2024 DaHui Backdoor Shootout in Memory of the Duke – Day 1

Teamwork isn’t the first word that typically comes to mind when talking about Pipe. But that’s exactly what’s about to happen, as the Da Hui Backdoor Shootout in Memory of Duke Kahanamoku returns to the Banzai Pipeline with their tried-and-true, non-elimination team format.

Here’s the deal: surfers are divided into eight teams — either by sponsor, neighborhood, peer group, or some other affiliation — but the whole competition is intended to, according to event organizers, “foster a sense of camaraderie, teamwork, and community spirit among the participants.”

According to Da Hui Backdoor Shootout organizers, the event “emphasizes traditional Hawaiian surfing style and places importance on style, power, and respect for the ocean. Surfers are judged not only on their technical maneuvers but also on their overall approach, wave selection, and ability to navigate the tuberides and come out with control and style.”

The holding period is from January 4th-16th, and in addition to the main team comp there will be individual Duke Specialty Events with coed divisions in longboard, SUP and bodysurfing. Aside from the competition, there will be heaps of cultural activities on offer: hula performances, traditional Hawaiian music, local food vendors…

It’s basically Aloha Incarnate.

00:00 Longboard, Sup, and Bodysurfing
3:39:30 Shortboard
3:39:39 Team Japan
4:21:26 Team New Earth Project
4:54:00 Team Nave
5:33:08 96712
6:08:53 Snapt5
9:42:04 North Shore Boyz
7:13:45 Tubos
7:53:53 Volcom
8:30:30 Recap
*New heats will be drawn each morning.

Here are the teams, subject to change:

NORTH SHORE BOYZ
Eala Stewart, Kala Grace, Legend Chandler, Makai McNamara, Makua Rothman

96712
Eli Olson, Ivan Florence, Jose Angel, John Florence, Nate Florence

VOLCOM
Balaram Stack, Makana Pang, Moana Wong, Makai Burdine, Noa Deane

A NEW EARTH PROJECT
Kai Lenny, Jamie O’Brien, Carissa Moore, Koa Smith, Shayden Pacarro, Matahi Drollet

SNAPT5
Benji Brand, Clay Marzo, Josh Moniz, Mason Ho, Parker Coffin, Seth Moniz

NAVE
Bruno Santos, Guilherme Johann Peter, Ian Gouveia, Kona Oliveira, Lucas Silveira, Joey Johnston

3:39:39 JAPAN
Guy Sato, Jin Suzuki, Kenshin Matsunaga, Riaru Ito, Sasuke Kawatani, Shinpei Horiguchi, Sogo Harada

TUBOS
Alonso Correa, Sebastian Correa, Gabriel Villaran, Cristobal De Col, Billy Kemper, Martin Jeri, Kalani Rivero

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Um you want to lead us in yeah can and then close us out I mean whatever yeah yeah no just signal yeah all right test test test one two test test test we going okay [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] hey good morning welcome to 2024 good morning gang theoi backdoor shooter out 2024 and we are presented by guts Hawaii and Kiki beach bungalows welcome good morning gang my name is Ezra Rodriguez and I am with Mr Isaiah Walker good morning brother yaka beautiful morning as you see the Drone

Flying out over the lineup got beautiful condition some light east Southeast winds we got the water Patrol right there getting our first Heats out for the day we’ve got beautiful conditions with a rising swell Ezra Rising swell I just seen Uncle Edie down there he’s getting very excited because we got a

Rising swell you know it goes from two foot to 10 foot over here real fast here in Hawaii welcome thank you for joining us guys Happy New Year we’re here and we’re going to start the new year off right the hoie back door shootout back here once again how makahiki ho Happy

New Year to everyone Mahalo to everyone who’s helping us put this event on as you know this is one of the best pipe the best the best the format you get more surfing you get your favorite surfers surfing more comfortable in the format where they can just Elevate the

Sport of Surfing kanaka hinalo the source of Surfing going down right here at the Proving Grounds thank you to Volcom the two houses for hosting us and thank you to all our sponsors Monster Energy C aloa tortilla chips uh two thumbs tattoo aloha salads Mahalo to all of you

Guys yeah we’re we’re stoked too because um you know we the window just opened up on January 4th and I don’t know if it’s just the Mana of of the event or we’re just lucky every year but it seems like we always score the best Surf and I was

Looking at the forecast and uh this weekend’s got amazing waves starting today and we’ll see it um rise throughout the day it’s going to be big tomorrow too and so hopefully this whole weekend’s going to be awesome yeah so um take a look yeah I was looking at Surfline forecast looking

Pretty good and uh take a look and see surfline.com will also link you right on to YouTube you know we’re here with the guys from Ocean paddler TV and Hawaiian extreme sports they are known as Zone media and they are here with us this year and they’re bringing it to you live

We are also on Spectrum on channel 1020 Isaiah okay and oh look at this here we go the sun is coming up through the mountains and we are going to start up with 8:00 8:00 longboarding and the forecast on surf line is looking 8 to 10 feet

Throughout the mid of the day so in fact Ezra I think we’re going to we’re going to have surf line give us a little surf check right now oh gotcha Aloha Surf line lead forecaster Jonathan waren here with your outlook for duoi back door shootout great surf

Will kick off the event today and continue Friday the 5th as a solid Northwest well moves in and greeted by favorable local conditions watch for sets to climb up to that double overhead Zone by this afternoon likely sooner with occasional waves pushing up to Triple overhead this size will hold into

Friday morning as well but then slowly easing through the day and the weekend note that both pipe and back door are expected to be open for business after that we have another sizable Northwest well lining up for around the corner for Monday Tuesday the 8th and 9th so

Overall we have great surf stacking up for the houie back door shootout in memory of the Duke so asra like I said surf line giving us the report awesome I mean looks like not only big waves but some good conditions as you see this morning we got some Mal conditions meaning the

Winds are pretty light and uh the NorthShore so far this season we’ve had some big swells but there’s been some issue with little bit of too much North in the Wind but uh looks like the winds are right the conditions are great so um looking forward to this event this

Year oh yeah it’s amazing because we’re going to start off with the first heat of longboarding you know we’re going to get an amazing hola young Talent haa Foster Bloomfield and then we got Scotty Fong coming up MCO ho and Dino Miranda and Noah ganella and you guys understand

Here at the back door shootout it’s a real cultural event you know Hawaii kanaka run so there ain’t no jerseys these see these are all pipeline Specialists they are invited into this amazing event okay so we will keep you posted when the Surfers are going we also have something special Isaiah where

Zone media Island paddler TV are offering the athletes if they want to take a GoPro out with them we can go live in the barrel and first time any event has done that I know they’ve done GoPros but in this event boom they pull into the barrel boom they go live into

The barrel as we’re talking about their performance so that’s incredible awesome stuff yeah I’m looking forward that to that for sure so one thing that I love Ezra about the back door shootout is that we celebrate a variety of different wave riding crafts which is really reminiscent of of of tradition right so

So a lot of times people assume that in Old Hawaii they rode the Olo board like which is one style of board or sometimes say the Alaya board right but in in reality um in even in ancient times in Hawaii old Hawaii uh we had a variety of

Different types of equipment from body board style to shortboard longboard um even tow in they would use canoes to jump off really narrow long I mean they were they were innovating the wave really cool to see there’s a lot of folks who are celebrating that by by

Shaping these boards my good friend Tom Haku Stone yes uh that he’s he’s really helped bring awareness to that so at the back door sha likewise we celebrate a variety of different wave riding crafts in fact so this morning we’re starting off with a Duke specialty event where

We’re going to have longboard there’s also a stand-up paddle Division and possibly uh body surfing yes added this year because you know whoo hit they always honored body surfing one of the purest forms of wave riding and we have a final and it is amazing eight body Surfers in the final here we

Go up and riding dragging his hand I believe that is Gilla Noah Gilla and here we go whipping around Isaiah look at this up and riding pulling in on a shutdown I believe that was Scotty Fong let’s see him come up here awesome yeah I think we’re still

Warming up or or about to start I haven’t heard the horn come in to heat one is coming up but oh I’m jumping the gun I was getting excited just warming up the heat hasn’t started yet but you know Ezra when I look at the

Uh the names of folks who are in this Duke specialty event these you have several former World longboard Champions got Miranda uh bonga Perkins uh Lance Hulan of real big names in D dneo 2010 World Champ so it’s really I mean it’s amazing to see that um we’ve got

Incredible athletes and and and representing different Generations too exactly exactly these guys are all generations I grew up just admiring Dino Miranda guys like Bunga Perkins and Lano okono and they are here and they are still doing their thing so it’s amazing to see them we also have a new ad this

Year an amazing uh guy from the Big Island Freddy Hui he’s been making waves in the longboard Community doing his thing and he is in round three and we also have a Maui boy Patrick fakuda I grew up in the doing professional longboarding with him amazing competitor and fireman up there in

Maui and we also have Manalo runner up from last year borrowed his mom’s board and just scooted out his front his back door and he got some amazing back doors and pipes and he was runner up to the champ last year Mr Keegan Edwards so

Yeah me that on that yellow board I got excited when I seen this guy also I’ve been seeing him longboarding all around the island but Derek Ho’s Legacy mcoo he’s in the longboard and he’s going to be coming up in the first heat so congratulations to you on your first

Year here at the back door shootout yeah I saw uh Foster Bloomfield who um so a few years ago I used to coach uh the surf team for kma schools and uh so he was you know he was part of that team and saw him this morning man that guy is

Grown up oh it makes you feel old when you I know when he squeezes guys used to be little kids now they have full-on beards and weigh like 200 pounds and fosterall than anyway love the Foster Bloomfield Ohana have been running surf events especially the manyun event great event

Big this year amazing stuff um of course uh father is on the the water Patrol out here ha to so I don’t know if he’s double you know double double working today yeah Hawaiian water Patrol we also and here we go I just heard the buzza we

Are on guys welcome to thei back door shootout presented by guts Hawaii and Kiki beach bungalows thank you to Elon and crew right down the beach from here you can have an amazing stay with them amazing Resort they have so we are on 25 minute Heats three Heats in the

Longboarding Isaiah yep and oh exciting as we got uh somebody going I believe that’s ha right off the bat he’s going to slow down bottom turn what wipe the cobwebs off that’s Scotty Fong correction got a quick shampoo and he’s going to kick out he was uh stuck at

Foodland so he made it perfect timing good to see you Scotty Fong right on yeah I was going to say H has a beard I saw him this morning yeah I know beautiful conditions you know we call this a backd door shootout uh those of you who are unaware pipeline is

Usually what we call the left and back door is when they go um to their right so we just saw that um Scotty Fong chose the back door y went uh went to his right and I think you know the the size of waves right now back door is going to

Be a good option for our Surfers I’ve been watching a lot of footage this week I mean back door with all that sand is absolutely amazing as these guys are getting in position we also got another Maui boy coming up in the next Heat too

Mr Zack Howard good to have you also in the event so in this heat you got ha Foster Bloomfield you got Scotty Fong Jr that just caught the first ride and uh we got mcoo and Mr Dino Miranda and Noah Nilla you can see how he’s trying to

Wipe off that speed to slow down to get deeper in the barrel gets covered up for a moment and uh kicks out beautiful conditions as you see here Ezra you know from the dark with all Theo in the dark you could hear some waves but it’s definitely growing and it’s so

Exciting as the waves grow white water breaks you know the grumpiest of people like I say the salt water ions makes everybody live a it’s interesting most Surfers like to go what they call Don Patrol which is early in the morning um that’s usually in most locations where

The conditions are nice iest here on the NorthShore though you know often times early morning isn’t the best they often refer to it as morning sickness got it um but because of the direction of the wind which is a little more what we call offshore which is the winds are blowing

Directly offshore usually it’s a little side offshore on the NorthShore with our with our normal um k k is the word that we use for trade winds and those trade wins are usually blowing from Kahuku area toward CA point where you can see out there in the in the back back I see

It yeah and uh but today the winds are are a little different they’re angled a little more from the east Southeast which is why we’re seeing these favorable very beautiful smooth conditions so really conditions yeah and you know it always feels different you know when you’re a surfer

You know only a surfer knows the feeling but when you’re surfing all different kinds of conditions and every mood at pipeline you know it definitely changes where feels on your Rail and on your fins the viscosity of the water changes so what an unreal day as we got some

More waves on the way and here we go got a paddler I believe this is Noah Gilla and oh he just got pummeled on that middle lip sitting a little bit too deep as be beautiful as it is Isaiah it still is really tricky you know you got

To have wave selection as you know the we got a contest window from the 4th to the 16th you know this things founded in 1996 this event by the H oal and you know the hoie back door shootout emphasizes on traditional Hawaiian style and importance of style power respect

For the ocean and Surfers are not just judged on technical Maneuvers but you know innovating the barrel riding you know deeper getting you know the key here is to get the actual wave that’s going to barrel all the way across the reef whether it be pipeline

Or back door so you know I love about these drone angles it really makes you feel like you’re in the water and this is this is you know what you see when you’re out there in the water surfing you look out to the left you can see

Sunset Point look into the the mountains back here you can see the sun coming up through the valley um the water is beautifully clear today you can see Visions you don’t get to see right right and so most you know people who don’t get the opportunity surfing pipeline

This morning we’re kind of giving you that feel of being right there in the lineup I know technology nowadays we can see every rut and and nook and cranny on the reef that’s why every year sitting here with you oh we get the best views I

Tell you yeah it’s really cool um as you know um pipeline is world famous there we have the Jerry Lopez house this is the vulc house this is where we’re located right up there on on the balcony front row seats here can’t complain here we go Noah up again yeah mcoo oh

K nice mcoo is the son of the legendary Mr Derek H it’s amazing um you know I grew up surfing in Hawaii of course and um you know Surfers they have their own unique style uh especially you know back in our time you know um Surfers had their their

Distinctive Mark in the way that they would surf the wave and as I’m watching Maka here on this one he has his dad’s style yeah it’s beautiful he’s been working on his game man I’ve been watching him progress every year he is almost going for that sandbar floater

There add some extra points just that posture the way that he stood up at first was stalling um it’s kind of cool to see how I don’t know through your DNA that’s passed on a little bit big time or if it’s just from growing up watching

Um but for sure the whole family Legends and innovators definitely a prominent surfing family um Michael and Derek and of course their children now are seeing um I know we’ll be seeing Mason you know surfing in the main event of the shortboard teams at snap five you know

Benji bran won that last year and Keegan Edwards won this longboard last year so a whole brand new year and what a way to start it with the hoie back door shoot out we are blessed gang look at how beautiful it is and we got a rising

Swell so go check out surf line we’re also on 10:20 and it’s a you know if you guys are at work or you’re off work come join us live there we go world champion Bunga Perkins him and uh Freddy hoie hoie came over with their beautiful Ohana to come surf

Pipeline I get excited all the time when you see banga because a lot of us growing up in the longboard World we’d all try to emulate this guy right guy it’s not just a longboarder he shortboards really good and can ride a bodyboard professionally in Japan and

All around the world when we’re groms and he’ll be in the next seat yeah bonga and I are the same age actually and uh I remember you know I grew up on the big island in Hilo and uh when I was surfing competitively when I was a teenager

Coming up and we surfed against each other in the you know the state competition but he was on a shortboard right Anda it always blew my mind that he could win three divisions in one day from shortboard to body board to longboard I don’t think a lot of people

Knew that but he was like one of the top body boarders back was younger he actually went to Japan and there was a tour up there and and of course I think bonga especially like in the ’90s and the 2000s kind of kind of made a new kind of

Standard for for surfing back door on a long board you know surfing at Pipeline and back door um you know the wave is so steep that having that extra couple of feet on your board makes it challenging to to get into but bonger really I think showed us what is possible on a

Longboard at Pipeline and back door um and so he’s you know still at it yeah he put in his time so much he you could see as he was beginning to do it he just created how his flow and how to slow down cuz on a longboard once you catch a

Mountain like this at pipeline you’re flying so that is part of the whole thing on a longboard is trying to adjust navigate your Rail and slow down that 9 flot longboard plus he’s always has such a really cool style you know really smooth and um and something interesting too I think

You know mostly with with Hawaii Surfers who ride longboard they they can surf it as a shortboard or as a log you know kind of slow it down and you know because on the new longboard tour I see a lot of my friends that are high pro

But they do log they rip so hard but you can see them as they’re going on their log doing a radical Hawaiian cutback they got to remind themselves oh and then I see them bust out the magic hand shove out the hip a little bit do the

Soul tradition but then the nose riding is unreal too and we’re going to see a lot of action today as these guys are just you know warming up out there a little bit Lolly there’s been a lot of straight angles coming in there’s another World Champ Dino Miranda

Wow Dino definitely a Legend um not only as a surfer but also in the hawaian voyaging community so he’s been a part of the hokua hokua is the voyaging canoe that um started 1975 1976 their maid in Voyage to Tahiti 1978 is when we saw the legendary Surfer Eddie IA yep um you

Know sacrific him his life for the crew the canoe capsized and if you haven’t seen the there’s a ESPN 30 for30 documentary on Eddie IO called Hawaiian the legend of Eddie IO tells that whole story see highly recommend it um but Dino Miranda has you know allaround

Waterman and has been voyaging the world on double hole canoes and now surfing here at the back door shootout uh in the longboard division so these we’re talking about very accomplished uh Hawaiian watermen out here who know what the ocean has to offer and um excited to

See Dino and bonga in the next Heat mhm in the 9s amazing shortboard survey he’s also these guys have good shortboard background as well Dina Miranda been getting barreled at the bay a lot and uh good to have them here as these guys are nice and spread out you know back door

Shootout it’s amazing they they don’t have any you know priority so you know a lot of gentlemen good sportsmanship but it’s getting to that point in the heat where they have been shopping and sitting and you know Scotty Fong’s lucky to be picking off a a completed ride right off the bat you

Know yeah so so far we’ve had makoa and um Scotty uh both with waves and again you know we do have a rising swell and so we will see those bigger sets uh coming up throughout the day and Surfline forecasted is supposed to peek tonight and linger with us tomorrow so

We’ll see uh I mean my guess is that the surf will be good for tomorrow’s event but we’ll see yeah that’s what I’m hearing you know you you walk around these houses there’s just so much water man you know talking about what’s going on tomorrow everybody has their different opinions

But they’re pretty much all on the same page does that look like Noah looking over the ledge yep so again in this in this longboard Heat number one we have ha Foster Bloomfield Scotty Fong mcoo Mako Noah Janella and uh top two will be coming out of right longboard here looks like

Only four competitors in the water so I don’t know maybe makami is not in the water y I feel makami is not here where you at makami yeah so thank you again we’re fueled by monster over here Monster Energy athletic Brewing odam Hawaii Waka water and haliva juice in two thumbs tattoo

And we are presented by guts Hawaii and Kiki beach bungalows thank you for being with us and thank you to all the club members down there making it happen and there you go there’s BR haa yeah something cool about the back door shootout too is it’s kind of a

Family affair so you see different generations of surfers you see family members you know uncles surfing against their nephews uh father against son often times and uh so definitely has a different vibe I think than a lot of other events where you know it is family we have Lance o cono

Another amazing longboarder from that that he is traveled around the world with these guys learned a lot from them Lance you’re on camera Bud there you got hoie Jay and right there is Freddy hoie hoie uh rides for Bunga Perkins surfboards and uh his first time being

In the back door shootout and he’s excited got to Surf with him at uh Uncle Mel’s uh Waterman Championship uh a couple weeks ago right on and you know those Heats where you know you can be surfing perfect Maha and all of a sudden you get runed over that’s what happened

To some of us big white waterer clouds that’s what we’re going to be seeing in the next few days as the forecast is unreal go check us out at surfline.com and these guys are getting antsy oh does look like they’re not sitting on each other you know what I mean right

Everybody’s kind of engaged around ha y I know our nephew right there is no I got priority [Laughter] bro and that’s a good thing too you know uh watching maku at the other event he was talking about how he doesn’t like priority you know to each his own and I

Can see both ways how it can help and how it can be a a negative you know interesting for and yeah oh okay and yeah there they are and I believe that is makamai doto sitting next to ha so he made it yeah makamai in

The house doto Legacy put in a lot of time over here and uh excited excited to watch my brothers in longboarding hey good morning gang around the world thank you for tuning in how old hi a phrase for you today it’s happy New Year and beautiful start to

The new year at the backo door shootout at the infamous Bonsai pipeline right here at the infamous Jerry Lopez house it’s now the hcom house so much Rich history right here surfing this is where everybody comes to prove themselves and we got the first heat of longboarding

Out in the lineup and we got a paddler Isaiah we do looking for this inside double up at back door it’s not not going to materialize so opt not to catch that wave we do have a rising swell and um exciting to see these longboarders out here as you can

See paddling out in our next Heat Keegan Edwards bonga Perkins kamak fith Zack Howard o heavy heat is a heavy heat and here at the back door shootout you know we celebrate the variety of ways of riding waves on act on different types of craft yeah and um so we got

Longboards and we’ve got standup surfing and this is the U duk Kahanamoku uh specialty events so from longboard standup paddle and possibly body surfing we are always in memory of Duke Kahanamoku not just for his Olympic medals he was so much more to a lot of us Surfers and to our our Pacific

Community right right look like we got two paddlers for this one looks like ha Foster Bloomfield up and out oo so right around this point right now as Scotty Fong and makco ho have one wave each these guys are going to have to get you

Know every Surfer needs to do that at a time it’s like okay I’m not going to get the Apex set wave now I got to go shopping and I tell a lot of surfers sometimes when you shop to long you can turn off and here we go grabbing

Rail going left believe that was Scotty Fong let’s double check here so far Scotty he had one wave at back door where he got a little cover up for a quick second mhm and so there hasn’t been that’s good he’s turning in two scores and that’s what

You need to do to play sometimes if you can’t get the big pipe Barrel or the back door you got to gravel on the inside and put something on that paper as we have an amazing judging panel I’ll get to that later Scotty Fong spinning around stalling gets in the tube and

Goes right into that rib Isaiah Sam bar that’s why yeah very shallow spot right there on the inside of of back door and uh looked like he had it but then the bottom kind of dropped out of him you can see how that extra couple feet on

The surfboard make it a little tricky to um avoid what we call pearling or nose diving man he was on his way come out of that thing but ran off theet little rib just grabbed right onto his Shopper nose and hully Maka flip Scotty f up running off

Of the board like a like a diving board yeah love traveling with that guy the guy is an amazing Surfer Scotty Fong super humble real talented yeah see right of all trades restaurant owner doctor pilot wow yeah bounces back and forth from Maui to aahu got to see them

At the Fourth of July at the hoie paddle board race he went with his two boys and his wife and that was awesome Scotty Fong good to have you here buddy and thank you to guts Hawaii and Kiki beach bungalows Scotty Fong is definitely taking advantage of this Heat going

Because you know sometimes that’s the best thing to do like you know every Surfer has their different plot and way they play the Heat some people act different once the horn blows you know what I mean and uh but to get busy and stay busy is sometimes better in a slow

Heat with 407 remaining yeah you’re right um you know often times I mean this is a competition and even though there’s a lot of camaraderie and especially we’ll see later in the in the team division there’s trying to help each other out but at the same time when there’s three

Minutes left on the clock and you need a wave to advance uh you’re right you want to try and get busy as possible because at this point the scores are uh pretty low we haven’t had any real you know waves in the excellent scoring range

Just yet so I think one good wave could turn the heat in the next 3 minutes and 30 seconds oh wow everybody’s tuning in from around the world we got New Zealand what’s up New Zealand Australia what’s up Harley Bellamy Pioli what’s up guys thanks for joining us some heavy Hammer Hitters

From up in Australia as you know we talk about the Duke Kahan moku and that uh that big connection you know uh there was a big connection with Duke and Cecil yep um back in the day if Cecil never said anything that giant Hawaiian may have never gotten a shot you know

What I mean and that connection has gone through surfing as you know yeah cool yeah from a big Brotherhood and and and also in that water there’s a waterman movie It’s called Waterman the I loved it I seen you on there you’re you’re you’re starring in that you and a bunch

Of Legends Brian Keana narrated by Mr Mamo Jason Mamo good stuff you guys did a hell of a job on that and but it tells the story of of SES he and how you know he was an Olympic swimmer who wanted to serf to swim against Duke in in this

Event in the Olympics um but Duke missed the the race and there was kind of a mixup with the schedule or whatever um but cesil petitioned and said no I’m not swimming unless Duke swims as well I want the best wants to swim against the best gives me chicken skin thinking

About it because there’s just so much yeah yeah I mean unfortunately Cil uh um goes off in in to war in World War I and ends up um dying in action so another kind of tragic story but definitely you know have this like you’re saying Ezra this connection

Between Australia and Hawaii and really goes back to Duan namoku who went to Surf Australia as he was in route to the Olympics MH and um so that’s kind of a cool connection with Mak Doo let’s go I always say the guy charges you know Dwayne Doo’s little brother all our

Little brothers he’s not so little this guy get action uh he’s from huo DOI wax and uh super stoked that he made it to his heat surfs big pipeline he pulls in real big back door and we’ll watch that again as this is his first wave of the

Heat beautiful style gets that forward pump wave gets foamy he doesn’t like it but he’s on the scoreboard do you know what I’m saying y so they are taking the top two to top two yeah and I feel that we’re going to go all the way through with the three

Heats top two Advance into this six-man final and 30 seconds left Isaiah well we’ll see if that was enough for um for makamai and to go up against mako’s first wave it’s kind of going up against makoa’s first wave speaking of which though mcoa is stalling oh trying to get

That barrel and he’s putting a second score on the board that will draw away from makamai so makco you know he’s got world champion blood for sure Derek Ho Blood up in him oh we got Scotty Fong grabbing real oh Scotty Fong that was looking like a beauty but that angle just

Clamped Scotty’s uh board got yanked a couple good ones I mean it’s not super big but you know longboard just take gas well it looks like the end to longboard Heat number one here at the back door shootout 2024 and our next Heat coming up and Heat number two another exciting one and

Uh we’ll see who advances from there it seems to me like Scotty Fong and makoa were caught more waves in that heat however Makai did get a little Barrel on that last one uh we’ll update you as soon as possible but love this beautiful morning we get

To see our longboarders out there at Pipeline and back door getting that action oh yeah what a great way to start the new year I hope you guys are tuning in and please join us live we have days of competition as this competition gives our Surfers a bunch of Surfing

Opportunity we got a lot of amazing athletes we got the standup paddle coming up later today and possibly the eight-man body surfing final I know a lot of you guys are frothing at the bit because W the body surfing Community is amazing and what a way to ride

Waves also today you’ll be joined by me Ezra rodriges Isaiah Walker and we also got rocky Cannon but he’s uh running the beach mic right now and a new uh host of the show is Cliff patello Hawaiian water Patrol so really excited to have brothera Cliff this year with us coming

To the booth and we’ll be taking turns Beach announcing and whatnot but if you can hear Rocky’s blowing up the beach right now and we’re going to be moving on into heat too right so again Aloha thank you for joining us beautiful day here on the NorthShore glad you could be

With us and right behind us is the action happening can’t get a better front row seat than this oh no is so Priceless tickets beautiful shots from our drones you can see the mixture of sand and reef here at pipe line you can see those grooves in the

Reef and the pipeline definitely has a very interesting bottom I use the word Infamous but um mainly because that that bottom is so treacherous there so many different uh caves and grooves and Nook and and there is live Coral there’s a lane of it by back door and some areas at

Pipeline so we got a Heat recap coming up here started off here Scotty Fong with that little Bobble just getting his feet in the wax he does get covered up and he got a little spit on his back mle Ho’s first wave stalling here got the front hand in

Front of him avoids that shallow section there on The Sandbar he’s lucky he went oh live action here whoa live action and we’ll see who that was as I see the board come up looks like Mr Dino Miranda not taking any time spoke to him on the phone last

Night he’s ready to come get it and and you saw that looked like a a set a set that’s kind of larger than what we saw earlier in the first heat so good indication that the waves are on the rise he was also up in that thing you know what I mean

Traveling exciting stuff I don’t know if he thank you Z media for that recap damaged his board perhaps oh man looks like it’s got a little more rocker than it should have oh man I think there’s a buckle mid three foot he’s also on one of his surf

Techs that’s why growing up with these guys I mean the amount of longboards we would break is ridiculous that’s why with all this new stuff too surf Tech’s really strong you guys got to check out Thunderbolt you’ll see some Thunderbolts coming up in the next Heats

See the Japanese carbon and here we go Dino Miranda that’s beautiful Isaiah he gets gutted but he also gets that Reverb that shooked them off I wonder if she’s broken cuz this is live right now it definitely looks like it it’s got a bit more rocker than 9

Foot looks like uh got um totally he’s even way up on the nose yeah that’s a lot of banana in that shape yeah now now his board look 0 oh he’s up he’s he’s on the Buckle so he can paddle it in a well Dino I hope you flew over with

Two boards guy’s a very smart Surfer there is techniques to not break your long board but sometimes cannot help a certain wave especially Pipeline and back door it doesn’t it doesn’t matter and doesn’t wearing a leash also play into it too oh huge amounts that yank that Yank on your

Tail always breaks it two to three feet from the tail and I’ll tell you what in longboarding and you’re going to see him coming up in new Earth Project Kelly Slater has a thing where you could get totally licked but your board Will Survive the white water comes up to you

You you wait for the white water to come up oh here we go longa Perkins in the barrel comes out oh on the S Bar we’ll see if his can survive that yeah bonga Perkins riding his pinned out long boards Bunga Perkins surf boards finally made his own board brand after all these

Years we’re all stoked from that was a great wave for the start that was a great wave for him probably I would say the best scoring wave of the morning so far here we go on the replay of the water shot stalling holding on grabbing

Rail roll the window up a little bit guy hasn’t lost his touch still looks so good we’ve emulated this guy since we’re little kids growing up in whitei guy can ride anything like you said so I mean I’m 50 I think we’re the same age so he’s out there grabbing rail you

Know I wish my back was still as good as that man right he’s also got a bad back to crouch low like that and grab a rail and to be able to pump while you’re in that position so yeah I never asked but him and capona Nina you know I I don’t

Know what it is between friends and bad backs but I feel like you can even pass a bad back through a handshake you know what I mean as much as you love your brother I mean we’re all kind of getting there oh awesome so some interviews on

The beach coming up right I’m going to get makao on the mic down there and with mamea desota who just got third place all right so we just heard really quickly that makamai got third place and I also heard that Maka ho will be advancing in second place congratulations brother and then first

Place Scotty was Scotty Fong who’s getting barreled on the back door and uh was the busiest Surfer in that last Heat y to each its own but when the horn blows everybody prepares different I think getting a wave under your belt right in the beginning on a rising swell

Is the w to go cuz then you can relax and Shop but it’s got to be a completed Barrel ride and I do think and maybe we’ll get back to that interview but uh I’m guessing makami was a like late to his heat because we didn’t see him in

The first half of the heat he did eventually get one wave uh but unfortunately one wave wasn’t enough we are on the second floor I wasn’t stalking him but man come on you guys check in early me personally I I don’t like racing for a heat and then you got to

Put in your fins thank goodness that you know fins are different you just pop them in now a little bit easier look at this camaraderie here we got the Aloha hand shaking going on in the lineup yeah two former long board world champions in this heat din Miranda and bonga

Perkins they’re all sitting on banga right now all right we’re going to go back down to a live interview with makam doto awesome we are here with makamai doota and he just got third in the longboard paddle how you feeling um I feel good bom that I got third uh Missing it by

One spot but uh yeah it’s a beautiful day got one barrel with 10 minutes awesome and you had 10 minutes and you still got one barrel yeah I I thought I was in the third heat but they pushed us up to the first seat and got

Out there with 10 minutes left so got one awesome all right Mak s explain that he thought he was in the third heat only had 10minute heat to surf supposed to be 25 and uh was able to get one wave but unfortunately that one wave wasn’t

Enough but uh stoked to be here for sure and makamai has been in this event for several years now part of right um I know his family interesting has spent you know a lot of their Origins on the west side but also in Haula legacies yep haa grew up in

Lived in Haula as well kahoku um attended kahoku high school and um by the way the Red Raiders the football high school football state champs again that was an incredible game against Milani I don’t know you saw that but uh yeah I hear him joking on the radio

They should play uh and I I I I really dig that but you know it it is funny everybody has their opinions some people say no way but I was like hey man some of these guys are playing like young star athlete men already and they deserve it congratulations Kahuku plenty

Roots in history with all of us on the NorthShore and islandwide as we got a set approaching we do look at those lines out the back beautiful conditions with those light offshore winds yeah here brother Rock blowing up the beach and oh we got some sets approaching Bunga got one under his belt

So people are going to reposition Dino Miranda just broke his surf Tech surf board and I believe that’s him back out in the lineup so oh yeah quickly back out in the lineup don’t know if he went duct tape that board or he would grab one second one I think that board was

Beyond duct tape I know as a surfer when you contradict trying to bring one board or you know what I mean you need for this performance right here you need to have a backup and sometimes you need three or four because here at the back door shootout in the main event of the

Shortboard these guys get to Surf like four to five times you know what I mean 25 30 minute Heats in a team format you know with their brands or companies it creates better camaraderie and it lets the surfer relax but at the same time these Surfers are also competing for

Their own right back door shootout title which Benji bran got it last year and here in the longboard division Keegan Edwards was the champion from last year he got uh two Cliff hanging backdoor uh waves and mananalo was right on his butt real close with his pipe

Wave and a nice backdoor traveler so right you got heat two of the longboard out in the lineup yeah we got Dino Miranda Keegan Edwards bonga Perkins kamak frth uh Zack Howard yeah another West Side the frey Seth Legacy oh yeah as their season will be coming up in February make sure you

Join us at Makaha for Uncle Buffalo’s Big Board classic always got to say hi to Uncle buff for he’s part of this community as well not just Makaha another hawaian water Patrol guy hokua Voyager first lifeguard uh amazing stuff okay we’re going to look at that buckled Board of Dino Miranda as this

Was a scud miss this was a good one he was close to Mak it out look at that technique where he pad St deeper to get behind the curtain he almost had it it but that foam ball caught up to him the board you could see how the board peaked

Out the back and that uh you know because the board is longer you know it has more surface area to to break the board and uh creates you know a lot lot more tension in in in the board and so MH unfortunately broke it but fortunately he seemed to have a backup

Board and right back out there out of a lot of my longboard buddies Dino’s of the most barreled guys like you know it’s funny like uh I would say him and Dwayne doto they’ll be riding a wave and it’s not going to Barrel you know and it

Barrels I mean it’s just they got this touch and if you see Dina Miranda’s giant World Champion feet and how girthy his legs are the guy’s got some power you know what I mean his foot could break his board if he’s not careful some tree oh so he’s going to be looking for

The back door but we got a paddler from Deep oh oh oh oh little bit uh respect issue right there I mean that’s cool little bit of a paddle battle I believe that’s Keegan Edwards in the blue shorts there as this is the theoi back door shootout no need jerseys ra we’re all

Here to Surf this is like the only format in the world like this where how we we have these Surfers and we also pay pay respects and homage to longboarding body surfing and Elias so oh Keegan last year’s champ trying to get busy and I think you

Can see that’s what happened little bit too much pump off the bottom he realizes that there’s only 10 minutes left on the clock and so he’s been starting to get busy uh caught one that looked like it might have have given him the score but unfortunately

That wave shut down you know what made a difference for him last year is he was sitting under everybody and they’d miss it and you seen that back door with me we were calling the heat he swung around inside Dino and I think that was his winning wave he got gutted he also

Didn’t come out of one but you do have scoring potential in these barrels of of traveling so maybe a little bit of that memory from last year is contributing to a little bit of that paddle battle we saw right here yeah yo going left going right a he

Looked really bummed but that right looked like it was shutting down he found this next one where it looked a little more open yeah went a little too high yeah there was uh he did what he could but there wasn’t much scoring potential at all on that

Wave they got plenty time left 852 anything can happen think so far we you know this heat start off with bonga getting an in and out I mean we also saw of course Dina Miranda getting barreled but unfortunately not coming out y breaking his surfboard um but it looks like bonga

Perkins is in the driver’s seat right now in this heat with only one wave uh he’ll be looking to back up that one wave what a smart wave and and and what he’s got to do now is just watch the clock even if you know a lot of my

Friends nowadays you know when you get to our age we don’t even wear watching our Heats you know we just go out there have a good time but hopefully he watches the clock because if he can get a second score he’s on his way to the back door shootout finals top two

Advance so congratulations in the first heat Scotty Fong and MCO ho on to the back door shootout finals of 2024 I mean what a new year to get into the final right off the bat yeah is our next Heat going out next Heat see Lano

Okano yeah you got uh Freddy ho hoi from the Big Island I know Manalo channelers should be in this heat and that is Patrick fakuda I believe in the back there trying to make out if that’s Dwayne doto because we all got also got Dwayne doto coming up

Look at this one got a paddle here pretty deep looks like Keegan Edwards grabbing rail last year’s champ he knows back door and pipeline well this kid charges Honolulu city and county lifeguard and grew up with this kid at such a young age Keegan where’s your Thunderbolt Harley

Engelby oh here we go that is kamak con Frey Seth Makaha boy taking a paddle doing some swing kicks to get in oh can he slow down o nice pocket ride by kamakan Frey Seth oh I believe that is uh Zack Howard excuse me Zack Howard riding his red

