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Warren Eakins - 8 years ago

What a great music track. What is is?

נעמה ברקוביץ - 9 years ago

heya john howzit going :) please please answer what song is it , shazam doesn't recog
and it is just amazing' gotta have some more of that smooth music!!

Robert Taylor - 10 years ago

Wow, John! Did you also surf this wave? That is just phenomenal shape and size, for a tidal bore.
Awooooo!!!!!!!

Henry Bischoff - 10 years ago

does anyone know what song this is?

Marcelo Ferro vasconcelos Alves Marcelo Bibita - 10 years ago

Auêra auára! thats is the espirit of pororoca surfers..keep cool and in harmoni with jungle and you will surf one of the best waves of your life. Come here and contact us by facebook Marcelo Bibita. We registred more than 25 diferents spots of pororoca here in Brasil in last 16 years of job with ABRASPO (Brasilian Pororoca Surf Association). Thanks for all comments and visits in special to John Webster to put this video in the you tube...auêra auára for all and keep surfing!

goodalwaysworks - 11 years ago

dont have to worry about the anacondas if you dont fall!

John Webster - 12 years ago

sorry, i don't know anything about the song, which was used in the original video. i think i downloaded it from the surfer mag forum years ago. i seem to remember someone id'd it back a ways in the comments...

H3lue - 12 years ago

The song sounds like a mix between Nirvana's 'Come As You Are' and Pearl Jam's 'Indifference.' Where'd you get this song????

NILsandMAN00 - 12 years ago

piranhas and alligators?? no problem

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zaroio - 12 years ago

This is the Amazonas River. That wave is called by "pororoca", and it happens because of sea force against the river. The brown color is caused by the mud! Google it and you will find out for more information.

Ray Hewlett - 13 years ago

that water looks like shit , o yea guess where every one there pisses & shits

Original-Gaming Network - 13 years ago

@xDwightShrutex Yep, don't fall in I guess lol.

XxLinguinexXPwnzXx - 13 years ago

Like, a boss

Cameron Martin - 13 years ago

I'd kill for a wave like that.

Ken Ebling - 13 years ago

DUDE I HOPE UR WATCHING LIVE THE BILLABONG PRO FROM TEACHOPOO/ITS ABOUT TO GET WAVES GUYS CAN DIE ON/ THURSDAY FRI AND SAT IS GOING TO BE EPIC AND MAY NEVER BE SEEN FOR YEARS/I CANT WAIT/THERE TALKING ABOUT A TOW IN CONTEST/IF IT GETS MASSIVE

Isaac Streeter - 13 years ago

Fukn sik

CriMSWoW - 13 years ago

u can surf that wave for miles. MILES.

ickerish - 13 years ago

soooooo crazy!!!

eae1z3 - 13 years ago

Brazil?

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JetMechMA - 13 years ago

@neilandfi Good point. Interesting.

neilandfi - 13 years ago

@JetMechMA Yes and no. Remember that THIS river bed gets scoured clean by a tsunami twice daily. I wiped out once on the Severn bore and got dragged along for a couple of hundred yards. It was smooth as silk on the bottom. Silt.

JetMechMA - 13 years ago

isn't a river bottom more dangerous than the sand along a beech?...I mean if you get wiped out by one of these tidal bores.

1bigrand1 - 13 years ago

Dig the take on that Nirvana tune!!!!

neilandfi - 13 years ago

@hiiamhelene Just over an hour. The record is now held (again) by Steve King on the Severn Bore in the UK. He surfed for just over 1 hour, 7.6 miles standing, then he went prone for a while which breaks the Guiness rules, so that's the record, but he went on to surf a total of over 9 miles that day. This wave travels about twice the speed of the Severn Bore. Sergio Laus holds the record for the Araguari Pororoca (this wave) at just less than Steve's mark.

neilandfi - 13 years ago

@surfactor777 He's probably talking about tree trunks. That wave is fierce, and tears off big chunks from some trees, uprooting others entirely. I have heard someone describe tidal bores as "Hairball waves", because any crap floating in the river can get thrown around by it. Stay away from the banks and keep your eyes on what's ahead of you, I suppose.

