And Nathan Florence, new king of Pipeline in the Florence house! Regicide!
Four months after competing in, and winning, her first-ever CT event at Fiji, and eight months after redefining backside tuberiding for women at Snapper, Erin Brooks has won the Vans Pipe Masters.
Erin, who is seventeen, won easy, real easy, beating the so-called Queen of Pipe, Moana Jones Wong, Bettylou Sakura-Johnson and Caity Simmers.
In a sharp break from WSL judging, Erin Brooks swung on an eight-foot closeout but was awarded sixteen points out of thirty, setting up her victory with one of the best waves of the contest.
After her Fiji win, Richie Lovett, former tour surfer and commentator, correctly prophecised,
“Erin Brooks is on a pathway to destiny. She was ruthless.”
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As fifteen-foot sets stacked and shifted on the horizon and a devil wind tore it to hell, Nathan Florence, a harassed looking wisp of a man, cooly picked a couple of insiders and then wrapped it all up in a near-perfect first-reefer to win.
And win, like Erin Brooks, easy.
After the final, which was beautifully live-streamed by Nathan Florence’s YouTube channel and which featured John John Florence, Alex Florence and Eli Olsen and Jamie O’Brien on commentary, Makua Rothman asked:
Nathan, you’re the best surfer in the world right now. Most time in the water, most energy and best connection at Pipe. It didn’t open for anyone but you.
Nathan Florence aw-shucked a little from that amphibian mouth, gave a juvenile chortle, and said he watched John John paddle out last year in the final as the onshore came up, but still refused to be cucked.
“I saw him do it. And you now what, I said, make it happen. Bad Pipe, good Pipe, just make it happen.”
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Karma paid off in that final for Nate live streaming the event.
Some great moments in astonishing and murderous conditions provided here. Totally amateur production and off the wall commentary so to speak. Amusing nevertheless. But my goodness Pipe was like a knife to the uninitiated on big Sunday. Home boy wins impressively and Erin matched the savage winds and blew her competitors away.
Florence Marinex is the best medicinal for diarrhea.
That Koa Smith wave was something to behold. The guy is such a clown that I forget that he actually charges.
Not to worry. He’s probably off hobnobbing with pro badminton players or something. Pretending that the Pipe contest didn’t happen, since he was invited… i.e. pouting.
just more evidence that Alex Florence is hands down the most influential person in the history of surfing
He moving back to Syria. He will be the Syrian National Leader of Sport. Wave pool on every corner..
Remember guys, check in on Filipe today. Events that run in waves like this cut the little guy to the core.
You can find him at the South Coast Plaza getting Wetzel’s Pretzel’s on days like today.
and stomach issues…
Sandwich makers took up the Men’s good wind. Have those queefers get their own tour/events, and watch the implosion!
Then just imagine the trouble they had keeping the fillings from flying away assembling sangas in that wind. Back to front.
great to see that vans had cameras on the action, to post on their instagram page…but thanks to the Florence clan we were able to actually watch the event.
Congrats to Nathan. great job pirate streaming, commentating…..and winning.
…”From my experience, when the vests go on, the bullets start flying”…
Erin Brooks
The day is not over yet.
yep. plenty of time yet for him to pop up and tell everyone what and how he would have done better.
He’s selling the baby on market place as we speak
Beef & Beer got beef. Downvote rampage.
LOL
Lol 😆
Hard to picture B&B as a Ke11y fanboi.
How are you Able to tell who’s doing the downvoting? Does Disqus show that?
Put down that touch screen device, fire-up the PC and watch as hover exposes the offenders.
Too many barrels here than watch that there.
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You’d think they would’ve rolled him up the beach
…cuz we’ll have a barrel of fun.
Was Filipe invited?
Who is that?
Some mouthy fag on big brother.
Apparently he won a couple of shmall wave shyuurfing contests back in the day . *
that guy who’s self-proclaimed better than everyone but AI (and GM/MF)
Claiming she wins title next year, hopefully before WSL goes into administration and the man with the best worst pubic hair beard ever, Nate F has to stream another event.
He should turn muzi marry erin
Imagine the revenue stream
streaming streams
You couldn’t script that final. It was pretty honest work by someone who knows the spot.
pipeline defies scripting, yet another reason it makes no sense to open there instead of close
On the other hand, if you aren’t semi-permanently domiciled on the literal beach front of Ehukai, then your bag of credit for the Gods of Pipe Favour is kinda droopy.
‘kinda droopy’ are the first words that come to mind every time I see a mirror these days
Get on the keto, dude. It’s doing me wonders.
Brooks, already,
GOAT.
Simmering
She good too
I guess Beef didn’t get the simmering joke to be a reference to Caity. Grumpy old man. Granted, Brooks did get a pretty high score for pulling into an obvious closeout that would have been scored a 5 in the men’s division. Can’t say I agree with that concept.
depends, though, doesn’t it? Just pulling into a closeout, maybe not, but pulling into a big barrel with little chance of ever making out and doing it with some panache and style, maybe so.
Bingo.
Going on a beast of a wave and almost making it > making an easier smaller barrel. It’s a scoring approach the WSL should already be utilizing.
I think they threw out the queen of pipeline title a little too early.
Erin: “I knew it was a closeout but I saw the water photographs and thought it would make a great shot.”
what a legend
I tried to not watch it. Couldn’t do it
I only saw the final and it was worth it. Funny as hell to see the owner of the unofficial stream actually win the event. Good clean win also. Noone else came even vaguely close. The dude from Mex caught a couple of turns but Nate owned it.