Koa Smith knows that helmets are cool. Especially when Pipeline looks like this. Photo: YouTube//Screenshot
Pipeline is a famously good wave. It’s also a famously crowded wave, but “good” surf is relative depending on the kind of surfing you like to do. The people in the video you see here like conditions that get the heart pounding a little faster than the average surfer.
Nate Florence, Koa Smith, Ivan Florence, and more paddled out on this very unruly day and went hunting for a few diamonds in the rough. It takes a certain kind of surfer to 1. paddle out when Pipe looks like it did and 2. catch and ride a wave when Pipe looks like it did.
But Nate Florence, Koa Smith, Ivan Florence, and more? They can do both 1. and 2. Enough reading. Just watch.