Ken Ebling - 13 years ago

@neilandfi IF U WANT TO SEE WHO THIS OLD SURF DOG IS I HAVE HERE KENNETHDAVIDEBLING SURFERDUDE 01 AVI/GOT ME RIDING A FEW/IAM LEGEND ON HATTERAS FROM A SPRING DAY 10 OF US TRIED TO GET OUT/I WAS ONLY ONE/REPORTED I HAD HIT PIER AND DROWNED/REALLY GOT WAVE OF MY LIFE/LOOKED UP AND COULD NOT SEE TOP/WORKED IT ALL THE WAY IN/FAST AND BUMPY/CG SPENT 20 GRAND LOKING FOR ME/HOME IN BED TIRED AND IN 7TH HEAVENLOL

Ken Ebling - 13 years ago

anybody know what a trunk is? guy says u have to worry about them/i scored genius on trivial pursuit on sports./but i feel like such an idiot now for 2 days never hearing of tidal bores/one in china looks like a blast/way to go greg long nssalol i remember u

Ken Ebling - 13 years ago

THATS AMAZING/HALF HOUR/I HAVE BEEN SURFIN 40 YEARS HAVE NEVER EVEN HEARD OF TIDAL BORES/SURFER MAG HAS TO KNOW ABOUT THESE/THEY WILL NOW/AFTER APRIL 11TH AT RIPCURL.COM

neilandfi - 13 years ago

@surfactor777 The really good thing you learn after surfing tidal bores a while is ..relax... the wave will still be there in a few more minutes.

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Ken Ebling - 13 years ago

that is every surfers dream/breaking perfect/speed and no body on it but u/ i wonder how long can it go/does it end on shore/so sick of closeouts in venice/that is paradise/i wonder how many days a year u could ride it like that amazing

neilandfi - 13 years ago

@chuckolove I'm told that there are piranhas, and like everything else, the force of the wave is enough to knock them around a little so they're running scared. A friend of mine just got back from here, and he tells me that losing the wave, waiting for the boat to come pick you up when you're over a mile from each bank with much bigger predators (Cayman, bull sharks etc) picking off injured animals is the loneliest feeling on Earth. I'm inclined to believe him.

dlowzanetti - 13 years ago

The pororoca happens in different rivers in 3 different brazilian states it can be surfed like 50/60 times a year, it breaks to the right, left and it usually come in sets of 3 to 5 waves that can last from 15 min up to 1 hour the wave has been documented breaking with 8ft but there are stories of bigger ones depending on the bore variation and the bottom of the river. The water is clean, that colour is because of sediments from the jungle and movement on the bottom of the river

Ricardo Oliveira - 13 years ago

@alexaustralia2 and dont forget crocodiles also ...........

Walter - 13 years ago

espero que os gringos não venham estragar o que é nósso!!

pablodrexler - 13 years ago

i agree with wixnara, its exactly the same thing!!!cool wave though, must last 4 ever although i prefer left hands

okevin osmithk - 13 years ago

Endless wave.

António Coiso - 14 years ago

the song is an interpretation of come as you are - nirvana

eymoose - 14 years ago

Man youd run outa film on one wave

jtw1113 - 14 years ago

i think dude was just playing it safe all the ripping is for the beach!

Nicollas Poletto - 14 years ago

DALE POROROCA DO BRASIL IL

D D - 14 years ago

Joel Tudor would be noseriding the shit out of that wave…..

andoman121 - 14 years ago

That wave must be like liquid crack when a barrel holds all the way through

António Coiso - 14 years ago

the song is a version of Nirvana-come as you're

cckzdt - 14 years ago

The Tidal Bore Wave seems to never stop.

GuildF40 - 14 years ago

I love the way he does NOT slash the wave and just rides it

Rick Ruffin - 14 years ago

isso e bem barato, rapaz!

Rick Ruffin - 14 years ago

muito barato rapaz!

kodiak mendoza - 14 years ago

killer forever right, man

alextheskaterdude07 - 14 years ago

It even barrels!

50. comment for tidal bore surfing

clarkewi - 14 years ago

That's so cool. But what happens if you fall off? Do you drown?

polacorp - 14 years ago

great vid! what´s the song´s name? artist?

JOAKMAN - 14 years ago

@jaydubya333 also, dude the wave is pretty dangerous and is fast so that's why he was being cautious about riding it

MerryAndrew22 - 14 years ago

now i know what heaven looks like

MishuTaste - 14 years ago

A surfer's dream come true.

neilandfi - 14 years ago

@VriakII Got it one. Absolutely spot on, yes. Tidal bores are pressurised water , trapped between two currents. Normal surf science only applies to a very limited extent. Everything handles differently. Low salinity as well, so lower bouyancy.

amp3cx10000a7jp - 14 years ago

In wanting say by me, this river becomes impure externals emergency and is a thing of looking dirty. Anything doesn't refer even the thing of the lake. Mixing is a sea. the bacillus and the poisonous substance I also consider this wave to be a very good wave.