B guy’s been surfing honolua Bay um no leash does pretty good at it too that’s you know as a surfer waves are pumping it’s 8T you got a huge cliff in front of you here we go replay stalling trying to get in that Barrel but unfortunately he’s going too

Fast this guy’s uh definite Barrel Hunter I think he’s probably thinking he should have did a grab rail right off the bat and then let go as he’s riding a heavier board this guy rides logs and he’s very good at it but yeah that no leash thing it’s it’s

Really interesting because once you make a mistake oh hold swimming you’re swimming and I and I and I’ve asked locals I asked Dino Miranda the other day speaking of Dino here he goes scratching this and we got the water beautiful wave come on let’s go oh Barrel monster and

That rut just took him and obliterated him inside oh dino man he’s he came he’s not fooling around last year he he went shopping for some waves and he he he missed one on the inside here we go Keegan taking a look at pipeline oh going to go for the grab

Nice technique wave chandeliers over his head a bit and oh right into the foam Sandbar yeah you can see Keegan knows that is the clock is ticking and that um he needs another one and I mean bonga Perkins still just sitting on one wave now that was the

Wave of the morning so far but yeah excited for you bngo but 428 but but at in this point right now the way the waves are moving he’s sitting really good but it would be real substantial if he got another wave under his belt and we are going full on they’re

Getting judged on their technical moves but this event is about getting packed in a barrel and the way you get packed and these guys are innovating slowing down in the tube how deep can you get can you hold it and disappear and can you get spat out

Because every wave comes in on the reef different different shape but all these specialists they know what they’re looking for so five minutes five minutes remaining gang you know Dino has been charging in this heat and he’s been getting the most barreled but unfortunately hasn’t been riding out of

Them that last wave we just saw where he I mean it’s really cool technique you watch the way he he takes off on the wave he’s going left but he paddles into it like he’s going right and that gives him that extra time to stall to slow

Slow himself down um and so I mean great technique uh but unfortunately hasn’t I mean been able to come out of the barrel and that’s in a surf contest like this one where you’re uh Barrel riding Barrel riding contest it’s it’s that you know that compromise like okay I got to come

Out of the barrel but I got to in get in the barrel and how deep do I want to be to where I’m I’m putting it on the line and so that’s a you know something that these Surfers these athletes have to really make those kind of split-second

Decisions of all right how deep do I want to be and uh and yet still make it out there’s Uncle Lano okano and Mana nalo with his uh yellow helmet I don’t know if he borrowed mom’s board this year oh it was the helmet that was

Yellow huh oh oh no last year he was on a yellow board yep he was on a yellow helmet and a yellow rag um Rex godinas board Megan’s dad all longboard Community amazing stuff but you know as you’re talking about Dino those were two real nice barrels so

I’m wondering if he’s going to get awarded for something right as this contest is designed for them to get Barrel in the best way but they also have to adjust to the conditions out in this heat Keegan Edwards Bunga Perkins kamakani Frey Seth Zack Howard and Mr Dino Miranda already

Broke the first Board of the event man I I my oldest son so I have five kids my oldest son prefers to ride a longboard so he’s um a longboarder but as a parent like it was expensive to say the least of of trying to kept breaking them

You got a bunch of smoking secret spots out that way especially you know a lot of these lighter weight high performance long boards that aren’t cheap by the way no and uh you break one of them and uh it doesn’t take much like I said because that um

That leverage that because the board is longer there’s a lot more opportunity for the board to have that um you know that that flex and and it just does some damage but uh but pipeline is probably one of interestingly use the word Infamous so infamous doesn’t mean very

Famous it’s famous in often times kind of a an a harsh way or like a negative way and so pipeline is Infamous for breaking surfboards and that it’s something that’s not awesome experience to break surfboards um and also does some damage on on people oh Big Time Mak

Careers it breaks careers yeah one of the dangerous the Daylights out of them never to return so it’s just like some people like to get wet and some people feel the ocean but we also Mahalo the best in the business are Hawaiian water Patrol is here every year and they

Definitely uh save lives out here we seen it live last year several individuals who needed uh you know emergency assistance and uh so we’re very grateful for the Hawaiian water Patrol making sure that they’re all safe and um you know it’s a little deceiving because we may think like well the waves

Aren’t that big today yet but nonetheless even when the waves are this size very dangerous because of that shallow Reef yep big time there’s some sand over it but I’ll tell you what you can find it these guys are traveling at a high velocity this is bnga Perkins

Just coming in this heat is over we’re moving on into heat 3 with Lance okano Freddy huie hoie Patrick fakuda mana nalo and he tanley nalu member thank you ocean paddler TV better known as Zone media Hawaiian extreme sports for being here and making us the live broadcast

This year amazing camera crew and hey you know historically they were the first to drone drone action in this uh PR surfing contest environment and uh they were the first to do it also this year all you athletes out there if you guys are listening at the houses you

Guys have a a choice to use a GoPro and use the GoPro and we can go live into your Barrel so we’re going to go do a live recap here yeah we just finished longboard Heat number two we’re going take a look at the action in that heat

Start off with bonga Perkins pulling into this one comes out clean ejects right on The Sandbar I know one foot of sand here we go Zach Howard speeding on his longboard guy really knows how to get barreled but didn’t get the best waves in his heat hard charging Keegan Edwards beautiful

Technique last year’s Champion struggled to find the right waves this morning he was really trying to keep busy but unfortunately wasn’t able to get a lot of the best ones but we’ll see what happens uh in the results we also had de Miranda who’s getting a lot of uh the set waves

Pulling into the barrel uh unfortunately didn’t exit out through most of those but we’re into heat number three longboard Heat number three and this is the third uh and final heat for this um for this round of course we have Lano cono in this heat we also have Mr huii

Uh Freddy huoy Patrick fukura mananalu Chandler and Jay tanley so fiveman heat and uh um Dwayne doodo is not here he’s in Palm Springs I just got a text from brother he is in Palm Springs with his son colad doodo maybe he’s a busy man man he’s got

A teleportation Oh Boy Machine he’s everywhere around the world with his kids supporting surfing mean and um talented family of surfers uh professional Surfers and and their kids and daughter and uh so very talented family I wonder if they’re over there at that wave pool I don’t know if

You’ve seen that’s what I think he just took his son kala he’s uh a bit of a hard charging aerialist man the kid is uh Mr Smooth he’s uh chomping at the bit and absorbing knowledge and he real talented real talented Ohana oh the back ehukai missed

Pipeline welcome gang what a great time to spend the new year whether you’re at work joining in with us or you guys are on the beach tune on in we here again beautiful morning here at pipeline aukai beach park to the right and longboard heat our third and final heat

Of this round and longboard division top two will advance and move on to the final and we’re celebrating variety of different ways of riding longboard Jay tanley J yeah brother Jay who hitalo got to take the place of brother Dwayne dto 2010 World Champ longboarder got his world title at

Makaha so action packed Lance okano Freddy huii Patrick fakuda mana nalo and Jay tanley out in this heat fresh heat 25 minute Heats top two Advance into the final making a six-man longboard final for this year after that we’ll be moving on into standup paddle and let me tell

You how many watermen are downstairs as assessing the condition so stay tuned with us because we’re going from January 4th all the way to the 16th and the forecast is amazing but it’s also tricky we always check in with Uncle Addie and the huo healo with all the amazing

Athletes and uh they discuss and pick it apart I love I love that part in the dark in the morning with coffee watching them pick apart the waves yeah we saw this morning Surfline giving us the forecast you saw that they’re backto back storm out there in the Northern

Pacific and those going to be sending us some some Great Waves so we’re going to take a quick break Ezra I’m going to go on the beach announcing and you’re on break and we’re going to introduce Rocky and Clifton Bell from Hawaiian water Patrol so Isaiah great day super stoked

Stay with us continue with the action in a moment stay tuned gang Fore Spee you Aloha kakaka with a double Shaka and a big minoaka minoaka means smile Rocky Cannon Cliff Bell back to the hoie back door shootout we’re in Heat number three of the longboard we got some good waves bro Cherry waves actually it’s really turning out to be a nice day today Sun

Peaked up swell is on the rise it’s really feeling in nice so uh we’re excited for 2024 DOI back door shootout yeah and I got to say I I like your wardrobe you got a an awesome shirt on got the I got the memo we are rocky

Candidate Cliff Bell team Oahu golf well Hollow to Oahu golf for the nice apparel keeping us fresh and of course all of our great sponsors we got the most epic view epic office to broadcast from right here at the vcom house 2024 the hoie back door shootout as we said we’re in

Longboard surfing and brah you know pipeline is already difficult enough with any piece of equipment but the more foam or the more board you paddle out with glass that that is a tight space to fit definitely and uh these guys are really pushing the limits uh lot of sand

Still there so you know they really got to be selective on which wave to take off on that’s why you might think they should be going on certain ones that they don’t because it’s very easy to have uh two boards in your hand yeah that was one of the the uncles the OG’s

Going back door right there goofy foot backside you see that turbulent you know Bubbles and then you see the sand that you talked about Cliff kind of still sitting on the edge of that Reef making the exits a little bit difficult extremely tricky extremely trick and uh I believe

We have po makamai doodo she’s down on the beach stand by and we’ll see who she’s got take it away po all right so uh we will work on getting those Beach interviews going I know um you know day one as we watch Manalo chander with the

Yellow helmet just going to say he’s pushing the limits he’s got the helmet on really smart here at pipe to wear helmets nowadays we see a lot of head injuries going down out here so uh very smart to be prepared set yourself up for success and coming from none other than

Uh the gentleman sitting with me here has uh tons of experience responding to various types of uh incidents accidents what have you uh doing a lot of time with Hawaiian water Patrol as you’ve seen him on the jet ski before as Lance H cono doing some tube time for Success

Right there Uncle lle Conor one of the Legends we have over here uh definitely if you haven’t heard that name before maybe you haven’t been around longboarding in Hawaii yeah around the world I remember as a kid watching him I was a little kid he was uh one of

The uncles you know back then still yet uh but man he was going vertical with a long board I was just it was blowing my mind that um he was able to maneuver such a big board in that way almost like a short board so still doing it Uncle

Lance he’s got to be you know I’m not going to Che out any numbers but 28 he’s kind of up up there on top the you know on the scale of uh as being uh you know as wisdom OG status wisdom experienced experienc oh split the Peaks we got over here at

The mananalu Chandler the back door doesn’t come out and if you could say his name five times fast you’ve got a really uh talented way of speaking but mananalu one of our younger competitors Dad moku and Mom corl they’re staying right here he’s got the privilege of staying right

Here looking at this wave every morning to see if it’s Prime conditions for him to enjoy the wonders of ehukai in this area yeah and you know like you said BR wearing the helmet that is um something that has been more uh more widely used

These days uh you know way back when it was like you know Tom Carroll uh leam mcnamer just a kind of a a few guys that would choose to wear the helmet um as we watch I believe that’s Patrick muda yeah that was a nice little pipe

Ride too made it out so you can see it’s still kind of tricky like we said earlier the swell is going to be filling in throughout the day and uh it’s still a lot of sand from that East northeasterly swells we’ve had the last couple of weeks uh push the sand more

Towards the pipe area so yeah the last few days it was it was pretty windy but it’s tapered off today still you know our our number one uh weather gauge is the coconut trees and uh right now the right now there the fronds are quite still yeah especially

When you don’t really see any coconuts on them nowadays unfortunately but with manalu wearing the helmet and more Surfers opting for that these days I mean you’ve seen a lot of injuries here we go he’s pip there he is right there oh that was a beautiful shot that was a

Wave of the morning so far and I just want to um we have a screen we’re looking at stuff but just for the record never turn your back on the ocean but we’re doing that today yeah we’re doing we are sitting with our back to the

Ocean so that you folks can see that it does feel a little uh unsafe and awkward at first to get used to when you’re ocean guys like us here on the replay yeah that’s how to do it right there you know Dismount so you talk about the helmets and stuff like that

And uh you know I think it’s a great uh invention and a great idea to wear it especially out here yeah with the reef and the the shallowness and just the dangers that um come with surfing this area and I mean a lot of areas out on

The North Shore as well um a lot of folks have been getting injured here there’s some head injuries we’ve been coming across so pretty pretty good idea to have one on if you’re going to serve quite for sure yeah speaking of uh responding Cliff not only has uh a lot

Of Hawaiian water Patrol time but also is stationed right down the street here uh for the Honolulu fire department at Sunset Beach so serving the community uh very well and with a lot of commitment we appreciate that and but if there’s anyone that can speak with experience of

Seeing some gnarly injuries uh brother Cliff has seen a lot and um especially out here you know yeah this this this one of the longer coastlines with beautiful beaches and and a lot of nice outer Reef breaks and things like that so there’s always a a chance for injury

Especially with uh the enjoyments of Surfing and a lot of people want to get out there and enjoy the waves but um it also presents its fair share of dangers and stuff so we do see a lot of stuff uh Hawaiian water Patrol fortunately I was

Able to work with them for a long time and um Uncle Terry and Brian kolina and all the boys that work there I can go down a list of names that especially the ones we do have now you know yeah um a lot of the boys from a car coming in

Clutch yeah and uh no there’s lots of experience so if you’ve uh had a chance to make it down to the beach see some of the the updated logos and event me um event Merchant dice we’ve got this beautiful poster that uh is designed by artist Hilton Alvis who’s a Northshore

Resident now uh by way of Brazil from uh before but has been out here for a few decades now he’s done some really nice work around um even on the the school walls of kahoku highend Elementary I mean intermediate sorry yeah which is my alma right yeah this is a ra Red Raider

I’m a I’m what we call a a hybrid I’m a dog I went w and Le so Double U but Hilton as you said but he’s been doing uh some amazing uh community beautification so he’s take you know these all these big buildings or blank spaces that are just

Concrete and just concrete and um he puts these amazing waves or ocean scenes on them you know just a talented guy and he gives so much to the community with his heart yeah teaches the kids about art and Hilton Elvis our poster design you got to check it out at theoi.com if

You guys are sitting at home right now watching the broadcast you’ve got a phone or you got your computer nearby go ahead and open up the website you can see the uh new t-shirt designed for this year you can see that poster and uh deals that are happening those are also

Available for purchase uh posters only five bucks five bucks or uh if you’re down here on the beach they’re going to be selling merchandise down here be $25 a T-shirt and then with with a free poster yeah so you buy a shirt you get a poster uh you can also order that

Online some deals it is uh 2024 so we’re all up to date with our Technical availabilities and uh using all of the the the good technology to get those merchandise items shipped right to your doorstep so convenient these days as you saw our stand up paddle borders now that’s a whole

Another level that’s a whole another level yeah and you got some of the greatest who I didn’t see their name in the competition but they did pave the way you know you got Thea kalas and the kol mcge that would be out here bombing pipeline 10 12 feet um on a standup so

Like with a shortboard it’s hard enough making it out when it’s that big and those guys paddle those things out and actually take off and had times when they actually made it out of the barrel a lot more than they didn’t and it’s pretty impressive one of the one of the

Most impressive and you said you mentioned the the original one of the pioneers of standup paddle at pipe IA Kama yeah I remember being out there on my short port and just watching him drop into these bombs and just AR Soul Arch it backside make it look natural holding

His paddle up little paddle roof Tickler yeah inside the barrel making it look so natural and easy and it was bombing and like you said it is like so difficult very difficult make it look easy like that difficult to make it out when it’s flat yeah amazing display of talent so

Shout out to brother yeah brother up in representing Big Island up hav Island now that was a um late drop drop could be um possibly checking on him to see that was you know right in that spot where kind of like turtle said on North Shore when the wave breaks here

Don’t be there you’re going to H you that’s where he was he was right there yeah especially in this spot um not so much right now it’s this is where it gets even more dangerous too and it’s not as big right cuz uh means it’s a lot

More shallow but um yeah he’s up he’s good that’s the main thing yeah it’s it’s breaking further in so it’s over a little bit shallower Reef when it’s bigger it’s breaking further out so you get you know a little bit more water but and your guard is down a little bit on

Some of these days as you watch him just right there gets a too steep ra action mention that you you know 9 foot board trying to fit in the tight curve of the wave the physics just aren’t in your favor it’s not in your favor at all but

It does take a a talent and like we mentioned is uh the wave selection uh you know not every wave that rolls through there is the one you’re going to want to right take advantage of especially when it’s uh you’re on a longboard kind of don’t have

I don’t have that type of Arsenal and quiver to be snapping boards at pipe on a you know what I mean so yeah selection all that surface area the board can be much more vulnerable as the Drone shot looking into the beach from the lineup see the water shimmering and smooth at

The moment it is still uh just about 9:20 Hawaiian Standard Time as we watch Uncle Lance okano getting there and trying to get to that get around the corner but he’s like oh bro my hips no like do what I used to do before yeah

The guys from Ocean paddler TV I mean I got to give them props I mean this is amazing footage yes they got cameras everywhere you can see this back door wave okay that’s Freddy hu Freddy H trying to make it out of the back door and it just clamps him it’s a little

Tricky one but uh go bigger go home he went packed that one uh wasn’t able to make it out yeah courageous effort pretty good wave selection uh on the takeoff and then was racing down the line that wave kind of outran him a little bit but

Here you go check out the drop real smooth casual nice style and uh no doggy door really to sneak out of on that one yeah that was a back door slamming shot when you have a you have a 10- foot dog to try and sneak out of the doggy door

Yeah he’s up he’s good that’s the main thing right but yeah I was talking about the foot AG they even got drone shots and they have what they’re going to try this year they were saying is uh they got a GoPro on a helmet we’re trying to look

For a a rider that would be interested in a a volunteer a volunteer if you’d like to wear that helmet and try and give them the opportunity to show the rest of the world a shot from inside a barrel that’d be pretty killer yeah live from the GoPro helmet that would be uh

An epic shot we saw that sick camera shot from the ski of balo’s backside Barrel that was just pure gold far as as uh production goes so ocean paddler TV Alex and the crew big Mahalo for stepping up this year and uh putting together a first class broadcast

Experience and Hawaiian water Patrol in the foreground right there and you see two skis out there there’s our cameraman there’s a cameraman and and how is it operating the ski with a camera guy I mean that’s a whole another it’s a whole another Dynamic cuz what you’re normally used to is yourself as

An operator and the person you have on the back normally the Grabber right you’re kind of working as one we have just Jay looking to take off here nice little head tuck there all right but yeah so uh you know you have a dynamics of having a grabber on the back

Who knows what you’re expecting and stuff so it’s a little easier when you have a cameraman he’s trying to fulfill his job right capture the shot you’re trying to open it up to put him in the best position for it and uh he’s not so

Used to being on a ski a lot of times and so that’s the part where it gets kind of tricky and uh is that Uncle Jay tansley Jay tansley on the little head dip get kind the Inside Out pocket flapper I like that style pocket Hot Pocket just for short of

Speed that’s the that’s the wind flag yeah the wind sock check the direction oh here we go manalu packing another one is he going to make it out oh no I thought maybe he might that was a nice one yeah so those are the type of waves

You know I think it’s a it’s kind of the line you’re looking for as a surfer you’re trying to get a little higher pick your right line so you can make it out um that’s the trick about surfing this spot and as you know Rocky uh you probably never in your life

Be able to Surf pipe with a handful of other guys out yeah it it’s um it’s kind of it’s a different perspective you know when um the heat is coming to an end but I got to say I like Mana nalu’s chances of advancement that one barrel was W

Selection yeah amazing and uh we’ll talk more about it um as uh we change over the Heats so it’ll be uh standup paddle boarding coming up next standup paddle boarding and this is what we were talking about earlier this is going to make for some really good uh surfing especially standup surfing here

At pipe um our heat w we got a couple of guys in there uh that really do send it and they do push the limits uh guys like morrus uh rigs Napoleon and tootu whose wife just won yeah the master y his wife Moana Jones W so we’ll get a chance to see

Moana’s husband T tootu Wong work his magic here at pipe see the helmet on setting themselves up for Success already what the board that board is submersible he’s sinking it that’s so yeah crazy how some of the guys have scaled down their equipment to a size that’s more

Maneuverable and uh as we get ready for Heat number one of Stan Up pow boarding we’re going to look back at what we just saw and check out a recap of heat number three long boarding and uh we saw Freddy hoie Hoy getting some nice little uh

Pipe Barrel tube time right there but this was the wave of the manalu Manalo right here oh my gosh just so well done show how it is and one of our younger guys showing a lot of experience and Technical skill with the ability to get in and out of that Barrel

And then J tansley tley here cruising him little head dip under the curtain with the wind sock yeah so that was uh he number three of longboard and it looked like to me it would be so the top two guys go to the final right so far we got Scotty Fong

And Maka ho and he won it I think bonga uh was in the mix for Heat number two yeah and um in that last Heat I gotta say manalu and Freddy Hui Freddy hu I would say have great chances have great chances rides yeah and these are 25

Minute Heats right now and then the finals will go into be 30 so give them a little bit more time to dial in their wave selection and their uh Maneuvers and stuff like that so it’s Eddie Garcia rigs Napoleon Mo freedus tou Wong Sebastian Gomez and you might be

Wondering how do you tell who’s who well we’re just uh going on style stance logos on the board yeah because as we said on the beach mic you know the hoie traditionally has been known to uh not always do things like by the book or because everybody else says you got to

Do them like this making our own rules making our own rules yeah has been quite a you know steadfast tradition and so this this event we don’t have jerseys because we don’t have to no need yeah we don’t need no no need don’t plan our day and yeah it gives uh

Our Surfers a chance to choose if they want to just go skin you know get some sun get some vitamin D yeah show off the you know the muscl Shir shirts and skins growing up on what TV we on and um or they can wear their sponsor logo to get

Some uh beautiful photos that’s another um plus kind of byproduct of having an event like this you get no crowd in the lineup yeah like nice empty waves no photo bombers no photo bombs and then you get some beautiful opportunity to get shots for your sponsor do some work

Cuz you know pro surfing It’s a Grind It’s a Grind it’s not like it’s not like the normal pro pro uh Pro Sports um you can be getting product and be considered you know Pro yeah and not really getting the money t that it’s needed to survive

Especially here in Hawaii you know it’s so expensive and stuff like everybody else is feeling it as well but yeah you think of pro surfing and it’s like Kelly Slater yeah you know Gabriel Medina Andy Irons you know the kind they’re they’re making you know well into uh good

Comfortable money very comfortable money and uh supporting 1% yeah but there’s a whole Litany of aspiring or lower level Pro Surfers that have to grind it out as we watch oh that back door uh back door wave we’ll try and get get you some names there but

Uh we can warm up into the names once we see a few is that tootu might be tou on the back door a rogue logo the Rogue paddle board yeah so uh sponsorship and stuff like that uh very creative though the kids nowadays uh this next Generation creating YouTube channels and things

Like that they’re making instead of waiting for somebody to give them offers they’re going travel the world surf make a YouTube channel and make a decent wage doing that so that’s pretty cool following their dreams yeah you know um the the Advent and the uh introduction of all of the you know

Like the GoPro camera you can shoot yourself and then being able to come back in and edit it so the kids got all kinds of skills these days as we see some skill getting in the barrel just getting a little sucked over on that one caught that outside edge it’s a tricky

Tricky wave to maneuver um especially when it’s this size but on the rise yeah so hopefully you see some more action see all the Surfline forecast earlier calling for an increase in the swell they brought is down to his pockets in water right there ping a submersible the Drone getting a shot of

The lineup so yeah I was saying earlier like you know when you surf pipe on a regular day there’s going to be 50 60 people yeah kind of tightly packed uh you got back door the right-hander pipe the left and if it’s a day where both are working there’s going to be some

Crossups and some you know going this way that way yeah kind of a circus kind of a circus but there are a lot of times when I would be out there and you use certain areas of the lineup like okay that’s that’s where Tomo’s sitting yeah so that’s where waita is sitting that’s

Where Randall is sitting that’s where uh you Uncle Derek is sitting some pretty heavy position yourself you know kind of based on where they’re at yeah and then you go out there for a heat and nobody’s out there you get a little bit lost uh when when you first experience that

Because you’re so used to seeing tons of heads in the water and those particular guys that you’re queuing off of are normally in the spots but yeah and then you get out there when it’s empty and it’s like whoa okay where am I where’s my lineup exctly your normal lineup

Isn’t really on the board so you’re using you know cracks in the reef you’re using houses up on the on the beach here even the mountains and things behind up there and then the people that are in the water there’s a you know for me

Anyway you want to be in the best spot you can be yeah uh to to be able to pick off one of those bombs on a day when it’s you know it’s good it’s crowded tons of cameras on the beach cameras in the water you know I’ve got a few

Sponsors like we said you know you’re trying to get some shots trying to like put some food on the table exactly you know tank more than Simon and hot dogs so you know I wanted to go haliva Joe’s that day so you know I had to get the

Biggest best wave and get the shot get the shot and the Shaka but uh yeah definitely a tricky spot to navigate and uh the dangers that it come with it if you’re not in the right spot yeah and you’re not ping like your life depends on it cuz it does yeah

There a strong possibility you can get very very hurt here at pipe it’s a very dangerous wave we’ve lost loved ones and friends here we’ve watched Friends get hurt we’ve brought some back to life I mean the list goes on and on you know yeah even just most recently most

Recently Joel chanka yeah uh we’re hoping that he’s in recovery mode he’s scheduled to be surfing here you know in next month for the later this month uh so yeah we just got word that we do have uh our beach interview yeah with Mak makamai on standby we’ll let you guys know when

She’s ready so all right we’re here with man there we go Mana Nal Chandler sorry and he is one of the youngest guys out there he is 15 years old and he just got an amazing wave how do you feel right now feel good I’m just happy to be in the contest

Trying my best but sometimes you get lucky I guess and yeah super thankful to be here right now and surfing yeah amazing and your brother is also going to be in this as well he’s in the shortboard and I’m psyched for him because it’s like my

Dream to be in the contest with my brother so yeah and do you guys train together and encourage each other yeah I mean we kind of do everything together pretty much so it’s like my rightand man brother yeah that’s amazing and how are the wave conditions for longboarding

Today it was kind of perfect just kind of small perfect win like three to four feet but fun doesn’t get much better it’s so that was Mana nalu Chandler we know that yeah and then uhu my disorder that was not her that was her stunt double yeah standing in stand in stand

In but Mana nalu uh just had the wave of the morning backside grab rail pipeline Perfection Perfection congratulations to him on that uh it’s not that easy to catch a wave like that as you saw this morning or through the morning yeah I mean bit tricky maneuvering those big pieces of

Equipment in a tight space uh we didn’t see a lot of completions that where the Surfers got super deep we saw a few that were just kind of in the lip line right under the curl here’s this is morrus that’s who we’ve been watching uh he was

On that back door wave earlier as well the green and blue thatou that is Mo freus yeah the Rogue but we saw you know a lot of guys right in the lip line not super deep and if they got in there deep it was uh either close out or couldn’t make it out

But Manalo was one of the ones that was able to get deep and then also come out nice and clean too right in the open face what you’re striving for every time you padle out to this break you want to make it out yeah first thing you want to

Do is make it out make it out to the line the lineup and then you want to make it out of the barrel days there’s days when that is not easy as we look noan carola on the ski over here one of the best watermen uh here in Hawaii yeah he’s a beast

Waterman among watermen and so we talked about some of the injuries we’ve seen this year but it’s obvious uh the huge story leading up to this year’s theie backdoor shootout was the incident that happened last year K Grace yeah K Grace and his recovery it’s been nice to see him back

In the lineup back in the water yeah um and I believe he’s uh back on the Slate here uh for team Northshore boys norb headed up by makur Rothman but it was Nolan Keana yeah who literally jumped off the jet ski I mean when it comes to human life and equipment equipment

Second yeah we can fix and replace a jet ski Etc exactly but um he was so that incident was so crazy as we watch uh we’ll keep an eye on this action right here we see some some sweepers moving around the lineup sweeping up the lineup

Here oh my Lord oh and that’s exactly what you don’t want to see here at pipeline um definitely going to have Carnage today sending it on that one my head way up here on the second floor of the vcam house oh he scented on that one here’s

Rigs he got out of the way but he saw the setup on that he didn’t want to take a chance of that board slingshotting him on that like smart smart maneuver Patrol checking on the wipe out speaking of Nolan K he’s in there to oh whip it

Around leash you got a hemo a leash man I learned that one um but yeah very good exchange right there we just witnessed noan bringing him in to a safer Zone I I hope he’s okay yeah uh uh um it doesn’t look like they just got

Him out of the Zone maybe we’ve seen quite a bit of wipeouts today already so far not too much uh direct Carnage that we were able to see but this was super late so here’s the replay that’s where that’s where you’re committed bro just that’s like jumping

Off the second floor right here yeah and I mean I’m thankful that he’s in a position he’s in right now yeah and not that could have much worse bad for sure and I thought you know when he was paddling for it as watch frus little grab rail technique tuck the paddle in

The side behind the back action get a score out of the way right yeah it’s like he was uh in a high school color guard with the Baton going around his his back that with the uh what are those uh the ribbons yeah the flag the flag that’s some Talent right

There very talented um but yeah KAG Grace actually good to see that might have been a Sebastian Gomez that was Sebastian was uh twirling that going over that oh was that wipe out I haven’t seen him paddle back out yet so hope that he’s okay that one would be more of Pride that’s

Injured but you never know we got kyeni the great some Legends kyeni going out actually’s not a legend yet CU he’s just in his prime so yeah legendary he’s uh done some legendary things yeah and uh you know I watched a special on him like

I forget how much things he did in one day it was like kiting yeah uh wing for uh wind surfing surfing and he did like five or six different things seven things in one day I was just amazing to see that guy got to around a very wide ranging talented person definitely and

Has been you know taking a stab at shortboard competition yeah I mean I first time I saw him riding a regular shortboard I was like oh who is that that’s kyen yeah this is a little replay of a back door wave we saw just a moment ago couple of replays we’re going

Through this is Mo freist and uh another Mo I like that one Mo I like that uh yeah that paddle tuck technique very that’s pretty cool how you can see some of the guys utilize the paddle as well right some of them use it to help turn

Yeah and stuff of that nature so it’s adding a little degree of difficulty with having something in your hands like that and uh yeah and I feel like uh that’s a lot of the reason there has been a lot of kite and wind Surfers that have converted to uh standup paddle

Surfing because they are used to having that crossbar and so you’ve seen guys like uh K de boits come from the kite surfing kyeni and transition be very skilled at handling um and surfing with something in your hand that’s you know regular conventional short board and long boarding your hands free so right

You got a little more uh freedom to get your hands you know for style but when you got to incorporate holding a paddle that isg for sure just couple of guys just sitting there talking story normally not the case here at pipe everybody’s jocking for position so this is one of the

Beauties about this event uh you know the 2024 the backo shootout um amazing how you can pack all this good stuff into one venue you know got longboarding we got standup surfing we got body surfing shortboard um an amazing days of events here from the 4th to the 16th is the

Holding period uh we got yeah it’s pretty cool to be up and running on day number one to to W here yeah that is T hotu tell to W yeah he’s from Tahiti and so he’s quite used to surfing over yeah some dangerous chores yeah exactly uh there’s not many

Breaks in Tahiti that aren’t like that yeah and uh he’s the husband of the queen of pipeline yeah so big shoes to F yeah she was charging absolutely charging the uh conversation at the dinner table like so how did you do it pipeline well

I wan how did you do uh I didn’t yeah but I had fun I haven’t seen yet if she’s coaching him down on the beach or what but probably I saw her earlier as she’s around and cheering on her man and uh having his time to to shine hang out

At pipe and get some good waves you see the beautiful colors in the water how it transitions from the sand over to the reef the lighter green water with bottom and then that dark kind of bluish almost purple sometimes signifying that you are over some over something pretty pretty

Dangerous yeah solid Reef these guys paddling for this wave looks like they’re going to split a peak here Rocky oh wriglesworth so make sure you guys uh go check out theoi.com uh we just got uh our 2024 the hooie hats for the back door shootout and we’re going to sport these

We’re going to sport these I’m going to switch out my uh personalized uh easy BR design you guys may have seen that during the Eddie IA event as well that was sporting and um the .c is where you can get your gear gear up gang definitely want to gear

Up all your products there at the.com um they got some pre-sale shirts too you can go online and check it out for the merchandise here if you’re not here on the beach um I think the prices are $25 a shirt they have posters we talked about Hilton

Uh Alvis designed um posters are $5 or you just purchase a shirt he comes with a poster so all supplies last of course uh theoi.com that’s where you can check it all out and um you know if you like the easy bro design nsog designs.com going to do a Shameless self-plug for

Now you got to do what you got to do what we got going on but all the action is that the back door right there as well oh that’s a replay oh that was just getting a little too high line there then the the bottom dropped out from under them yeah

It’s like the the trap door the trap door walking around in the Attic oops push the reset button yeah you’re in the Attic next thing you know you’re on the dining table the technique of getting through waves with standup paddle board equipment is got a couple different kind of

Techniques you saw the you saw the rug getting pulled out from under I like that one you know the the kickboard kickboard techque front yeah right little pipe action not not really the pipe that we’re normally seeing but uh there’s a lot of sand that still has to

Move and everything yet but there is potential out there if you find a gem yeah from that off the uh nice and crisp yeah quality definitely definitely so you know watching Mo on the backand uh carving at pipeline yeah reminds me of one of our first uh backdoor shootout

Winners Johnny Boy Gomes back in the day the Masters at and smashing when he was going backside and unloading some of those under the lip snaps never ski leg day right so they’re padding for this one look like a little nugget a little runner back door stalling a little that could be edar

Nice little back door wave we didn’t quite get to see the pipe I’m sure we’ll see the replay but uh yeah splitting the peak another back door little tricky one but uh that Drone footage another back door so they got some wave action coming through now like

A little wave machine M pumping down the line back door does not make it out he tried catch some speed for that the wave is really fast uh but yeah it’s not just barrels today you know like you said little off the toop floaters and things like that you

Got to get creative to get your points today for sure maybe it’ll change as a swell Fs in you know and the paddle back out technique you see the hand paddling there for molus uh and I even saw him earlier fly his paddle ahead like 20 yards yeah like through

Over the wave and then he paddled and went through it on the laying prone yeah and then we saw the other technique where you fall on your back and kick the board forward over the wave so a couple different ways of getting back out there’s a nice little stall right there

And uh the shampoo shower conditioner bubble bat sprinkle once again Head and Shoulders that replay on the pipe replay on morrus’ back door little pump session right there uh did just doesn’t just doesn’t make it out so just a few minutes remaining in this first heat of

Paddle board we’re going to stick with the paddle boarding and go to heat 2 and uh possibly bring back Isaiah Walker and Ezra rodrig for the call for the few Heats and the next Heat of cff and I will go do our rotation at the beach mic so

You get to uh see us in yeah All Phases of this event little bit of everything and uh we’ll entertain the folks that are live here on the beach it’s pretty good crowd that’s assembling to watch the event today January 4th Happy New Year to all of you hopefully it was a a

Good safe one everybody’s got their two eyes still all 10 fingers 10 fingers 10 toes how about he uh is big on fireworks and oh man I was watching some of the the YouTube videos that got put out the next day of people just like uh shooting like from their backyard in makakilo

Down towards Eva and white pahu just lighting it up oh bro was like legal yeah yeah In some cultures see any organized fireworks show around here but just walk outside walk outside is much better yeah for sure amazing but uh glad everybody made it into

2020 2 4 and I hope everybody has a prosperous safe one this coming year uh set goals and enjoy 361 days now to 2025 all right so just about a minute remaining looking for the the last final waves here so I I believe top three of these guys will advance because there’s

Two Heats so we’re making these six-man finals for longboarding and for stand up paddle boarding we got some sets coming through here we’ll see uh who gets the okay privilege of riding one of these bombs right here the technical ability to man that board look likeu W here tootu he doesn’t and come

On just clamped him just clamped him a little bit but he packed that one pretty good It’s Tricky you got a lot of board too you know yeah the width of the board yeah definitely because you have to be standing on the board while it’s still

And not moving with momentum it is uh tricky a wide piece of equipment with you know usually pretty fat rails so sitting the rail is tricky not to get catch the rail yeah and you know to watch these guys maneuver around you see Mo freus like you said up to his

Pockets sinking that board that’s the heat right there he was looking for that one but just not in position so that is the end of heat one of our standup paddle board first round going into heat number semi-final yeah heat so it’ll be a semi-final number two

Coming up next and there’s nice little shot bringing it in from the Drone you and Heat number two is on heat number two is Heat number one clears out you see all the turbulent water on the inside section right there beautiful drone capturing the aerial overviews and Rocky Cannon and

Cliff Botello our our new hoey hats and um we’re going to bring you a heat number two and we’re going to also take a short commercial break and we’ll be back with standup paddle Heat number two and we’ll bring back Isaiah Walker and Ezra Rodriguez Ezra Rodriguez La The hoie back door shootout 20124 is presented by go nuts Hawaii and Kiki Beach bung special Mahal to the members of the H oal Monster Energy athletic Brewing caloa tortillas Odum water Waka water Saltwater Society Hal Eva juice this live presentation is produced by Zone media creators of ocean paddler

