On International Surfing Day, June 20th, 2015, 66 riders in Huntington Beach broke the world record for most people riding surfing a surfboard at once. We did it on the biggest Surfboard in the world. Weighing in at 1350 pounds, 42' long and 16" thick this board was huge!

Nev Hyman, founder of Firewire Surfboards sent the design of Pro Surfer Michel Bourez's Quad Shortboard and they scaled it up 7.5 times. Then they painted the board to be a replica of Hurley Sponsored Huntington Beach Pro Surfer Brett Simpson.

Pete "PT" Townend, First World Champion of Surfing, was the main man behind the board and was responsible for wrangling up all the amazing and talented people that coordinated this event.

The city of Huntington Beach and the sponsors made it a day to remember as we broke the world record. I managed to win a spot via an instagram contest put on by Visit Huntington Beach. Check out my instagram feed @sambernal.

The old record was set by Nev and his pals in Queensland Australia in 2005. They had a 39' foot board and managed to get 47 riders. The next year in 2006 they used the same board in Huntington Beach at the US Open of Surfing and caught a wave with 60 people. The only problem was nobody called Guiness so there was no judge to make it official. This time nothing was left to chance and the Guiness judge was standing in the waves to count each surfer as we lined up to clamber on the board.

Of course I had to bring a GoPro so I could remember this day forever. I hope this video makes you feel like you got to ride on the biggest board in the world too!

This ride was a seshmaker for the record books! I even wore the prototype of my new Seshmaker Apparel hat on the epic big board ride.

Hope you enjoy the video!