Pipeline is the wave of all waves. It’s the defining stadium for surfers–one wave can be the wave of your life. It’s surrounded in stories of legends, from Greg Noll and Gerry Lopez to Derek Ho and Kelly Slater. Careers are made here, legends are created, and the specter that is Pipeline gets bigger and bigger with each winter.
In the Red Bull video above, some of surfing’s best talk about the first time they laid eyes on it and just what it is, exactly, that makes Pipeline Pipeline.