TV Hawaiian extreme sports TV and in the zone all right welcome back to the back door shootout 2023 2024 excuse me happy New Year how oldi makahiki and we are live here at pipeline some exciting action we’ve seen so far as we’re uh into the building swell that we’ve been anticipating for

Today and exciting action here we’re now into our standup paddle round one Heat number two out in the water we have Zay Switzer Bernard rodri rodiger uh kyeni Zayn aselin and poo pey So stacked heat here and we’ve seen some Great Waves as you see in the background there we’ve got a little bit of overcast Skies glassy conditions and a rising swell so uh exciting day here at the back door shootout our standup division Isaiah Walker and Ezra Rodriguez will be joining us in a

Moment again this is Heat number two in our standup paddle division incredible um action that we’re seeing here today uh each year at the back door shootout we’re excited to celebrate the various types of of riding vehicles and uh standup paddle we’ve every year seen a lot of

Incredible um incredible action a lot of lot of prowess in order to to pull into these back door waves on a standup paddle and so uh none other than KY Lenny out there in the lineup today we’ve seen him at the back door shootout each year in both the uh sub division

And the longboard uh excuse me the shortboard division so we’re excited to see Kai Zayn SW figher I believe was uh last year’s Champion so we’ve got a pretty stacked heat here it looks like Kai is on the beach hopefully he’s okay here we go this is a replay of what

We saw during the commercial break Kai way up forward slips off of his board trying to get that forward momentum comes down he’s on the beach right now we’ll check it make sure that he’s all right good morning Isaiah so this is what’s going on yeah looks like um

You’re only allowed to Surf if you’re in the shortboard main event this year you are only allowed to do one division so he’s been called in I just switched off Beach announcer Rocky’s back on beach announcing he needs to make a quick decision they’re discussing it right now

With uh CU he’s in Team new Earth project with Clay maral Kelly Slater cariss Amar po my ho no no Zayn Switzer Zay swizer two time Champion amazing such an amazing Waterman from Maui Maui no joke always always breeding some amazing Waterman would you say that was zann

Eln Zayn seems to be a popular name in the standup division it does cuz that’s your one friend Zayn’s Zay I met his daughter is an amazing Surfer oh yeah that’s his sister actually his sister amazing Ripper and then he was killing it last year I’ve called a few Heats

With you where is he this year the guy he’s from Haula right he is from Haula where you stay in brail now um he’s on a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ the latterday Saints oh good for him right on he taking two years off to do

Some service for um in Brazil well hey let’s say hi to Brazil cuz they are logged on Texas from Friends what’s up Brazil awesome stuff so he’s up there huh yeah he might be tuning in I know two of my other friends Ricardo is on there and uh you know zann schwitzer he

Does it all too he’s not just a standup paddle kind of guy guy charges too charges but these guys they make the standup paddle not even look like it’s three to four inches 23 and a half wide let me tell you you know last year’s uh uh performance from kyeni was

Amazing as well right so that’s interesting you’re saying that they they have a rule that you can only be in one division yep you either focus on your shortboard I mean you know KY Lenny does everything really well that must be a new rule to the this year because he’s done both divisions

For the last you know last year on that standup paddle board that he had he was doing coming out of the back door doing vertical shortboard snaps right over ANS so and he just got a a great first wave but he just needed to make a decision

But you are going to get to see this amazing athlete come up in the team’s events okay and they’re going to be new Earth Project Jamie O’Brien Mr KY Lenny matahi Dr Carissa Moore and Kaa Smith with alternate Shaden picaro yes Shaden from Big Island really good Surfer really good

Surfer rips here out at pipeline yeah so hopefully he gets a chance to be in his first backdoor shootout who’s this this looks like Switzer swizer again colorful tail pad he had I was watching the last Heat on the tower Mo freedus was a busy boy in that

Last Heat wasn’t he here’s po my PO my one of my favorites great performance last year he’s looking for some pipe bombs this year if he gets offered a back door F this kanaka he ain’t scared of anything he surf them all another guy that works with the hin

Water patol as well let me tell you about uh surfing with this guy he got to do a longboard heat with us at Makaha the waves were 12 ft him and ha just pulled away from me and Russy they went all the way out to the point and caught

Giant waves of white water so these guys they training they ready oh beautiful travel that was rhiger yeah Bernard rhiger charging so zannen Zayn Switzer pomai hoopili all have waves on the board and man being up there our judging panel are you kidding me up there you

Got Flynn Novak you got uh you got love hodell and you got the man himself um is kaha up there kah’s also up there too that’s amazing stuff so they they they all have they have their alternate judges too so amazing stuff and we’re fueled by monster energy caloa tortilla chips

Athletic Brewing odam Hawaii what’s up brother AK Aaron Kim and the Gang W water Hol Eva juice and two thumbs tattoo this guy’s been with us a long time Mahalo For Your sponsorship and letting this Legacy live on um up in the well I know that usually

We have the Stoke bloke up there in the in the tower judging Barton Lynch is he up there oh the the man the guy that’s also an amazing announcer and from that those days of me just watching VHS surf films I mean the guy is amazing and he’s a

Frothy Grom he’s also raising his Grom here on the NorthShore and they are watching him and Joel s tail is up there as well they are picking it apart detail for detail you know what I love that I love that you have you know former pro Surfers people who have been in surfing

Competitions that are up there in the judging Tower um especially those that that know pipeline know what it takes to to to ride this wave and uh to have that kind of expertise in the judging Tower I think it’s it’s awesome Yep and you know we always got

To remind if you’re going to be any part of surfy you got to keep doing that too you got to keep it real you know if you’re going to judge you might as well shred too right right so awesome stuff back door shootout the infamous It Ain’t

Easy you got to get a community runs this event so thank you to the NorthShore Community huo islandwide club members Mal Makai always doing amazing things for us alongside the competition the hooie backo shootout celebrates Hawaiian culture and traditions the only surfing event on the NorthShore ran by the

Hawaiian surfing Club 49e history unlike no other and you know that history yeah so yeah the hoie uh 1976 those are really interesting years in Hawaii the mid 70s because in the midst of this what what we call often times historians will call the Hawaiian Renaissance so in the

1970s in Hawaii there’s a real shift that’s taking place with like the sense of Hawaiian identity um you know in years prior a lot of Hawaiian culture you know kind of struggled to um to survive in many ways um but we saw in the 70s and into the 80s of course this

Resurgence for example Haw language uh we see a lot of resurgence in Haw language where it’s it U previous years it was was not allowed to be taught in in elementary schools or in in in schools um in the 70s they shift to to make that difference so that ha language

Is revitalized through Hawaiian immersion programs which today is very strong in fact we have in the heat here poai H um his his kids and my kids go to the same schoola Hawaiian language immersion program beautiful but the 70s were all about that um and and surfing

Is part of that tradition and and uh of of Hawaiian culture and revitalization so the who is a part of that we’re going to see this one of Ky Lenny this is one that he way back from from theep pumping trying to get a up

Way up on the front of the board man straight shortboard pumps that 3-in thick 23 wide Formula 1 board here we have zayer he’s got such low center of gravity you know if you’re in the surf industry all our W tell us Bend our knees he has no problem he’s bent he’s

Contorted he’s ready Zan swies are low center of gravity ready to take on anything yeah Z also I mean I’ve uh charges out at p on M and Jaws uhhuh he’s definitely one of the community leaders P getting covered oh my hely oh bro and then you know you seen

That that fist like he ain’t going to overdo it but he’s stoked with that as I’m stoked right now that was a true In-N-Out uh that’s what it’s all about that’s what they’re trying to get they’re trying to accomplish that twice whether it be bigger whatever they can

Get but wave selection is definitely key so with Zane schwitzer turning in a four and a one that brings him to a grand total of a five pomai is looking with a two and a one five so he’s looking to drop all that and turn in this amazing

Score yeah we got a replay and scores will drop Zay Switzer’s last wave a 317 it’s a little cover up tries to get back in the barrel gets a little shade there goes huh turns into the air this is po Maya’s last one gets covered up yeah not bad threads it beautifully for

What it is that’s the best you could have done for what it is chandelier in and out he stoked with it so Pai gets a five last one 5 five zero sounds about right as the waves will pick up yep he’s going to have to deal with some

There is no duck diving a standup paddle board but you know what I mean I watched this guy paddle through some currents and it’s amazing stuff for sure all right we did have some action take place while we’re watching the replay which is interesting because it’s p my up

Again oh oh you just blew the tail out of that thing and his board got racked on the left coming towards his way but P my a Hawaiian in ATA and part of the Hawaiian water Patrol Uncle Terry aoui thank you for being here all your amazing nephews your

Son riger up and out on back door zaye Asen yes oh back door definitely got some action we got nine minutes remaining Zane Switzer Bernard rigger um zanen Asen and pomai opili uh sorry guys KY Lenny had to come in and make a decision because he’s surfing for an amazing Team new Earth

Project and they’ll be coming up maybe tomorrow we’ll see it’s all about the forecast and checking in over here at the houses with the huo healo and Uncle Eddie Rothman and just look at the lineup in the dark let the light hit it a little bit you know

We always like how you diagnosed morning sickness morning sessions how pipeline can be and we all know our aunties and uncles that are dieh hard morning Surfers you know they don’t mind if it’s morning sickness they just go the good morning crowd nice view as Zone media uh ocean paddler TV

And Hawaiian extreme sports were the innovators of Drone footage for surfing and don’t forget guys we also are offering you guys can take a GoPro out for your heat get totally shacked and we go live right to that as we’re talking commentating so we’re going to definitely get some Visions a split Peak

Here Bernard riger zaye as wow his board is really uh unique looking maybe because it’s white it’s a little bit narrower watching Mo freedus earlier it’s like he’s standing on like a 70 you know sunk in takes a lot of leg strength balance a lot of

Core and a lot of core values in standup paddling heel toe Edge if you ever have a sore foot and you go out and stand up paddle your feet are going to be way more sore after that man you’re carrying your weight you’re leaning absorbing right yeah all the pretty sure this is

Bernard I don’t think Zayn is uh or um yeah that that Bernard going right and split Peak there oh Bernard okay and Bernard is looking to get a six-point ride to get into the advancing seat we got PA May and Zayn so far who are I’m

Not familiar with Bernard but he’s got a nice smooth style really really yeah welcome to the back door shootout Bernard and you know this event out of all the events you know got to get invited but the way the and huo healo you know it’s always been a old hwan

Story our athletes from down here islandwide don’t get in certain events and this one pays homage to the pipe Specialists even guys from out of town that have been here and put in their time with so much respect and amazingness and with aloha right you can

See on the screen up next our longboard final coming up next here we have Zay Switzer grabbing rail going back door can he get in that bar he gets briefly covered up oh beautiful backside carve into a nice Whitewater rebound and he snapped it off like a shortboard that was

Awesome zaye swies are changing it up loses there he is behind you bro oh and then he’s going to have to oh not too B dad sometimes you just get worked in there look at that technique big dog slowing down dragging his thigh in the water he’s also holding his paddle as he

Was in the barrel instead of holding it with his Rail and then he switched to do that massive cut back to Whitewater rebound wow you got steezed out on that one he’s going to negotiate some white water cuz these guys are riding real short standup boards let me tell you uh

A regular human wouldn’t be able to stand on it it would sink you got to keep the thing constantly moving so yeah that is amazing the how small these boards I remember when you know stand up pedal first started they’re very big boards very long and now out

Here at pipeline they’re riding really short boards here we go oh my goodness wow switches stance and he switches stance now he’s goofy foot okay is that the same guy or what Bernard switching it up like burn gered or yeah so one of the best wind Surfers

In the world and switching stance like Rusty kelana that was awesome had no you could couldn’t even tell that he wasn’t natural goofy watch this replay stalls Wows in completely gone that is going to change things comes out with some spit yeah oh beautiful stance at the end feet together

Confident Pai here we go he’s going to thread the needle good technique with the paddle slowed down did all he could do right Isaiah on that one so he’s going to capitalize and get another pretty good second score this should be interesting because all three of our

Competitors right now are going to be really close in as far as scores are concerned currently I’m excited to see Bernard that was a clean in and out burn uh rigard I mean I didn’t realize I mean he is one of the best uh wi Surfers out

There Maui and bringing his uh you know his skill to stand up paddle today at the back door shootout showing a lot of Versatility a replay of Pai dragging the paddle gets quickly covered up that SAR closeout section he has to straighten out to avoid that close out

So we have P my Zayn and burn who are very close in in their um really close it’s going to come down to a wave at 252 remaining and from what I’m seeing we have a a score for him at a 5.33 for that Barrel that uh rodiger got so he’s

Right there in the mix but the the scores are so close because has been also getting some great rides and Paya as well so they’re all sitting very close to each other just um fractions of a point off our judging panels picking it apart Barton Lynch Flynn Novak love

Hodell jelent tail you put these guys in jerseys you know what I mean they’re dangerous still Joel s tail man he could go out to back door and win the thing so so pay looks like he’s in the lead with an 8.5 Zayn Switzer with a

717 and riger with a seven so all all riger needs now is a 3.18 to move into that top two position yeah so they definitely have to realize that they have 150 as all three athletes are standing up at least they’re not rubbing elbows you know what I mean paddle check paddle

Check they are significant spread out as you can see from the ocean paddler TV drone and and uh doesn’t look like there’s any Pacific ribs coming in for this last minute but you never know aium pipe wave could change it at this point because they are so close and

Looks like zann is camping right on top of riger knowing oh he’s an athlete he’s the two-time defending champion of this event so he’s going to want to make the final so for to solidify the final oh he just fell off he’s like let’s just lay down

Now and rodar was smart to sit on the inside cuz all he needs is a 3.17 these guys have such good sportsmanship even though they have that gnarly competitive bone look at them they’re just talking story you don’t really see that that much well it looks like our scores have updated I didn’t

Realize there were some changes to the scores or that it was still updating yep still up dating all right but it seems that but I feel that you see that wave wasn’t totally updated that was a 683 I kind of felt that that wave was up there

It was going into the excellent range and that puts Mr riger Right up as uh first time me getting to know him and watching him surf an amazing Maui boy and you know they’re not just hearing he’s one of the best wind Surfers in the world once you know about that about him

That’s not all he does yeah growing up around Rush Randall and then that looked like the updated scores that Bernard did make it up to the top him and po Maya looks like they’re going to make it through exciting quarterfinal all right well before we start this next longboard final we’re

Going to take a quick break stay with us as we get back with the finals of the longboard at the back door shootout 2024 see you soon see you soon all La The hoie back door shootout 2024 is presented by go nuts Hawaii and Kiki beach bungalows special mahalos to the members of theal Monster Energy athletic Brewing caloa tortillas Odum water Waka water Saltwater Society Hal Eva juice this live presentation is produced by by Zone media creators of ocean

Paddler TV Hawaiian extreme sports TV and in the zone hey welcome back gang welcome to 2024 and what a great way to spend the New Year joining us here at the back door shootout brought to you by guts and Kiki beach bungalows my name is Ezra rodrig alongside this amazing Professor

Isaiah Walker Aloha brother Aloha good morning had some exciting action we’re here at at pipeline backo shootout day one and we’ve got an exciting event and we’re into this building swell y so we’ve been having primarily longboard and standup paddle divisions today uh there’s been some great rides great

Conditions yes sir we’re seeing the swell slowly rising and it’s supposed to peak tonight so we should have some action throughout the day and into tomorrow yeah we should have some real good good pipe and back door tomorrow it is picking up right now our longboard final welcome thank you for

Joining us Scotty Fong is in the heat with mananalo Chandler Mr Bunga Perkins a world champion longboard Surfer Maka ho Derek Ho’s son lifelong Legacy down here on the NorthShore Freddy Hy Hoy from the island of the big island where you guys reside right and uh dino mirando world champion longboarder as

Well that is a stacked finalize yeah I’m excited you have a couple of world Champs you’ve got some Young Guns you’ve got some Legends and that’s what I love about here at the back door shootout uh you have a you know whole mix of Surfers that that uh are competing against each

Other and it looks like here going back door Scotty F come on whoa FY Jr there was a hole but that that that foam ball just ripped right underneath this F and tossed him over but he’s getting started just like in that other heat yeah he

Kept busy in the last Heat you never know where that pans out when you’re going into the dying five minutes yeah awesome I thought he was going to come out of that no me too he traveling he was gone but he was still traveling it looked promising uh but maybe it just clamped

On him or the foam ball got him Scotty Fong does amazing things sometimes you don’t even he’s such a humble Hawaiian you never notice him in a heat um he’s like that like you know another longboard Surfer capona Nina you don’t see them much in the heat they’re

Catching the smaller SCH medium waves but then they’re getting giant scores and you got to watch out for that those guys always know how to play that game real humble oh no doing junk I would swim to the beach and then you come in and they won the heat so Scotty Fong Jr

Yeah uh earlier in the semifinals um as mananalu was getting some Shacks saw him get a one of the waves of the morning deep Barrel came out of it so and you see you got Dino Miranda here in the final you see those two big barrels even though you’re threading and you don’t

Come out you’re going to get awarded for it and this is just where Dino mirando wanted to be you know he’s he’s one of the best longboard Barrel Riders and with him his cousin is banga okay you know what I mean all these guys are good friends you know what I mean Frederick

Hoie hoie rides under on bunga’s board brand and you know everybody knows mananalo Chandler he’s just the the Grom Jr oh so I heard we got a amazing interview down there with the two-time champ of the back door shootout zanen Switzer let’s go back downstairs we’re

Here with Zay Switzer who is a Pioneer for paddle boarding so you just got some amazing waves out there you got one two barrels for one wave one in the beginning how did that feel oh so good to be on the NorthShore and to compete in the back door shootout aukai is a

Dream come true we’re super grateful to be included at this event so huge Mahalo to theoi and to the NorthShore Community for getting all of us out here body surf body board surf standup Waterman event for Duke koku amazing and so I know that you actually can do airs that’s that’s

Something you’re known doing so how how did you kind of figure out how to do that well I grew up surfing and wind surfing so getting off the water is uh super fun so as soon as I got into standup paddling um I wanted to mix in the longboard and shortboard style at

That time the boards are pretty big so I started cutting them down shorter like my short boards and yeah that kind of was the early days of sub and now we’re riding pretty much shortboards no problems doing airs and a lot of the Maneuvers that guys do on a normal traditional

Surfboard amazing and I know that you are a new dad is your family here cheering you on yeah first trip with my baby boy kah aai along with my wife Kimberly we’re all here together and I’m stoked to be uh taking the little family trip little break from L it’s been crazy

Times back home so so nice to chain scene hang with our friends and family from the NorthShore and big Mahala to Napoleon Ohana and Janella Ohana for always hosting us and uh yeah really grateful to be hanging with the family out here great amazing job wow um amazing that you know he he

You know he able to explain the way that he helped to develop the you know pioneering of shorter boards riding shorter boards on standup and you know Maui guys have that ability of of mixing up you know he’s like I grew up you know on a shortboard on a standup and also on

Wind surfing and you know they’re also P of the era the Roberson right here at these Volcom houses the Roberson Justin Roberson started doing these backside airs and that is the emblem of hga okay and those guys and then Matt archbald everybody was involved the Fletchers I

Mean they Maui always has a pool of talent you know I got to hang out with uh go on trips with Sai Smiley and Steve Cooney he’s no longer here but there guy downstairs one of the bossman’s down here at Volcom Ty van dijke there’s just

A bunch of guys that are super talented from Maui and if nobody knew live on air right now they were pioneers of the airs not just you see all the younger guys Matt Miola all these guys but you know it was uh forged in the winds over there right and

Zann was a two-time champ that that was a tough heat for him though in that last one he he was uh up and down up and down burn kind of came up from the bottom did that switch dance barrel and uh we’ll see so at the last Point zanen did make

It into the finals right uh we are we we will update you on that I thought I almost seen him get bumped to Third and pull my but we shall see you’re currently watching Scotty Fong Mana nalo Chandler runner up of last last year’s um Keegan Edwards got

Knocked out last year’s champion and uh you got uh mcoo Frederick Hui hoie and Dino Miranda Dino Miranda in the first round getting some of the the the deeper bigger pipe cones and uh if this guy scores a back door better be careful you also got guys

Like Bunga Perkins out there in the lineup too so these guys are all real tight they know each other here goes the finals these guys are getting together excellent performance by tootu Wong too I love that front hand snap outside of his uh traveling pocket ride

Barrel and Zayn is in the final so up next Mo freus Sebastian Gomez tou Wong brard rigger pomai opili and Zayn schwitzer wow all right so he did make through uh looked like top three so that worked out well yeah awesome oh someone got one high turd that’s the

Best and I’m glad because those you know like even in amateurs you some there’s sometimes the format lands on some ones and then you get a high fourth but that doesn’t happen very often so third place it’s cool to see that you know are Maui Surfers doing well in

These divisions and standup For example um quite a few of them coming from Maui and uh again I also l i mean Zayn’s interview he said a lot of really cool things um one of them he was he was you know shout out to uh to Duke koku and he

Talked about how at this event he loves being invited because of all the uh the different types of of of Divisions and surfboard crafts and we are today celebrating Duan moku so yep um and he talk about his family family explaining to his wife so awesome talk about you know she’s

Probably not telling him Bend his knees he’s got a nice low center of gravity oh he brought his baby that’s his wife Kim super his son is so stoked for the pops super stok his first travel over here to aahu definitely not his last and Stoke for you zaye Switzer such

A community leader back home and just an allaround awesome Waterman and uh Paving the way and Maui’s always been been on the map but oh these characters and athletes that come out of Maui super stoked and you know much aoha to to Maui especially with L and he gave a shout

Out to to L and the struggles that they face our prayers of pulle um continue to be with those Ohana over there and um so seems I mean Zay Zayn seems like a great representative of of Maui and of the the sport here so happy to see him moving on

To the final got his family down here on the beach awesome and um you know that’s what I love about the back door shootout it does have a a real cool family Vibe as I mentioned earlier in this final here uh we have paddling here Dino

Miranda who would be seen as like kind of the uncle or the senior but we’ve got a paddler here oh Scotty Fong a little bit buckled loose on that got excited champ let him go of course you know Dino doesn’t want to drop in these guys are all good oh

Here we go back door manalu beautiful technique as he came down low and gets a doubler not very long but a double double baby his mom was an amazing uh longboard Athlete on Roxy uh back in the days traveled around with her and uh so good to see the kid

Grab you know what I mean it’s I like when the kids like get to broaden their Horizons on every different water craft because whatever you’re focused on it helps you like MCO paddling into this one trying to slow down get in the barrel yeah M hole making dad proud

Man I wonder what the age Gap is between mananalo and uh dino and Dino I mean Dino I’m I don’t want to like or something is he 6 he’s amazing yeah and you know after the ceremony December 30th it was my birthday I watched him get 8ot barrels and there

Was some sweeping ones it looked real inviting but it was work and he went out there and you know it is Real Testament to the healthiness of H Alo and just encouraging um our our Surfers to continue surfing don’t tell everybody about the Fountain of Youth don’t we

Have got enough Surfers came out of Co you know replay he got a little cover up then pulls in again twofer e button with a pencil dive and you know his e pencil dive is just a textbook is perfect it yeah you know one thing I love about

Pipeline too is it’s an iconic wave right and you can tell when you see a wave at Pipeline and then we have some artists Hilton elves he’s there live you guys go check him out he’s here we have $5 posters and $25 shirts getting sold down here at the beach so Hilton elves

You can get your your poster signed by him oh amazing that looks unreal yeah so he’s painted the the the image for the back door shootout this year that’s on our shirts and on the posters and so Hilton is amazing artist based out of kahoku and has a lot of cool murals that

He’s done incredible murals and he really knows how to capture that barreling iconic pipeline wave live here in the flesh I really love just watching the artists in their canvas I can watch that for a long time I mean it almost makes it look like they’re making a mess

And then it just just comes into different shades and then 3DS it’s it’s captivating Hilton elves definitely familiar with his work good to have you here in the flash brother yeah he’s done some cool murals um in Honolulu and also um Kahuku high school and oh yeah yeah nice so some

Great artwork he does check him out but yeah I feel artwork should go on more buildings like that I mean it just looks choice and there’s you know there’s a lot of great artists and muralists um from the NorthShore uh Jack saurin who’s from L who family Surfers

Too and he’s a surfer good friend of mine does a lot of cool murals uh got uh Matt Ortiz and his wife do great work out here on the North shorez huh yeah U muralist and it’s cool that you kind of there’s a celebration of of Hawaiian artists you know Dina Miranda

Is a painter awesome he lived Northshore for many years and just started painting the NorthShore here we go Isaiah Manalo he’s a well-liked Grom as you can hear every house just banging on the deck whistling well he got covered up again there Isaiah right here we go Frederick H hoie

Dino letting him go he was too far back Frederick Hy HO big island in the house too much Sandbar that wave was coming around oh Another Broken Oh broken board gotcha well Bunga going to have to make Frederick a brand new board no I think that was Manalo actually

Got caught inside paddling back up oh I see him he’s in The Sandbar standing up Waist Deep oh he’s got his other half I hope that wasn’t mom’s board I mean he might have even broke the yellow one from last year whoa oh a textbook back door bonga back door

Bonga so good to see him out here it’s good to see him come back back from competition and you know he’s also part of the Hawaiian water Patrol oh Manalo I please tell me you got one backup board oh there he is that’s one big Legacy right there the Keana Legacy Mr

Nolan Keana I call him the gorilla bone he’s amazing this guy and last year I mean I know he’s a you know doesn’t like the spotlight too much but Nolan last year was in action with the water Patrol there’s some replay here of Manalo trying to restall stall that one

Drag the front leg such awesome style yeah yeah Nolan’s wife don’t like us blow up him too much before it comes through the front door all t on T on no but he how you kill Ohana was definitely on site to you know rescue our competitors last year heavy wasn’t it

We’re all in the booth watching every screen the man jumped off his jet ski and just made a you know there’s all these fundamentals and they innovate and create and he at that moment in time gums was coming cracking down behind him he said no ways

I’m he said no more of this ski I got to go manually grab this guy yeah and kala fullon recovery it’s cool to see that he’s back in the event it seems like oh man and you know he’s gonna uh like he posted last night he’s going to

Go face his fears it’s an enjoyment and a profession and a passion of his here we go BP banga Perkins doing what he needs to do as long as we’re showcasing the Duke Kahanamoku specialty event it is also a competition you know not just great sportsmanship and camaraderie

These guys do want the title there is money on the line there is a massive prize purse every year there’s just looks like five minutes remaining yes Scotty fun Jr who not a good choice of waves but you never know until you go it looks like he’s wearing I don’t know

If that’s a brace or just a a shiny leash that he’s got on his ankle there maybe he’s uh maybe he’s just um letting Bunga know you know you know the between friends oh I’m uh injured but they’re not really injured he’s just ready to come out of the gate there’s

Dad carrying the other tail half it’s an awesome kanaka there’s Jay tanley who you’ll hit aalu member he also in one of the yeah he um yeah he got in the heat took place at Dwayne doto Dwayne is in Palm Springs I think taking his aerial list

Sun kalaw to um that new wave pool yeah that’s what people were talking about in the other yard over there have you seen footage of that pool it’s got like this U this different settings one of the settings is like a slab setting yeah and it’s like one of the meanest wave pool

Slab I’ve ever seen so I think they Australia has a slab that I got to watch my friend Harley engleby ser the thing you can get hurt in a pool I mean Donuts lickens compressions people have been injured in that Australia one but I did hear Palm Springs can square out the

Barrel here we go oh it’s like ho makco stalling looking for that Barrel oh doesn’t cooperate love his style but yeah hey and don’t forget these athletes are offered if they want to take a GoPro they can take it out there and we can go Straight live bonga Perkins

BP oh not another BP broken board no he’s he’s intact no oh yes I remember the years bonga never wore a leash you know I mean he he would save boards that way but then you know if you VA out all the way in talk to your brothers your board could be broken

On the shore break by the time cuz The Sandbar will take it and we saw that monal he wasn’t even riding away just back out and that SAR s uh second Board of the day and there’s going to be more broken boards because this is just the start this is day

Number one at the hoie back door shootout brought to you by go nuts Hawaii and Kiki Beach bungalos replay mcco looking to get barreled but wave didn’t really cooperate for him this was the one bonga Perkins in the pit unfortunately it closed out on him but you do know getting gutted in the

Barrel using technique threading it and not coming out you still get rewarded so oh here we go Manalo manal oh how’s that nice little fade off the bottom that was so longboard textbook as he just gets crunched right there I’ve seen this kid get massive close outout waves I wouldn’t say he’s

Just playing with it but he knows what he’s doing this kid is coming oh Dina moranda on the back door Isaiah beautiful textbook stall nice and then he knows to negotiate come out and make it happen that is a score on the board from the champ Dino

Miranda yeah comes out that’s the key I mean he’s been charging all day but um making it out of the barrel has been sort of a struggle for him today but he’s definitely come out of that back door wave that was nice get a replay of that there we have

Dino in the barrel cover up comes out Dino what a fun final heat all different Generations right so in two waves you saw the I mean the first wave we had mon andal probably 16 or now it’s interesting we’ve watched him grow up at this event I know he’s been

In it for the last few years and he’s still teenager and um looks like he’s put on some pounds too he gotten a little bigger yeah and uh but to have him and as a teenager probably 16 or 17 and then right behind him Dino mirand you know we all fluctuate on carbs

Mhm I mean this been an exciting final everybody’s been catching waves mhm and um we have his brother coming up um you know in in the next couple of days he’s surfing with Northshore boys Mak Rothman Legend Chandler Scotty Fong Scotty Fong making a comeback looks like three two one end of

That final we’ll give you updates on on the results but awesome heat lot of action lot of action real exciting as these guys you know there’s a little bit of technique cuz it’s not massive pipeline in back door so there is a little bit of shopping they’re gliding

In all right so we’ll be back soon with our finals of the standup division after this commercial break thank you for being with us 2024 back door shootout here at Bonsai pipeline stay with us Aloha game to bring about Yeah got a large long period SW heading towards Islands this weekend 40 to 60 B [Applause] exposed the hoie back door shoot ow 2024 is presented by go nuts Hawaii and Kiki beach bungalows special Mahal to the members of the hu oal Monster Energy athletic Brewing caloa tortillas Odum water Waka

Water salt water Society Hal Eva juice this live presentation is is produced by Zone media creators of ocean paddler TV Hawaiian extreme sports TV and In the Zone aloha and welcome back to the 2024 the hoie back door shootout first day of this competition for this year the

January 4th waiting period starts with a bang we’ve got our standup paddle finals in the water right now Rocky cannon with cliff botell and everybody on the beach watching live here and also all of you watching on Spectrum surf channel on the hoie back door shootout YouTube channel all the different platforms available

And there you see the lineup for the finals yeah the lineup we got Mo freedus Sebastian Gomes Tong Burn riger yeah b b p and Zane schwitzer yeah so a couple of Maui guys mixing it up with some of our guys from North Shore and from Oahu so good final

Setting up for this year’s theie back door shootout this is day number one got the crowd getting into it they just watched Manalo Chandler get some nice barrels barrels bonga Perkins former world champion still got it Dina Miranda ended the final with a nice back door Barrel so definitely we’ll see how those

Scores work out but it looks like they’re chairing mananalo up the beach Manalo got which is a good indication got the chair that he’s your Champion got the chair right Young Buck very well done OPP opportunity for him they’re staying right there overlooking pipe I mean it’s all about

Reps reps yeah putting in the time putting the time in on the water at this break it’s always different you know every day is not the same today’s a little tricky this morning especially with waiting for the swell to move in uh wave selection like we talked about

Earlier and stuff like that um kind of came in clutch for him yeah I I uh I like your you know pretty clean cut Cliff you know looking professional yeah I got the this is um you guys saw a glimpse of Wild Bill of what I got going

On back here it’s uh I it’s beyond a mullet it’s a Malo it’s a Malo the Flying Fish and um you know my my uh phrase has been I got you got to farm it where it grows yeah yeah know and you’re far you little little on top is kind of hard you

Know no more that much seeds but in the back ho a buger is Tick yeah yeah I can’t complain I can’t that’s what we’re uh we’re working with you see the paddle boarders getting in their positions sweeping what some would say is sweeping the sidewalk out there uh yeah they’re they’re getting

Into position they’re trying to set themselves up for Success here in the uh standup paddle division finals see the beautiful colors in the reef right there from the Drone shot you know it’s a little bit you know not overcast but it’s not like bright and sunny you can see the kind of the

Flat lighting from the cloud cover which makes it a little more comfortable on the beach it’s not blazing hot yeah and um definitely uh getting some beautiful footage with that drone up above and then we’ve got the camera that’s on the jet ski getting those nice water shots

Right in inside the barrel definitely Alex and the crew for uh o ocean patter TV spectacular job we got Pai oh Pai packing one at pipe oo Pai H another Northshore native Haw Waterman and uh also member of the Hawaiian water Patrol has a lot of experience with this

Wave and this uh side of the island as well so he’s uh trying to find that gem needed to hopefully do a good uh showing here in the final yeah look at that style that’s a beautiful shot right there packed it right there I just got away from him a little

Bit so that back door wave was Sebastian Gomez here’s live action Mo frus nice one Mo packing the back door on that one give me some Mo give me some Mo nice so you can kind of see how the waves are different if you’ve been watching uh those last two waves right

There uh one pipe wave got away from po my Mo was able to pack that back door and make it out so wave selection is key here clutch yeah see seems like some of the the midsize waves have been the ones that have been a little more open yeah

The big sets little bit closing out you know um not offering the the nice open exit opportunity so you see Mo freedus as you said Cliff wave selection moving in on the inside a little bit yeah and picks off one that allows him to make it through yeah

Definitely he he had a little whooped Doo too there is thought that was a little backwash kind of kind of a deal he had to deal with but yeah well well ridden wave on the back door there’s that shallow section on the inside where the wave or the water kind of peels off

Yeah and then starts to head back out to the lineup and that you’ll see uh as the Surfers take off or they riding the little bumps yeah and the wave kind of flex yeah definitely not only you have to make the drop you got to navigate those a couple of times too

So these guys are looking to see where the spot is um you know pipe isn’t a normal standup paddle wave right you don’t really see guys stand up pading it so they don’t recommend it either yeah definitely not the spot for for it but these guys are some of the best that

Stand up paddling in the world and so there’s that backwash too backwash uh tootu navigated very well right there and here we got The Sandbar special right there I think that’s I think that’s bad rigger he was uh able to go goofy foot and regular foot swapping it up a little

Bit kind of like uncle Ross K Maka talking about him being banal yeah B and but Prett amazing yeah exactly yeah switch stance and whatnot hey when you can always go front side yeah it’s a pretty good skill yeah and then switch him up to Backside no no takers on that one nice

Drone shot of the Dynamics of positioning for the wave Zay schwitzer zay’s looking like he’s going across looking thater looks like he’s committing to this one right here yeah so we’ve got a tahan to Wong we got this guy from bowi Zay schwitzer and just a fast breaking wave that doesn’t give him

Too much opportunity watch how Zayn goes through that wave that’s that’s one of the way through one of the ways to get through it but you see everything’s right there by him you know so I probably would have taken it on the head but uh yeah that’s one way to get through it

Kick the board through and then you’re just dealing with the paddle I I like like that maneuver I call it the you know pull the rug out from under your maneuver it’s like somebody’s like you’re standing on a area rug and somebody just Yanks it right from under

Your feet and you send it send it right through the lip I want to say thank you to our sponsors right down the coast over here Ki beach bungalows if you ever have a chance to come out to the NorthShore and stay at a very unique spot right on the

Beach that is a great option Kiki beach bungalows and also Mahalo to go nuts Hawaii been around the NorthShore for decades now so Mahalo to those two wonderful sponsors and also Monster Energy caoa and uh athletic brewing and right now we’re going to take you down with our winner our longboard Champion Mana

Nalu chandu Chandler congrats and we are back with the youngest guy out there you did amazing you got so many amazing clean waves how are you feeling right now super good I’m happy I got to Surf with all my longboard Idols at pipe and happy I got

Some waves trying my best to I don’t know he’s very humble and and um I know that you broke a board there and you had to come run up and you had to get another board and you were no leashing it for a little bit there I was

I was scared I was like bro I hope there’s like no sets coming I don’t want to lose this board and then the uncle on the ski gave me a leash and then I put it on out there and caught one more so I was happy you got some amazing waves

Super clean Super stylish it was awesome try my best thank you guys all right so Casey thank you for that and Mana you see he’s got some Hardware around his look like Mr T yeah um very very oh that was sick door Mor freedus was that Mo uh no I think that

Was um uh oh that’s notti Gomez Sebastian Gomez not the normal green and oh is he so here’s Zayn schwitzer schwier here on Z Wave on a wave on the inside yeah whacking it so he’s getting some Maneuvers in there trying to build up some points not your normal pipe you know uh

Zane putting some Maneuvers together to try and get a decent score yeah you know surfing events here at pipe back door it’s all about the barrel yeah so many uh of the big scores will come from getting barrels like that that’s ban Ro Digger on a replay you see

Him going oh that was a live action there and so catching up with the waves that are being ridden currently and that was B now this is oh he just navigated that thing pretty good though that’s the S elevator drop right there you know you’ll hear us