WestTigersFan360 - 14 years ago

yeh buddy thats why alot of the best waves in the world Pipeline, Teauhpoo etc. are leftsfd

Brad Wolaver - 14 years ago

chocolate milk carving ftw

amp3cx10000a7jp - 14 years ago

There is no right said by you that it is foolish. I say seeming in a dirty river that this river becomes impure with externals. However, it is a good wave and there is no difference in a perfect wave. However, originally surfing in the sea is true. I have been surfing for 25 years.

Mathias Brotero - 14 years ago

@amp3cx10000a7jp no you fucking idiot! the wave is not mde by a fucking machine , and the water is NOT dirty. It is river water, like all the other clean river waters in the world. Learn a little about Brazil before posting something u dont know about wis ass

naniekso - 14 years ago

of course its a fucking right, all good waves are rights :(

Walter - 14 years ago

no amazonas não tem crocodilo, tem jacaré, seu gringo tonto

slim22rj - 14 years ago

@gasoSNP Sì, piranha e coccodrilli lì, è abbastanza pericoloso, ma poche persone sono morso è molto raro. Greetings from Rio de Janeiro.

amp3cx10000a7jp - 14 years ago

The wave is the highest though water is very dirty. It is wonderful because of the perfect wave made with the machine. I think it is better than the sea wave.

sharpieman42 - 14 years ago

wat happens if u fall like dont u get stuck in the wave or something??

neilandfi - 14 years ago

I've wiped out several times on tidal bores. They don't let up. The current behind them is fierce, so if you're near a riverbank you CAN get worked right along the bank. But you can learn to use the current to your advantage.

neilandfi - 14 years ago

Tidal bores come once with every tide. But sometimes they will have trailing waves immediately behind them. Not exactly a set, and at times the trailing waves are too soft to paddle into...but that isn't usually a problem with the Pororoca.

gasoSNP - 14 years ago

ma tipo c'erano i piragnah sotto di te?

adventuresinbelieving - 14 years ago

awesome - soes it come in a set or is it a one off thing? Valeu!

Garrett Blair - 14 years ago

that is shredable

John Webster - 14 years ago

i don't know the name of the song. a few people have asked. maybe one of the brazilians here can i.d. it??? thx!

ra wa - 14 years ago

what's the name of the song??

leoresmer - 14 years ago

The Pororoca waves in Brazil (Amazon river) can last as long as 30 minutes... 13 kilometers...

alohatic - 14 years ago

awesome

John Boyd - 14 years ago

That looks SWEET!

neilandfi - 15 years ago

For sure that's a great section, but it's not at all uncommon to see tidal bores as clean as this. I think that they tend to get filmed from the same locations though, which means that those who don't surf them regularly never get to see the best of them.

surfcrs - 15 years ago

Most definately the cleanest tidal bore I've seen. Nice shoulder.

srwboy - 15 years ago

Longest ride ever!

neilandfi - 15 years ago

A little unnecesary, given that across the world, bore riders have respect for each others home waves. But yeh, much bigger most of the time. Report from Sergio Laus says that this wave topped 7 metres on the face at one point this year. For the record, the biggest the Severn has been this year is just over 2 metres. Look out for video of the Chinese bore ,which will get huge over the next couple of months.

John Webster - 15 years ago

I said about 50 comments ago that if I were on that wave I'd be slashing the hell out of the lip! And I'm a goofy foot! (And I'm not ragging on the guy surfing here at all...he's probably way better than me overall and I give him "props" for this ride...)

bettydaw1970 - 15 years ago

to bad he was goofy foot, or he could have really tore that up!!

thegalow - 15 years ago

É Brasil q beleza de onda

Fábio Felipe - 15 years ago

MADE IN BRAZIL

onetrillionandfourkisses - 15 years ago

amazing

kushnugz - 15 years ago

This is the "Never-Ending Wave" right? This is so cool. What'd you do today bro? "kicked it brahh surfed the amazon" ahah

fas3000 - 15 years ago

me gusto gracias!

