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Photo: Sebastián León Prado//Unsplash The year 2020 is in the final stretch of its seemingly never-ending series of shocking events. There were times it was tough to keep moving forward and just go with the flow, but pushing through the holiday season amidst a raging pandemic is like flying through the doggy door of 2021. This new decade is kicking off with a bang, wave after wave of crises still crashing down behind us, but we’d all still like to say we at least enjoyed the ride, wouldn’...

Kai Lennys Jaws Go-Pro Footage Is Insane and John John Is the Best Surf YouTuber There Is Ten Things from Surfing & the Internet on the Week That Was December 25 2020 Mike Jennings Link copied to clipboard 1. John and Tyler Won Pipe It was so weird that for so long, the world’s best surfer couldn’t be called a Pipe Master – but that got rectified this week when John John Florence finally won surfing’s most prestigous and most respected event. And it was so weird that for so long, there ...

Jingle bells, send us swells, make COVID go away … It’s safe to say that 2020 turned out to be a lump of metaphorical coal. Between contest cancellations, Pipe Masters dreams and Olympic false-starts, beach closures, surf mag shutterings, severed contracts, surfing bans, overcrowded breaks, travel prohibitions, and mid-contest shark attacks, 2021 promises to be nothing short of a diamond in comparison.  With the countdown to the New Year on, things are already starting to “slowly” look...

 John John Florence is currently sitting on his very first Pipe Masters title.It was a weirdly long time coming — everyone knew he’d win it at some point, but man, did it ever take a long time. As an aside, one of the most entertaining moments was when Kelly Slater burned him on purpose (Kelly might’ve got the idea from the guy at the 3:25 mark). All in the name of fun, of course. Before the event sounded the horn, the waves on the North Shore were really, really good. “The North Sho...

Staff Just a coupla pals palling around on a Backdoor runner at Pipe Masters. Image: Instagram/screenshot Kelly Slater is nearing the half-century mark. He’s 48 years old now, an age where a lot of folks are staring down at a big fat belly while doddering carefully around their lives on creaking knees. Backs aching from decades at a desk, pop-ups slow and jerky when and if they go surfing. The days when they moved like oiled cats stretching in the sun are dusty memories, left somewh...

Florence Gets His GOAT, Medina, and a Pipe Masters to Boot This is gonna be a good (and highly sanitary) year of competitive surfing. news // Dec 21, 2020 What better way to start the day than Jack Robbo v. Kelly Slater at Pipe? Jack, the young gun ready to mow down the Tour. Kelly, the Civil War-era musket that often misfires, but when focused properly, can still shoot with the best of ‘em. Despite being one of surfing’s ...

Staff John John Florence might be a two-time World Champion and one of the most revered surfers at Pipeline, but until today, he had never won a Pipeline Masters. Of course, that’s all history. “It feels so good to win,” said Florence. “Especially from that heat, that was a really hard heat. I’m stoked to win against Gabe…I feel like competing against him is why I want to compete. Winning the Pipe Masters has been a dream of mine since I was a little kid. I’ve grown up w...

John John Florence wins 2020 Billabong Pipe Masters December 21, 2020 | Surfing John John Florence has taken out the 2020 Billabong Pipe Masters at Banzai Pipeline on the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii. The local surfer defeated Gabriel Medina in a tight final held in below-average conditions. Florence secured his first Pipe Masters trophy. The two-time world champions ended up separated by 0.67 points. "Its great to win the first event of the season at my home break, especially after the injuries...

 Yesterday, a few things happened that will never happen for the first time again: John John Florence won his first Pipe Masters and Tyler Wright won the first women’s CT event at Pipeline. Both are things that probably should have happened a long time ago, but hey, it’s 2020 and weirder things are happening. It was a shaky start to the WSL season — the Billabong Pipe Masters was put on a brief hiatus after a handful of staffers tested positive for Coronavirus and the Maui Pro at Ho...

Italo, the current World Champ, has been put on notice. Photo: Brent Bielmann/WSL This is what Sally Fitzgibbons looks like when she makes it. Photo by Brent Bielmann/WSL This is what Sally looks like when she doesnt make it. Still, shell certainly take a semi-final finish. Photo: Keoki Saguibo/WSL John John in a place he knows well. Photo: Tony Heff/WSL A genuine show of emotio...