The boys on the beach probably chanting sandb bar watch that last step it’s a doozy it’s a Dooy yeah Pai born and raised out here you know at pal Malu rocky rocky rights area one of the Boys on Hawaiian water Patrol and that would be his front side he’s goofy footed so for him kind of like Rockwell here next to me my co co-host here goofy

Footy which would be front side at pipe here’s some waves approaching on the outside we’ll see who’s in the spot s sweeping the sidewalk looking like somebody wants to be in position for this who’s going to be no takers that thing looked like it swung a little wide too wave selection

Is key for sure so our body Surfers are in the water you see all those heads waiting in the wings right there that’ll be Matt Solomon Philip keura kley melave delori Gomez Conrad Morgan Ray sto and Barry Holt and please forgive us in advance we’re going to uh

Uh say a Col because ENT ifying these body Surfers it’s closely impossible it’s going to be very difficult it looks like just pepper Corn’s floating in the water show yeah we’ll show you the lineup of the names and we’ll do our best uh once that heat begins and we’ll

Check out yeah some of the most most organic form of wave riding yeah ex the body surfing the body just uh just you arms and fins on your feet well looks like uh we got a couple Wah in the mix too I think also want to say thank you

That’s Casey bolt down on the beach getting our interviews okay okay thank you so much Casey y stepping in making it work yeah I think we were scheduled to have pu Mako but uh she is a busy change young person yes so I’m sure has a dreams chasing her dreams uh

Yeah we do have we do have is it one or a couple females in his body surfing yeah so final right I did see uh some out there here’s tou toot Wong from Tahiti see that sandar starting to really really CH up right there and some mutants of waves sucking up on that

Shallow section you definitely want to kick out before the that section uh like tootu just did get back out to the lineup and uh hopefully you can make something happen so this is uh our standup paddle final then we’ve got our body surfing final and we’re still on

Standby to see if we’re going to be getting into uh the afternoon with uh the potential for the shortboard team surfing as we watch Mo freedus on a replay and mo really uh yeah sending one at back door Zan schwitzer not as much coverage but a

Nice carve and then goes right back to the lip showing his maneuverability yeah with that big standup board and then tootu Wong just a beautiful shot getting right in the lip line right there not super deep but good positioning very good positioning in a sense that you’re board you’re dealing

With a board that’s larger than normal surfboards yeah and so it’s kind of tricky on this wave like we talked about earlier the size of the wave surface rails you have everything that’s you got to dial in it looks like they’re sweeping the streets right here getting ready the street sweepers are street

Sweepers are out and about looking looks like Pai is trying to get into a back door potential no no nobody just being handed some caloa the surport chips I love that idea yeah little marketing marketing action right our long time sponsors C law with the surfboards I think they got a body board

In there too everybody who’s in the ocean likes it uh looks like um we’ve got body board surfboard skim board anything ocean Orient F fun shapes for these caloa and they’re also very tasty so next time you’re in the supermarket yourself yeah grab yourself some some caloa and uh goes good with your

Homemade salsa you know I stopped buying salsa already just make your own it’s so easy to make I mean it’s just a lot of chopping but you dra on some good background like theie back door shootout broadcast replay CH and some dips and then get the tomatoes cilantro onions

Call me up I got some avocados you can make guacamole good you get plenty avocados of p p avocados and a beautiful shot from the Drone looking back across the lineup say this is home sweet home to us boys from the NorthShore beautiful place to have been a fortunate enough to grow

Up we got there Mount kaala over there in the backdrop yeah highest point on Oahu so beautiful footage these guys at Ocean pet TV put together Kaa it’s amazing shot if you are watching it uh at home I remember a company called an a clothing way back in

The day vintage some vintage clothing yeah dropp in some uh some OG yeah some OG turned into allos but that’s a whole another show so here we go guys is getting ready to take this one it looks like it’s a potential is that P my no that’s baned ban little Maui boy so

Able to go front side see the leash on the front foot he is a regular foot Surfer by trade but has been working on his St skills yeah oh is that somebody deep a back door potential oh that’s was looking at the left he was super deep he was super

Deep so like we were talking about earlier not the normal standup paddle wave but these guys are making the best of it um very dangerous you know we did have uh hopefully kyen is all right but we we did have an injury already in the event

Yeah so we got a report that there was a head injury yeah for KY Lenny uh I think he was wearing a helmet and it got ripped off his head and then he still got injured and then um Hawaiian water Patrol did uh enlist the um assistance

Of EMS em so we heard the ambulance arrive for uh for kyeni and we’ll hope that he’s okay enough to keep competing in the shortboard division so he was going to paddle out for the standup paddle uh because he was in both divisions but it is a single division

Only per entrance and so he made the easy choice of wanting to stay in the short board division yeah you know in Stand paddle you might surf twice there’s some calw being enjoyed on the beach right there by some of our crow that is they’re making right yeah little crunchy with some

Extra sand sand pebbles but sand grains lots of flavor though so these guys are going for it somebody’s packing back door back oh B under the lip wow oh he’s going to I thought for sure he’d be able to doggy door that thing but it was so close you

See how fast that wave gets like he had some speed but just depends on topography that drop was just there right under the lip as late as you can get right there just is in the barrel from the takeoff yeah and right there it just runs you

Know pull my Ops out of that one they did uh split Peak on that last one you get a lot of that when the waves are uh pretty much this size and bigger you’ll get a sneaker through maybe if you split it you don’t normally see the

Split Peak but uh it has to be uh the perfect start in a sense yeah once it gets above a certain size it kind of shifts to just more of pipeline but this mid-range uh is more conducive to having the both Peaks being available both ways both directions and on the backand mo

Beautiful shot oh get pitched that’s kind of like a perfect Shot For You Folks at home to get to see exactly what goes down in that Barrel you know you got to navigate a lot of different uh things there in the wave and on the wave

Just like that little dig rail it’s just so hard to maneuver these boards comparative to the size of the wave as well and the textures and all that good stuff that they got to navigate yeah when you look into the barrel and watch a guy like you know mo

Freedus who’s amazingly talented yeah and this wave can make the most talented person look like a total C right and uh it it definitely uh exposes a lot of the human vulnerability yeah of uh supplying cook since ever since right yeah I mean pipeline still rules there’s Pai looking

Nice and comfy for the moment it hits that sandbar and jumps off but that was a just a crazy drop couple of replays you can see that W just run on him man not much you could have done there and then Mo Mo’s little get a little high line and then gets totally

Pitched so just about a minute remaining see the time on the upper left there for this standup paddle final padle finals here to might be this one up maybe doesn’t look like much in the horizon just over a minute well I’ve seen quite a few good

Rides it’ll be hard to say uh you know the last Heat it was pretty definitive that mananalo got the best waves uh even though there were some late charges in the heat from Dina Miranda and from bonga Perkins a little different in this heat but this heat is kind of still in

My opinion is anybody’s game on the pipe another split Peak possibly oh Pai nice ride bro nice positioning there yeah that was well nice positioning nice ride and of the heat it’s a decent decent wave for him for sure and that was uh Zan schwier schwizer at the back door we’ll see uh

What he was able to do we’ve got a couple different angles to work with from our great production team ocean paddler TV beautiful footage from these guys at Ocean paddler for sure and check out Zayn at back door grabbing the rail grabbing the rail you know dragging that paddle perfectly

Alongside and then pom was on the left we saw that one live that was nice nice shots so live action SN tle Surfers are coming in and the body surfing has just started and uh as we watch our Surfers come in and we’ll begin our our body

Board uh body surf final excuse me we’re going to take a short commercial break and then we’ll be back with more action from the h back door shootout stay tuned snap too bringing a B got a large long period SW heading towards Islands this weekend 40 to 60t B an exposed oh my bud the hooie backdoor shootout 2024 is presented by go nuts Hawaii and Kiki beach bungalows special Mahal to the members of the Hui oal Monster Energy athletic Brewing caloa tortillas Odum water Waka

Water Saltwater Society Hal Eva juice this live presentation is produced by Zone media creators of ocean paddler TV Hawaiian extreme sports TV and in the zone okay welcome back the beautiful scenery at the hoie back door shootout that is a live look at pipeline the NorthShore of Oahu the legendary surf

Break all that sand piling up towards the left bottom left corner of your screen is what has been the tricky section at pipeline right there really nice shot um to give you an view bird’s eye view of what we talk about when we’re talking about a lot of sand still

Has to move and all that that’s the uh husband of the queen of pipeline that’s tou Wong married to Moana Jones Wong yeah definitely uh he probably I would think that you know these guys do charge so they’re probably hoping it was going to be a

Little bit bigger but I mean it’s still still pipe still chargeable still did a great job showed up and so we got our body surf line up right there Matt Solomon Philip kitamura Kayley Mel kave delori Gomez Conrad Morgan Ray sto and Barry Holt so a

Couple of Wah in the mix yeah of our body surf final so just a one Heat final a chance for these you know normally when you’re body surfing pipe you got to navigate between the Surfers and the other body boarders and so can be quite

Tricky to get a good wave when you got to compete with all those other board Riders but now we give these guys a chance to have pipe to thems and uh what an opportunity yeah definitely an opportunity and like you said Rocky uh it’s extremely hard when there you add

Surfers into this mix to even get a wave let alone you know these guys are or guys Ang gals I should say are here today being able to just have free range of that that lineup which normally isn’t the case when there’s Surfers in the mix

For sure yeah and I mean you and I both have uh spent a lot of time in the water um you know swimming around and the amount of energy that you expend you don’t you can’t you’re not floating on a board you’re not really able to rest

Yeah at all you’re moving constantly for sure so Treading Water Swimming across trying to position yourself swimming back out it is a a full body workout for sure and oh that was an explosion yeah Sandbar specials today over there well that’s good thing I saw that

Beard cuz I I saw a bun at first and you know it it is confirmed a man bun and so that’s yeah you just see the high five between him and Christa one of the camera girls there she is very unassuming but I she’s been out here 10

12 feet and just like in a river kicking and swimming the whole time she’s just Hammer she’s out there getting the shot today also is uh at the Eddie this last Eddie I call Big Wave she was out there capturing the moment and I just read an

Article with her in hanaho Magazine on Hawaiian Airlines so we got a little bit of a break in our body surfing action and I believe Casey Boltz is down there standing by with tahil Wong we’ll hear from them right now all right we’re here with tootu Wong

The husband of the queen of pipeline of course W Wong and you just did great how do you feel after getting those waves uh I feel really good good to surf on Pipeline with only six guys out and everybody in the in the water they’re

All my friends so it was a pretty unique and then I want to thanku thei to put on this event so we get to serve on Pipeline empty and only with our friends which is uh super sick amazing so did you have a lot of fun out

There yeah had a lot of fun got some fun barrels and then uh now it’s time to watch my wife during the surf event some I’m stok and you are from Tahiti original so do you and Moana do you guys go out and surf together a lot here yeah we do

We surf pipeline here in the winter and then one it’s during the summer time we go back to tah and then we go surf T my home break so yeah well definitely shows you did great today so thank you thanks well done today nice uh nice job

In the water and a nice job on the beach obviously uh you know being from Tahiti speaking French as their first language and tahan as well but um speaking very good English too definely he’s he’s uh versed in those uh three different languages very well for sure that’s a

Pretty good life that he just uh kind of Illustrated for us there uh you know hang out on the NorthShore during winter uh in his wife’s Hometown and uh you know he’s been out here competing for some years and that’s how they met so you know um he’s knows the NorthShore

Well and then oh summer let’s go back to my hometown let’s go to Tahiti and serve chopes and uh hang out in the beautiful ocean Paradise Island Paradise so Island Paradise for sure quite the setup you guys got going on yeah and happy for the

Both of them as we see a huge elevator drop right there body wamp is right so these folks that are in this competition body Surfers you know they go to the various spots around our Island you know from point panics to sandies you name it makapuu you know they’re out

There enjoying the ocean just by what you see here surfing with their using their just their body you know it’s pretty amazing to see how long the rides can actually be a nice little long ride there here we go little replay of a nice technique you saw the the front the you

Know the the lead hand kind of holding the line and then the little elbow action from the back a Rudder A little Rudder and uh doing some steering yeah and kind of you know the whole key with body surfing is you want to have yourself you know stick into the wave

You don’t want to try to get airborne you don’t want to you know slide down you want to hold that line you know it’s you’re just dealing with so much less speed because you’re not on a board and um you end up you know riding in the

Pocket of the wave so much more when you’re body surfing so making it out ahead of the of the pocket is very tricky very tricky very tricky uh so right here is our body surfing event and uh this is the final there’s a there’s a wah right there she’s getting

Her action in here at the pipeline as well um we’re on we’re standing by for whatever else would come our way for the event after this but we’re getting some action here with the body surfing that’s pretty killer but you can see this event I

Think it’s as you can see men and women surfing together that I mean body surfing together you know it’s pretty killer yeah I like the co-ed format yeah and we do have uh or we don’t have I should say some of the Legends we normally would see like Mark Cunningham

And those guys that paved away that usually be surfing pretty good siiz pipe actually you’ve seen him out here big waves and they go long rides and put on clinics but uh nonetheless in still feel pretty amazing to watch these guys and GS surf with just their

Bodies really hard to get in on the wave not easy to do to kind of get yourself down the wave and I mean you have to be obviously such a strong swimmer yeah and you know a lot of our lifeguards kind of opt for the body surfing as a form of training keeping

Yourself in shape uh and good swimming shape so uh we’ve seen like you mentioned Mark Cunningham former lifeguard and committed to the body surfing committed to the body surfing very committed for sure just about 13 40 left in the body surfing heat so uh we’re hoping that some we see some sets come

Through so these guys in gals can uh have opportunity to uh showcase their ability on a little bit bigger rise like these waves are still decent size really fun for not having to do it Surfers in the lineup for sure yeah we’re still um you know waiting for the full

Potential of that swell that is forecasted to build throughout the day uh we’ve seen some of the Waves come in that could have you know could be a forerunners or indicators of it but we haven’t seen it really come up you know to size where you know it would be a a a

Sure thing that short boarding would be on we’re kind of still on standby to see if that is going to be happening we’ll keep you updated as uh the day progresses and this heat goes through um I want to say Mahalo to mahina mahina Chillingworth doing all of the

Organizing and um directing for this event definitely not an easy task for sure it is a a lot going on for sure and espec especially especially to make the call uh what we’re going to do next you know they they want to so they kind of want to um they they

Kind of wantan to you want to run the short board too but you you know the boys are salivating they want to surf pipe at it best and so they want the they want the right call which is not always easy to make even though we have

A few days of competition that we could run and and stuff like that they really want to make sure that it’s good for the Surfers yeah and we just got a list of the teams and the team names so we’ve got team Japan uh they’ve always uh represented

Well yeah definitely and uh we’ve got new Earth Project that’s with kyeni and uh those guys got a nice roster there and then na na na is our Brazilian team Brazilian team yeah definitely coming all the way from Brazil to compete here on the pipeline and then uh team

96712 that is our Northshore zip code it’s actually H Eva zip code believe it or not when you live at Sunset Beach your address is still haliva yeah when you live up POA your address is still haliva when you live all the way down by the bolt Harbor your address is haliva

So that that zip code might be one of the widest ranging zip codes broad range for sure because um yeah there’s miles and miles of uh distance between of 96712 and then team snapped five the snapped group always uh putting on a great show Northshore boys I like that NSB NSP

Action and then tubos Peru our Peruvian team they always have a good Groen peruvians we do like them a lot they put on a great show and team vul which is always in the mix again this is kind of their spot we’re actually at the vul house running this uh broadcast and

Stuff like that so these guys on team vom seasoned they actually get to watch this spot on a daily surf it on a daily so they’re definitely got the best uh real estate for being at pipeline you see those pukas in the reef right there from that Drone

Footage and uh sometimes the wave can stuff you in one of those holes and yeah not let you out for a while it’s a definitely very D scary moment definitely very dangerous you see all the the bubbles and stuff on the inside it’s all whitewash and stuff that’s another area

When it does get big you you you can get you can get detached from your board lost in it there’s all kinds of variables that can happen here at pipe it’s definitely one of the the most dangerous waves in the world I I believe yeah it it’s um got I think the the

Highest number of fatalities yeah um and we’ve seen there’s a good technique right there the wave just kind of ran away but these guys are kind of killing it on this body nice tunnel vision we call [Laughter] it H4 yeah so we do have a really good

Lineup here for round one for the men’s short board division uh which is strong potential they’re going to run today yeah still conf confirming if uh if that is on for sure we’ll stand by so we will have uh a a short break right after this body surfing

Heat and uh have about maybe a 10 or 15 minute break and then uh we’ll get right into we are going to go to round one one shortboard surfing so stay tuned folks we’ve got the exciting team shortboard surfing coming up after this body surfing we hope we hope uh the swell

Does fill in and if it does that’s what the boys want to see and they want to ride and here’s a couple of sets for the body surface rolling through here you can see them still having a blast with about eight minutes left in their body serf

Heat and then we’ll roll into a break and then start the men’s short board well talk about putting your body on the line uh you know this pipeline body surfing is a big commitment and every time you catch a wave almost every time you’re just getting pummeled and rolled and twisted

And Ed and there’s nothing for you to grab on to to float and rest you got to swim back out so these guys are true wave Warriors and you know this is oh and going back door right there yeah back door action I I believe this is probably highly likely cuz I wasn’t

Around back then but highly likely that uh this was the first form of Surfing using the body before you found anything else to ride even if it wasn’t a line or sh bre using your body so we’ve got uh little set coming through here about 645 remaining

And nobody taking that one right there kind of a closeup but that was a pretty good little back door wave get a pulled off a spinner you know some of the Maneuvers that uh these body servers will do is that spin or that roll and then um obviously getting in the barrel

Pipe one right here and they’re trying to stay that right there and I’m just getting a message from my cousin Christa actually there’s a uh a dead sperm whale at Marone right now so uh stay out of the water in the mar area just a heads up if you’re

Heading east or you know past the North Shore up you know in the kohoku area uh there is a report of a a dead whale and you know what uh goes for the dead whale carcass is our friends the Mano the big fish the Mano the sharks so

Just uh be heads up yeah if you’re heading to that area that’s uh towards Northern unofficial report we got but we’ll uh keep you posted it’s the food chain right so uh we got a couple of sets rolling through here some people taking these body Surfers are working to

Stay in the position like we said earlier it’s a constant swimming when your body surfing especially here at pipeline the rip uh can suck you down the beach or out so you kind of want to stay in the pocket there and wait for that set position yourselves there’s a lot going

On there that we don’t really see when you’re out there and you see all these body Surfers opting for some some form of swim Fin and uh you know I have a a favorite brand uh the soft kicks with the rounded um the rounded ends are are some of my

Favorite I I don’t like the real long blades I like the shorter um you know more compact as we see our cing County lifeguards finest there daily duties of Beach and Ocean safety thank you very much definitely ocean safety lifeguards day in and day out they’re at our beaches protecting uh

Not just the local people and those of us that come down to the beach but also the folks that come to visit havo yeah wow that was pretty well done right there getting nice little wave reading right there nice extended left-hander oh back to back he’s getting

Bar oh man I thought he had a chance to come out I mean but you can get a in and out as a body Surfer yeah that’s I mean that’s one of the most uh gratifying feelings because uh it’s so difficult yeah that’s why scoring must be so tricky yeah you

Know how do you score it right I’m glad I’m not um a judge today for sure for this event a judge on this body surfing event that is difficult navigating for sure and we’ve got some viewers tuning in from all parts of the world want to

Give a shout out to a particular area I know there’s some folks watching in Jacksonville Beach Florida oh yes sir yeah there’s about a 5our time difference from here to the east coast so it’s uh late in the afternoon and they’re enjoying watching the action from this year’s the hoie backdoor shootout and

Um sounds like we’re going to get into the shortboard competition and feature oh oh how was that upside down wow that was some mean talent and then length of ride too yeah I was going to say he’s he’s r that he rode that one out really good he was

Doing the The Lazy Boy recliner reclined it kicked back took a little power nap and it spun around and made made it happen yeah he’s like just looking up at the clouds for a minute that was impressive very impressive check out that right there the full

Recline and then was able to get around that section so you loads of talent looks like he’s like levitating yeah the ability the ability there uh to go that long is is pretty impressive for sure and then you add the Lazy Boy to it yeah

And uh I guess he he uh we can Pat in that Lazy Boy in the body surf world that’s called The Lazy Boy yeah that’s a really reclin high skilled maneuver and you got to kind of have uh you know nerves of Steel to like be like just looking not looking where you’re

Going yeah backwards at pipe at pipeline yeah with no mas or snark on just about a minute 30 in this body surf event uh the one Heat final inviting some of oahu’s best body Surfers to have pipeline TOS for 25 minutes well worth the entry fee for sure definitely

Worth it plus the bragging rights you know the different events that we have at this competition is what makes it special as well honor of Duke yeah the water is just beautiful so clear it’s almost like you’re swimming around in a pool yeah with how clear the water

Is the visibility must be amazing underwater as we’re seeing it beautiful from above you see that really definedge on theedge of the sandar to The Sandbar yeah and some of the last waves of this body surfing Heat being ridden the guys scored right in the end

Of the heat they got some W and uh you know another Brave part about body surfing is uh your lack of swimwear your of coverage you sometimes are going for the speedo I always body surf in board shorts yeah that’s just uh my within my comfort zone or you can go with the

Speedos shave off some time yeah get get the extra speed speed so the body surfing heat is complete so we’ll take a so with that uh completion of the body surfing heat we’re going to take a a commercial break and we’ll be back with more back door shootout and have uh the

Rest of the schedule set up for you stay tuned stay tuned gang she My [Laughter] foreign spee spee Foreign all right welcome back everybody to the 2024 thei backdoor shootout brought to you by Kiki Bungalows and guts Havi uh we are here on the shores of oahu’s Northshore a hukai beach park the Bonsai pipeline going into our round number one of the men’s shortboard uh divis ision

We are going to get into it today uh we just finished up uh longboard division our standup paddle division as well as our body surfing competition here and so uh that was in honor of the Duke and uh what used to be the ocean Fest and so uh we’re going to head up

Into the round one of the men’s shortboard division today so we are standing by right now for the start of the shortboard division round one we have we have Team Japan Team new Earth Project we got na 96712 snapped five the NorthShore boys turbos Peru and vcum those are the teams competing

Today and uh the way it works is uh which is what makes the back door shootout uh unique is basically the way that the uh competition is run you know it’s unlike most individual focused events where we actually surf in teams a rider surfing teams of five competitors and you basically accumulate

Points by waves ridden um and so you do have an individual portion where each individual is up for for for winning as well as the teams and so uh that’s basically where we’re at and uh that was the horn that started the heat so team Japan is out there and

So in in a more conventional event you’re going to have a you know elimination format where uh you’ll be um you’ll be in a heat with four other guys and then the top two advance and you keep surfing to stay alive like that right but in this format it is uh you

Just get to Surf rounds and try to get your best waves uh in any portion of the the rounds and then your scores added up after so there’s no elimination right which is an awesome way to hold a surf event I believe it’s um one of the best

Formats you could have 100% and uh this is one of the best competitions it’s actually pretty much like a competition for the Surfers right kind of geared up for the Surfers and and they do have a safe the waves they you know they want to ride when it’s decent and they’re out there

Everyday surfing so they kind of know what the waves are doing out there and uh when when they should run it and stuff like that so they do take heed to a lot of the Surfers especially the ones that uh do surf every day and then our

Judging scale goes up to 12 right we go beyond the 10 above and beyond and then our judging crew is a pretty well experienced surf crew of Flynn Novak Barton Lynch love hodell Joel C all have had many many years of experience surfing here and I’m Rocky Canon we got

Cliff Bello we got Isaiah Walker and Ezra Rodriguez also doing uh Merry Go rounding our announcer and then we’ve got this special guest we got Maka Kai Rothman with us in the booth right now Maka good morning kman my little brother how’s this Trio watch out

Gang you know it’s pretty crazy when uh Japan touches the water I swear it’s uh the waves start the last years they probably had the best waves in their Heats and um right now as soon as they touch the water a set came so I’m hoping

They bring the swell in because by this evening it’s going to be pumping maybe they maybe they brought that energy of that 7.4 they just had over there huh and the the magic of Team Japan we’ve seen perfect 12 go down with kto masuoka in the past you know Chargers uh

Gat H Kenshin Matsunaga Jin Suzuki riaru Ito and Sasuke kawatani some of the newer Japanese names that um are coming onto the scene and these guys charge it’s almost like every time I heard RI ruo the waves was a 10 or 11 or something every time he takes off back

Door front door side door doesn’t matter takes off he’s going to get a score paper plastic door like they get in Japan don’t matter screen door there’s no more screen door screen door and all the rice paper door yeah coming from somebody like Mak Kai Rothman too that

Says a lot you know always keeping an eye on who’s surfing what um admiring certain Surfers you know coming from somebody like that who does charge has been Char about charging I tell you what these Japanese Surfers have something in their blood they absolutely charged like Beyond charge it’s just goes to show

That a Japanese Surfer has his own lineup at pipelight the other day he caught a wave that was I mean insane and uh still doing it the guy yeah still doing it still well and I’m showing these guys really really taking the initiative to be the Pioneer I I would say of Japanese

Surfers out here and um his uh his knowledge and you can tell they sit where he sits a lot of them are sitting deep a lot of them are charging super early waves and good if you’re listening Mahal the years that you gave us and you still continue to give us brother you

Inspire us all really good mentoring good mentoring for for sure uh his son taii also you know getting some Great Waves out here and and his daughter Sarah she rips too the whole family serves yeah they’re they’re just a a great surfing Ohana and um have made the

Move here to the NorthShore been here for decades and I mean mom’s in the water too yeah she’s totally ripping his wife is out that V putting into barrels it’s good to see them integrate themselves into this Northshore Community you know has been here for a long time he stayed here raised his

Family here and um it’s just beautiful to see uh other people coming from other places and integrating themselves 100% what makua just said um you know if you choose to call hav home you know welcome but uh it’s also you have a kulana a responsibility too and they they like

Mak said Japanese they really have a huge heart they come here they’re humble culture culturally culturally respectful Cally I mean proper in my eyes they they really have a lot of respect they bow they you know just the way that the Japanese do things a lot of the time

Really can be emulated in a lot of cultures because they’ve got we’ve got a lot to learn from their kind of culture for sure for sure for sure and you mentioned uh how hard they charge and I I man I I tell you it’s that samurai warrior spirit that comes out especially

At a place like pipe where you got to have nerves of Steel and ready to go ready to die basically last year I got hurt K got Grace got really hurt my brother just got his face smashed Kenny serves the biggest waves planet Earth and then let’s not forget about the

Thing about pipeline is I believe it’s much more dangerous on a day like this than any big day and any big wave spot because most of the times when you serve big waves oh my God it’s so crazy but it’s deep it’s pretty water you know

Every once in a while you get unlucky at the bottom but pipeline it’s not deep if you look right now and they zoom in at back door a place called an The Reef sticking out of the water are walking out yeah you you could be in ankle deep

Water coming out of a 10-ft barrel right now and uh it just goes to show that Samurai that that mentality you have to have knowing you’re putting it all on the line and um and potenti great risk great reward as well I mean getting in one of these barrels and coming out

That’s like you’re on cloud nine yeah and then the very next wave you take off you could be injured knocked out you know in near death or or worse and it’s just how quickly things can happen definitely oh yeah definitely it’s uh and the extremes right you know the the

Most amazing feeling ever and then the worst ever yeah I wonder if we have any uh replays from last year by any chance from the Japanese uh maybe we could get some of those waves from show you what we’re talking about right now the ocean really not cooperating with the Surfers

Uh at this moment but should those waves arrive it will be a uh the forecast is uh frenzy out there potential yeah surf line is calling for the swell to increase throughout the day um it’s we’ve seen some little hints of the four runners but nothing really significant

Quite yet but we know it’s on the way I think when the swell pushes it’s going to bring the uh the tide excuse me the tide comes up it’s going to push the swell and that’s when it’s going to start banging for me I mean tell you the

Truth I could really care less how the waves are right now I to heat six and I we pull the names out of a so yeah you did the numbers yeah so that’s another uh cool uh part of the format uh and and Cliff mentioned

It earlier of the the Surfers kind of um this is an event for the Surfers by the Surfers in a in a way to where the order of the team surfing is determined by pulling a number out of the hat or a name or team name out of the hat so you

Put them all you crumble up paper CH them in s hat and then you mix them up and you know look and you Gra grab blind grab and then well I mean I looked yeah we well uh I walked up to the ball and I seen heat one and I definitely wasn’t

Picking that one and then I seen heat eight on the side I definitely wasn’t picking that one so kind of closed my eyes after that he SI so oh yeah we talked about we talked about uh writing the rules and that yeah on the who thing rules none let

Rock so these are 30 minute Heats uh with eight Heats that gives us uh four hours of competition uh and right now and that’s what you’ll see too in this format is a non-elimination so it’s not like you got to scramble around looking for a score needing a twoo five whatever cherry pick

Patience picking the right waves and um you know a lot of opportunity for us to Vol all because they’re just cruising cuz we like to do that too s you know with all this fancy forecasting there are definitely wrong surf line my line your line whatever line was uh seaweedy

Weather whatever you call it even 5101 uh you know it’s just supped to show that mother nature does what she wants and um thank you very much for everybody for your support and giving us the opportunity to have those forecasts but um like guy hogi would say the waves

Is firing tomor yeah somewhere somewhere just uh now but you know what’s awesome about this contest is to serve pipeline regardless with four guys in the water no one out I mean and it’s your friend it’s your friend today could just be a a uh uh what do you call free surf depends

How the waves are it could be an expressing session there you have two more three more full days of competition that means six more rounds of Surfing if we really want to got a nice crowd assembling on the beach all the fans assembled here to watch you know my

Favorite phrase that I made up for a day like today when you see the young kids with the old folks the all AG rer the all a rer all boss all boss rer all boss so we got some nuggets now this is what we have to for packing

It that was so this is what we’re waiting for it’s hopefully going to start to pulse here but uh that’s the beauty of this competition too is it’s for the Surfers by the surface so they don’t really have to jump to any sort of uh Emer

Rush start and stuff like that we want to kind of wait for the waves to come in oh yeah we we we want the waves you know one of my favorite uh events that used to happen and I think that’s where a lot of this this contest kind of emanated

From as we watch a nice pipe wave right there on the backand team Japan oh look comes alive and the crowd appreciates that make sure you guys go to theoi.com to check out the merchandise from this event and uh get it sent right to your doorstep as we

Watch a replay Mak the grab rail technique yeah just really setting his line I mean negotiating those bumps you see how that wave is growing and and and and shrinking just like inhaling and exhaling yeah well it’s really um kind of volatile out there for lack of better

Words the Sand Bar is still there there’s a little bit of a hill on the beach um there’s a little bit of backwash in the water as you can see and um right now just perfectly navigating that Barrel um putting himself in the most critical deepest part as possible

And um that’s awesome because we get to have a scale they’re going to set the scale now there’s a wave there’s a barrel made yeah and um it’ll really give the judges an opportunity and that’s definitely not thinking about scale right now definitely not one job I’d want is to

Try and set the scale especially in your first heat cuz supposed to have size come in I mean that’s the hard part right what do you give that it’s kind of like we call it the guine Pig heat right they go out and test the conditions you

Know we’ve seen the long boarders the paddle boarders the stand ERS you know that’s a little bit different shortboarding you know uh you’re approaching the wave in a total different perspective yeah I mean it’s you don’t really hear anybody really complaining about size yeah yeah and so when uh that score comes in

We’ll see you know how far up the scale there’s still a lot of room in the scale but you said maku that wave was just like flexing and breathing and to navigate through that backside in that barrel and make it out that is some technical skill right inside there tell

The waves are just starting to try and come up it’s trying to figure itself out like the toddler walking kind of getting their foot in giraff you know pipeline it kind of does that like morning sickness sometimes and weight the waves could be you know up 10

To 12 ft but until that Sun hits it and the wind blows it kind it’s funky so pipeline goes through its moods especially when the waves are coming up and you see that line right there Rocky on your screen that is supposed to be all reef and right now from a large we

Still have that very shallow Sandbar look for that sandbar to come into effect we need the home plate umpire to come with his brush and brush off the whole plate right there expose The Reef a little bit more guys are definitely going to have to not just negotiate the

Reef and the barrel when you come out when it gets bigger and it starts running off into that sandar you’re going to see some spectac Dismount some Carnage Sone bio styleone bio definite Carnage you know trip equipment is going to be tested the body is going to be tested for

Sure uhoh I we’re looking some lines coming through here who do we got right there in the line look like Shimp huchi team captain Shimp like he’s uh you out the back and Pole Position hey but one of my favorite events when you when you mentioned the word expression session was the hoie

Sunset expression session that was so much fun that was such a great we have a taker right here super just nonjudge event like as good as it gets for just like having a locals go out and enjoy the waves exactly and then this event kind of borne off of that idea but then

Mixed in you know the scoring and the team concept but definitely feels more like an expression session than a surf contest I mean there is there is so many great contests from the honolua shootout to the sunset shootout to the you know back door shootout here at uh at

Pipeline and it’s just awesome to see that you know people getting out there not having to you know it’s awesome this event is different and it’s good in a way that you don’t see your favorite Surfer lose you can follow your Surfer through the four days of competition you

Know just like right now you could have one heat that maybe the waves aren’t as good the next 3 days it’s firing get to because of one day all of a sudden judged on you know this type of wave and it’s awesome to see everybody getting multiple uh chances to Surf and

To show their skills and to show what they can do in any uh any conditions and right now just because it’s like this in this heat that doesn’t mean that a team Japan person couldn’t win this event no problem in one of their next year yeah exactly no well said well said and

That’s why the format is is such uh for the surface ERS to be able to Showcase your ability in a few days of Surfing you know so it’s not just set to your one heat Wonder kind of a deal yeah uh in fact it was one of our team Japan

Guys um in the past that got not only a perfect 12 in this event but that was a wave of the winter winner oh that backside yeah that bomb on the back hand that was just and and I think uh your brother Co yeah was uh on a pipe perfect

12 that I didn’t even know how he came out of that barel anyway oh talk about wave of the winter yeah this guy has so many wave of the winters we have on screen James Duncan O’brien James D D Mr J O and up and riding on the back dooring back no way

Wow screen door no screen good chance at almost a perfect ride honestly I mean he he made it he made it pretty far for sure to the close out at eight yeah and he’s probably thankful he’s got his helmet on yeah sh huchi like I said team captain p position

I he wasn’t going to let that wave go by and here we go on the replay Rocky I mean look at this perfect positioning in early beautiful Bott turn the line was as good of a chance as he was going to get you know it was just the wave not

Cooperating but his line was perfect even if there wasn’t that crumble and it stayed open to the end and then closed out he would have had a chance to Doggy but that chandel kind of this winds to blow tell you if this wind blows and the ti pushes little trade uh grooming yeah

Ocean just absolutely changes Spar you know Cliff being a being a first responder ocean safety specialist Hawaii watero you know how conditions change out here in the lineup especially yeah 100% conditions mean everything especially when you’re talking about the wind that direction is going to like you

Said holds it open so that chandelier isn’t going to be uh an issue but everything kind of has a line up like a perfect storm kind of a deal I mean you spent so many years out there in the lineup on the jety how many times have

You seen the conditions go from maybe not perfect to absolutely firing in like matter minutes and that’s I can’t even count the amount of times but that’s kind of like one of the things we know here growing up on the North Shore that it can be what you see right now to tens

And twelves in in 30 minutes you know like that’s just how many times we’ve seen that in our life is you know we would like to see the T and twelves come in in about two hours I see I see your right around 24 spot on over here

Team you see all those cracks and pukas those holes in the reef it is not like this perfectly like flat area there’s definite Contours uh and uh like you said um earlier Cliff the topography yeah of what’s below EXA affects the shape of the wave but also man it is

Like yeah it doesn’t get much better than this here really dangerous uh once you get down there and you get forced into one of those cracks or those those holes man should sh have come out of that Barrel that would have it’s on I mean it looks like it’s coming the

Forecast is there we’re just uh these and these these uh the Drone shots and all the footage we’re getting from Ocean patter TV is just incredible you get Kaa there in the backdrop Mount kalala yeah it’s a definite um wish you were here type of setting and views of Team new Earth

Project right there more there checking in at the beach Marshals as well yeah so awesome to see the integration of our wahen Surfers Moana Jones Wong she’s also in uh this event so she’s coming off her most recent pipe victory at the Vance pipe Masters is Moana Jones Wong and

Karissa will was in that final and she’s also going to be surfing with Team new Earth Project oh it’s awesome to see Caris out here you know uh it was forecasted to be really big and and pipeline only and you know she has an event coming up so she was kind of like

Oh I wonder and the conditions are absolutely perfect especially for her right now she’s been putting on such a clinic out here for the women and it’s so good to see you know Carissa pushing women’s levels of Surfing as well you know because there really aren’t that

Many women who really wanted out there you know I was asked online about why isn’t there more women and why this and that and I said hey women are more than welcome to have a team yeah and it’s really I don’t think they understand as you see on screen right here Carissa

Moore I mean she is an absolute animal yeah you there’s only so many girls that charge on this planet that want it I mean there’s plenty girls that will charge here and there but to actually come back time and time again and actually want it you know it’s very few

