Banzai Pipeline At Its Big Brutal Best 

Bullshit!

@@aussiedownunder4186bunch of sweetie pies out there mate!

Isnt a day to surf anyway

What does too much north mean?

@@ambientexpanse The direction the swell comes in from. WNW and NW are the best to get makeable barrels

@ambientexpanse how's it. I was born and raised in Hawaii in 1960. We had a beach house right at Ehukai Beach/Pipeline, so I grew up on the North Shore of Oahu and have been surfing since I was 5 years old. Pipeline is my favorite wave, and I'm really blessed to have grown up surfing it from the early to mid 70's on, back when it was just sugar cane fields everywhere out there. It was so uncrowded, we had it all to ourselves pretty much!!! Things have changed so much now and the crowds are crazy now, especially on the very best days each winter when Pipeline gets really good! You can see that there wasn't a big crowd out on this day, and that's because, although it looks pretty amazing, it really wasn't very good by Pipeline standards, not many makeable waves! Too much North it's my referring to the swell direction. If there's too much North in the swell, Pipeline closes out a lot or has a bad North section at the end of the wave. It makes it very dangerous too, especially at low tide . Pipeline is best on west/northwest swell direction. There are rare days, when it's straight west and big, and the normal take off spot changes and guys can catch big second reef waves way down outside of almost off the wall and it just is insane!! Pretty rare. But normally for Pipeline we prefer west/northwest swell direction!! The wave has so many moods, but when Pipeline is truly an 8 or 9 on a 10 scale day, it's one of the best waves in the world!!!! Aloha D.L.

@@DonaldLibbey Dig it.

​@@DonaldLibbey Very few understand Pipe's different presentations....

Imagine surfing it, one of two best things a man can experience

it was me

@@elduder2530: IMMORTALIZED in the "Annals o' Pipe'..." !! 😎🤙

Are you talking about the guy who faded back toward that giant wall of soup waiting for the inside reef to organize? Yeah, that guy clearly had the best feel of the break and the wave…great calm patience and timing in the midst of all that fury.

I remember Gerry Lopez & Occy who signed by Surfing book

‘The legendary Vince Moaloka coming in from the lineup scores a perfect tube’

Shame he turned The camera off him just as he got one of the waves of the day .

Twice

Yep. That last one where it didn't look like he'd make it, and you see him at the end making a turn. That barrel was freaking mental. So much skill to make something like that. He was super deep. Damn camera dude is clearly bias 😭

Andre Botha?

@@MR-qe9ye yep, for some of them, it really seems that way. We all really need to just get along. But yeah, he definitely showed many of them how it was done 😂

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This was 10 years ago based on the description: Massive surf hits Banzai Pipeline on an epic day 12/13/14.

Yes, WSL postponed as too wild and dangerous for the pros - to the delight of the locals.😆

@surfcityhawaii That was such a sick day, thanks for the great vid!

Read description pl . . .

Shitty drop in from him

@@mattweight402 yeh one of the locals who probably owns 3rd reef so can drop in on anyone not from there even if it’s a shit wave

Crowd doubles the already dangerous.

More like pipe closing out

Yes, 10yrs ago after Pipe Masters was called off..

Yep.

In description.

See description.

South swell on the North Shore? 🤔🤭

in the mid 70's it was 5 guys those were the great years

@@huertalapaz8359Those were my days. I lived on Oahu 60s 70s and part of the 80s. 🤘

Mostly spectators. Green shorts showing how its done.😄

That's really funny! It reminds me of some of the local people in Hawaii who like to speak pigeon and think it's cool to absolutely murder the English language. It seems like some kids, the dumber they are the heavier their pigeon and I can't even understand them.

@@boblatkey7160as someone currently vacating in Hawaii I can confirm I have no idea what they are saying when they speak Pidgin

8 mins 28 seconds. Larry layback in the bazza. Wave of the edit.