“However, there is also a dark side to surfing big pipeline perfection: second reef cleanup sets. They are unavoidable and unpredictable, but you know there’s always another one coming at some ...

But I’d wager that Pipeline/Backdoor ... spat out into the whitewater and sent spinning underwater from the second reef nearly to the sand, almost 300 yards by his estimate.

“Pipeline is off its face right now,” Mark contemplated before his second session. “I want to say it’s almost been three years since I’ve had a big, second reef proper day. These are the ...

Nathan Florence had paddled to Pipeline in the dark, gotten clamped thrice, snapped a leash on a cleanup set and lost a contact lens. It was a brutal day on this stretch of North Shore reef ...