Pipeline is pumping… now. Watch here!
This is novel idea. The Austrian energy drink company Red Bull is broadcasting today’s epic Pipe swell from the Volcom House at Pipe.
No panelists, no commentators, no judges. Just pure vision of a building four-to-six-foot swell operated by the best surfers on the North Shore.
From Red Bull’s PR division:
THIS IS LIVE is a simple concept: Livestream a day of freesurfing at Pipeline and Backdoor using the famed Volcom Houses and their unobstructed beachfront view of the waves as our vantage point. Intentionally a low fi project, this livestream won’t have commentators and heat analyzers. No panelists and pundits. And no VOD. When the cameras turn off, that’s it. This is live sums up what the experience is all about in three little words. Tune in, and it should feel like your’re sitting on the back porch of the Volcom House, watching Pipeline go off right there in front of you.
The broadcast is coming from the three-storey, four-bedroom Gerry Lopez house Volcom bought in 2007 for $US4.2 million (see the setup below) and not the little house where a BeachGrit correspondent once took a gal and never saw her again.
Also, Derek, before I forget…this was a good Pipe day but definitely not epic. For me epic was December 21st, 2013. JOB went through two boards in 10 minutes, JJF had one WOW entry and there were at least two other guys who had entries from that day. Damo showed up with two black eyes from the day before and I made friends with JOB’s cleaning lady.
surfed with the madness an then went surfed rockys till dark.. perfect size few drainers, was no pipe but zero crowd an cruisey vibe.thanks volcom an redbull for keeping the sticker crowd all in one spot. hopefully the froth all sleep in tomorow
We walked from Pipe to Ted’s for lunch and for some reason never stopped anywhere other than Sunset for a quick look. I would normally stop at Rocky’s because there always something fun to see but didn’t this time. Almost everywhere looked good today (we stopped at Ali’i beach park for a bit also) so I’m glad you found some peace and quiet.
Fuck, Sam Norwood did this on ASL from Uluwatu three years ago.
I’m fortunate enough to be sitting on the beach watching it live. Some monster sets have come through in the last hour. Pretty cool stuff
…ten-footer sneakers? Six to eight?
They were easily ten feet plus. They weren’t capping on Second Reef which was odd given the size…they were jacking up right on First Reef. Best part was Mason telling someone that Coconut Willie dropped in on him. And one of the guys said that there were at least 100 people in the lineup. Driving home there were lots of pretty lines stacking up in Waimea so hopefully tomorrow morning will be good as well but the wind was picking up so who knows.
Damn! Missed this have a 13 year old “Haole” nephew surfing out there this afternoon. Kid is from east coast!
Where on the East Coast? There were a lot of young kids out which was pretty damn impressive given the size. As I said to my wife…I wish I was young again and had no sense of my own mortality.
Virginia
Nice. I live in NY so it’s cool to see East Coast people coming out here and holding their own. Balaram Stack has gotten pretty good at Pipe so it can be done.
Yes. We are kinda the red head step children. Plenty east coast guys since 70’s have gone over there and held they’re own. Barley another stand out has a pic/frame grab from last week swell OBX that is worth a note. Fat lady is warming up for me, her first song in the set “In my mind I rip!” I’m going to fight her as long as I can not to take stage.
Hope you get good waves-Best!
From one internet couch surfer to another… I’d be more impressed if you’d said you had been out there…
NO. FUCKING. WAY.
I was just happy that a scored a decent parking spot.