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.
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
The East Coast Is Set to Pump, the WSL Gets Rolling, and Was This the Best Maverick s Ever?
Ten Things from Surfing & the Internet on the Week That Was December 11 2020
Photo: Billy Watts
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1. Maverick’s Was Perhaps the Best It’s Ever Been
Here’s one way to know that Maverick’s is kind of a big deal: it’s one of the only surf spots to have a big Hollywood movie made about it. I mean, have you seen Gerard Butler on the big screen surf South Curl Curl? (No, you haven’t.) Have you heard of a movie called