Surfing
Pipeline. Surfing’s spiritual home. Not the first wave ever surfed, but the first wave ever feared.
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NORTH SHORE, Oahu — Pipeline is the Yankee Stadium, center court at Wimbledon, and the Melbourne Cricket Ground of surfing. Hallowed reef, if you will.
Surfers grow up on the myths of Pipeline. Magazines write biblical prose in its honor and young surfers read it more fastidiously than their school books. For the protagonists the feelings are intensified, and the video above investigates their passion and muse in full.
Bruce Irons, Jamie O’Brien, Mason Ho and Alex Gray are four different characters unified in their love and respect for the Banzai and its godfathers.
Some of surfing’s finest discuss their first impressions of Pipeline, lessons learned from how their idols surfed it, how their generation redefined the art of backhand tube riding and where the future of surfing Pipeline is headed next.