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Surfers With Their Boards Swimming In The Waves (Huntington Beach, 2020)

5s 4K UHD 29.97fps Beach Huntington Beach, California, United States 2020
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About this clip

The footage showcases casual recreation and the vibrant energy of coastal life, with surfers paddling and preparing to ride the swells. Ideal for documentaries, travel features, or lifestyle content.

Clip Intelligence

Production use
Use this 4K Huntington Beach surfing clip for a travel edit, coastal documentary, agency mood reel, brand film, or social cut needing surfers paddling offshore in 2020 California surf.
Edit role
The short runtime works as an ocean-sports opener, a cutaway between beach scenes, a transition into a surf sequence, or an insert showing surfers waiting for a wave.
Visual details
Distant surfers on boards are spread across green-blue ocean water, with a dark kelp-like patch in the foreground, a low horizon, pale daylight, and small breaking waves in the background.
Shot mechanics
The frames use a wide, elevated composition with open water filling the foreground and midground, surfers scattered through the center, and a level horizon near the top of frame.

Tags

surfersseawavesswimmingwaterboardssportsrecreationhuntington BEACH californiaamateurintrocinematicmodernb-rollprofessional4k

Shot slate

Resolution
3840 × 2160
Frame rate
29.97 fps
Duration
5s
Codec
H.264 MP4
File size
78 MB
Location
Huntington Beach, California, United States
Year filmed
2020
Published
Jun 2026

Still Frames From This Clip

4 frames exported from the 4K master of this clip, in timeline order. The licensed download is the full-motion master, not these stills.

Wide view of surfers on boards spread across the ocean at Huntington Beach, with a dark patch of water in the foreground and a pale horizon beyond them.
This opening frame gives a wide look at the surf lineup and open water texture. (0:00)
Distant surfers paddle and wait in the Huntington Beach lineup as a soft swell line stretches across the upper part of the frame.
This frame shows the surfers spaced out before the wave reaches them. (0:01)
A wide Huntington Beach ocean frame shows scattered surfers below a smooth wave line, with the darker foreground water patch shifting to the left side of view.
This moment emphasizes the spacing of the surfers across the water before a set breaks. (0:02)
Surfers paddling in green-blue water with a small wave beginning to rise.

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