Well, the Pipe Masters is done and dusted, and John John Florence and Moana Jones-Wong took the wins. Day one was decent. Day two saw a little decrease in wave size. Day three, though? Finals day was… well, it was pretty exceptional. Mother Nature threw a bunch of weight into the swell on that last day, and despite the fact that the contest felt pretty different than years past, it sure was a great show.
While there were a few notable faces missing from the contest — Gabriel Medina and Caroline Marks come immediately to mind — it was still chock full of some of the world’s best Pipe surfers. Jamie O’Brien certainly fits that description, and he was kind enough to stitch together a relatively raw edit, mostly shot in POV. It’s a fun peek into a lineup that most of us will never experience: huge Pipeline on the finals day of the Pipe Masters.