Getting caught inside can suck. Getting caught inside on a big day can suck even more. And getting caught on a day big enough to call it third reef Pipe? Yeah, that really sucks. But Nathan Florence, a man who has grown up taking Pipeline lickings and kept on ticking, is probably at least semi-used to it by now.
He lives for the big days; lives for the days when his lung capacity will be tested. Lives for those days that put his heart in his throat and tax his muscles and his mind to their limits. His YouTube format is often very raw — just a mouth-mounted GoPro and an unedited POV of what it takes to surf the kinds of waves he surfs. This one is no different, but it gives you a feel for just how much it must suck to be caught inside as third reef Pipe sets mow you down.
