Brad Jacobson

There's nothing in surfing like barrels. And even closeout barrels are fun to watch. Here's nine minutes of barrels that don't stay open in the South Bay.

After spending the previous day filming closeout barrels at El Porto, I woke up to a completely different scene at Newport Beach. It was firing.

For the past week, Southern California has been lit up by one of the best runs of south swell we've seen in a long time. Enjoy the footage.

Huntington Beach is surfing's preeminent event site. That's why it can sometimes be forgotten during a pulse of wave energy. But HB is a south swell magnet.

The south swell that blessed the California coast in June sent Wedge surfers into a frenzy. It was the biggest most had seen the wave in years.

The swell kept delivering, and Malibu was ready. What started as another stop on this swell bender turned into one of the best days I've filmed there.

Sure, autumn doesn't start for several weeks, but with kids returning to school, there's one final surge of activity at the beach on days like this.

There are good days at the beach, and then there are days like this. Newport Beach, California came alive with perfect barrels and incredible surfing.

Welcome to Malibu. A strange corner of the Pacific where hundreds of surfers gather for the same waves, all convinced that theirs is the one worth fighting for.

There's something different about watching surfing when you don't cut away. I went to Malibu to film a day of waves that were good — not necessarily epic — and decided to try something completely different.