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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’t we? Here are a handful of glass-half-full takes from the challenges that 2020 brought some of us i...

Kai Lenny's 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 had never been Championship Tour points surfed for by women at the Banzai Pipeline – but that too...

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 up. Red Bull has led the way with innovative swell-based contests. Our screens have been commandeer...

 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 Shore had an amazing run of waves from December 1st to December 7th from Pipe and Backdoor to the outer...

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 somewhere on a beach along with their flat bellies, unbloated yet by time and alcohol.