit - 5 years ago

The Videos by Ted-ed are great. These kinds are so intriguing that it keeps the watcher in for more.

Humble Soldier - 5 years ago

So, Rocket Power was a Science cartoon all this time.

Kieran Kong - 5 years ago

I love surfing in the internet and diving into Ted-ed videos

VEE727 - 5 years ago

Very fun video

Brian - 5 years ago

Let's go surfin now, everybody is learning now

GEM - 5 years ago

two surfer bros

Parallel - 5 years ago

Totally radical my dude

MagicianFairy - 5 years ago

Didn't expect it to get sorta philosophical towards the end.. now im just thinking about the awesome power of the ocean.

Kashab Poudel - 5 years ago

The effort and time that must’ve gone into the animation is incredibly. Good job, TedEd

Reaper - 5 years ago

#Mindblown!

Arin Khot - 5 years ago

Best animation yet by Ted Ed

yellooh - 5 years ago

I am informed & entertained

people LikeMe - 5 years ago

maybe subway surfing would be different

Kwinam Martinez - 5 years ago

THIS VIDEO WAS LITERALLY RAAAAD, DUUUUDE

Roboto The Legend - 5 years ago

Elise Logan - 5 years ago

I can strongly recommend Susan Casey's excellent book The Wave for a great combination of surfing and science built on the intersection of the wave.

James Yao - 5 years ago

Surf's up dudes!

Rien - 5 years ago

do the physics of surfers getting eaten by sharks next

Dr Pooja Tripathi - 5 years ago

Is there any physics behind contortion because I love it

നെമ്മീൻ jr - 5 years ago

Me goes to beach and there nobody knows

Tarun Sharma - 5 years ago

The concept is such that it took quite a while to understand it despite the good explanation

San Sovanny - 5 years ago

The vioce over is very pleasant to listen.

Steven Setiawan - 5 years ago

Hey TedEd. I really, really loved your videos! They're educational and also not boring to watch.

Btw, can you please make a video about the science behind all of the infinity stones from MCU?

Mihael Zuba - 5 years ago

2:59 Do a barrel roll!

Brian Han - 5 years ago

The waves' faces give me joy

Muhngkee - 5 years ago

I read the title as: The physics of suffering

Judean People's Front - 5 years ago

projection

The Merry Hacker - 5 years ago

Muhngkee Me too.

avdx101 - 5 years ago

Same here.

Caitlin Reardon - 5 years ago

here from hawaii!!

Mad Gooner - 5 years ago

I regret the moment, i clicked on this video.

Ewan Matthews - 5 years ago

This one was so energetic and positive, thank you so much! I love it!

All Rounder - 5 years ago

Do more physics videos like these

abhinav melathil - 5 years ago

Wipeout

devilupz - 5 years ago

Sub 2 pewds

Your Favorite Lifecoach - 5 years ago

Awesome stuff!

Firman N - 5 years ago

The lesson is really flow in my head :)

Don Jabra - 5 years ago

SHAWARMA BRAMPTON, ONTARIO COURTHOUSE !!!

Michael Verzosa - 5 years ago

What? I thought waves were produced by the pull of the moon's gravity?

Daquno - 5 years ago

Can you guys cooperate with Kurzgesagt? ;D

EvilChris2010 - 5 years ago

I loved the art here. I loved the physics too but fantastic job with the art

ADIB ADAM - 5 years ago

thank you, i have been wondering about this since forever

Nabh Chandra - 5 years ago

Always wanted to know this. Thanks Ted-ed! You're the best!

Sheetanshu Mathur - 5 years ago

This channel keeps teaching me things I never really think about .

Shareaffi I - 5 years ago

i would love to surf Ted Ed videos

Satakshi Niraj - 5 years ago

I'm a surfer too

Anis BEng - 5 years ago

This animation is so good and positive

Samuel Pezzetta - 5 years ago

Why do these people have such small heads?

souptroophat Esplin - 5 years ago

Surfers are just pepole who abuse the source engine in real life

Solar System - 5 years ago

Heart me please

MR Films - 5 years ago

The animation is LIT!! AMAZING!! matched by the narration and music! learning at its finest haha

Indra Chaudhari - 5 years ago

now I wanna go surfing....

Newby Ton - 5 years ago

Maybe we can surf some tidal waves when we get our 104 days of summer vacation

Warda Raza - 5 years ago

WAS THAT A PHINEAS AND FERB REFERENCE

Lordon Limes - 5 years ago

This video is so satisfying-

zma fam - 5 years ago

Nice art

Newby Ton - 5 years ago

Halp, wave machine broke

ProfesserUniverse - 5 years ago

Surf's up dude!

Aryan - Man - 5 years ago

Checkout my Endgame Infinity war style Trailer

NAMAN GOYAL - 5 years ago

Wow

rotamrofsnart - 5 years ago

I'd like to know how the fins work.

Tofig Huseynov - 5 years ago

These videos taught me more than school

You Neck Gerrard - 5 years ago

When TED-ED teaches better without pressure than real life Teachers

Ardyn Maheswara - 5 years ago

The physics of suffering

mjstory1976 - 5 years ago

Awesome and informative video

Attha Ananda - 5 years ago

I like this video. It has unique art, nice music, and hillarious sound effects

Moyna 2211 - 5 years ago

The scientists can finally swimm!

Sanjay Tiwary - 5 years ago

soon going to hit 10M

izzojunior - 5 years ago

Addison always does a great job with his narrations and the quality is good as always...

Charles Dickens - 5 years ago

As always, creative animation but a dry and dull script. I'm not impressed by big, science salads of words tossed in my face - it would be better if you explained things in a more creative way and put the formidable terminology that no one understands in bracketed text below.

Bhavya Bhavya - 5 years ago

Does channel surfing count ted?

zoha deeba Khan - 5 years ago

Oh ted ed I get swooned by your videos every time ☺

Eri Taide - 5 years ago

i'm a physics student and i struggle with my surfing abilities, i disagree.

Rinku Kumar - 5 years ago

awesome re baba

BIG CHUNGUS - 5 years ago

WHO ELSE WATCH DIS TO BE THE FIRST COMMENT

Irma Gacha - 5 years ago

Hi, Could you clik my photo and suscribe my channel

Safir - 5 years ago

I wouldn’t bring my Ukulele to the sea

Spandan Saha - 5 years ago

The animation, art style and creativity is sooo good

Twice Is Love - 5 years ago

Everything is physics

الفن الموريتاني القديم - 5 years ago

Why there is no Arabic translation

SparkyXX IN - 5 years ago

Physics of skydiving

Abhinav Atreya - 5 years ago

What else can be surfed

David Sepulveda - 5 years ago

excellent video.

الفن الموريتاني القديم - 5 years ago

السلام عليكم (Peace be upon you)

YeppyNope - 5 years ago

I can't even swim. I'm only watching this to learn

The Editor's Apprentice - 5 years ago

This animation is really fluid. hehe

F1v3RGaming - 5 years ago

+Marion Laudato That is not a pun, it's a bad joke, a PUNishment. You said jelly fish, because you are jelly and a fish swimming in the seas so don't be *wink salty *wink