Barron Mamiya is, without a doubt, one of the best surfers at Pipeline. Despite sitting among the best at one of the most competitive lineups on earth, he’s still a little bit of an underground guy. He sits deeper and reads the wave better than most. He navigates barrels with an almost other-worldly skill. But last year was a bad one for him. After wrecking his shoulder, he was sidelined for most of the winter.
But now he’s back in the water, and he’s making up for lost time. The film you see above, One Week, was, as you might have guessed, filmed over the course of one week. It seems that his time out of the water didn’t put any rust on his steel – instead, it lit a match underneath him that could very well blossom into a raging bonfire that put him at the top of the pecking order.
