Injury At Pipeline: Mikey “Redd” O’Shaughnessy Former Wave of the Winter winner hits the reef at Backdoor Marcus Sanders Link copied to clipboard Sunday morning, Pipeline was all diamonds and rainbows and unicorns. Guys and gals getting the waves of their lives, crazy eight- to 12 foot bright blue tubes across the world’s most famous stretch of reef. A light seabreeze came up around 1pm, ruffling the lineup a bit — but the swell was strong enough to offer some reasonably clean peaks. Around 1:30pm, a solid set came through. Zeke Lau grabbed the first wave at Backdoor. Mikey “Redd” O’Shaughnessy — 2016 Wave of the Winter winner, who had already snagged a few solid pits over the morning — paddled for the second wave of the set. Dropped in a bit late. The outside edge of his board caught and he ended up falling flat on his back, right at the apex of the reef at Backdoor. Redd went over the falls and hit the reef with his head and was knocked unconscious and held under for at least two waves. (This less than two weeks after getting a five-wave beat-down at Jaws.)