John Webster - 15 years ago

I don't know what song it is. Might be named in one of the comments? -jw

John Webster - 15 years ago

Well, I don't delete any comments. -jw

Chris - 15 years ago

don't pee in the water !

John Webster - 15 years ago

huh? are you suffering from swine flu. this comment is about to be deleted. thx, -jw

dlowzanetti - 15 years ago

The water is clean, not drinkable obviously, pororoca is locatedo on the amazon rivers that ends on the sea, it is a really new discovery and yet we sthill not sure about the potential of the waves. It`s been registered solid barreling 8 minutes triple overheads already, but there`s been stories about 12ft waves

neilandfi - 15 years ago

It's brown because of the silt. So for me, that's only filthy if there's a lot of pollution held in the silt. I surf the Severn in the UK which is the same colour for the same reason. I've not been infected with any weird diseases so far. Dangerous...as far as the wildlife goes, best if a brazilian surfer answers that. The current following a tidal bore is beyond belief, so if your swimming isn't great..not good. The bore I surf is much heavier than any other wave of it's size

tioN4 - 15 years ago

How filthy is the water? and how dangorous is it? Respond please.

neilandfi - 15 years ago

No, I REALLY understand why you say that,but... There's one wave. Lose the wave and you're done surfing for the day. And staying on a wave for 10 minutes and more doesn't normally happen on any wave except tidal bores, so it's difficult to appreciate how much work your body is doing. As for what the wave offers, it depends on what banks, rocks and structures it flows over. But that means that it's likely to change character all the time. If one section is dull, just wait for the next

Jon Dizzle - 15 years ago

Woah Put the weed down bro! I am trying to say that when you get on one of those waves you cant do anything but a few cutbacks. Im just going off of what i saw in the vid. which wasn't much. I also saw a lil bit about em on tv and they said that you have to be careful with what you do because behind that wave is a bunch of debris and crap that got wash out of the river. If you think you can get as much fun out of a bore wave as you can from an ocean wave, then maybe you need some lessons bro.

neilandfi - 15 years ago

Understandable opinion, until you've spent a lot of time surfing tidal bores. Once you have , most people realise that there's no rush to get your manouevers in. The wave is still going to be around while you relax and cruise, and when you tire of that and want to throw in a few moves. When Jon Rose first surfed the Severn Bore he did something like 49 hacks off the top in 10 minutes, then he needed to get into a boat for a rest, and he's a pro surfer...the message is RELAX, BE PATIENT, ENJOY.

Jon Dizzle - 15 years ago

I do surf... and I think its boring to just stand on a board for 10mins. If thats what you like that's between you and your toe.

Mauro Barros - 15 years ago

I thought the same. It reminds me "Planet Caravan".

Jon Dizzle - 15 years ago

seems a lil boring.

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NicolasMoenne - 15 years ago

my dad surf a wave like that

halojam2202 - 15 years ago

it's long becoase its in a river. they go for about 500 miles is what ive herd some poeple estimate 700miles!!!

Kate Davies - 15 years ago

wow that the cleanest longest wave ever!

neilandfi - 15 years ago

4 metre face. Most tidal bore surfers use non-surfing measurements because we can.. because the wave flows past objects of a known size etc. Never seen any vids of bodyboards on the Pororoca, but it happens on the french tidal bores (which they call "mascarets" and I do it on the River Severn in the UK, but they're both smaller than this. The Severn gets up to almost 3 metres at it's best.

John Webster - 15 years ago

thanks, but just to clarify, as i posted earlier -- that isn't me riding the wave, unfortunately, nor did i film it. i downloaded it a few years ago...not even sure where from. just thought it should be shared, it's such a freakish wave! -jw

duncr - 15 years ago

Sooo clean

Spinza Emcee - 15 years ago

fuk that wen ton 4 ages

John Webster - 15 years ago

thanks, appreciate the info! fixed it. -jw

neilandfi - 15 years ago

But not a record recognised by Guiness. I have heard of Salazar's ride,and while I don't doubt he did it, there are several rides in excess of Serginho Laus' official record. In 07,Patrick Audoy and Eduardo Bage surfed the Quiantang bore for over 17km. Steve King once surfed the Severn Bore for over 12 MILES, but wasn't standing all the way. But as for records,the future will be all about the chinese dragon! They are now starting to allow surfing there,when officially sanctioned.