And the Very and those girls deserve a lot of respect they’re really on the Forefront of something here especially pushing women’s athletic sports in extreme conditions to another level and being a five time world champion is it yeah five time at the same time and breaking out of that comfort zone of

Being able to you know surf a certain style of competition and wave to coming out here and really putting her titles on the line it really goes to show how much of a real true champion she actually and her health on the line too I mean this is pipe you know it’s she’s

Out there charging with the boys I mean that’s I really would like to see her wearing a helmet tell you the truth I mean that’s just me and pipeline if you notice yeah you’re going to get hurt a lot of the times on these smaller days more than the big days Dusty P

Joanka Kenny just now I mean you named it my brother the other day I mean it just goes across the books I mean back in the day when Uncle Terry was pulling people out out of the water here these kind of before when when helmets were non-existent I mean they’re they’re here

Now right so that’s one of the things is like technology we use the computer we use the iPhone we use everything technologically advanced to better be better and and so why wouldn’t you the helmet is there well anything to to to protect your life safy first right A lot

Of people oh I can’t this I can’t that it’s like no you just don’t want to look a certain way it has a certain aesthetic and I’ll stay I used to have to wear a helmet no matter if I liked it or not I was forced to wear a helmet young sa my

Life lot time and a lot of times I didn’t get shots in the magazine or and it was kind of trippy that oh because you got a helmet on you weren’t going to get a cover shot kind of we to change the stereotype of what people think is

Cool who gives a rip that Smith it’s about being smart being safe you don’t see Tony Hawk skating those waves uh skating those ramps or Danny Way jumping the the uh Great Wall of China without a helmet on yeah and especially here in the like we have Ohana to think about to

Family you want to go home to and stuff so there’s no reason why you shouldn’t you’re correct in that as you know you know especially at the world’s deadliest wave pipeline yeah totally 100% just about little over halfway through this first first heat heat of our team surfing team Japan getting us

Started and um you know some of the Waves it looks like like you said makco pipeline still trying to figure itself out a little bit the Surfers trying to figure out you know what’s going to have more opportunity is it back door is it pipe uh really calm winds right now just

Starting pick up a little bit you see a little texture on the ocean right there and the coconut leaves are starting to move like I said you’re going to feel that wind like that cool breeze on your neck the wind’s blowing on your face here at pipeline you don’t want that you

Want that Cool Breeze right in the back of your leg maybe your right ear little more than your left ear and uh that is a nice southeasterly Direction and ass Sal wind is not very you know it’s we’re on the North Shore people think oh South Winds it’s it’s a little different

Because the way that we’re angled we’re on the North Shore but our North Shore is actually facing west kind of because of the way that aahu shap that that downside the like Norwest yeah so it’s kind of like a you know the winds get a little bit tricky here you figure east

Southeast would be a good wind North Northwest West Northwest Southwest we like the swells coming from that direction from the Northwest and the wind coming from the other direction the East yeah Southeast kind of almost opposite that’s but that’s why this place is so so special

And that’s why I mean all of us were born here but not by choice we just were lucky and we’re blessed for sure you know over the the decades I a lot of folks I I entertain at Turtle Bay and I take you know out of the ocean they like

Oh you know is it just because this waves are so big I go not only the waves big and the swells but the wind direction is just perfect most of the time that’s why it’s so good all the time it just gets groomed if the waves

Are big and it’s blowing on Shore it’s crap nobody’s going to be out there be like I want to watch today go well feel this wind direction the sw’s here but the wind’s wrong and so they always that’s kind of the U uh like the Forgotten uh component you know is that

Wind Direction’s got to be just R the wind direction is everything because without the wind blowing out in the sea you’re not having a storm to p waves anyway 100% it’s so important and people forget about that a lot the thing is the wind and the storm that blows the way

That it it the way the fetches and the way that the wind blows on top of the ocean to put that pressure and blow those swells to shore has to come from that northwesterly direction but hopefully it brings southeasterly wind sometimes the storms are big and they

Suck the winds towards them or when they get too when the storm comes too close to it brings the weather want the storm to say you know just send the that 1500 to 500 mile radius and really push up and across let that swell come down and hopefully the wind you counteract that

And come from the opposite direction you know that’s why uh you attach the word miracle to this coastline so much because it is just perfectly situated it’s a gem to have multiple days of Epic conditions every winter and it’s crazy how like you know I work at aokai lifeguard Tower

Before in July we’ be sitting there and people come up you know where’s the waves so I thought this was like the big surf spot where’s the waves like oh bu like wrong season six month short six months to mask and snork they do their research on everything else besides when

The waves are going and it’s just the fun encounters we have seasons right we have seasons like everywhere else they just people think that the weather stays the same year round because Hawaii but we have seasons just like every everywhere else just our seasons change in the ocean around here so you know

October it starts to to build and you get the first swells and then in the summer as we see a back door opportunity look at that that’s yeah wow that was a t right there wow and that’s why I don’t want the judges the judges job right now because

Wow that was for the morning a 10 12 how do you not give that a 10-point ride I know it’s the second barrel of the contest but I mean like you can’t get any more Barrel that back door a biger wave he was in this for so long look at

This perf line pumps gets that speed he needs right there he’s G it again oh and then he doggy doors man handles you know sometimes watching on a screen it’s hard to tell what the wave is doing further down the line yeah so you’re really like

Okay I’m not sure about it looks good so far but at any moment that wave could shut down cuz there such a small uh window that you get when looking on the screen oh man that was amazing big Japan will have I don’t care how found Japan hits

The water it’s on yeah jeely the jam on like popcorn I’m not exactly sure which Surfer that was yeah pretty sure guys s those goofy Japan though but culturally we’re positive Japan that it was Japan uh whether it was a sasuki kawatani or kinhin Matsunaga well or or Jin

Suzuki not sure that’s the question but ultimately cuz you know like I said we don’t have jerseys because we don’t need the the uh judges do have a spotter so the team sends a spotter up to the judges Tower to make sure they’ve got the right individual well that’s that’s

An awesome thing about this event as well is you wear your team’s colors you wear your sponsor stuff you don’t go out there and have some big old thing smeared across the front of your jersey that someone else is paying for and getting money for and of course the

Surfers get nothing like we’ve seen in the past for so many years this contest you’re in you wear your stuff you want to wear a jersey you don’t want to wear one you want to wear a certain uh a lot of the times back in the day a lot of

The companies would have their uham Jers well they would have their marketing shoots because they only have four guys in the water at pipeline the waves would be firing so they get all their shots with all their new stuff and everything no photo bombers you get the line up

Nice and clear you know during the shootout and that that’s one of the awesome things about the shootout is we don’t push you know our stuff on anybody we just uh that everybody go out there and express a platform yeah there an opportunity to they wish and um I’m yet

To see the uh you know Once Upon a Time guys like kah Hart Brian amona where the Speedos out there to see if there’s a seen j o with his uh you know Speedo company one of his merch items and maybe he’ll drop a line with his speed right

You know he’ll be on a soft top with a Speedo Speedo step off just uh taking it to I wonder if he has like an impact vest does he have any floaties in the Speedos to make sure like I know he lik speed yeah he’s got his impact suit on

And uh I think he wearing that guy has really changed the way content is created for the sport of Surfing yeah he hit a million followers I mean in in the grand scheme of things you know in the surf world for athlete to transition over from competitive surfing to really

Content creation and and what he’s done really really leading the charge in pioner in our industry in in our discipline and Sport uh Mr Jamie O’Brien really you know showing the next Generation how to monetize themselves through content creation yeah I know totally and you hit

The nail on the head with that because guys did have to make adjustments you know in order to make a living doing something they love doing and so he definitely pioneered it he’s been very successful with it and you know kudos to him and for spearheading it for the next

Generation too you know I watch your brother call guys and everybody traveling all over the world you know surfing these waves and get building up content but basically enjoying the life you know living their life it’s awesome got some uh good information uh from our friend Mark denzer chiming in he’s

Watching online and um hearing us mention about the winds and the morning sickness and he’s spent a lot of time sailing around these islands and um is kind of corroborating the that phenomenon you know talking about talking about chiming in online it was so crazy CU When I Was announcing at the

Van pipe Masters yeah there’s somebody with a maku rasman official on the YouTube with the comments I mean the comments weren’t actually that bad like you know I was he had some pretty cool stuff to say here and there but I’m like who is this person like the

Guys are like I couldn’t believe you I seen your thing and I’m like I’m announcing announcing there’s no chance over there doing this thing but it’s it was uh yeah chat GPT yeah that that’s uh you tell St not following All Along The Narrative I like that you got to do it

Stay in your lane right well team Japan just a few minutes remaining but they have uh made this first heat well worth it yeah with a couple of nice rides one in particular that at back door was uh definitely the best wave we’ve seen the entire day long borders stand up

Paddlers body Surfers all getting some nice waves but man that back door wave was the wave of the day so far yeah and uh setting the bar kind of high right there set in the bar uh our head judge I don’t know what he called it

But got to be breaking double digits I think maybe cuz we go up to 12 right so well that’s got to be a 10 especially for a 10 how much Long Bar going to get it’s got to be yeah excellent here we go we’re checking out uh recap on the pipe

There you go there’s the pipe one that was the one we saw early biger a little bigger but way shorter than this this is reminds me of Kelly Slater when he won his last pipe Master Pumps and picks his line really another section another section wow I mean that speed he got

There that was just beautiful crazy he stoked for sure and he was very uh fortunate not to get lipped right in the head of the last part of it and get knocked off the board so good I almost thinks the judges will probably give that around an 8.5 I would see 8 8.5

Because of the size of the W because the waves are coming up today somebody gets one that twice the size just as long they need the room in the scale to be able to get to that perfect score and then to that super perfect score well

And we’ve you know having all of this documented with video we do have the chance and in years past we’ve used that to go back and adjust scores as appropriately needed because you want to make sure especially if you have the chance to to CU you seeing it one time

Through it’s hard to just write down a number right there you know sometimes it doesn’t do it justice seeing it multiple times comparing it to other waves gives you a chance to really get that number as accurate as possible correct yeah also having different angles of the wave

Too see you know from the front side camera position is key and I see waves kind of starting to come together really set the looks like it’s kind of starting to double up a little bit so I’m fairly confident I’m almost guaranteeing that by the end of the day it will be puming

By the time the NorthShore boys uh by Northshore Surf Shop team hits the water uh that’s what he’s putting in the universe it’s it manifest it and it will come manifesting it right now Makai has a way with about the Japanese and how when they get in the

Water they score and talk about there’s the team team Japan the real team captain there uh for team Japan monitoring he’s making sure they’re doing the right thing you know making sure his boys are not pulling back yeah his horses his horses are running the full race right now little little more

Than 30 seconds left in the heat oh 30 seconds oh looks like team got some lines coming in yeah lines coming in New Earth Project is making their way out there uh that was the team with kyen but I’m I’m I don’t think Ken did get hurt waiting for the official word on

What actually happened to him and so is uh Carissa Moore taking his spot I wonder is that why we saw her getting ready uh shanen pararo Jamie O’Brien we’ve got a um we’ve got a viewer tuning in from the UK right wow and uh want to

Shout out to Eli the little Ripper and uh his his mate blast they’re shredding cold dark Waters of England so shout out to uh our brothers over there many many awesome memories at fish Beach up there in Nuki yeah right on and uh right on everybody out there in the United

Kingdom UK what’s going on guys and uh hopefully see you guys over here one day yeah so that is the end of heat number one team Japan got us started coming up next it’ll be Team new Earth Project is going to uh Carissa MO is gonna get back

Carissa is going in for Kai Jamie O’Brien we saw on camera is here and in the Heat and a pretty good lineup Co Smith shanon pararo mat J yeah it’s it’s another I would say stacked not stacked but and so we’re going to take a short commercial break bre and we’ll be back

With heat number two stay tuned for more theie back door shootout because there’s going to be waves like this coming up and we’ll see you on the other side E snap too bringing a B the hoie backdoor shootout 2024 is presented by guts Hawaii and Kiki beach bungalows special Mahal to the members of the H oal Monster Energy athletic Brewing caloa tortillas Odum water wo water Saltwater Society Hal Eva juice this live presentation is produced by Zone media creators of ocean pad TV

Hawaiian extreme sports TV and In the [Applause] Zone aloha and welcome back to this first day of the 2024 the hoie back door shootout the crowd has filled in on the beach right there we’re into our short boarding Premier featured divisions of this backdoor shootout I’m Rocky Canon now with Isaiah

Walker and this is Team new Earth Project Isaiah yeah so exciting to see I mean these guys have a pretty Star studed Team we’ve got World Champ Carissa Moore yeah Jamie O’Brien who’s I mean one of the greatest out here at pipeline for sure K Smith matah drle

Matah from Tahiti one of the best at chopo and shayen pararo from Big Island brother rips out here at Pipeline and um you know he’s made the move now uh to the NorthShore so he’s a fellow resident of all of us that enjoy living here and

Um Shaden has put on so many good performances not only here at pipe but he rips backside at Sunset he can surf haliva he’s got all the game uh to go deep into a lot of conventional events but I know he enjoys this format of you know pressure-free non-elimination

Surfing with your friends yeah and the waves look like they’re getting way better I I was down there during my break and just watched the waves improve right before my eyes uh Team Japan had a couple good that back door wave that was insane he was in there for so long he

Went through a couple different sections and I was telling uh Maka and Cliff sometimes when we’re looking on screen you don’t get to see the it’s so zoomed in you can’t tell what’s happening down the wave right so you’re not sure you’re like oh it looks good right here but

There could be this closeout section or something so I kept waiting for it to like shut down and it never did to our uh great pleasure to watch that and um fortunately for our team Japan Surfer was able to make it all the way through looks like there’s a wave

Here our Surfers looking at this looks like Jamie O’Brien paddling for this one late drop classic j o stalls drags behind the spit yeah comes out ye so j o uh you know he’s got his uh surf experience over at Turtle Bay Resort so we’ve uh get to work together a lot um

Doing some ocean activities and uh it’s great to see Jamie still doing it that grab rail technique so signature and as we just said Isaiah the waves improving by the minute right and uh I know the wind is a little you know it’s not your typical Cai a uh trade

Wins okay but it’s still holding out there’s a minute there it looked like it was swirling it was a little kind of Uncertain like what the wins we’re going to do but so far so good looks like the the lineup’s really clean and love seeing Jamie do that I mean he just got

It so dialed the way that he does this you see in the this was a replay we missed this one that’s Co withth yeah and Co able to weave through nicely on the forehand and then the one we just saw live j o couple of little sections

There and the wave kind of a like a double spit almost oh amazing you see how he ejected right at the sandar yeah looks like he’s going again looking at this little back door inside one stalls pumping controlling his speed so he can come on of this oh that was one

Where like we said on the screen it’s a little bit of a a zoomed in view so you don’t see the whole wave of what it’s doing down the line and that one looked similar to our Japanese surfer in the heat prior for a few moments it looked

Almost exactly the same but then that was one that actually shut down on the end off screen and then when he finally got there you saw that close out without section yeah you could see that um you know he’s trying to control his speed here he’s slowing down and then he looks

Forward he sees oh my gosh this wave’s running and’s trying to pump and get ahead of it but uh it shuts down you they say that at back door especially a lot of times waves that look like close outs are are the better ones and so often times it’s good to

Stay here we have a rider up getting baral I think that might have been Karissa we’ll see yep that was Karissa and then you know the trickiest part after you surf your back door wave is uh that there’s no Channel there’s no um you know uh

Space to have the wave kind of taper off where you can make it out and around it is having to power through that really dumpy section right there and then sometimes you got to come all the way back around all right here goes J Jamie O’Brien finding another waves keeping busy watch

Him stall nope go straight under the hood maybe yep drags beautifully done and with that we’re going to take you down to the beach with an interview from our Surfers from the last team we’re here with Kenan Matsunaga who just scored an epic wave how do you feel

Right now after scoring that amazing barrel and coming out on the other side yeah that wave was so uh V is so slow but the came yeah and my friends uh gave me that wbes yeah yeah I go to the web pumping pumping and PBO and comes out so stoked awesome so

Stoked yeah and you pumped just right at the right time and you got out of it um I know you’re here last year so is this the best uh wave you’ve ever gotten on Pipeline best wave uh best wave awesome thank you great job all right so that’s confirmed it was kenin

Matsunaga the uh suspect is identified and man he heard him it’s like I think that’s the best back door wave I ever caught what a time to do it live on TV in front of a great Beach crowd during the hoie back door shootout yeah what a treat too he looked like a

Pretty younger guy yeah and to go out there with um you know just some of his fellow countrymen and from Japan at you know really good backdoor conditions and to score that wave and it was kind of cool he said my friend gave me that wave

So you know lot of camaraderie at this event and um I’ll be making a Mark here today at the back door shootout this young Kenshin stoked for him yeah and I think um you know what we uh all enjoy having and being able to do at this

Event is highlight you know some of our different um countries and cultures that come and compete with us uh and U you know surf alongside us here and the camaraderie you mentioned but also uh we get to highlight and talk about our Hawaii culture um as well and you’re a

Um a knowledgeable guy everybody knows that by now you’ve got quite the reputation in the surf uh announcing world as um as the professor and um a surfing one at that and I’ve seen you out you you can rip bro you get some moves cuz so he credible guys he not

Only can talk but this buger can do the walk he can he can shred and um you know in Hawaiian culture and surfing and the way it began or you know way it was uh um performed you know in the past in ancient times you know there was a

Lot of of that you know sharing of waves and um you know just uh yeah all the pictures you see is multiple Surfers on the wave party wave action party wave well it really depended like today um how there’s a a lot of variety of forms of wave riding I think that’s something

Important to to that our viewers understand is that in in ancient times in Old Hawaii in kaak kahiko we how we call it is that um you had a lot of variety in surfing as well so there are some breaks where it was cool to share

Waves uh we see that like especially at the turn of the 20th century in W key there’s a lot of shots of Duke and his and the The Beach Boys and others like sharing waves um and that’s what it was you know in Kaaka heo in Old Times

Depending on the wave and the event you know in old in Old Times there were also like we have here today there was competition and so you know certain times of the year like right now we’re in what’s called makahiki and makahiki season is a time period of uh in hawan

Culture where there’d be a lot of competition and in Old Hawaii prior to Western contact we had surfing competitions like we’re seeing here right now goty get barreled that’s Carissa oh Carissa also Hawaiian ethnicity and and I’m glad that um you know this this team has a female surfer

Or Wah in it because in ancient times as well women Surfers were very prominent in the lineup a lot of great Legends of probably one of the most famous One i’ probably shared this story before but of a female surfer named kalea and we know

A lot of her because her story is a is a lengthier one okay um King David kakawa uh told the version of this story that got written down and so kalea is one of many many female Surfers that was known as really skilled and competitive and

Revered highly in the waves here we have oh sh pack packing a pipe Barrel so the the brother from Big Island FBI from Big Island making it happen here on the NorthShore and is happy with that one and it looks like M oh the waves are turning on yes sir wow

Love it and so the more the swell builds and it’s got that Westerly component so it will continue to help kind of push that sand off of The Reef I mentioned it last Heat you know it’s like we need the the kokua home plate umpire to come dust

Off home plate you know and uh expose The Reef a little more shayen picaro gets the first wave of that set beautifully done on the forehand and then matah jle scores himself a nice pipe Barrel woo yeah it’s a nice sign when you have backto back waves that are good like

That and in this heat we’ve had several great scoring waves uh ridden so far from Mo all of our competitors actually already gotten waves and there’s still 19 minutes left in this heat so this is a good sign we’re seeing a lot of energy right now in the

Ocean but yeah so um back to your your question about uh surfing in in Old Hawaii and kaak Kiko um certainly there are a lot of different types of of of surfboards conditions that you would surf would you know vary um they did surf the NorthShore as well a lot of

Times people assume that like surfing was only something that was that took place in isolated areas in Hawaii but we have many stories and uh traditions of of of hawan surfing on the NorthShore um and all around the state in fact uh many of the outer Islands as

As well lot of great stories and what we call moo or these these histories that have been preserved through oral tradition so most societies before they had a written um culture a written written language uh they would preserve their stories through song or chant or uh whether it’s Gregorian chants in in

Europe or in other places but in Hawaii likewise a lot of our stories were first preserved through oral traditions of chanting here we have it’s like Sho again yeah come on oh yeah that’s right he’s from your neck of the woods over there on the big island yeah Shaden

Picaro awesome Surfer from uh you know from Hilo and Puna side and um I love his style so smooth uh he’s he’s got a real cool uh technique to his surfing yes and and like you said earlier Rocky it applies to both small and bigger waves yeah and that one just got a

Little bit small on the end and you know um along of what we were uh talking about earlier we’ve got some really cool messages coming in uh it’s nsog Hawaii at gmail that’s how you can um add to a message to my my inbox here and uh folks

Know that from being on the beach at ear other events and U we got a nice uh comment and message from Susie fredman watching in Seattle Washington okay and uh you’re one of her favorites bro and she purchased waves of resistance too actually so great support and Susie we thank you for

For tuning in and um and we uh are excited to be once again bringing you the the hoie backdoor sh out she’s been watching all the replays of previous years oh wow so we’ve uh become kind of uh familiar voices and faces to her so

Susie we thank you and um we are also hoping that this year the Eddie can run again because that was so much fun uh this past January and I can’t believe it’s already coming up on a year ago that happened year flew by man now I

Mean if uh if anyone has questions about H history or surfing history you’d like to to ask uh maybe you could send it to you yeah uh nsog Hawaii Gmail um and you know because this type of event we mentioned earlier it’s not like these Surfers need scores and they’re like you

Know we got a bunch of information we got to get out because you know there’s time remaining there’s a score requirement we have the freedom at this event to be uh much more candid and share a lot more deeper information than you would get at your regular conventional surfing event so and

Broadcast so we appreciate we can be a little bit more pug yeah we can we can expand make the expansion a little bit uh into you know other tangent if you will uh because the Surfers are also being very selective you know they know they have at least two three four more

Rounds possibly right so they don’t have to get all their scores like today in one round and be this being the first round around the the um the atmosphere is very relaxed right and pressure free so we do have the opportunity to expand send your uh emails nsog Hawaii at Gmail

And we’ll get it right here so I love the Drone footage here you can see the landscape um and in in Hawaiian uh the the word for for land is AA okay and but interestingly the Ina also includes the the shoreline and the ocean where the

Where the reef and the waves are so that’s something important that also speaks to um a a unique perspective that haian and and also most Pacific Islanders in general is that in most cultures the the ocean or the beach is a barrier right so like people often times

Talk about how they have like maybe Island fever fever because often times the ocean becomes something that is a void or a barrier or some sort of boundary but in Hawai culture and in surfing cultur we see here today too is that the ocean is not not um a separate

Space it’s a it’s an extension as we see here wow that might be matah oh matah extending that Barrel oh it is turning on that was beautifully done so cool me this guy is a master at Barrel riding we’ve seen so many times a heavy heavy

Chopo in uh in Tahiti and here at pipeline just slipping down the face slowing himself down out with the spit and he was totally disappeared uh and also just getting a a bit of information uh as it pertains to different ocean conditions we have we

Have a dead sperm whale over atony oh so that is just a heads up if you’re up in that area uh there is some uh carcass in the water and on the shoreline you see a picture of it right there Isaiah and um know that means you know what follows

Those uh pieces of carcasses and the big fish up in that area thankfully that’s you know some miles from here so we’re not experiencing uh any immediate effect of that but as a just a kind of alert to our folks here on aahu that if you’re up in that Northeastern kahoku area yeah

There’s a a big old dead sperm whale on the beach on the reef so just be careful but we’ve got Nice condition here it has been uh you know kind of that um not super overcast but just a little cloud cover so it’s not super bright sunny

Blue skies it’s got that kind of ominous little gray kind of flat Lighting on it uh I think it has kept the wind a little bit at Bay a little but the trades now starting to fill in and pipeline does like a little bit of a offshore groom if you will yep for

Sure yeah so I mean any questions you have about um Hawaiian history and um thankful to our viewer from Seattle who purchased uh waves of resistance so waves of resistance is a book uh that I published in boy about 10 years ago and um in there is a lot of the histories of

Surfing um but it’s really I I think in many ways I’ve I’ve sort of tricked people I don’t want to say it in that way but people think oh I’m going to just learn about surfing but then after reading it you’re like wow I learned a lot about history with Hawaii in the

Pacific surfing is the way you reel them in right and then uh you get to really um you know get a deep dive if you will no pun intended into um uh some of the more historical content which I think is uh really important to discuss and um

We’ve got uh Captain Richard tuning in uh and uh Scott Crouch also so you guys uh hanging out with us on our broadcast we appreciate it and um oh we got looks like clay maro’s Mom oh timing uh chiming in and um I saw his name on the

Roster somewhere so yeah I’ve always felt that that guy’s a savant one of the most natural talents here we go here’s a wave this might be matah could be Shaden right they’ve got similar Styles and similar approaches to these pipe waves and uh their stature too you know they

Got kind of same body types so we coloring keep yeah and that too you know uh definite uh you know similar melanin content if you will uh got some more viewers from UK tuning in I I don’t know what time is it over there man it’s probably like the next day it’s probably

Tomorrow already right dedicated right on Joe thank you for tuning in from the UK and uh we’ve got a North Carolina viewer is 42 degrees over there as we watched that was Shaden picaro squeak out of a pipe Barrel so it’s a late night in UK 10:40

P.m. is what the word we’re getting from our our great crew here Jamie O’Brien at back door just gets a little washed out towards the end all that turbulence from the wave prior just uh giving a kind of a whitewash wipe out he was close to coming out of that

Though uh yeah Richard Blaine in North Carolina kindly says I’m hating you guys right now it’s 42 degrees blowing Gales and uh it was cold last week was like 62 over I know man it was like 67 I was getting my sweatpants out but we know that um we’re very lucky

And blessed you know like we were saying uh with cliff and makur earlier you know I nobody gets to choose where they’re born that’s one that’s one thing that’s totally out of your control and uh you know being born in Hawaii or or being able to you know to come here it’s it’s

Um truly uh a very very lucky thing and a blessed uh existence so we’re very thankful and like to share all that we can and encourage you guys to come and hang out with us and see us uh you know see how we we live and do the things

That we get to do it’s uh fun to share for sure I was saying earlier as look at this drone shot how like this concept of AA extends out to the ocean and it’s it’s it’s something that is integrated to integral into that space so this was

Something that when some of the first ex Western explorers came to the islands uh Captain Cook and his crew and some of the that wrote they were just blown away with how comfortable Islanders especially here in Hawaii were in the surf uh in fact they said in one place they they were they

Were just blown away that there was a beach break where there were like over a hundred people in in this shore break that uh just looked really scary and treacherous it was like these in fact he said like these humans are kind of like amphibious like yeah they they don’t

Really have a distinction between living in the water and outside of the water and I think you know the Surfers today the surf culture and and our community here today it’s sort of similar right we um you you see guys out there that seem really Fearless surfing these waves and

Um so it’s really cool that that aspect of of Hawaiian culture is is part of the surfing story that we have here today just that uh concept of not seeing the ocean as something to be a divide or or separate from your experience or something that you’re afraid of but

Something that you respect and is a part of your culture and community and so very much so that’s been uh a an attribute a cultural trait that we’ve had here for many many generations yeah you know um those early explorers I’m sure were just marveling at you know where they would

Come from it was like don’t go towards the waves get away from those dangerous things and you come and see these Hawaiians just looking effortless and comfortable on whether it’s body surfing a a certain size surfboard a liia a pipo big Olo you know like it is um really a

Cool thing to imagine putting yourself back in that time and uh and not only being a Hawaiian enjoying that but also being like a fly on the boat to just see the the expression on these explorers faces when they were watching and see what they were like seeing it was like

They could not believe it it was U uh just a cool thing to think about of how amazed they probably were but it’s something that you have to be raised in right so corre like Eddie I call there’s a lot of stories of him rescuing people on the NorthShore many many hundreds of

People that he rescued a lot of them he said were servicemen people in the military that would come here and you’d see some of these younger kids or local people like making it look really easy like our Hawaiian water Patrol the timing knowing when to go out when to

Slow down when to do what when to go under the wave that’s all stuff that’s you know you have to be raised in it uh and so if you’re not raised come second nature yeah you have you know you do want to be careful and mindful because

Like in Eddie ia’s career as a lifeguard he often would have to rescue people that just maybe were looking at locals and how comfortable they looked in the water uh but they themselves didn’t have that knowledge in fact uh we’re celebrating at this event Duke Kahanamoku Duke Pawa Kahanamoku born in

1890 and uh in Honolulu in the Kingdom of hoi at the age of 3 years old he moved over to his mom’s property from Honolulu not too far away kind right front of Hilton Hawaiian Village that area there right correct um and said that you know these guys like

The Kahanamoku they learned to swim in many ways in many times before they even learn to walk right I mean that’s something that’s a legend of one of you know hoy’s most famous King King Kamehameha the first was raised by a chief named niol and niol said he taught

Him to swim before he taught him to walk that is so amazing and uh quite fitting for you know in what our culture uh likes to practice today and speaking of Duke we have a um canila Chang chiming in from New England so way over there on the east coast and her uh

Great-grandfather was a beach boy with Duke so that’s pretty cool uh connection to uh to Hawaii and um you know I I hope you’re doing well in New England I’m sure um you know coming back to Hawaii when when you can and Darren Collins in Fresno thank

You for tuning in and uh we love sharing with you guys and uh now um with Beach from Spain we got a we got a you are from Spain that’s so cool awesome yeah Beach Boys uh we’re not talking about the the California uh musical group The

Beach Boys although those were fun too um but W Beach Boys in Wii is really that generation of duke duke koku his brothers and cousins and friends and those guys were so awesome and uh we’re going to check out with just a few minutes remaining in this heat some of

The highlights we see Kaa Smith doing well pumping through a pipe Barrel Jamie O’Brien one of the most dynamic pipeline Surfers uh on that wave right there and was able to nicely position himself perfectly not the biggest wave but really good technical placement there right we had Shaden pararo on this one

Nice Barrel bigger wave and right behind him was matah J from Tahiti oh y yeah and matah got another one and so this heat has been uh really productive yeah for these guys um and we’ve got uh questions coming in from Ireland uh how far back do records go of Surfing

Gosh wow that that’s a great question um when we talking written records and you know like I mentioned earlier that Hawaiian Society didn’t have a written language until you know till after um you know westerners arrived and interestingly Hawaii became one of the most literate Society so in other words

Once reading and writing became a thing in Hawaii uh almost everyone learned how to read and a lot of that was because the Chiefs really wanted to promote it and but written records we you know we know that the first westerners came to Hawaii in 1778

1779 uh they wrote about it but you know as as a as a scholar of of Hoy and as a native scholar I you know we we got to be careful to to privilege overprivileged written text because most of our our culture and our history comes from oral traditions and those Trace us

Way back hundreds of years back oh look at this one what he couldn’t get into that one just about two minutes remaining and uh I know you guys have been checking out theoi.com their shirts and posters and stuff these hats though they are limited edition right and I

Don’t think that they are for sale I haven’t known them to be uh prior to but uh Darren had a question of you know when are the hats going to be available and um to answer that and short I’m not sure if they’re going to be these

Collector items right here as we watch Jamie O’Brien with a little picture in picture frame me and Isaiah Rocky Cannon Isaiah Walker giving you guys play byplay for this heat number two also got Cliff Bello Ezra rodrig makur Rothman jumped in for a bit I know he’s

Preparing for a heat later today so we’ll see if uh he’ll join us again but uh we’re enjoying bringing you that was all this action that was an amazing wave and just you know the subtle um variations to tube riding you see guys like Jamie O’Brien where on this one see

Look he doesn’t grab the rail he chooses not to wow he was deep that straight on angle was really the true perspective of how deep he was he was disappeared for a good while and and you know judges who are Savvy which are judges of course are

Uh will pick up on those subtle differences because not grabbing the re adds to the difficulty level y which should increase the score as well yeah those nuances that uh to the untrained eye can be missed or overlooked quite easily but we’ve got Barton Lynch Flynn Novak love hodell joseon tail all very

Accomplished Northshore and in particular pipeline Surfers they know they know what they’re looking at well that was an amazing heat yeah that was a you know good followup to team Japan A New Earth Project putting in some good scores uh up next will be our Brazilian team na they’ll be uh

Hitting the water and uh getting started very shortly we’re going to take a short commercial break and we’ll be back with more the hoie backdoor shootout as uh we’ll be back with team Brazil stay tuned we’ll be right back got a large long period heading toward Islands this weekend 40 to 60 B

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Action Sports Market give us a call to find out how we can help you grow your [Applause] business right welcome back to 2024 backd door shootout here live at pipeline where we’re celebrating surfing today and history and dkam moku there we have jamy O’Brien had a stellar heat he had like

Three good waves in that heat yeah um a variety of different techniques from dragging pig dog stalling grabbing rail to that last one he just had where he did the no grab that was impr came out right before the sandar imploded and uh and broke on him but uh we’re seeing

Rocky we’re seeing the waves improve throughout the day just as forecasted by Surfline so we have the chance to um watch it before our very eyes and that’s something cool about the motore is that you can see the the waves rise and right before your eyes so this SW is supposed

To peak tonight and uh it’s been it’s been you know improving we saw that last Heat with the new Earth Project um lot of waves ridden and a lot of good waves keeper scores and um so we’re glad to be here today it’s beautiful Hawai and um

Who’s up in our next seat rock well it’s team Na and it’s Bruno Santos had a good showing at the van pipe Masters last month G Johan Peter Ian Goa Kona Oliva and Lucas Silva right on yeah definitely we have um you know a mixture of local Brazilians and also Brazilians from

Brazil here we have a rider up beautiful ride also got uh some viewers right down the road in wua and um you know wants to uh keep us uh aware and informed of uh all of the um different things that are being being used in forms of chemicals on your food so make

Sure you guys are well aware read your labels and uh just be cautious out there thank you uh Thomas appreciate it no there was a question earlier I don’t think I sufficiently answered it yet it was like how far back so how far back is uh surfing uh traced or you know uh

We’ll get the specific here is from Ireland is U what are some of the earliest stories of Surfing or how far back did the records go right and there’s been a lot of um interesting theorizing of this and and more and more we’re seeing that we we have some

Scholars that are showing that there’s evidence of people riding waves in uh in countries in Africa along the coast there uh in Peru and a Vari other places here we have a replay of that one just got under the curtain of I think that was Ian

Goa back doors look like konor Ola and that’s Kona correct so we’ll try to get IDs on these guys some of the names uh are um I have I have not met G Johan Peter um like I said I’ve seen Bruno uh in the previous Vance pipe Masters Ian

Go has been around for a while he’s a son of the Brazilian surf Legend Fabio go oh wow yeah and then Kor Oliva actually lives born and raised Northshore with Brazilian Roots uh and ties his his dad um Caesar and I believe he’s also our uh sponsor guts Hawaii

Um has been here for decades and one of the first uh Brazilian um migrants that set up shop here in Hawaii on the North Shore has been uh doing great ever since and um Kona now I remember when he was just a little boy and uh he grown into a

Fine young man right Lucas SVA we’ve seen him competing on the world surf League stage uh for the last several years uh the regular footer Lucas in this heat as well right um so so yeah there’s been a lot of uh of other academics and Scholars that have been

Talking about how surfing um or riding waves I should say existed in in a lot of other societies however most of those you know like in Peru for example they’d ride on these large uh almost like little kayaks that were made out of these wreaths and reads yeah seen I’ve seen pictures of

Those it’s pretty wild you know but in in all honesty like in in Old in ancient times in Hawaii and throughout Polynesia we’re talking hundreds of not thousands of years um of riding waves on Specialized equipment designed for specific types of waves so we we see evidence of that um I mean the

Polynesians uh or Pacific Islanders um come from um you know linguists called the austronesian uh tracing language patterns they say well there people refer to as austronesians cuz their languages are similar goes back to like ancient Taiwan not Chinese Taiwan but native taiwans that live there before

The Han Chinese moved out into these regions and so we’re talking thousands of years ago wow where you had voyagers that were traveling now to what extent and exact dates of when those austronesian uh the ancestors to the Hans were were first riding on surfboard standing we don’t know the exact answer

To it we do know that they’ve been riding waves throughout these islands as they’ve made their way from Taiwan out to um you know places like Pap Fiji and into what sometimes called melanesia and then spreading out to Samu and Tonga which is kind of the the Cradle the

Heart of Polynesia and then throughout micro um throughout uh you know maresis Tahiti Hawaii altero New Zealand all of these places were OCC you were inhabited by Oceano people that traveled there thousands of years earlier on these epic voyages on doubleh hold canoes and and then these

Were you know the the ancestors to our Surfers so the these were the were The Originators of Surfing and by the time we get to Hawaii um Hawaiian society and culture is known for really developing it to the next level um really specialized a lot of different types of

Boards a lot of different type of waves we have in our in our um our histories stories of even the first like uh in Hawaii you have these four primary deities these Gods uh Kane um Lono KU and um kanalo and the you know Lono is

One of the first gods that in those Legends it talks about him coming to Earth so he could serf um and so we’re talking about like the origins of Surfing it’s deeply embedded within our history that goes back hundreds if not thousands of years so it’s kind of cool

