Tuesday, January 11th: 3-5’+ and building with anticipated WNW swell on the rise.
Conditions remain offshore and groomed through most of the morning, then again, some opportunity in the afternoon as wind only trends light out of NW. Note — select areas may even stay offshore. Look for waist-chest waves at most spots, while standouts hit shoulder-head high on sets. Select focal points throughout the region push overhead+ by afternoon.

Originally published on Surfline

Filmed on 1/7/22 Friday by Cop Watch Venice

"LAPD is out again playing games. Everyday they do whatever possible to not be filmed when interacting with homeless people, and everything possible to not do what they're supposed to. Today is no different, I get intentionally led back and fourth along the beach multiple times, in an attempt to discourage me from filming, meanwhile during this criminal waste of resources, only select homeless people are ticketed, all while they ignored over twenty 911 calls. I wanted to show a typical morning in Venice and where our tax dollars go, outside of the sanitation pretend clean ups. It's never as smooth as my normal videos show, the city and LAPD do everything possible not to be filmed doing things they aren't supposed to, wasting thousands of hours and literally driving around in circles trying to lose me. Guess I should say thanks for getting me in great shape, but I'll just file more misconduct reports instead."

Cop Watch Venice follows LAPD pacific division on world famous Venice beach, showing a point-of-view style cop watch and update on Venice's current conditions. We make edited shorts, full scenes and are working on a documentary about homelessness and city failures. Donate to Cop Watch Venice via Cop Watch Venice Paypal

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Sunday, January 9th: WNW swell continues with 2-3’+ waves at good exposures, top spots 4′.
Small to locally fun WNW swell mix continues with waist-high surf at breaks with decent exposure. Morning looks clean again with light onshores out of the W in the afternoon.

Monday, January 10th: Easing surf with most spots 2′ or so, top spots 3’+ early.
Light offshore wind continues to offer clean conditions in morning, before trending onshore by middle part of the day. Fading WNW swell shows mostly knee-waist high waves with the occ. stomach-high+ set at standout winter magnets.

Originally published on Surfline

The Temporary Skate Park is located at 24250 Pacific Coast Hwy and open daily from 8:00 AM - Sunset.

Skate Park users are required to bring their own helmet and must wear it at all times while inside the Skate Park. Users must review and adhere to the Skate Park rules.

On Wednesday night, a murder suspect from another state (big surprise) was found and arrestred on the Venice Boardwalk. The suspect has been identified as 27 year old Gregory Hopkins of Carbondale, Illinois. Police say Hopkins killed his 26 year old wife and then fled to Venice (most likely because eveyone knows the laws are not enforced here).

Wednesday January 5, 2022 11:14 pm - A fugitive from Illinois, wanted on homicide charges, is apprehended at a homeless encampment on the boardwalk pic.twitter.com/MaDhU5Kb3w

— Venice Beach Boardwalk (@BoardwalkVenice) January 6, 2022

Here's surfing photos from Friday, January 7th at Venice Breakwater.

This set of surf photos was shot by Six12 Media and brought to you by XCEL Wetsuits.

These are just a few of the 260+ photos from this session. If you were out there, you probably got some surfing shots, probably multiple photos, they will be in the complete photo galleries for this day, check them out, the links to the complete galleries are down below.
















You can find about 270 more photos from this session, all full size and in high-resolution, in these 3 photo galleries:

Venice Breakwater - Friday 1-7-2022 Gallery #1
Venice Breakwater - Friday 1-7-2022 Gallery #2
Venice Breakwater - Friday 1-7-2022 Gallery #3


If you were out there, we probably got some cool surfing shots of you, go check them out!

Wanna see photos from previous days at this and other local surf spots from this photographer?
Click Surf Spot Galleries and look for the spot and then the date.

Here's surfing photos from Friday, January 71th at the Venice Pier.

This set of surf photos was shot by Six12 Media and brought to you by XCEL Wetsuits.

These are just a few of the photos from this session. If you were out there, you probably got some surfing shots, probably multiple photos, they will be in the complete photo gallery for this day, check them out, the link to the complete gallery is down below.










You can find more photos from this session, all full size and in high-resolution, in this photo gallery:

Venice Pier - Friday 1-7-2022 Gallery


If you were out there, we probably got some cool surfing shots of you, go check them out!

Wanna see photos from previous days at this and other local surf spots from this photographer?
Click Surf Spot Galleries and look for the spot and then the date.