christof139 - 15 years ago

Awesome bore.

lcg3092 - 15 years ago

just a curious fact, the record of pororoca surfing was in 2003, when Picuruta Salazar surfed 12.5 km in 37 min

Sam P - 15 years ago

aww thats so sick man! wish i lived there

John Webster - 15 years ago

uh...not sure what that last comment was about. but what the heck anyone can post anything they want here. i'll still keep shreddin. -jw

John Webster - 15 years ago

yeah i know i have surfed some in NYC and West Coast for five years -- Bay Area -- I am a New Englander and surf Maine to Rhode Island all year round about 1, 2 or 3 times per week. Longboard and shortboard. happy surfing, snowboarding and skateboarding! -jw

Jason Gates - 15 years ago

hey, we got that water color here in Jersey!

John Webster - 15 years ago

thx for all the comments. this is a fricken weird and kind of funny wave. i'd like to surf it. i shred with the best of them and would throw so much spray off the top it would make the person photoing its head spin. ;-)

John Webster - 16 years ago

jaydubya333 here. I have heard you don't want to fall. There are nasty swimming creatures in there that - legend and I think fact has it - will swim up your urethera and latch on in there. Makes my skin crawl just thinking about it. So, pressure is on. Best to stay on your feet and enjoy the ride!

wall123 - 16 years ago

ive seen pics and videos of that wave with hollow sections

neilandfi - 16 years ago

It's more helpful for tidal bore surfing to have the wind blowing "onshore". I know that seems strange, but with the wind following the wave, more water gets pushed into the wave...bigger wave. The shape is created by the fact that the river is flowing towards it. So ideal conditions usually involve a good flow of downstream freshwater flow, with the wave being pushed in by a fairly strong wind

neilandfi - 16 years ago

Even longer than that. Tidal bore specialist Serginho Lausholds the world record for long distance surfing on a single wave. He stayed upright on his board on a nearby pororoca for much longer than that in 2006, and is now surfing the Quintang Dragon in China, the biggest and meanest tidal bore in the world.Pororoca,the Dragon, and the Severn Bore have all been surfed for over 1 hour on one wave. The severn bore takes 2 hours to run it's course, the Pororoca is much longer

neilandfi - 16 years ago

It's in Amazonia, but it's not the Amazon itself. Several of it's tributaries have Pororoca, and a couple of other Brasilian rivers. I think this one is the Amapa river? Another good one is the Mearim. There's a dvd on the net called "Longwave" which tells the history of tidal bore surfing, and that gives quite a few details of surfable bores around the world.

Paulo Esteves - 16 years ago

helo im from brasil this waves happends 5 or 10 times for year na variaçao da maré

Itsbeavis - 16 years ago

how many times are these wawes in the jear???

neilandfi - 16 years ago

A pororoca happens with every incoming tide when the tides are big enough. I keep hearing people talk about THE pororoca as if it was a single wave. It isn't there are several rivers in the Amazon which have tidal bores.

Cory Chalker - 16 years ago

wow i almost fell asleep watching him surf. if your going to do all that work getting to the amazon river you should at least be able to do a good cut back!

Mano's Old YouTube (New YT.com/ManoceanLive) - 16 years ago

super high tide push wave

iililjohnii - 16 years ago

a wave is a wave

dvdchng - 16 years ago

i already know that this video is at the amazon river. don't you read jackrussell19a comment for correcting me? i just thought that this video was taken in malaysia because there is tidal bore exactly the same with this in my place but i'm wrong. if u didn't believe me u can come to my place i'll show u where the tidal bore is. check on wikipedia about the tidal bore and u can find that one of the river that has it is Batang Lupar River, Sri Aman, Malaysia.

Louis Kern - 16 years ago

omfg, that was like the perfect wavee, just keeps going

dvdchng - 16 years ago

o really? thanks for correcting me because it's exactly the same as the tidal bore at my place. And i've once wathced some dudes surfing on the tidal bore at my place in Malaysia. that's why i thought that this video was the one that i watched last time.

John Daniel - 16 years ago

No its not in malaysia, Its on the Amazon river in South America, and the wave is called the Pororoca.

dvdchng - 16 years ago

hey its my hometown... this river is in sri aman, malaysia.. the local people called the tidal bore 'benak'. there's a festival held annually by the local government which consists of various water sports. this year the festival was canceled due to the building of the new waterfront. if u want to know more about that event message me.