That it is a very old Sport and like I was saying earlier Rocky we’re in makahiki season right now and what that is is in traditional Hawaiian times this was a time period when war was uh was outlawed and certain coues or or tabos and laws and restrictions were also

Loosened okay and it was also a time of competition so surfing in ancient Hoy was something that was a social Pastime that you do for fun but it was also a competitive Arena where they would compete and even gamble over uh and sometimes there’s some stories like the

The story of of II alilo he surfs against a guy and they you know they’re competing for for their bones which is basically their Liv wow here we have a rider up oh grabbing the rail nicely and then just goes over the handlebars not sure exactly what happened there he looked solid in

Position for uh shaping up for a clean exit and then all of a sudden I mean that’s that pipe in the barrel I mean things just go south on a on a dime and he went right over the handlebars gymnastics in the barrel you watch him pretty solid right

There and then we got the uh front angle he was fully disappeared when we looked into that barrel side angle you could see his feet literally hitting the top of the wave the roof or the ceiling if you will of that barrel and U just did a tumble right over thankfully he’s okay

And there’s uh Team Mr JJ 96712 oh no stacking the Heats with the florenes I didn’t know John John was going to be here and so yeah um he might be in place of cor Rothman who uh got a um scary injury hitting his face on the reef imagine

Having all three Florence Brothers in your heat yeah so that was actually a the the lineup for the Vans pipe Masters it has an adapted format from the shootout format and it was all three florenes surfing together as we watch team Brazil drop into pipeline na is the team name

Na and uh yeah you know if you go to theoi.com you can check out the event t-shirts and other merchandise there um the back door shootout hats however I think are going to remain uh just a a limited edition item but I also have a

Little uh uh fun logo that I made up and I’ve got hats available it’s nsog designs.com and uh the easy ra the E with the zebra is what I came up with last year and finally have all my stuff available uh online but if you need one

Of those hats you can get one of those hats the first time I saw you wearing that it was at the Eddie commentating and I it took me a second you know when you see like a a license plate and you got to figure out what it’s going to say

But then it didn’t take me long I was like all I had to do is say it out loud e zebra a oh yeah you B but the fun part part about it is it’s not totally like obvious right off the bat you know even for because it’s a pigeon phrase so even

For us fluent pigeon speakers it’s still like okay wait I got to figure this out I got so many comments uh but anyway um we uh do have those hats available and we have theoi.com obviously is where you get all your back door shootout gear oh

My go and then there’s the lineup for the nextt 96712 that is our postal ZIP code for this entire coastline like we said earlier if you live in haliva by the boat harbor it’s 96712 if you live puka way over there it’s 96712 if you live over here by Ted’s

Bakery in VLAN where I live it’s still 96712 it’s got to be the one of the longest stretched out zip codes oh awesome we’ve got a lot of that you know in this island culture with you know very very extended coverage of areas per zip code well send us some question questions uh

We got a couple so far yeah it’s nsog Hawaii Gmail nsog Hawaii gmail.com I got a question about sharks uh you know having to clear the water at pipe because of sharks like you would at jbay or something and fortunately they don’t generally seem to come in this area

We’re going to knock on wood for that but um you know I think the craziest thing I seen was a picture of the humpback whale and her calf kind of riding in a second Reef pipe W where it’s deeper but other than that you know

Um I think the animals kind of know this place is dangerous you never hard see any Turtles cruising out here you don’t see any like dolphins coming through Hawaiian monk seal I saw one the other uh two nights ago paddling my my my canoe at cavella Bay I took my daughters

And their friends out and this juvenile seal came right next to the boat it was pretty cool kind of stuck his head up looked at us and was like hey what are you guys doing yeah um that’s an interesting point yet us humans are dumb enough to try and

Surf on here the animals no better I mean i’ I’ve definitely I’ve seen sharks on the NorthShore now that you you say this though it’s it’s it’s it’s interesting because you’re right I I’ve never seen one at pipe I have seen at Rocky Point which is not too far away

Yeah you get them you know coming in like near White May Bay you know down the coast lania K chun’s Reef you know we’ve had some encounters there there closer you get toiv yeah that that deep Channel The Boat Harbor kind of uh little bit more of a um hot spot for

Seeing those guys but you know they’re part of our ecosystem they’re we’re in their world when we get in there and um definitely need those animals and they were quite revered in Hawaiian culture right I mean in you know in Hawaii we have what’s called alua and we sometimes

Get a little you know we romanticize the mono or the shark everybody want be like oh that’s my alak yeah that’s like yeah I don’t want to be the gecko what are you talking about I want to be the shark so alaku are basically kind of like

Spirit of deities that um in animal form yeah yes that that you see as sort of a protector for you and interestingly it’s not like generally all sharks often times or or all turtles or whatever it is your Alma cool but often times it could be a specific one okay that would

Kind of be known to fall interestingly I I thought of the of the concept of aloka not just when you’re talking but looking at this heat there’s a guy named Jose angel in here um and I I’m not too sure if he’s related to the Jose angel from

From our from our surf history past but um there’s a story that that Clyde IA tells on I think it’s it’s published in um Stuart Hol Stuart Holm Coleman’s book on Eddie iow in the in the end of the story is is basically when when um Clyde

IO wins the first Eddie IO event he attributes it to these Turtles and he says one of them was Jose Angel and the other Turtle he felt were was Eddie IA so like that concept of of um you know it’s a what you call that U these uh HP

This morphic you know like the these in h culture you have anthropomorphic is the term where like you know animals can also take on kind of human spirit in kind of like a cosmic sort of way and it’s interesting because Clyde IA says that he saw these two

Turtles and he felt like they were calling him said come sit by me come over here and he said the turtles were way out past the boil and outside the peak he said sure enough the wave of the day came to him and he caught it right

There by those turtles so you know that’s interesting cuz it um it may seem kind of hokey to some but you know that connection connection that you have uh you know with nature and look at this Barrel somebody’s connecting with nature there yeah uh but but it is something

That still is applicable today that people draw you know Mana from that they uh interpret um lived experience through and I think it’s really cool that Clyde did that here’s a replay of that one yeah that’s a nice back door positioning good line being drawn but just the wave

Racing away was the only prevention of that Surfer not able to come out nalo mados is uh posing a question is the back door shootout the replacement of the old school Duke Kahanamoku surfing classic from Maui thank you nalu and not necessarily um I know the

Duke classic was held at Sunset Beach uh and was more of your traditional format of uh surfing and advancement uh elimination style format uh but we do uh honor Duke Kahanamoku himself uh in the name of this event you know as in a memory of so we will be talking quite a

Bit about Duke and his um Legacy obviously uh we’ve got the Duke’s ocean Fest during the summertime but this is a nice time in Winter where we get to talk about you know the the Kahanamoku Legacy and what Duke uh has done for surfing and for Hawaii in general um and uh

South Carolina tuning in brother Joe right on on the East Coast time there and uh got a shout out from Tyler to Benny on a new baby boy uh and what is the which of the three Florence Brothers grows the meanest beard well you know we got to line them

All up and look but I’d say uh you know uh Ivan’s got a pretty good one going right now has had one yeah and he’s the youngest so um one know Hawaii first settled is one evidence they stopped at other Islands Tahiti and all that um Kyle from Toronto is tuning in 33

Degrees in the water wooo that is freezing my friend I give you cold water Surfers so much props and um and um got some orders coming in on my my nsog designs you guys I appreciate that so much uh we I I was reading to my

Daughter Z is for zebra I got to the end of the book and I’m like oh this where the inspiration yeah I’m like there’s something there and I kept repeating it Zebra z is for zebra zebra and I go and my daughter’s looking at me she’s like

Four years old she’s like Dad what are you doing and I’m like hold on honey you see you’re seeing the gears turning right now yeah and then I I go oh I’ll put a e in front of the zebra and then that’s like I drew it on my cross word

Puzzle book and then it I sent I sent a picture of it to like cliff and kavika some my the boys that kind of Bounce stuff off of and like what do you think of this they’re like oh that’s pretty hilarious so that’s where it was born

But we’ve got um a lot of questions coming in um the book uh that was mentioned Eddie is waves of resistance by Isaiah walker uh that’s that’s a really uh good read um you know it’s uh historical good stories um and uh waves of resistance is what it’s called you

Can find it on Amazon uh you check it out there or any other you know books you find online and we got another Ireland uh viewer and um you know top five water watermen or women uh you know obviously Duke has to be up there somewhere Duke and Eddie are like our

Two huge uh well-known icons world famous icons Waterman um you know I got to put uh you know the kolas up there um you know Uncle buff you know and even um our North Shore’s own unle ter yoi uh definitely you know when we see the

Water Patrol we talk a little bit about that uh and we talk about you know the the improvements of Surfing and uh the ancient times and you said the equipment Hawaiians are making or we’re just getting better and better the knowledge of the Waves right it’s so cool to see

Hawaiians to this day like in more recent times like in the 80s right using the jety and inventing those techniques and having that boogie board on the back as you know way to uh serve as kind of the you know the the connection from the ski to the water because it’s not like

You can pull somebody up onto the seat especially if they’re unconscious yeah you need some kind of a stretcher or you know platform to Stage that so that contraption that you’re seeing right there the jet ski with that rescue sled and all those handles was uh Hawaiian again still inventing and innovating

It’s so awesome yeah for sure I mean Terry aoui and Brian kolana uh kind of known as the and others that just they started off with just like a bully board if you don’t know it’s a Makaha sized boogie board yeah yeah and then they just

Realized like oh if we make this even a little bigger add these straps on to it and then it became like now it’s just it’s it’s the you know it’s the textbook literally that they teach ocean rescue safety is that that that style of saving

With the with the sled that came out of these guys um training and innovation on their own so awesome I mean you’re talking about I it’s really hard when people say who’s the top five you know there’s so many people but what came to

My mind was real Sun oh yes I mean sure you’re talking about not just skill and talent but also Community impact yeah big heart a big in fact a lot of the top Surfers we’re seeing today a lot of them benefited from her her generosity and

Her support at um like Jamie O’Brien uh was definitely close with anti-il and you know benefited from the the manyoni contest they did and so you know there’s a lot there’s a lot of really influential and impactful Surfers I mean the ones that we’ve mentioned are ones

Also that have passed away so often times we memorialize people and they’ve passed so guys like Eddie IA um real son anell who had a battle with cancer for many years right um and these are people in our community that are you know revered for the commitment of fulfilling

I so kulana is a h word that means like your stewardship or something that you take on is like your you know stewardship I guess is the right word yeah and I’ve heard it defined you know using the word responsibility as well but I I do like the word stewardship and

Anti and people like anti and Duke and Eddie that’s what they embodied was this sense of like giving of themselves to the community and to the surf community and to the the the younger generation of of uh of of Ki or young children and I think that’s really what in in my mind

Makes somebody you know iconic yeah somebody that is not about themselves but somebody that gives of themselves uh we’re seeing David Stant over here oh yeah there’s a a great Waterman too he’s a big wave charger one of uh you know the the founding families right of the

Hyalu and uh the the um the crew that we honoring uh with this event and putting on the hooie back door shootout and the you know uh we got our uh Pablo from Spain uh he’s asking about surf spots in Europe prior and mentioned mundaka That’s a classic you know really amazing

Wave I’ve never been to the European region that’s definitely on my bucket list uh if you will but Pablo also asked how how deep is the The Reef here or how shallow I mean were these waves are breaking literally you could probably stand and it’s about Waist Deep you know

So we’re talking three and a half maybe four feet deep uh and when these waves crash very tall on that shallow of the physics are not in your favor as they say um and so that is uh the depth of water um I don’t know how how deep you

Want to get with this Isaiah uh and and give too much away but uh for you it says what’s your favorite East Side break during a clean East well and like variable wind so I don’t know if there’s going to be too much um uh um I would

Get lick discover too much mentioning Diamond Head okay so Colin we appreciate it but there are some things we’re going to keep under wraps um and then uh we got some New Zealand viewers uh Johnny from New Zealand is uh Koto k K and uh it’s a Polynesian land of

Havaiki the Hawaiian Islands oh and did the mai come from Hawaii have there ever been any kiwi Surfers in this event um as we watch a replay of oh team Brazil and just getting lit up right there kind of was at that same spot we mentioned earlier where turtle from North Shore

Says when the waves break here don’t be there or you’re going to get drilled drill and that Surfer was right there yeah it’s interesting the term Havi often time so Havi is is a term that you’ll hear often throughout the Pacific um and it’s i h personally and from some

Of the scholarship that I’ve read and so forth it doesn’t seem like it’s one place Havi is often refer look at this one oh stroking into watch this beautiful wave Barrel classic pipeline oh somebody did go back door stalling for this pulling into the the barrel oh still going yes

Nicely done oh wow he gets a nice Applause from the crowd live here on the beach check it out I think that’s Ian go in a beast navigating nicely the wave starting to pick up you can feel the uh the swell approaching the little bit louder crashing of waves the noise the

Rumble is growing look standing up right there you asked earlier yeah and fortunately he’s way the end here where there is a lot of sand yeah so he’s standing on Sand there but it is just that shallow also when you’re over where the reef is and that is uh where it gets

Really really dangerous oh look at this one this is that back door Barr I surprised he came out of this not to um you know undermine but it looked like he wasn’t going to come out but he somehow manhandles his way out of this just for like no I’m not going to

Fall doggy door so this one this is the Goa wave trying to get deep here but it’s bit frothy and frothy is like that have that foam on the on the surface of the water from the previous wave which makes it a little more challenging for

Your fins or your skegs to engage yeah and your rail too and it’s so kind of foamy and you don’t you can’t really um it’s a little more challenging so it it seems like I if I when I go to the beach announcing mic I might have to leave my phone for you

Guys because uh wait I was in the middle of saying we was talking about something I cannot remember um you know uh the Havi oh yeah Havi so Havi um is often you know I think it’s best answered is Havi is like the homeand and often it’s

Like the place you came from okay so if you look at most of the islands you have places that that are similar say Hawaii Sai you know Havi these are all similar words that sometimes people like oh he’s named after this one place but I think a

In a lot of the the genealogies Havi is also just sort of a a Homeland that you came from um and and is sort of referenced as the Homeland that’s I think that’s one of the U I think an answer but but for sure I mean when we

Talk about in in altero New Zealand you have these Legend of of these canoes these and there’s I believe there’s seven of them um seven or nine sorry I apologize but and they all have names tamui and um they all have these names of these canoes and that’s where kind of

The ancestors they trace back each of those tribes to those canoes um and it is possible it came from Hawaii uh interestingly you know when you look linguistically at languages um some Pacific Islands languages are a little closer than others yeah so like really Hawaii and New Zealand cook Island Mii

Um Tahiti has yeah there yeah there’s a lot more similarities uh in those languages like in Hawaii we you know there’s a community uh in nio and they they still speak Hawaiian like in a dialect that’s really fast okay and they use a lot of T’s and they pronounce it some people

Say like I’ve had people from friends from Cook Islands uh and from to be like wow those people I can actually understand them okay um so so yeah interestingly even though Hawaii and and New Zealand are some of the furthest Islands apart from each other culturally and linguistically are quite similar

Yeah I noticed that when I went there there are so many similarities check out that grab rail technique Ian Goa at back door with 4 minutes 20 seconds remaining for team Brazil team Na and putting a a nice score on the board for his team so I like this

Concept of you have your individual effort and your individual Awards you know we’ll be awarding the top four uh at the end of the event with an award ceremony but also have the team concept and the points that you’re gathering for your team are uh what you’re trying to

Do is uh not only get some waves for yourself CU surfing I call it the most narcissistic sport in existence I mean there’s no other sport where it is you know all about you uh when you’re out even just in the a regular recreational session it’s like how many waves can I

Catch you know I’ve got a 1 hour break or whatever I got to get mine and it’s just naturally has this really me me me kind of uh approach um and this event obviously has that part of it where you you’re getting your own scores but the fact that you’re adding your scores

Together as a team uh also is a little bit different than what we’re used to watching yep and we have this next team sitting there in the channel and uh those guys could rack up a few points with all those florenes and Eli Olsen and Jose angel I don’t that’s

Interesting one maybe he’s a descendant or a friend just um am seeing that name there I know uh uh Jose Jose the old the original Jose Angel the surfer from way back his son Johnny Angel uh still an active uh Northshore lifeguard okay so Johnny Angel uh been around you know now

For a while and one of the the vet on the NorthShore lifeguard staff oh look at this looks like cor Ola pig dog slows down come on pump it on the foam ball trying to oh man that was so close what a beautiful shot looking straight in there good

Camera work Jet Ski work Zone media and ocean paddler TV just putting uh together a really nice broadcast for all of us so we appreciate that very much and it’s so cool to be able to see in the barrel as you were talking really kind of made my heart uh skip a little

Just thinking of Larry Haynes who’s been doing this for so many years in 2023 we you know we lost Larry but Aloha to his family and um he was the best at getting those water shots you know the pioneer of that for sure um you know uh having the the

Artistic eye to get those shots and then the physical ability a lot of times you know even before uh there was regular use of jet skis he was swimming for hours upon hours uh I would watch him just inhale a Spam musu while treading water and pound

A bottle water and just stay out to get the shots I mean talk about dedication pioneering and commitment and I think I did see a shot of uh Larry’s daughter on the beach down there so we want to definitely uh say aloha and um good thoughts and memories of of brother

Larry um yeah so so there are something also to remember too is is that you know there wasn’t in in throughout the the Pacific Islands which Hawaii is a part of um and where our history of surfing really its birthplace is in the Pacific amongst these people but you know there

Wasn’t just one Voyage you had you know multiple uh we have a lot of stories um you know from Hai LA or um you know many many others who who who sailed back and forth through throughout the Pacific so you know they would stay at an island

But then move like for example recently archaeologists discovered Hawaiian petroglyphs in Tonga wow um kind of cool I don’t remember this a few years back when the beach washed away over over here they found a bunch of petroglyphs in in the in the reef over yeah in The

Reef that that was I got to see those one day uh working as a lifeguard I heard they were exposed I wrote the ATV over there and I got to see firsthand it was uh really send some chills through your body of just like you know how old

That is you know um and just getting a word from uh one of our viewers Ruben Sanchez in Puerto Rico that Jose Angel anhel Morales is another is a last name so he’s a son of Chay Morales from Puerto Rico so getting a shot to compete

Here at the back door shootout and um cool thank you for that piece of information we appreciate that very much so that heat has ended so team na team Brazil uh has uh exited the water and standing by to start is heat number four team 96712 and we’ve got U commentary from

Japan so we got the all kinds of viewers we’re going to be right back with you guys taking a short commercial break stay tuned for more the hoie backdoor shootout on the other side La la la La The hoie backdoor shootout 20124 is presented by go nuts Hawaii and Kiki Beach Bungalow special Mahal to the members of the Hui oal Monster Energy athletic Brewing caloa tortillas Odum water Waka water Saltwater Society Hal Eva juice this live presentation is produced by Zone media creators of ocean paddler

TV Hawaiian extreme sports TV and in the zone [Applause] Alo aako welcome back to the back door shootout 2024 hope you’re enjoying this new year of 2024 live from pipeline we are here in the vul house looking out over this lenai uh these beautiful waves are watching a rising swell just as surf

Line has forecasted we’re seeing some awesome surfing right now in our teams division we’re right now in the water we have team 96712 which is a zip code I don’t know if it’s a Florence zip code specifically cuz there’s three Florence Brothers in here I’m Dr Isaiah Walker here with

Ezra we’re stoked to be here with you check that out 96712 Eli Olen who is kind of I guess like an adopted Florence child yep Ivan Florence John Florence Nate Florence Jose a Angel um who is also I guess Moren sound cliche but they are a Northshore click these guys came from

Groms and now they’re a generation of their own and what a heavy hitter team um Co Rothman was in this but uh he got uh previously on that last swell he’s still having a little bit of dizzy spell so it’s the most safe because you know

Here in you know you can be gun hole gun shy but you know Co is a smart enough athlete to know when he’s not 100% and that kid charges like a beast so for sure at that beautiful Drone footage yeah as you can see it’s a little

Overcast today which is nice uh and we got right in the background there you have a CA point which is the furthest Western tip of the island of Wahu and we’re spanning around here seeing aukai Beach Park this is where we’re at here on the shoreline and as you can see the

Sand here interestingly rocking was talking a lot about the sand and how the swells move that sand around you know it’s pretty amazing I don’t know of many other beaches in the world that can change and shift so quickly within days yeah within within a period of one swell

That beach will be someplace completely different uh we sometimes have lots of sand on the beach and even to the point where there’s like these ponds y like these where where the water will come up and form like these ponds of uh in the middle of the sand and other times where

The sand is completely gone and the water is right up under these houses on the beach so you get the Creeks too they call it you know all kinds of nicknames Beaver Creek you know but the beach is definitely filling up so come out to the North Shore and come join us so

Beautiful day here uh at pipeline if you’re just joining us welcome we are in the team division this is Heat number four of round number one and the format at the back door shootout is pretty unique in that they’re not competing against each other they’re just trying

To uh ACR uh the best top scores so I think it’s top three or four waves depending on the conditions and as they surf um through two or three rounds then at the end the Surfers with the highest points um will advance into a final and

Uh so it’s a really cool format it’s it’s pretty family friendly as you can see in the heat in the water right now uh most of them are related to each other and uh so we’re just looking for the sets to come in to see the florenes

Split this peak and and uh get some nice tube rides we’ve seen some amazing barrels in the last few Heats uh in the new Earth Project heat Jamie O’Brien got three really good barrels he was on um Team Japan also G sat two amazing ones oh kenchin Matsunaga got like probably

One of the best way one of the best ones y that’s what they were discussing upstairs and then going right into here here shayen picaro’s beautiful left shayen got a couple good runs as did matah drle so that I mean we’ve seen a lot of action that last Heat was a

Little slower than some of the others but we did see Ian Goa get a barrel on the left and on the right at back door Kono laa got some good ones we saw all um some Great Waves ridden so here on our sheet Co Rothman isn’t surfing in

This heat he is replaced by Mr John John Florence himself right you can see on the screen there yeah so exciting so I believe John John’s the oldest then Nathan is second and Ivan the youngest you know last year Ivan came really close to winning yeah he did yeah he was

He was on fire he was on fire um the Florence Brothers they’re all different in in they raised together they’re Brothers by Blood but they’re all different characters they’re very interesting everyone being entertaining and Eli you know adopted into that that that that talented group you know he’s a black belt Gracie

Jiujitsu and he is a a name very um well known as his dad was a photographer over up here since I was a little boy so d a good Surfer too and he’s a great Surfer yeah he used to surf in all the haa events and Y um he’d surf with Uncle

Bran serat all kinds of guys I mean legacies them I just hope they get some waves I know these guys are frothing at the bit and uh you know team based competition unlike most individual focused surfing contests the duoi backdor shootout follows a team format the Surfers are divided into eight teams

Typically representing different surfboard brands or local communities this format Fosters a sense of camaraderie teamwork and Community Spirit among participants but also individually they are surfing in a environment that’s comfortable for them but it also gets them comfortable to elev as these Surfers will be surfing like

You said four to five times right and what contest there is no contest like it because all the corpocracy and whatnot but this contest it’s just honors the surfing Heritage the Hawaiian culture more surfing more of our favorite athletes getting more bang for their buck and they’re going for a huge prize

Purse right in the next few days well there’s still waiting to have a a wave ridden in this heat I do hope we get some action coming up here soon we’ve had some questions earlier people were asking questions sending questions to Rocky about some questions Hawai history on his email

Yes okay so maybe we can we I can uh look at some more of those questions and answer some of those for you uh but I think first we’re going to we have some we have p on the beach who’s got some Surfers from Brazil amazing athl team NE

Going to shoot it down to them real quick yeah PA go ahead guys um how are the waves out there and how are you guys feeling waves are super sick uh it’s picking up right now it’s getting better as the minute each minute seems like each set that comes in is better and

Better but it was sick to get to share some waves with the boys out there and we had a super good time how you feeling out there um feeling in the moon right now you know it’s been a lot of years coming to how I am dreaming to be one

Day in this event and this year it happened got to thank um Kona his dad is there gut Hawaii hear me Johan uh Peter um Uncle Eddie and all the locals to give us this opportunity it means a lot to to all uh the guys that is in this

Team and uh yeah it’s almost it’s I don’t know it’s one of the best feeling ever to be able to to do this event so many history and to be the first Brazilians doing it uh it’s pretty special awesome what does it mean for

You both to be in this event and to be here at such a historical event I mean like you were saying it’s it’s it’s one of the it’s probably the best event let’s be let’s be real you know it’s probably the best event the waves are always amazing you know we get like

Seems like every time there’s a this cont this happens the SW always hits so I mean it’s my favorite event it’s definitely a special one and like you were saying you know being the first Brazilian team and I was born and raised here but being able to bring the boys on

And have our first team of Brazilian surfing it and getting to share it with you know living legends like him and a few others it’s can’t can’t think of a better crew to share it with oh well it’s amazing to see it good job guys see

You guys in the next round than you guys te Nave man so stok to have you guys this year and uh definitely some Heavy Hitters up in that team Kona El area man awesome stuff cool too um the Goa fames you know like we’ve talked about today how there’s families and

That seems like certain DNA really from the ASP his dad Wasa Goa yeah and so kind of cool to have that Legacy of surfers and um passed down from parent to child uh we were talking earlier about I mean so many the whole family have a lot of I

Mean even kala Grace is part of that whole family and M um Mason of course and and others who are in this event U makoa we saw this morning in the longboard so it’s really cool how we’re you know we do have a lot of of family

That um this event um you know celebrates and um be part of that Community Vibe yeah and they definitely you know they put in time over here there you know there was and everyone’s watching so when they get invited man they’re ready to go for sure there was a question earlier uh somebody

Asked a question about uh the book waves of resistance so that’s that’s a book that I published initially it was a my PhD dissertation which already I’m sure some people sound bored once I said that but um go check it out EV evolved into a book that was published uh by uh press

And one of the questions was like what were some of the um key things of the book I think for for me when when writing uh waves of resistance it was really about um celebrating surfing but in a historical context so like I said earlier it really is focused on History

Because my PhD I got it from UC Santa Barbara in the history Department there and it was interesting because um we know when I would explain to people what my final a dissertation is basically your final project that’s like a 3 to 500 page paper basically and um I would

I would explain to people that I was writing about Hawaiian surfing and you you’d often get like the raised eyebrow you know like oh is that really is that really an academic topic um but I was really it is yeah so it was kind of my

Um Mission I suppose to to prove that you could uh really make something academic out of of Surfing because there’s so much culture and history uh to celebrate and to to analyze so and I also wanted to clarify that because I I I personally you know was able to

Identify some some inaccuracies in some of the previous work that had been done and um so for example a lot of times there were some some ideas that were proped that like surfing died in Hawaii and at the end of the in 19 1800s uh and

Then it was later resurrected by a guy named Alexander Hume Ford and that I mean it was it was simply incorrect like I knew that guys like you know Prince Jonah kuo and his brothers David and Edward were surfing m not only in Hawaii at that time when it was supposedly

Extinct but also in like Santa Cruz to all the you know the hoopla around it you your book writes the story and so that was one of the motivating factors for me was to to um do a better job historically uh of presenting uh the

Story of of surfing in Hawaii in a way that um could break through some of those myths because a lot of those myths also kind of contributed to a more a narrative that wasn’t so favorable to Hawaiian um the idea of hawaian sort of you know becoming extinct so to speak

Which I knew wasn’t correct um and so by you know in in my book I like to celebrate uh Surfers that were less known uh guys like koho who was surfing the NorthShore the same time as Greg null but we you know we knew more about

Greg null than guys like koho and others um and then of course getting into talking about duk Hanam moku and and and and many others but but yeah so that to answer the question um that was some of the uh you know waves of resistance some

Of the key themes was just trying to celebrate uh the history of surfing uh the history of Hawaii and also to make sure to clarify some of the misconceptions that were being promoted that I knew were you know in inaccurate and so so anyway a lot of inaccuracy and

That’s why I love waves of resistance your book puts it into perspective the real truth you know there’s a lot of stuff going on in the surf industry you know try to mimic and recreate what is real before the cell phone era you know so uh yeah you know don’t get fooled you

Guys know what is what and these guys have been uh sitting so far right and uh the whole Beach is excited to watch these guys go yeah that’s the interesting thing about the ocean you know it’s just mhm and they say this a lot of about pipeline in particular that pipeline chooses the

Surfer and I think we’ve seen that uh many different um years over the years here at the back door shootout um you know we’ve had standouts where individuals the wave just came to them one that comes to mind of course kto makatoka who caught like a 12-point ride

This was a few years back just a heavy heavy wave that came right to him uh We’ve also seen Moana Jones last year the wave that they came to tour unfortunately it was like seconds after the horn blew MH um well of course Co Rothman had I think he had one of the

Waves of the day of the event last year so it’s interesting how like you know there’s not much you can do if the ocean is not coming rush her but she definitely rushes us to get to her you know what I’m saying yeah so wow three teams already

Been in their first round team Japan Team new Earth Project and team Na and now you’re uh watching 96712 and that is the local Northshore boys and then coming up following them would be snapped five so Eli Olen out in the water with Ivan Florence John John Florence Jose Angel and Nate Florence

Nate was very entertaining um this year winning Surfer of the year but also taking us around the world with his GoPro right and we were getting barreled at where he was getting barel and that’s something that we’re offering through the ocean paddler if any Surfer or

Athlete here we go rer up grabbing rail slowing down getting in the tube that is Eli Olen Eli with a kick flip at the end Mr Olen this guy had a killer wave um earlier on in the season he also charged into a heavy one after his Heat at the

At the Eddie IA big wave Invitational but it didn’t count but he had a massive one here we go beautiful backside technique drags his arm his knee and his butt the three-prong drag and he hits the E ja button but plenty time left in the heat 1505 remaining yeah I’m wondering if

Maybe the tide is playing into these lows right now cuz it’s all the guys from over here say there’s that 35 to 45 I’ll give it 48 minute lws at times and then packs of waves come in so we’ll see what happens as they’re getting into position beautiful nothing out the back

But there are a couple little dark blue Pacific ribs out the back but we’ll see if those things generate as they move yards towards our surface they sure sitting comy and cozy next to each other oh yeah they’re they’re Brothers but wait till the waves come in we’ll see

Who gets the choice of waves because in this amazing cultural event in the format there is no priority well you wonder too is that you know they know the wave so good that they have their exact spot that they say and they’re all in the same spot the same spot and then

Whoever goes into that you know they’re just going to they’re right on that hole their favorite they know their favorite sitting spot they know which ones to get Team snap last year’s Champions clay Benji the the single champion of the short oh yeah mon family Legacy getting coached here by Mak

Makua oh my goodness Northshore boys third to the last Heat of the first round and he’ll be coming up I see maku rotman waxing up his board he prepares early dang sort of reminds me I mean we uh Rocky likes to make some references to that movie Northshore yeah if the waves

Here don’t be there but this also reminds me that final scene in in Northshore when the they’re out there in the water and the the ocean goes flat right and then there’s no ways and then right at the end the wave comes and you got the leash pull oh yeah with Lance

Bur lard Hamilton you know it it doesn’t matter how many times we watch that movie it’s a classic here we go turn around Rick yep turn around Rick you’re going to pull in on a shortboard but kick out Goofy foot on a longboard there we go oh is this a Florence

Brother beautiful and guess what he’s got a GoPro in his mouth I’m not sure if it’s one of our GoPros but each Surfer is asked if they want to have a GoPro in their mouth we can switch live right into their live Barrel which I’ve been talking to Jake

Maky um right that’s you know um Jake maky is definitely game I was talking to him he’s like wow he’s sweeping the steps saying that’s pretty good I Roy want to do that let’s watch this replay and this is Nathan Florence slows down pulls into the barrel deep comes out clean seamless not

Untouched nice narrow stance nice Crouch Nathan Florence man yeah and I think most of these guys these days a lot of them have their own like YouTube channels where you can watch this that’s his own GoPro I know him and Cole Roth V have their own yeah Nate amazing Year brother

Congratulations on everything I saw a video of them way out at Himalayas just charging those some of the bigger swells that came early this season mad talented man that guy’s always pondering his next move and he’s a frothy frothy guy just hunting barrels so that was a beautiful score on the

Board as as you guys know in the back door shootout we aim to please four to five times these Surfers will surf during our waiting period and we’ll be picking it apart along with our amazing judging panel Barton Lynch Flynn Novak Joel sent and love hodell are you kidding me

Guys those guys could win the event so far uh in this heat we just have Nate and Eli with scores but they’re decent scores yeah awesome but yeah pretty uh slow start to this heat unfortunately and know this is probably highly anticipated with the Surfers that in the

Water on the next Heat to has some star studded Surfers on that roster raining champ snap to with the champion Benji bran very exciting Benji originally from South Africa but has lived in Hawaii for many years since he was a teenager I believe and um man he just he he has a a

Relationship with pipe that I mean is definitely really cool if you watch some of the snap movies I mean that guy did you see his Barrel the other day at back door Mini Snapper Rock I mean that there was more like that too I didn’t see all

So amazing how he’s like slipping down the face even Seth mon had a similar one he had the airdrop it was just bar like disengaged from his board and somehow engag but made it that far like these guys traveled football fields Billy and Maka Rothman the other day just and you

Have to have like nerves of Steel to like cuz you have to think like all right there there’s like thousands of pounds of water that’s about to annihilate me but I’m just going to focus on what’s in front of me while my fins are out of the water I got to think

Okay I got to reengage this and then the Split Second and if you’re you know if you even stop to question or to ponder of what’s about to annihilate you you know most humans would just that would be enough to want to eject hit the eject

Button but they it look so easy so cool to watch the confidence in Surf of surfers like our competitors here today that are able to just finish finish the job of making that drop and bottom turning right before the heaviest right before and then traveling all those

Yards through the tube you know there’s uh ribs inside there little creases that they negotiate they goo toe to heel Edge real sensitive stuff tube riding is I mean these guys come off the bottom and just you know what like for the goofy Footers I really love that deep

Bottom turn like Tommy Carol and as they hook it up underneath the lip we seen some of our longboarders earlier today they had that time cuz they get in early they come up off the bottom and they get to do a little turn underneath the lip

But they got to set up that 9ot rail so I mean and it it is death defying too right like we see Brazilian Surfer called chumino U you know hit his head knocked out and had to be revived on the beacho is still recovering uh so I mean

It’s it’s a real deal it’s pretty serious and so these athletes are are warriors big time and if you guys don’t know what the n 96712 is that’s the NorthShore area code similar to mine in Ina 96821 all right I think I said that when I introduced them at the ceremony and

Had to do a quick real switch with the numbers super numbers but y these boys are frothing 967 17 in haa hwn and you know These Guys these guys you know they surf it all they can gravel one foot slop and they can go all

The way to 25 ft easy I mean look at that sand Bank there it’s just I wanted to talk to you about it how’s the layout of the beach how’s the fullon Nook right over there by gumballs right that is some stuff and as we get bigger

Westwells it’ll push that out and you’ll get you know you won’t get that sandar section that closes out so much and we’ve already I think we’ve already kind of seen it move a bit today as the waves been coming up it’s going to be day three we’re going

To look off the balcony and that little Nook is going to be gone right all right here we go let’s see if we got any Surfers going for this wave well you can see some lines out there but this heat has been slow I think probably the tide has something to

Do with it cuz it’s it’s changing it’s bottomed out at low tide and uh as the tide comes up usually you get like this high tide push they sometimes call it where it comes in with the with the incoming swell so hopefully we’ll see that happen

Soon CU there’s only 6 minutes and 15 seconds left in this heat yeah Mahalo Jeff and the guys at Surf Line crew I know me and you work together with brother Jeff at the the magnitude right and uh that’s awesome stuff hopefully they get some real big swells so we

Could do that again this winter and yeah ocean paddler TV man you see all that amazing Drone footage there are the pioneers of that they were the first to do it and that’s what we want to do today we want to go live as me Rocky or Isaiah or Clifton batell are talking

About the surfer we can go right into the barrel with the surfer so you’re going to see that coming up a little later it’s up to the surfer but I think some of them want to get their score some scores underneath their belt a little bit of movement here Eli osen

Hoping for an Insider but doesn’t taking a look 522 remaining doesn’t quite materialize yeah so also hiio hinalo just like to thank all the members Richard Stevens the president mahina Chillingworth and Jerome marks the board of directors and uh yeah the founders in attendance Uncle Eddie Rockman Terry

Aoui kavika Stant Jr along with Uncle Byron Alona and yeah thank you guys huo healo huo healo Inc is a nonprofit organization that educates and coordinates preserves and provides assist assistance to facilitate the advancement of Hawaiian Hawaiian activities in culture so awesome you guys look how you guys can help

Out looks like some movement here hopefully this bump turns into a barrel oh beautiful drone to camera Land Camera at the house oh yeah I Ivan oh he had me and you going last year he had some huge dep toying bombs bottoming out didn’t come out of some

But definitely was on his way yeah know that wave I mean even though the camera was looking in toward the barrel he’s stalling controls his speed he’s gone he’s gone disappeared completely gone the Foam Guy the foam monster had his fins but didn’t even Ricochet him one

Bit he just kicked out with confidence and in a surfing competition especially a barrel riding one like a pipeline that’s what you want you want to have that wow factor where it’s like what I don’t know if they’re in there anymore or not looks like they might not make

