Injury At Pipeline: Mikey “Redd” O’Shaughnessy
Former Wave of the Winter winner hits the reef at Backdoor
Marcus Sanders
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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 unde
O’Neill Wave of the Winter: Top 11 Rides from December
In an age of competitive disappointments, the WOTW is still going full-throttle.
Griffin Colapinto. Photo: Pete Hodgson
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Normally, we do a monthly Top-5 roundup for the O’Neill Wave of the Winter. But December was no normal month on the North Shore of Oahu; in fact, considering the sheer frequency of quality waves gracing the Seven Mile Miracle last month, not even our esteemed WOTW judges could whittle it down, so we just had to showcase more than five rides.
Like 10. Or 11. Hell, we would’ve given you 12, but Flynn Novak’s Pipe whopper wasn’t quite a make.
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
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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 got rectified this week when the Maui Pro had to be moved there and Tyler Wright overcame Carissa Moore in the final.
John John Florence triomphe enfin au Pipe Masters, Tyler Wright remporte le Maui Pro lequipe.fr - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from lequipe.fr Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Weirdest WSL Week Ever, Pumping Kirra, and Nate Florence s Backdoor Gem
Ten Things from Surfing & the Internet on the Week That Was December 18 2020
Photo: WSL / Bielmann
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1. Pipe Masters got the Rona
Was this the most bizarre week in the WSL’s time as an organisation? It has to be a contender, right? To recap: on Sunday, Aus time, the WSL announced that they were halting the Pipe Masters “as a result of positive COVID-19 tests within the WSL staff, including WSL CEO Erik Logan”.
Who could have foreseen that coming? The running of an international sporting event in a public and natural environment, in a country easily hitting over 2000 COVID-related deaths a day? But what came next was even more bizarre. Following the suspension of their competition, the WSL went completely silent. They didn’t post on Instagram or Facebook for a full five days. Not once. To put that in context, they normally hit around eight posts a day on each of those platf