Nathan Florence surfs Pipeline a lot. It’s his backyard, after all, and when your backyard playground includes the world’s best wave… well, you get pretty damn good on that particular swing set. But Nathan didn’t get so good at surfing Pipe by never ever falling — far from it. In order to become one of the best at anything in the world, one needs to fail. In surfing, failing isn’t even necessarily a failure. Wiping out is just part and parcel, even for the best. And this wipeout here? Well, it’s a good one.
“This was hard to watch in person,” wrote Stand OTW. “Glad to see that Nathan was okay after this wave! This wipeout was for sure one of the gnarlier wipeouts so far this year!