This and then when they come out it’s like Whoa We got a cover 3D angles that was awesome was a good one Ivan Florence so two of the three Florence Brothers have gotten Barrels in this heat there’s only 3 minutes left hopefully we can get the

Third brother on a wave here in this last dying moments of the heat yeah they went shopping it was a it was a little bit of a slow one but they’re picking it off 96712 Northshore team oh all these guys they can charge huge waves surf schmedium waves they’re

Absolute pipe Specialists but you know on one foot choppy mush these guys are amazing aerialist too you know they cover they cover so much ground with their talent I were like in their backyard though kind of right when they were kids they grew up right here on the

Beach I watched them I watched them sit on the beach and Ponder and then they just they just went you know yeah I’ll never forget the first time I saw John John Surf it was at pipe I was in the lineup and he looked like he was

Four years old he probably was more like six or seven but I could not believe that he was in the water and it wasn’t wasn’t a huge day but it was still intimidating enough to he’s forged by the surf Gods to be who he is today the Florence Legacy here we go somebody

Paddling for this this looks like maybe Jose Angel woo Jose Angel gets ejected right off that crease he got stuck behind that that burm to get over Angel Morales Puerto Rican Surfer all right Puerto Rico in the House Aloha Puerto Rico that’s a band of amazing brothers

And sisters they know how to have a good time this looks like it could be Eli Olen Eli again yes riding orange cover shove it whoa pop shove it oh my goodness there he is jjf here he is you guys been waiting the last minute

Of the heat gets a sick one yeah right at the 50 seconds still got time if there was a bunch of pafic ribs 50 seconds you never know what if you got that little I mean you know John John is no shoulder Hopper but if he’s got to go

And accumulate some points this guy is three-time world champion it is possible that’s the cool thing about pipe you can get right back up like we’re seeing John John he’s almost right back in the lineup think we’ll get a replay of that one for you but that was a well Rd

Wave well ridden L Wave by John John yeah we’ll see that replay coming up as this heat ends we’re going to do a quick Heat recap there’s that replay of John John classic stalling pumping controlling his speed comes out right before it shuts down on that sandbar

Section wow okay gang well that was awesome we’re going to move on into snap five but before we’re going to go to a commercial break this is Isaiah Walker and Mr Ezra rodrig we’re going to see you soon so stay tuned go grab a snack and come right back ala ala

Got a large long period SW heading towards Islands this weekend 40 to 60es exposed yeah Buddy allow us to help you grow your brand and expand your business by reaching Hawaii’s giant Outdoor Sports in Ocean Enthusiast demographic Zone media advertising specializes in television commercial production and campaigns social media content production and distribution drone and video production Cutting Edge live productions and more with over 25 years

Leading Hawaii’s Action Sports Market give us a call to find out how we can help you grow your business all right hello and welcome back to the 2024 dahi backdoor shootout Cliff botell back here on the microphone with Ezra Rodriguez yeah brother Cliff it’s been a

Long time so good to spend the new year with you my friend my brother yeah there you’re Northshore Legacy also Hawaiian water Patrol you guys amazing what you do with uncle terou and thank you for all the years being raised coming up here from town taking care watching my back if you

Guys don’t know Cliff Patell he’s part of our team we’re trying so we got the recap going on here of uh some of the events we had today this is the standup surfing Zane and the boys here making the best of what we had to offer this morning

Here at Pipeline with the standup paddle heat these guys were killing it killing it we also had the longboard MO freedus here we go in the body surfing we had Tom sails out theiner yeah wow I hear he’s out here all the time he’s like a

Gr he took some bombs he’s definitely a regular for sure here we go team Japan when we started up the shortboard this guy’s got some drainers me and makua Rothman were joking every time team they were a little late for their first heat but every time they touch the sand it

Just goes off for them definitely them they do bring the heat mhm that’s for sure that was Nate on that last uh heat here and wow that one looked like it hurt yeah team 96712 and then we roll right into heat number five we are in with snapped five

Here with Benji brand clay marzo Josh mon Mason ho and Parker coffin so this should be a yeah should be an awesome heat get some waves to come through you guys know how Pipeline and backd door a oh and we’re going to go head down uh

Down to PU stto she’s got John John Florence hi Pua how you doing all it’s a little bit slow out there today um but how are the waves the conditions and how you feeling uh I feel good yeah conditions are amazing the wind is as good as it gets just light

Off shores and uh that heat was a little slow this well still filling in a lot um I bet the you know the kind of end Heats of the day are going to be amazing um you know it’s a beautiful event and such such a historic event so

What does this you obviously you do a lot of events um around the world what does this event mean to you uh yeah it’s just a special event because it’s a lot it’s a lot of people from here that are doing it I get to team up with my

Brothers and we all get to Surf together and it has that different format to it so you’re not competing each heat you’re kind of just surfing together and you’re on a leaderboard against everyone um and so that makes it fun and different and way more relaxed like we can go into a

Heat like that last one and you’re kind of stoked for one person to get away but not like no I want to win yeah obviously this is uh this event is in honor of Duke Kahanamoku so you know what has he had in impact on your life

Um has he inspired you at all and what’s one word that you would describe him uh wow my [Applause] gosh wow uh yeah Duke he inspires me so much just being the Waterman that he was you know taking surfing and bringing it around the world and being the swimmer

He was in the Olympics I mean competing in the Olympics and winning the Olympics like for my one experience I’ve had so far it’s so hard and it’s so challenging and so for him to go and do that it’s it’s amazing to me awesome good job good

Job out there and have a beautiful day yeah thank you all right he hit the hit the nail on the head with that one John John yeah thank you P good interview John John he’s a champion for a significant reason guy is bad a yeah exactly and and you know he did talk

About the format for this event it’s a Surfers friendly you know it’s you just get get out there with your friends five of your closest friends and you guys get to Surf together accumulating points uh you do have uh IND individual uh best as well as team best so yeah they get to

Surf in a team format where they are comfortable you know whether it’s a brand They Ride for or a bunch of brothers that just make a team they make a team they’re comfortable surfing in that team but it also elevates all our favorite athletes they get more time to

Surf less rubbing elbows it’s at these local events it’s not about anything it’s the way we connect with the ocean and a lot of people got to know kanaka heo is not just getting wet surfing competition getting sponsors making money it’s the connection with the the

Kai you know Mal to Makai Land and Sea these guys put in their time and there are unbelievable Surfers yeah and I mean the surf is just turning on this is what we were waiting for all morning oh with a huge air not landed Benji BR Benji BR

Last year’s champ exact unreal so he’s back you see how he’s standing up on The Sandbar there Josh that was Josh earlier what a huge C Door and he comes out Wild Cliff wow that that’s going down on the scorecard that was massive head tilted back speaking of shootout right Beach is

Going wild that was a shootout that’s a shootout that’s the back door right there he just showed how you’re supposed to do it don’t forget I’m not saying that’s a 12 but we throw down twelves when it’s just it just can’t be a 10 yeah and this swell can’t be an 11 swell

Is filling in judges got the work cut out for them for sure very nice very nice for sure now has got to negotiate getting back out of ANS lot of sand a lot of differentials over there he looks like he’s going to come back in and around which is probably the better

Choice you got to watch The Champ last year and snap five you were looking into the barrel at them it’s definitely a a different vantage point but that’s why I appreciate ocean pador TV and and the cameras they got set up we got drones look at this look at this replay right

Here very seamless Benji Brown with a little air at the end there these guys have been having real a lot of fun at uh Sandbar back door yeah putting on a lot of great free surfing like that drone shot we talked about ocean pad TV they got the Drone up they got different

Angles we got a ski camera first to do it first to introduce the Drone with this crew Zone media better known as Hawaiian extreme sports oc6 in the house and we’re on channel 1020 Spectrum Hawaii surf Channel and surfline.com yeah just where a event of this caliber

Should be on live TV baby the best of the best we got a lot of amazing teams best in the world yeah as well as the best and most dangerous wave in the world yep so uh definitely have a lot of action going to be happening here

Especially in these Heats as you can see the swell start to fill in winds are perfect today these guys are antsy and they just want to surf pipe with a handful of their closest friends make a good day of it there’s a lot to go into it as when you’re working on the

Ski with your brothers there’s a lot of responsibility there’s a lot of movement there’s some Carnage at times that us as Spectators don’t get to see what you guys go through right and I mean all the seasoned guys that are working with the Hawaiian water Patrol you know they’re a

Lot of them come from Ocean safety or have ocean safety background and so they see emergencies every day they know what to look for um we got a solid crew you know this year guys from Northshore as well as the west side you know we got Nolan kolana and uh Brandon Martin and

Those guys M foret just few every now and every now and then got good stuff got him on but uh yeah definitely a very solid crew of guys and it makes for a safer environment for the Cowboys you guys are wild Waterman Cowboys I know when you guys are down the beach you

Know what I mean getting your skis ready these guys are heavy Next Level yeah and there’s our beach that’s where you can go get your $25 t-shirts you can also see us online at theoi.com there’s Hilton yeah look at where his Painting came from yeah exactly I mean

It came from just the backboard look at what he’s doing he’s just emulating pipe at its best here he goes adding the little bit of sheer ukai spray yeah definitely uh one of the most talented artists here’s Josh that was a beautiful wave wow so he traveled through a 10 to

20 yard curtain right there disappeared yeah bji that was war than I thought H that thing had a couple yeah it does take some skill for sure to to handle this wave uh these guys are the best of the best best just like the event itself oh

I love it every year uh it never ceases to amaze me that you know there’s waves every year and it’s usually just firing best the pipe and back door have to offer the year before Benji br’s win and it was Mason hoes yeah there that was a heavy year darker brackish water uh

Amazing footage that was big tubos it’s you know these guys like to max out pipe M and when you got 35 minutes and the something’s coming to you these guys are the real deal anybody would just go oh man I don’t want this one these guys send it for sure

Yeah snap five baby if you never uh tuned in to their they got some of the best surf videos out right now snap five baby their team is coming reigning champions of last year they also got the single Champion out there made all the big bread last year Mr Benji yeah and

You just see you just saw that one of their team Riders Josh mon just I me absolutely shooting it out at back door Josh and Seth and just the whole mon Family Man 100% water Legacy Kia sister Mon My hats off to you you know everything that going on in

The is uh industry you’re an awesome Mana world champion longboard Surfer good for you Kia good for you yeah definitely congratulations you know she’s uh a leader of a lot of a lot of young girls admire her look up to her and her leaving that brand that’s a good thing

You you can’t recreate what’s real you know what I mean her and her friends and all of us all growing up together none of these Brands can recreate the real yeah 100% it’s before the cell phone came out you know you push a couple buttons they’re right over there over

Saturation we talked about it earlier you know that’s pretty much what’s going on now is the technology and these Surfers creating their own YouTube channels and things like that just living their best lives surfing all over the world a lot of stuff creating content right where it’s at nowadays I

Guess but it’s all about respect too like if I’m going to get into pickle ball next week I ain’t going to enter the court like I’m macho man I know what I’m doing I’m going to have the best gear but I’m going to respect what came

Before me you know what I mean those who have come before us right yeah exactly even though that’s a new thing you know totally I I I don’t totally understand it but yeah when I hit the tennis court and stuff just mad respect for that discipline let’s

Go know who’s who and what’s what respect the best and learn exactly exactly absorb absorb it absorb knowledge which is why this event so special you know Duke mhm has paved the way for a lot of young Surfers and here we have a shot from pipe Benji bran

Kicks out of that one but uh he’s got a unique knock knee Style real real uh I don’t know there’s a couple things that he looks Luke eonis sometimes on his backand but the way he pulls in there’s some CJ hob good you know what I mean

How him and Damen get low and straighten out that front leg I love it and they get into those pipe cones that drive Benji’s his own thing I was just saying there’s a little similarities and he charges like those boys too so awesome back door shootout baby here we go

Replay look at how he contorts he’s looking but he knows that’s no good very experienced get out of there why waste energy they still got a little over 20 minutes left in their heat so there is a lot of time for these guys to pick and choose them nuggets uh like the format

You know you’re not really surfing against one another you’re surfing with each other so we’re with each other out you’re surfing against everybody but in this format it’s like exactly less pressure more elevation of your own skill and Tube riding technique exactly yeah I didn’t see any uh discrepancies

Today even though they don’t have priority but as we get into like their third and fourth surfs Surfers are very intelligent down here in these yards they’re going to know that what they need to win and there might be a little bit you know yeah you know taking a

Little bit of control there’s always going to be Pride right oh yeah you can never yeah you can never let go of the pride there’s a bunch of characters over here plenty gorilla Pride welcome to the north side oh yeah yeah H what an event good to be

Here first day of competition and what a great start great start I was going to say great start great start to the New Year mhm 24 praying for prosperity you know what I mean yeah I get to not be in the wood shop today Aloha to all my state buddies

Brother Andrew efon everybody watching thanks for letting me go today yeah exactly right yeah thanks come do my uh my lifestyle I love surfing so that’s what I’m all about it’s definitely a lifestyle I’m simple surf boards surf shorts waves let’s go yeah rinse off the the salt

Water good enough you got it wow and how’s awesome we got the the hoie back door shoot out flying bullet coers I mean coasters cork coasters good job on the lini that made all of our displays and stuff just me exactly for this uh 2024 thewe backo shootout brought to you

By guts Hawaii and Ki beach bungalows want to M them for making this all possible as well yeah Elon Happy New Year from Ki beach bungalows if you guys never stayed there you’ve ever stayed there BR that place is next level level for sure definitely get to know at this

Time of year you want to be mindful if the sand is wet the waves come High over there for sure oh gotcha they’re also booked to the teeth yeah most of the time so here we got some action beautiful what is this Josh Mon oh it is Mon Mon you acting up again

I love it SC left right left right center yeah he knows how to go everywhere watch these kids grow up in white K Ki in ’92 maybe 91 92 awesome family definitely an awesome family mon family Surf and you know if you guys def yeah if you guys don’t know Tony mon being

You admired that man yeah exactly today’s day hammer time he’s got some more oppa now so Grand to take care of so he’s little a little bit more you know relaxed but definitely one of the forces to be reckoned with back in his he’s a good

Granddaddy I mean you know good Ro all his hard work and now he’s just living his best life with his grandkids definitely one of the better role models to look up to here as a especially as a native H in a surf industry you know easy to choose the wrong path he’s

Definitely kept it all together for his oh Han oh those guys were wild apprciate that whole clicko it’s easy to go get lost exactly but this is the swell we’ve been waiting for all morning it’s starting to fill in and uh thankful that we do have the footage that we’re getting to watch

For especially for you folks around the world world viewing here on uh either the Spectrum ha surf Channel 1020 or surfline.com yeaha all our friends from around the world thank you for joining in check out what we’ve been seeing all morning long here yeah you know what time it is and

Then when I got my brother Cliff Bello if you guys he’s got hypnotized Waterman eyes man he he knows what’s going on you know what’s going on out in the lineup but yeah we got some regurgitating little Sandbar waves on the inside as the pack snap five Heat number five with SNAP five

They’re looking to harness the energy of the ocean and get absolutely piped or spit out of the back door back door that’s that’s normally the goal y uh today’s SW it’s hit or miss m you got to pick those gems if and when you can little Monster Energy Ezra is going

To take a little oh yeah good stuff thank you freak Show will he always coming in along with cww chips from 1992 Hana Pepe Kawaii go check them out and our title sponsors go nuts Hawaii and Ki beach bungalows mollow to you guys two thumbs tattoos hola juice

W water brought Aaron Kim and the odam corporation Hawaii go check them out amazing brought us and yeah man we’re here doing it up and this is just the first surf first day first surf of the New Year H exciting definitely exciting and the waves are starting to fill in

Make it make it uh enjoyful for those who have decided to come down and watch this live our beach Gores are you can see right here as a drone pans through you got some folks up there it’s kind of like in the bleachers MH watching it

Live just over not not hours but I’ve been noticing now it’s starting to make a slight 22 degree Hill on the beach things are going to change off this little pickup of the swell it’s already making a a hill when it was flat in day yesterday and that’s kind of like what

Happens every year the ocean will come alive and the sand makes its migration throughout what would you say that that big Nook on gums right is going to be completely I would say abolished by tomorrow yeah I would give it a strong possibility for sure ah being a surfer is so awesome

There’s so many elements there’s so many things you know what I mean you always got to remind yourself when you see a super athlete from the NFL not even paddle out 10 yards past the wall and then they like give you a couple grand for take them back

Hey makes you like hey so proud for be and Surfer yeah and and you you mentioned elements and that’s part of what surfing it’s a big part of Surfing is the element we’re dealing with them all here you know ocean dealing with the wind dealing with a lot of different

Energies dealing with ourselves you know it’s a pretty cool individual Sport and some things that you guys trained with Uncle teria h n it’s uh it’s hard for a regular human to absorb the kind of lels that you guys are on it ain’t no joke

What you guys do and and it’s a lot of it you know is just being around the ocean and being around each other especially knowing each other’s manism like we’re a pretty tight crew I love how you guys um you guys finish up over here during a busy Northshore season

Doing all the events and then you guys shoot over to Makaha and join us at the uncle’s events and then you guys take over the skis that stuff is just that is just hard to find like everybody needs to grab on to that Ohana um those values those core values

You know what I mean like Uncle Brian and Uncle buff teach all the time and and you know Uncle BFF and Uncle Mel’s events you know they have so much different uh things that people are competing with everything from Big Boy bully board standup Cano surf hope to

See you there this year yeah we’ll be we’ll be there if if if if it’s allow depending on the contest out here that’s another good spot for us to go out there and not only do we get to help out but we get reps you know that’s where a lot

Of the training happens I’ve watched you guys come at the end of the day the last four Heats you CL ter just move every hey come in get off the ski we’re going to take over for now wait you guys just get we don’t no it’s it’s Ohana time

Baby hey AA Stewart I like that kid yeah definitely so humble making his way over he be in heat six yep and he’ll be his father he’d be so proud of you kanala and Lala Luan amazing stuff he’s part of the NorthShore boys M by Northshore Surf Shop there that uh nice

That’s going to be another heat that’s got some pretty killer Riders everybody from kala greas you just saw aella Stewart Legend Chandler Makai mcnam and makur Kai Rothman are all set to take the water up next under another pipe Surfer Northshore surf Liam M exactly so right on you guys Aloha

It’s going to be interesting and uh the swell filling in and everything hopefully makes for a good time for these guys surf together five or the four to five times they might be surfing and that and that’s what sets this thing apart from other events yeah exactly we’re not even try striving to

Be the best it’s just the way the format is you get more of your favorite Surfers and athletes surfing together surf friendly five times there’s pu D surf friendly pu is on the beach there talking story making small talk waiting for her uh interviews interviews thanks for taking over the interviews

Downstairs P Doo you can see all those Spectators coming in going there and uh if you haven’t been able to make your way down here to ehukai yeah go ahead and check out theoi.com you can uh go ahead and order your uh back door shootout 2024 t-shirts

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Thing you know you want to push ourselves into uh the direction of being a lot more cultural and so um yeah we I’ve been been around it for a while since I was young you know Big Time growing up out here and so I’m thankful for being able to present

Uncles man oh just getting barreled clay marzo marzo at pipeline yeah so stoked he’s been in the snap team for the last two years he’s definitely a surfer I really love to watch he gets be pumped to Surf this guy when he touches the ocean things happen definitely just happened for him right

There you know they know Josh got two of the best ways Benji bran got one of them but now they’re just adjusting here we go Mason ho brother Cliff Mason on the backside and you know wow he slowed down real quick yeah he’s he’s one of my

Favorites to watch and his his uh attitude out there is just so amazing and unreal always positive you know yeah he exuberates this this you know feel like a Grom he just got a glow about him I really appreciate every time you see Mason there’s a smile on his face you

Know I like the way he looks like his dad when he ends the wave dude it’s so funny exctly creating his uh his own little and then you know his dad surfed and snapped last year too I’m sure you were watching that heat on the ski water

Safety mental man he pumped through a mental back door he also did you know we’re honoring Duke Kahanamoku always in memory and Duke Kahanamoku specialty events with the longboard the standup and the body surfing but uh doing the Duke’s ocean Fest down in Whitey ke Michael H showed

Up and rode one of my longboards it was awesome he rode my Thunderbolt and I was super proud I was going to say uh I’ve done that a few times rode your CBO yeah no but I was like yeah Uncle Mike anytime and the guy get action oh he has

Action and then he made the finals and his team won and then 5 minutes he paddles over he could have caught another wave now he just V out with us by the buoy it was so awesome I call him two pops shakure he’s an absolute Legend here we

Got a little pipe action right here clay again marzo a laidback style oh totally went on the sandar oh what if he got that double Gumball I love those ones when they come out right at the gums left but he was a bit that’s sand that’s not actually gums that’s just sand

That’s that sandbar section just the sand hasn’t moved yet and that there’s Reef covering that I mean a sand covering the reef there normally you’d be able to get that little that section but uh that sand is just creating a little how much sand do you think is

Over that Reef I mean just by feet not the Met feet yeah like how how deep you think the sand is until we touch the probably like three or four three or four feet of sand it’s buried pretty good oh oh wow he made that drop nice

And deep does he come out he does come out with a little B with a little bunny hop at the end Benji brand Benji brand on that one oh bro what brand you ride for what brand Benji and look he’s standing up that’s how shallow it is if you take a look at

Where he’s standing he’s standing up and you know all that warble I see it catch certain sets of the Waves it just comes right into the curtain of the wave and that’s how you get that warbly ones yeah they pick them anyways they take them sometimes and that’s why they they’re

The uh they’re where they’re at because they uh they charge they have it takes talent to ride this wave you know you can’t just paddle out any old place and hell no take off so these guys uh you know would like to say that’s why they

Make the big bucks but a lot of them this is where their heart is and uh you can see the Hawaiian water Patrol ski there in the backdrop R Mahala those guys for keeping our competitor safe big time like I was saying earlier on the beach microphone BR they’re watching the

Surfers they’re watching the photographers they’re watching your kid run down the beach past the ehukai tower the kanaka peripheral vision of the water Patrol is ridiculous you guys are Pono accustom we’re accustomed to being able to keep our eyes on the ocean that’s what we always taught you know

Never face your back to the ocean MH eyes are always on the water for sure yeah you you guys know as background being lifeguards the most famous thing is they come to the beach you Lube up your kid you put the water wings on you

Sit in your chair open up the book The kid goes in and Wings come off off they go everybody watches for that being a local on the shores we all watch definitely and here we got the norshore boys norshore boys getting ready here by Northshore surf shop it’s kala Grace m m

Deera just to name a few good to good to see uh kalab back out there oh a little big time he’s going to face his fears once again I mean you know even though these guys are so good spite pipe Specialists they always are going to go out there’s there’s other things

That they battle with the preparation oh back door Mason Mason rifling through that he’s going to come out beautiful click up high but I don’t think he set back down it’s really interesting as it goes through back door it bottoms out then it goes up high it goes a little

Soft and then it drops down into the guts again I thought I thought he had the right line and the speed to make that one but he you know he probably did this underwater when he ate it you know how you just try to shake it off huh and

You can see him paddling yeah back in and around it’s the fastest way back out he knows how to win you’re not Zone yeah for sure Mason’s definitely going to push the limits and it is the back door shootout so you know I like how he rides bigger boards too I

Uh you know it’s it’s good when you get to know how to ride a little bit bigger foam I mean I come from a longboard background but you know when the some of these athletes know how to ride their bigger boards it does help them like I

Love watching Kelly Slater ride a 60 and a 62 and pading in I love the small stuff but it’s a little different here we go with the recap oh man he just I there that line I thought he had it right there got the speed oh he did have it

This is Jos earlier yeah benjie’s first one B’s first one and that one had a weird lip line and he made it out Josh again just double barrel wow look how deep that is H love that one he lost it he was like what experience pays off big time here

We go Mason ho three prong stance knee hand and butt perfect textbook yeah what you see in Mason is a bunch of Surfers raised in the NorthShore it’s all in his surfing yeah Consolidated COK Ho’s brother yeah and mcole ho making his debut in the longboarding this year making it to the

Final proud of you brother if you’re watching good job Pat yourself on the back let’s go there we got the camasi out there capturing the shot as well different Vantage Point yeah I just like to uh say Zone media ocean paddler TV Hawaiian extreme sports amazing job this year

We’re doing it and uh just to talk about that GoPro offer um Jake maky was sweeping the steps at the Volcom house B and he was thinking about it he’s definitely thinking about it I know how Surfers are everybody prepares different real superstitious nothing wants to

Hinder their focus but I think in the next couple of rounds as people start getting comfortable there’s going to I really want to be talking with you and then go into the barrel all three of us in the barrel together yes and we’re going to do that

Again tomorrow 122 on the clock we wouldn’t be the only ones that want to see that shot oh man but you know Nate all over the world earlier you know he got Surfer of the year he took us around the world yeah you know and it’s amazing

You know you look at these barrels they look perfect if you get to see the guy on the shoulder that wave is huge totally one minute left in this heat for sure that vantage point is a different one you see him in the in the barrel and what goes on in

There is a NE next level of what they got to deal with to actually make it look easy when they do mean oh yeah so the ocean has calmed down some it’s definitely changing again yeah with the swell settling in I think it’s going to read on upcoming

Swell there you guys know as being locals and you watching the athletes in the water so much there are those big lws what do you guys call them 45 minutes 38 minutes at times between between sometimes there’s LS in between Heats like you guys know as locals over

Here things can pan out they can change you know um but yeah definitely they do take you know 20 to 30 minutes you never know which is why some Heats it looks like they have more action than others you know gotcha so you try to make your Heats accordingly that’s why the heat

Minutes here at the shootout yeah uncle gave them 35 okay there’s the merch 10 merchandise go check them out and snap five has just ended their heat you guys stay tuned my name is Ezra rodrig Cliff Pell and moon walker will be right back with you guys

Thanks for having me gang and aloha stay tuned gang come right back good guys am I Up’s up I don’t remember huh up or you just 230 hard to see I’m ask La la la la la la The hoie backdoor shootout 2024 is presented by go nuts Hawaii and Kiki beach bungalows special Mahal to the members of the H oal Monster Energy athletic Brewing caloa tortillas odm water Waka water Saltwater Society Hal Eva juice this live presentation is produced by Zone media creators of ocean pador TV

Hawaiian extreme sports TV and in the [Applause] zonea kakaka we’re here here at the 2024 back door shootout and we’ve had some awesome action thus far we start off today with our longboard went into standup into body Surf and for the rest of the day we’ve been into our team

Division we’re now into heat number six Northshore boysa Stewart kala Grace Legend Chandler Makai mcnamer Mak Rothman and they just started their heat so they have 30 minutes to uh to try and get as Barrel as is humanly possible we’ve seen some great barrels that last

Heat I saw the mon boys Seth I think got a sick back door wave so they are out there and we also have been dealing with a rising slowly Rising swell today the winds have been just right nice and clean as we’re looking into that one

Kind of close out on us but beautiful day yeah I believe the swr’s starting to fill in winds are favorable now so these later rounds uh these later uh Heats I should say looks like it’s going to be some some uh good surf action bro how

Was that last SE team snaap five Seth mon less ankles mon I’ve been calling them and uh that was Seth oh that brother was barreled at back door and um looking forward to the wave’s getting you know a little more little more clean uh a little more groomed with the trade

WIS and um having a lot of fun watching these guys get barreled the crowd on the beach they’re loving it I know you folks watching online and on the broadcast have been chiming in and uh enjoying the action as well so want to give a shout

Out to um you know Jay Lane tuning in and uh when you when you wipe out here that the water is shallow it’s only about 3 to four feet and so that was one of the common questions that we’ve been getting is like how how shallow really is it and um it’s like

I’ve been saying the physics are not in your favor yeah as you mentioned Rocky Seth was a standout in that last Heat and I think we have pu makay down there with him on the beach right now all right you got two amazing back door

Waves out there um how are the waves how are you feeling yeah it was um crazy like back toback waves I just had um honestly wasn’t really looking right before that heat I was kind of just wanted a pipe wave and those two waves kind of just came to me was kind of

Gifted I feel like uh cuz definitely was like a slow day and I know the waves are supposed to get better today so I think during that heat just started turning on awesome yeah this is a historical event so you know obviously you do a lot of

Events around the world what is special about this event and being in it I think just special to be like surfing on a team format you know it’s the only event that’s kind of like that and to really have that camaraderie out there with the boys you know my brother and then three

Really good friends so uh it’s just it’s just a really good time it’s really relaxing out there awesome and this event is in honor of Duke um what impact does Duke have on your life and what is one word you would describe him as I

Mean if it wasn’t for him I wouldn’t be doing what I’m doing right now so you know all thanks to him I grew up on the beach that he taught surfing to everyone that came to away so it’s just like I feel like you know I’ve spent my early

Days as a little kid learning how to surf in W ke and kind of just embodying that the Duke spirit so yeah definitely carrying his legacy around the world awesome thank you good luck in the next round interview questions from po Theo asking about Duke Hoku asking about

Those waves oh we got a set on the outside oh but yeah I like that he said interesting and we were talking about this earlier um Ezra and I that often times and we’ve mentioned this many times before that pipeline often chooses the rider and I mean that’s Seth said I

Wasn’t even looking for a back door wave and two of them came to me back to back yeah and and when you hear him speak and his humbleness I mean so no wonder why why it comes to him you know it’s like the wave whisper Kelly Slater has that ability too right

Yeah well and um you know Seth has a a big event coming up later this month at the the yeti Pro Pipeline and you know he’s one of our world surf League Championship tour Hawaiian Representatives correct and um you know we talked about the Reps as we watch a

Replay I think that’s Mak Kai I think that’s Maka yeah he was up here talking story with us earlier and um he was hoping by the time he went out into his seat the waves would be picking up a little bit so I think he’s getting what he was

Bargaining for sure you can see some lines out the back so indication of like the swell Rising hopefully it has been slowly Rising throughout the day nothing too dramatic but it definitely was a lot smaller this morning during our long board and standup divisions yeah I think it all kind of

Worked out uh for the better uh time of the day for these short borders to be out here surfing and uh I think they’re very thankful as well the swell is making its way to the island now we got some guys in this heat and the previous few Heats that uh if

Anybody could surf these waves are these are the ones to do it and you can kind of see them scratching over to try and see if they can get a look at this wave here but uh no takers now um you know we’ve been celebrating duah moku at this event and

There’s a lot of things that you can celebrate about his life first of all surfing of course seen as the father of modern day surfing um and and of course with with Olympics as we see a paddler here holy smokes a it’s like Makai

Mnam no way oh man that that look like a almost like a guarantee almost you can just see that water and froth on The Sandbar right there yeah he was he was parked in that thing look at his drop just grabbing the rail good dragging of the

Elmu on the backside right there and then it just foam ball SW oh I don’t know if you man that exit would have been tough that was like a three-step drop right there yeah definitely yeah and you wonder like I you don’t want to use the word greedy

But you sometime we sometimes refer to that when you’re in the barel and you’re like I can stand a little longer and uh unfortunately he wasn’t able to come out of that one but I was a good siiz wave for today that was a nice one that was one of the bigger ones

We’ve seen so far well good to see he’s okay he’s uh smiling but shaking his head and explaining to I should have patol of what was going on in there a lot goes on in there that we can’t see but that camera ski really gives us a better vantage point to see

What the Surfers are going through where you can see that foam ball just engulf him yes so I was talking about with Duan moku we cele there’s a lot of things you can celebrate him uh his life as Olympian or the swimmer you know he’s a

Sprinter mostly um and then as a surfer but then the other one also is him as a lifesaver rescuer kind of pioneered um you know working with the Red Cross even where in his time there there weren’t really that many like organized skilled lifeguards and they actually hired him

The the Red Cross hired him to travel across the United States and elsewhere to teach people how to save people um and it’s interesting because it’s it’s not just Duke um uh you have a lot of other there’s a Hawaiian guy that preceded Duke he was a little bit older

Than Duke uh his name was George free and he grew up in Hawaii but then he ended up moving to um to Huntington Beach and into Southern California and he started a lot of this ocean rescue um programs as well so it’s really cool I mean we’ve been talking earlier Rocky

You and I were talking about how the Innovation with with rescue and life saving in modern times is just something that we still see here in Hawaii amongst Hawaiian um watermen um and so I mean I did have a question for Cliff cuz Cliff has been definitely in the center of of working

With the Hawaiian water Patrol usually you know you’d be out there with these guys maybe you tell us like a little bit what what’s going on when you’re when you’re out there with these Surfers um and and on the ski um I we’ve seen some I mean last year unfortunately but

Fortunately we had some rescues that happened um I mean just just from your experience what what’s it like being in the water during these events with the water Patrol or especially this event cuz you know we’ll see what A’s got on this wave real quick oh yeah so we we

That was aa aa so I I definitely um especially this event they like to run it in larger surf it is a Surfers event and the boys want to charge so this event you know we’re heightened not like we’re not heightened on each event but

When it gets big like this or bigger and you know it’s pipeline it’s the most dangerous wave in the world and so we’re just on all alert every wave every time a surfer like you see here AA taking off all eyes are on him right now and then

You’re going to look and see what happened here you’re going to see if he kicked out the back if he got pounded and you can kind of recognize a a pretty critical wipe out and then we’re going to respond 100% And we have a grabber on the back we’re all trained uh

For you know we pray we we prepare for the worst case scenario and we pray for the best you know awesome you uh definitely like kind of always on the edge of your seat because at pipe even if it doesn’t you know looks kind of routine but you don’t know when that one

Is going to be the one where okay he’s not coming back up and you know from uh sitting on the jet ski to sitting in the Lifeguard Tower it’s like you’re always just on edge knowing that any wave could be the one that somebody’s not going to come

Back up and that’s a great point that Rocky makes because it’s not always the wave that they’re on or riding that they get hurt on a lot of times it’s the next one or the one after we’ve had some that uh actually were the ones that caused

The the damage and so you you basically until that person paddles back past you you’re kind of watching to make sure especially when it gets bigger you know yeah it’s like you’re not out of the woods yet once they paddle past us then we can kind of focus on the on the next

That’s a good point because with Cola Grace last year that it wasn’t the wave he was riding it was the ones after so that’s where it kind of for us is like they paddle past us smiling and talking about the wave okay you’re you’re in a safe spot you

Know well there was a a very well-known incident now um speaking of Duke kahoku and rescuing but here’s Kai Rothman in the barrel nice positioning he just got catapulted like a human cball up over that backwash that was catching air and look seek and you shall

Find he just put it in the universe that he wanted the waves to start turning on right nice technique grabbing the rail looking solid right there gets just under the hook H gets the feels the spit straightens out and then this is just a huge explosion and it looks like he it

Perfectly and he definitely knows what he’s doing he’s jumped away from his board right you don’t want to be by those gigs or by anything that’s going to hurt you so he punted right there which is very smart he also jumped a little bit before the backwash actually hit so it didn’t

Shoot him 100 feet in the air and so that’s what we look for right there when we’re talking about it smiling talking to us at the ski yeah m was in a good spot right there uh but the um the rescue that Duke performed I think it was in California

When that um fishing boat had capsized right uh and it was quite a ways offshore and he had his surfboard and that was also part of the you know the pioneering or the the use of a surfboard to help rescue people and I think he uh

Was able to get almost all of them and then was like feeling really really bad he couldn’t save everybody yeah and um I I recommend anybody out there listening uh to watch that the Waterman yeah film the one you invited me to the premiere Isaiah over at BYU Hawaii and that was a

Really well done documentary about duah Hoku yeah really cool and that that that story that you’re telling that’s kind of the real poignant part of the documentary where it shows um you know Duke’s abilities to uh to to to rescue but at the same time the hardship that

Comes with not being able to you know save everyone and you know there there were more than 13 people on the boat and that it capsized and by himself he went back and forth and rescued um but unfortunately there you know not everyone survived so the film I think

Does a really good job of conveying the emotion that goes into rescue and um yeah and I I could I could see where you know even at these events and so forth you have friends that are in the water putting their lives on the line and there’s an emotional attachment

Definitely a connection and and not that each each life the way we react oh we got a little back door action going here yeaha little too deep is he coming no doggy door but uh yeah you know it’s it’s friends you know you watch these guys every day Surf and and you’re

Around them you know some of them have families you know and it’s not that we don’t take each and every person’s life serious you know but it’s adds a different element when it’s somebody you actually know you know we had Kanani Chapman one year you know

Kala Grace I mean makur has been injured it just you know you want to put your best foot forward for everybody but it just adds an element when it’s friends you know for sure yeah y Stewart pulling into this one it just raced way ahead of him and shut down couldn’t make that

Doggy door another deep one that looked like kog race waves are starting to pick up in fire see now you can see it’s a lot different from this drone shot more turbulent a lot more movement than the uh stand up in long that’s not easy also try to duck dive

Under some of these yeah huge exploding waves and uh you know for one there’s a lot of power in these waves and there’s not a lot of room below shallow so there are times um you know if when I was was surfing out here regularly and you get

Caught inside and you know people a lot of times ask like you open your eyes Under Water whatever like yeah you know if there’s big waves definitely duck diving small waves ah close eyes it’s okay but when you’re when you’re surfing waves like this and a CA Grace getting a

Close out right there but you get under and you bail your board and you look and like the water the wave is tumbling over the reef and there’s nowhere to go so you’re just like flat on the refling hoping for the best and um you know not

Having a lot of room under there really adds to the risk the danger kind of your strategy I’m you know pretty pretty light skinny guy so I T to I tell get blown up and floated you know not really you know a lot of times driven down to

The reef but I’ve been in these waves where it’s like you fall off and they feel like there’s no water and you go right through this air pocket and like oh thankfully nothing uh in my upper extremities but elbows knees shoulders just smashing into the reef right so

Uh so definitely a degree of danger is uh at a very high level here at Pipeline and uh there we are rocky Canon Cliff botell Isaiah Walker and we thank you guys so much for joining us online for the podcast uh we’ve been getting a lot of nice

Comments uh some good questions coming in at nsog Hawaii at Gmail and we’ve been very fortunate to have great conditions to start day number one always good when he can get a first day right away get going most definitely and and the waves actually start to turn on for this uh

Shortboard uh round one really uh important for the Surfers to be able to Surf some High Caliber high quality waves and so it’s perfect Tim here you know we we’re talking about um you know the documentaries and so forth I I recently was a you know blessed to be a

Part of another documentary on the history of the Shaka oh cool and it’s going to be a real good one it’s coming out soon I’ve already seen I saw that on the news yeah yeah that it was coming out and uh looks looks really cool but I

Mean you know you see in Hawaii a lot of the the Shaka that happens and I the film does a really good job in tracing like the origins and also the the varieties and how it evolves over time um you know not to spoil it or anything

But it has you know origins in a Hawaiian Waterman from La known as H KH and so he you know back over 100 years ago he worked on the sugarcane plantations and lost these three middle fingers okay and then he became I mean he was kind of like a you know really

Respected kpuna there in on this side of the island and um was a part of the hila when before the Polynesian culture center they had these this uh hooky loud performance and so forth and he became really kind of popular he’s a really big dude like 65 and they said he would he

Would often model as kha in the parades and stuff but he would wave and he only had those two fingers and so the Shaka was kind of boring out of that and then it it got a lot more popularity as you know over time with surfing surfing was one of the

Big vehicles for dispersing you know the Shaka from here on the NorthShore out throughout the world and then also you have um you know some celebrities that started picking up one of the first was Elvis Presley and when he came to Hawaii he was filming at the Polynesian

Cultural Center probably got into the you know the Shaka from the from the kids there who knew you know H KH um and then we see it just kind of being proliferated all around the world and um so anyway kind of a cool documentary to look forward to but um

Yeah Shaka you see there’s a lot in Hawaii but interesting the word Shak is has a sort of a separate history that comes in a little later I was going to say we don’t we know about sh yeah yeah yeah in Hawaii language so apparently there was a a comedian Hoy that sold

Cars the name was lipia Spinda and he would have these car commercials and he would throw the the the sign of the Shaka but he’s he was the one sort of attributed to like naming it that and I guess uh in these old um Japanese films

And that would come to Hawai and like whether it was like Samurai movies or whatever the there was a Buddha that comes out of Japan called Osaka and so in a lot of these movies you’d have these guys doing a different sign but saying Osaka anyway

I don’t want to give it away too much but it’s a real cool documentary that traces like where this shakun how influential it is but it becomes also a symbol of Aloha you know like so it’s it’s more than just the sign that I mentioned uh just in my own you know not

Having seen the the uh documentary or anything like that but um that it is basically uh Aloha in a hand gesture yeah you know um and it’s so it’s amazing you say that Isaiah but how Global it’s become right and you see like total like non Hawaii people nons

Surfers somewhere and they’re like he you know like do and then there’s you know as we watch uh side slipping Tail Spin his board was doing the shock on yeah um then uh oo kala we’ve got kala Grace packing one at pipe so that’s the angle we talked about

Right there that’s pretty killer that is just right in pipe wow wow more wave machine ooo M and a deep one come on let’s go no just too dredged on that one yeah these we on now you know the Shaka has made it onto the Emojis you know so I

Thing is totally going around the world t-shirts you see it on t-shirts hats you know Koozies yeah and it’s I’ve heard the term the Hang Loose yeah you know kind of a a casual it’s called the varieties right of Shaka right yeah you get the baby Shaka Papa

You ever seen somebody sh with their feet some people can do them with their toes yeah oh it’s a replay of Shack Attack getting a shacker oh instead of a Shaka look at that oh I think that’s M’s pitch super deep just got up a little too high in

There what this thei back door shootout has a lot of shakas but not a lot of shockers yeah so you don’t have to have that kind of heat where you know in a typical elimination heat or style event the format where if you get third or fourth you’re out of the

Contest you could have a 25 minutes of just having a bad luck wrong positioning out of place out of syn no Shockers no Shockers at the shootout only Shockers only Shockers definitely a plus for this event some people like to shake shake the sh What You Know reverse outside l

Or the inside yeah the loose ones the super loose yeah the high ones the low ones so 8 minutes 30 seconds for the NorthShore boys there got a couple of scores that they’ll probably uh consider Keepers for today but yeah you know uh in this in this round one uh as we’ve

Been saying you don’t have to get any of your scores from any particular round they are just added together the best ones uh from whatever day they might be but if you’re were one of the teams like Snapped where you had Seth Mon and Benji Brandt you know Seth with the upper hand

The back door wave was really you know those two waves were uh pretty topnotch um you got to feel pretty good if you’re getting those kind of scores today and uh knowing you know tomorrow could be even better could be bigger the sand might move a little bit more off of

Pipeline and start to open that up uh even more today but um Team Japan got that early start you know kenin Matsunaga that nice back door long long barrel so uh there there’s been some pretty amazing standout moments y uh and the teams that were able to find those

Couple of nice really high scores are in a good spot um I have had a question maybe uh you could answer so in the next round do they pick the same way draw out of the Hat um they we’ve done we’ve had seen it done a couple different ways um to where

You just reverse the order got it um but also you know the middle Heats they’ll still be surfing at technically the same time you want to give everybody a chance to surf at different times of the day because we know you know sometimes the very first heat might be not as good as

Maybe the the midm morning heat um and the different conditions so uh we’ll uh see the flag’s really starting to move right now too that breeeze kicking up the Tradewind Direction grooming it out nicely um is uh I’ve seen it also picked out of the Hat again so just lock of the jaw

It’ll be luck of the draw and uh picking the right numbers just picking one right here H I think that was legend that looked like uh Legend Chandler his brother Manalo our longboard Champion today the young 15year old which one’s older what who’s older who’s younger um

You know I think Mana nalu is younger I think I I’ll have to stand by for a confirmation on that but uh both very talented young man for sure young man for sure see he was looking at the barrel but had the straighten out cuz it was

Just closing out right there on the sandar he’s heading back out celebrating duk Hoku at this back door shoot and I love that I love that we do that because a lot of times you know people just think of Duke as a Wy key figure but BR was

From hoi and and he would come out here to the NorthShore rabbit K Kai said that they would come and Surf haliva and surf on the NorthShore and um you know so sometimes we assume that he never left Wy when he was surfing but you know of

Course we know that Duke spread um surfing throughout the world places like Australia and east coast of the United States and like I said earlier he would uh went over to California but California you had um like you know Prince jonok kuo and Edward and David kanana nakoa who years earlier had been

Surfing in um in Santa Cruz and then again also as I mentioned earlier George free was from wiii moved to um Huntington and surfed there so so so a lot of lot of great um history of surfing that has roots in you know these Surfers like Duke aoku went around the

World to share that Aloha but cool that we can celebrate here here at the back door shootout uh cuz Duke love big waves too people don’t really talk much about that but here we go k Grace rer up K Grace up getting bared another nice weave reading by him

Yeah kala you know we talked about earlier the surfing in general but also you know kind of magnified at pipeline the ultimate high you can be on after getting a a wave that is just amazing riding in the barrel being able to come out and then experiencing the other end

Of that of just the worst day of your life ever getting pounded getting injured so last year kala had the very horrific scary injury and incident where uh he smashed his face on the reef Nolan kilano was able to jump in and you know uh pull him out and he was revived

Recovered in the hospital but the year prior he had that 12-point crazy pipe Barrel during the shootout which you know a lot of times we said you know in the same session it could happen but talk you know a year separated of the ultimate getting a 12-point ride during

The back door shootout I mean there’s not many humans that have that uh that have that claim or that you know you might have got a great wave some other time but to do it during the event is so special right and to get better than a

10 to get a 12 that’s even better yeah so and then you know then next very next year he’s fighting for his life yeah you know it’s just the crazy highs and lows that’s just this this wave you know shakas shakas yeah everybody talking about it and

Magnolia and uh our Mr Zone media himself brother Alex thank you so much great production the Drone shots have been just outstanding the angles from the ski looking into the barrel yeah just very very one-of-a-kind uh shots there so good good job to the team yeah

Mahal because this this stuff I seen all over the world if you tune in uh and so the technology you got a drone flying we got hopefully we get a taker on the GoPro on the helmet but that’ll be I think everybody’s just kind of getting

Their uh their feet wet you know feeling it out for this year’s shootout maybe in the later rounds we could have an opportunity where um you know hey TR me some uh Pocket Change P there TR to get one for you guys you know surfing with a clear

Lineup is like oh man that is like red carpet treatment bro minute 30 left in this heat so uh counting it down this is a Northshore Boys by Northshore surf shop and NB definitely getting some nugs here at pipeline Northshore nuggets yeah a couple of good waves uh

That have been ridden but nothing super deep and dynamic uh you know compared to the other Heats but definitely something for the NorthShore boys to to build on and look forward to in the next round round two which could be as soon as tomorrow we’ll have the uh official call

In the morning so tune in to our morning broadcast and we’ll try to get that out to you and also follow theoi.com go get yourself uh a t-shirt you can get it delivered right to your doorstep that’ll be a nice gift a nice present a nice uh way to remember

This awesome event for 2024 yeah beautiful drone shots really make you feel like you’re there in the water that is what you see that’s a beauty of being out in the ocean you look you have a different perspective of land what it looks like you can see the valleys and

The coastline it’s very beautiful here in Hawaii may sound like our horns put an end to this heat yeah yeah it’ll be uh the end of the heat for the NorthShore boys and the groovin peruvians will be up next all right as we see this heat wrap

Up we’re going to uh we’re take a quick break and we’ll meet you in a moment right back you folks stay tuned Snap too bringing it Back the hoie backdoor shootout 2024 is presented by go nuts Hawaii and Kiki beach bungalows special Mahal to the members of the H oal Monster Energy athletic Brewing caloa tortillas Odum water wak water Saltwater Society Hal Eva juice this live presentation is produced by Zone media creators of ocean pador TV

Hawaiian extreme sports TV and in the [Applause] Zone [Laughter] for Fore Hoha AA good afternoon it is uh just approaching the latter portion of day number one of the 2024 the hoie back door shootout Rocky cannon with Isaiah Walker giving you uh this playby playay and some talk story time for this heat number seven the tubos Peru so our

Peruvians they had a historic heat a couple of years ago yeah when it just went on fire there you see the lineup Alonzo Korea Sebastian Korea Gabriel villan Crystal Bal deole and Billy keer joining team Peru yeah Billy keer got a little hanai action somehow got adopted with our perv is but yeah

Exciting to see yeah I mean I’m sure they were quite receptive yeah to have uh Billy join the team oh here we have a rider up Crystal Ball decole pulls into this one oh man that’s a a beautiful vision and looking into the crystal ball and able to

Uh thread through that pipe wave and make it out very nicely looked into the crystal ball I like that oh yeah that what was that two or three years ago when they had that heat and it was just on fire just nonstop it was like pumping it was you know kind of

Average it was okay leading up to it and their heat I mean it’s like uh we talked about it earlier of how quick the conditions can change uh you know For Better or For Worse in some cases but in this case man it went from like oh it’s

Okay you know there’s a couple to like every wave every set left right left right I mean I think they racked up like 10 or 12 excellent scores in a span of like 20 minutes it was pretty one of the most memorable quality pipe Heats that we’ve seen coveted

Yeah oh Somebody went back door too on this set yeah one of our uh Peruvian competitors that might have been uh Gabriel villon yeah this event has some great memorable historic um highlights and several uh you know wave of the winters that came out of the back door

Shootout so it’s kind of cool I mean we we heard I think it was cor olera on the beach during an interview he says yeah I know this is the best cuz every time the shootout runs they get the best waves yeah I mean it’s definitely uh been producing waves of the

Winter more than any other event um you know and then the fact that we’ve got this you know no competition jersey style uh surfing going on it I think it just uh really kind of lends more to that expression session um you know not as much pressure kind of style

And the the Surfers respond to it and whether you believe it or not I think the ocean responds to it yeah yeah one of my favorite waves was from last year with Moana Jones Wong but unfortunately it was like seconds after the horn like one that’s right yeah they had the wah

Heat of all the all the uh women surf first and yeah it the heat had just ended the wave was coming yeah and you’re right it was like the uh the craziest non-counting 12-point ride oh yeah I was hoping I was like well yeah the back door shootout

Sometimes we Bend rules a little bit yeah exactly especially you know for uh for the W that are out there give them like tons of credit it is not an easy wave an easy atmosphere to be in um it’s so competitive on a day-to-day basis uh you know guys are um just you

Know kind of grinding out their surf careers you know they need a shot today you know to kind of to put some food on the table tomorrow and so you get a lot of heavy competition and plus the danger of the wave kind of adds to everybody’s

Anxiety and and uh level of energy out there so uh definitely a lot of the guys a lot of the boys are you know exuding that really excited energy and you know the wah the women got to kind of mix it up and you know get in there and really

Commit you know what’s cool what’s cool about this event too is often times it’s the you know it’s not segregated by gender so like we had kisore surfing earlier in you know the um New Earth team or New Earth Earth Project yep um and we’ve seen Moana Jones Wong surf

With other teams as well so kind of cool that you know we have a mixed gender teams out here at the back door shootout yeah good look at our beach shot there with folks that have made it down to watch this day number one on a beautiful Thursday the

Sun has come out a little more than it had been earlier but Breeze starting to fill in as well and looking like a just a very typical pipeline winter day in January on the NorthShore the Sands down the way just so much fun to get some rides over there without the threat of

Banging Your Head On The Reef it’s a trip how much the sand moves around it looks like there’s a little Point Break Out There aay yeah it is uh it is the the coast of the shifting Sands here right y so celebrating um you know so many milestones in in surfing history Duke

Clam moku is a great person to hone in on as a as you know an ambassador for the sport and for Hawaii and you know he did some amazing things surfing um you know speaking of you know some some barriers we talked a little bit about

Having Carissa Moore in the heat when he went to Australia um you know he he surfed with a a local female Australian uh that was there and and that was a that was a unique moment because there weren’t you know women weren’t surfing in fact most people you know there

Weren’t many people suring at all in Australia at that time um and you know just to have Duke um break some of those barriers that may have existed he was incredible at doing that and I think it because of his aloh look at this one Ops out of that one yeah looking

Over the ledge couldn’t quite get into it and probably a good idea to just kind of back off of that one and not force it you know you don’t want to be forcing back door wave pip and that’s a beautiful Drop I think stalling oh a lot of spit coming out

There didn’t get really like too deep but nice positioning I think that was Gabriel Von uh 14 Peru the groovin peruvians tubos Peru a replay did a good job you know the fins kind of came disconnected right there and was able to hold on hold the line didn’t get super

Deep pretty cool to feel that pressure washer style spit come out of the barrel and sting your skin a little bit H speaking of pressure washer uh K Kato matsuoka’s wave years back a 12-point ride y that thing fire hosed all over him yeah how he was able to keep standing uh

Was one of the most amazing rides we’ve seen yeah but back to Duke aoku he did have this uncanny ability to break some of these boundaries and and it’s interesting because he was a very softspoken person like okay in some ways like people you know said that he was I

Don’t know shy is the word or just didn’t talk much interestingly people say the similar thing about Eddie IO that he wasn’t very vocal didn’t really you know uh follow the spotlight per se wasn’t the type of guy like for example Eddie’s uh brother Clyde you give him a microphone he’s pretty comfortable

Whereas guys like Duke and Eddie were were more very humble hins um quiet softs spoken um but Duke somehow despite that kind of kind of soft um kind of humble nature of his that he was still able I mean able to break a lot of boundaries in sports in in sports

History um you know he was during a time that even preceded some of the the breaking of color lines with Jackie Robinson and others who who were who were kind of pressing the boundaries of of some of these color lines in sports and and Duke was like able to to Really

Navigate that successfully in a way that was you know non threatening but at the same time you know he did make some change changes and um so you know definitely he’s an icon not just because of his surfing prowess but also because of his demeanor his Aloha and his um you

Know softspoken warrioress I guess you could say yeah I mean he’s also his life he lived through various um you know governments in Hawaii he’s born in the Kingdom of Hawaii territory of Hawaii um even the provisional government look at this one oh oh man hits the eject button look at

That wave just peel off right to the camera pipeline Perfection was on offer right there but unfortunately you know as we see so many times that Beyond vertical drop will just be such a doozy and look at it here gets hung up and does not have a

Chance but man the way that wave just peeled towards the camera just was looking like an opportunity that had a big score potentially written all over it but not able to convert and um you know we’ve even said in the past Heats you know pipeline has the ability to

Make some of the most talented skilled Surfers look like total [Laughter] Barney oh that’s the the you know that’s the wave and that’s the challenge of of pipe and that’s what you have to be ready for you know it’s it’s it’s very humbling right to say the

Least all right so we have uh pu makam too standing by with makua Kai Roth take it away poor amazing performance out there um how are the waves how are you feeling the waves are beautiful um I’m feeling great it’s almost been a year to the

Date 10 days short of a year since I’ve uh sured out here proper Pipeline and uh I just feels so good to be back where I belong awesome it’s awesome to see you back as well obviously this is a very historic event that your dad has helped

Put on over the years and um what does it mean to be in this event and just be around oh can we watch this wave real quick oh my gosh so I mean this event is just uh it’s it’s not just my dad you know my

Dad is you know the founder of uh you know this event but it’s our club’s event the hu and it’s each and every one of us that are part of our club you your Ohana um our Ohana and everybody that uh comes together to make this happen our

Ancestors and everybody that came before us and I really believe that’s why you know the waves are always there for us because this is who we are this is where we came from and um just our way of perpetuating our Aloha and our culture to the world awesome and last thing

Obviously this event is in honor of Duke um what impact has Duke have on your life well Duke koku has had uh a profound effect on life period you know all life especially here in Hava and everybody that’s came you know before and after him and I I think that

Uh he would be very happy to see us kak out there and and our club the whhe and Al perpetuating are are surfing our ancestral rights um to the world and I think he’d be very happy so thank you very much Duke and you know every Hawaiian water man that came before us

Mahalo for showing us the way awesome mahalo all right thank you PA and um yeah you know the uh perpetuation of culture uh the legacy of Duke Kahanamoku and you know his impact uh not only with the sport of Surfing but as a Hawaiian person uh as a

You know Hawaiian individual as we saw zoko Alonzo Korea get a nice pipe wave and try to to squeeze one more out of it but was unable to make that second one I believe that’s Gabriel Von over there at back door just AIT of a frothy kind of U

Bumpy wave but was able to find quick little amount of tube time but you know and what Duke just did as a person you know as you said super humble um you know spoke a lot with his actions and uh we’re you know glad to honor him uh with this event and look

Forward to yeah I think many more what was cool about Duke too that he had like real like influential friends and and maybe part of it is because he put the United States on the map when it came to swimming in the Olympics prior to that Australia dominated and other countries

But the United States didn’t really have a strong presence in swimming in the Olympics prior to Duke and and and so we you know we see that in the Olympics 1912 is the first Olympics interestingly enough um on land in uh in the other sports in the Olympics Jim Thorp who was

Native American was dominating there so you had two indigenous peoples in the Olympics for the United States kind of you know making a mark for the United States so that kind of has a you know a profound impact on sporting history um but also just you know Duke had um influential

People that wanted to hang out with him I think cuz he kind of had this Cool vibe right like even though he’s he was a quiet guy like just the fact that he surfed and if you’ve never really seen surfing before and you have this tall dark handsome muscular Hawaiian guy

Comes to your town and has like an exhibit that’s what he’d have these exhibitions where there’d be hundreds and sometimes thousands of people on the beach and and they would advertise these things and he would show up and and go surfing and people were just like basically it’s like see The Great

Houdini but up surfing you know and you go out and perform and uh obviously he’s the only one surfing so All Eyes Are Fixed On every maneuver you know every movement and lot of the ladies loved him too and his and the whole Beach Boy Vibe

When um you know this when tourism was was was pretty small time but you had you did have these the lurene which is a cruise liner that would come to to Honolulu and bring a limited number of tourists but they would come and they really were attracted to you know this

Vibe of weiki beach um Jack London one of the most famous writers at the time wrote about surfing and wrote about these you know Hawaiian Surfers so there was there was like a kind of romantic you know Vibe about them and a kind of freeness to it and ever since I mean

Surfing has really worked to emulate that spirit that Duke really you know was just sort of his behavior and you can see it in in in Hollywood movies like the gig for example the story of of this young girl learns to surf in in Malibu but on the beach they you know

They’re borrowing a lot of Hawaiian symbols right of the the plain ukulele and the Aloha shirt and the grass Shack it’s all just trying to emulate what Duke already embodied and so so much of the surf culture is influenced by this Hawaiian man who um really was such a cool

Cat you know and uh earlier I mentioned surfing being you know one of the most uh you know just by Nature uh narcissistic sports but it’s also in the same breath one of the coolest sports right like I mean you think of the definition of what cool is

And you just have an image of a surfer of a guy on a board you know riding or walking down the the beach carrying a board yeah and it’s just like you know it does have this Aura of like this cool factor that is like off the charts compared to any other sport

Right yeah so Duke um so one of one of his most influential friends was one of the wealthiest women in in the world Doris Duke okay who is the heir of this um you know this family uh fortune and she built this shangra law this huge mansion at blackpoint um she’d hang out

With Duke and his brothers and went surfing with them and so I mean and then eventually there’s all these other people who just want to hang out with him um celebrities movie stars Duke himself ends up in Hollywood where he’s he’s in several films he’s not the star

Of those films but he’s coded in them you know um and uh and eventually get you know John F Kennedy and you know influential politicians and um Babe Ruth and so many others who come to Hawaii and just to see Duke and just to kind of have him take them surfing or whatever

And and cruise with them and so that that’s why I mean he he’s such a famous person because you know everyone wanted to S of hang out with him and hopefully his coolness would rub off on those that he was hanging with yeah and you know he does have uh this that personality

Where you could imagine just everybody who was near him kind of you know felt some Vibe or like a almost like a like a palpable energy you know a Mana that is really infectious you know there’s our lineup for team vulc coming up next at Moana Jones Wong the

Queen of pipeline will be right in the mix there Mike KY berdine noad Deen M Pang balaram stack nice looking lineup there for team vul you know in the building seat ballaram just kind of waiting for his heat you know I think his mom’s down there with him and he’s

Just kind of like okay what heat is this when when’s When’s it my turn so kind of cool to see the competitors itching to get out there to have their turn hopeing the condition are good during their heat yeah Bon became the first New Yorker to win the pipe Masters last year so

He’s made a name for himself here and has uh you know worked his way up the ranks for sure I mean coming you know from outside of Hawaii a lot of times uh it’s a a tough nut to crack if you will to get in here but you know you got a

Sponsor like vulc owning two houses right here Beach fronted pipeline you you know that helps it helps it gives you a little tool to start to break open that shell and you start you know like doing the laundry sweeping the porch washing the dishes you know all of the

Grom grunt work and uh then you hope to get a a couple of nods to go on some waves out at pipe you know you got Kim on Henry and Ty van djk and Dave wasel all the guys that have been longtime vcam team writers and kind of uh uh

Quote un uh quote property managers around here you know not only managing the houses themselves but you know the team of who’s coming you know where they’re from how how they rank on the you know the scale of what level are you going to be at the house you know you

Going to be staying on the couch downstairs or are you going to be in the master bedroom on the third level you know there’s so many different uh the hierarchy is uh very very apparent and balaram has been one of those guys that uh also you know speaking of humility

And and letting his actions speak has been one of those guys that really has uh come a long way in a short time but through nothing was uh just handed over it was a really diligent committed hard work there you see the screen that’s Isaiah’s Shak Shaka right up there on

The second floor of the vocal M you see see where we rank we’re we’re not top level yet we’re still midlevel but we’re uh super oh in front though super grateful yeah to be on the beach giving you guys uh all the info and the play byplay as

The hoie backo shootout kicks off another year 2024 and it’s one of our regular foot competitors in this team Peru p uh tubos Peru to be exact you know you can I was talking earlier about um Doris Dukes Shang Grilla um I think she donated that to a

Museum the honolu academy the honolu Museum of Art used to be called The Academy of Art uh you can take tours of it it’s kind of a Trippy place because it’s got all like these Middle Eastern kind of U Decor yeah and uh pretty cool stuff well there’s a broken board right

There Hawaiian water Patrol getting one of our Peruvian team rers back to the beach and uh hopefully he’ll be able to grab another board and head back out still got seven minutes and 40 seconds remaining it’s going to be cutting it kind of close being able to yeah get

Your leash on get get to the proper paddle out spot and make it all the way back out there for another wave but you know if there’s any event that you can probably pull that off in this amount of time it’s this kind of event where you’re surfing with your friends that

Aren’t trying to uh get scores to take you out right much more camaraderie um you know Duke koku made his own surfboards I think a lot of surfers back in those days made their own boards even throughout the 60s and 70s um yet had a lot of folks who would make

Their own boards Mark Richards Jerry Lopez so a lot of them have like a brand but I think it was just more common for Surfers to make their own boards uh but Duke was definitely known for everywhere he’ go he wouldn’t bring a board with

Him he would go to the local lumber shop get a plank and then shape a board and then surf on that shaped board that he made often times he would leave the board there as a kind of gift and as you can imagine those boards have become

Worth a lot of of money oh yeah um you know in Australia this was a story and they still you know have his board up there as a kind of a a historic marker to the origins of surfing in Australia so kind of cool that Duke um made surf

Boards if you get a chance if you’re in Hawai you’re visiting I highly recommend going to the Bishop Museum our Bishop Museum has some really cool collections of of Hawaiian artifacts but their surfboard collection as well uh they have a board from du koku that’s in there also princess kolani couple boards from

Her so really cool to go check that out alono okay that’s Alonzo kareah zoko as uh I’ve applied a little nickname for him as you coin yeah you know I don’t ask these guys like what should I call you what’s you know some of these guys come you

Know already with a nickname attached or um you know something that is is more known or what they’ve been known for and a lot of them though I just uh on the Fly will um you know use the name and and a little something or other and it’s it’s been

Fun for sure that’s that’s a real beach boy thing to do too interestingly Duke didn’t I don’t not that I know of I don’t know if he had a nickname but most of the Beach Boys had some pretty wild nicknames yeah um Steamboat ax uh Sam

Colgate a bunch of and they all had stories behind them right like Colgate I guess had this big smile look like his big teeth um Steamboat and aux I think cuz they’re very large dudes yeah okay look at this one beautiful grab rail angle and looking right in at Billy

Keer the p a pitbull p a pitbull the most recent edition of uh a nickname I had to confirm uh on the beach during the van pipe Master is like in my head I was think man it’s just that grab rail Fierce solid reminds me of the pit boo

Stce you know just that solid ready for action not going to move anywhere can’t knock them over and right there’s beautiful shot of it but I had to kind of confirm over the microphone like in my head I was like I think he’s from P of course he lives here in puka now

But on the North Shore but um he gave me the nod like I said Billy are you from P correct yeah and he was like yep said okay there it is p pit Bo P did we ever have any questions I I know we asked earlier if people want to ask some questions

A bit quiet recently but if you guys do have questions we will uh if you have any question isia and I will kind of take you through the end of the day here nsog Hawaii do uh Gmail Gmail nsog Hawaii Gmail you have some questions about do history or anything that

We we have a question it’s quite a quite a treat to have um this wealth of knowledge in the form of Dr Isaiah Walker and uh currently uh teaching at BYU Hawaii just down the road here but has U extensive kind of the best secret uh that there University on the

NorthShore and I’m forunate in Hawaii I think you know so small school um 3,000 students oh look at this just couldn’t quite set the rail had to focus so much on that drop and that happens sometimes you know where you’re just just like okay I don’t

Want to wipe out I just want to try and make the drop by the time you’re done with all that Focus you look up and the waves already extended down the line so it is uh accomplishing that task at hand stacking y it’s starting to build here into the late

Afternoon a nice shot from the pipeline right away looking over the shoulders of some of our Spectators and down to the Shoreline you see our merchandise area there here’s zoko there we go crystal ball yes sir there we go he is all smiles right there feeling

Good as we look into the barrel just a beautiful pipeline wave that uh never gets old looking into the barrel like that just threaded the needle sometimes you see people pump or right over the full ball he just picked his line stayed tight and threaded that thing yeah beautiful

Style a look all his Bros Stoke for him hand shakes that was a sick one okay more waves oh one minute remaining stacking Oh Billy keer going back door make that oh wow pumping pumping deep in the barrel comes out clean Beach UPS kids are still high the peach is going wild

You know that I just look down at my my legs I get chicken skin and it’s just uh you know to feel the energy Gabriel Von oo and out the back and another one goofy footer crystal ball again hanaho pulls in woo coming out oh they are again getting the waves

And oh my gosh no way oh it was so deep and right at the end of the heat that was one of the backhand servers might have been Sebastian Korea or Gabriel villon we saw Billy keer get a back door bomb a nice little gem for the P pit

Bull crystal ball decole looking smooth on a few rides ah that was a flurry right at the end of that heat and we’re going to show you Billy’s back door wave as we head to a commercial break enjoy this replay and we’ll see you when we come back for our

Final heat of the day of this the hoie backdoor shootout stay tuned we’ll be right back La la la la la la Yeah The hoie backdoor shootout 2024 is presented by go nuts Hawaii and Kiki beach bungalows special Mahal to the members of The hial Monster Energy athletic Brewing caloa tortillas Odum water Waka water Saltwater Society Hal Eva juice this live presentation is produced by Zone media creators of ocean paddler

TV Hawaiian extreme sports TV and in the [Applause] Zone we are back and we’re going to show show you some of the highlights of the last te team Peru tubos Peru and you know we’re just talking about a couple years ago their heat just really blowing up with tons of good scores this was quite the flurry to get

Us going for team Peru Isaiah yeah especially toward the back end of that heat we have uh yeah we we had some awesome surfing we saw um Billy keer get that crazy one saw just right at the end of this heat this flurry of sets love the silhouette

From this angle here oh yeah threaded the needle on this one that’s crystal ball here’s Billy’s air drop to pump and the paa pit bull comes out Standing Tall and he likes that one the beach went nuts and it was some good scores riged in by team

Peru they got to be feeling pretty good about this round one performance right and um got uh some questions now coming back in from um our viewers it is uh nsog Hawaii Gmail is how you can send us a direct question and um Lauren thank you for tuning in beginner surf spots on

Aahu POA Point comes to mind down in Hal Eva and um you know Ali Beach where I learned how to surf uh obviously um you know one of uh the spots that is quite user friendly um it’s pretty popular with the community and all the kids um

And even um you know can’t you can’t beat Wy I mean is it asking Northshore or uh on the NorthShore uh wait let me see um oh it’s onahu I Mis read that yeah I mean Wy ke especially I mean we saw the mon Brothers out here

And um you know the monise family has been teaching surfing out at weiki for many years we’re talking about today duam moku and he sort of started this tradition of Beach Boy culture and today we still have those beach boys that are out there um giving surf lessons and um

Kind of cool that you know we’re perpetuating that tradition of of surf lessons and um the Wii Beach Boys though they you know when they first started teaching lessons in W Kei was a pretty lucrative gig in other words like uh it was a good job they made decent money um

They were in the spotlight quite a bit right and they did more than just do surf lessons they I mean um you know they would play music and um serenate people yeah like some take them around town take them to the barue luow stuff what interesting one tandem

Surfing got a little intimate but um but yeah Wy ke Beach Boys and to this day I mean you still have that tradition Wy key have learn to surf um so for sure but um unless you want to spectate then you got to go see Rocky with his

Dog surfing this Rocky surf show it’s a fun thing we are we’re blessed to do up at Turtle Bay Resort and um uh training our our dogs to ride waves and you know uh Hawaiians have had you know know um interesting relationships with with dogs

In the past you know as uh companions uh potentially sometimes as food and um but also uh there’s some really cool old beach boy pictures of dogs riding on boards yep with the Wii Surfers for sure yeah and and that’s part of that um weiki Beach Boy culture that Duke was

Immersed in and was a part of it became like very showman like right so you you take somebody and uh take a a visiting tourist who’s a wah or girl and have him stand up on your shoulders to bringing a dog out on the board with you to standing on your head

Or it became kind of these Showmanship Antics that Drew a lot of attention all right here we go check it out back door that looks like that is noad Dean oh man the silhouette was traveling I thought he might have a chance oh but um we’ve got uh James asking about helmets at

Pipeline and um you know I think it’s a a good idea I never did wear one um and uh you know admittedly probably not the smartest idea not to wear one and also the reason is because it like it looks dorky and but that thing can really save

Your life wife and um we got some uh some love coming out from um juicy Smith saying Isaiah you’re a nice guy to Surf with at Goat Island uhoh and um Oho look at this this was the split Peak and one going that might have been M Pang right that was

Noine and started to really feel the wave gain speed so he pumped and I thought he might might have a chance to he went pretty far get shot out right there but um and Mario was James Smith okay garens barar get barreled is uh his title of his message here and

Um uh your favorite class to teach at BYU Hawaii coming from Colin in Salt Lake City ah good question um so so yes so I’ve been a professor Bo Hoy for boy 17 years now um and you know i’ usually I teach the world history classes okay

Uh some United States history some world uh Pacific Islands history y but um you know as I got a little more seasoned I I could develop my own course okay so I created a course on the history cultural history of surfing okay awesome look at

That bam stack Mr all stack as I like to call them but it’s cool because this becomes classroom material where you know you we watch Surf Contest um but it’s not all fun in games I was saying earlier like when people pick up my book uh waves of

Resistance they see Larry burlan on the cover looks like a surf mag or something but um you actually you know my goal is to get people interested and then for them to um learn history so so yeah that’s my favorite class to teach um these days I’m

Teaching a little a lot less actually uh I’m I’m I’m in administration right now uh so I’m the academic vice president and so I’m helping to kind of oversee you know our curriculum and faculty and and so it’s been a little different but I’ve enjoyed it um really you know some

New challenges new kulana and and so it’s um it’s been really enjoyable I saw you I brought a couple of of books from my reading list today wanted to share um one of them is called surf and rescue and uh I don’t know if you’re curious of of a reading list from what’s

Going on I didn’t bring a copy of my book I I usually do but um but uh yeah so this this one Surf and rescue is is written by Patrick Moser and uh good friend of mine believe it or not we do have these these conferences

Where we study um surfing history and uh Patrick Moser is a good friend and does great work and this one is about as I mentioned earlier George free okay and Surf and rescue the birth of California beach culture and he really looks at George free who is a haa Hawaiian so

Another words he was a mix of Hawaiian and Caucasian yeah uh went to California became like this um you know kind of like the the father of of rescue ocean rescue and um it’s a really cool book it talks about George free kind of sadly um

You know he dies younger in life um um gets sick there’s at that time they had the Spanish influenza going around Duan namoku actually had the Spanish Flu W and was very ill but fortunately he survived and unfortunately for his good friend George free did not wow um so

It’s a it’s a really great story though other one I’ve been reading lately this one’s a little not surfing um but it’s called sunny skies Shady character love that title that’s so clever man cops killers and corruption in the Aloha State kind of goes through kind of this underground

Yeah action but um anyway so that’s my reading list uh for you guys today uh we do have some beach uh action down there we’re going to talk to the Surfers from our last Heat throwing it down to the beach I think poor Makaya is still down

There yep standing by with crystal ball take it away guys awesome how are the conditions out there today and how are you feeling all right so uh crystal ball was uh racking up some scores in that last Heat and we are going to be um wrapping

Up today day number one with the ending of this final heat the vcam heat but they’ll be out first if we’re on tomorrow we’ll make that call in the morning it looks uh as though all signs are pointing to being on but it will be

Uh reverse order of the Heats so vcam we will be out first followed by team Peru Northshore boys and so on right up the list um we’ve got uh nice comments from Mariel thank you so much and thank you for tuning in we got Patrick with uh some questions possibly the first

Hawaiians coming from the Marquees and later on then to Tahiti and uh some of you know the different uh he’s asking Scholars that will be you know saying any truth the rout you know right yeah so the question here is asking um if H first came from our cases

And then later uh some tahan Chiefs came implemented the new coupo system um there’s some evidence of that um we don’t I mean we don’t know exactly where they came from but a lot of people do point to um you know maresis as as a spot where Hawaiians originated from but

Like I said earlier there’s multiple migrations and in fact the story he’s referring to about tesan Chiefs was there’s a Chief named PA that is known to come to Hawaii and look at this one woo looks like Mak Pang stalling in the barrel deep with the spit comes out well

Done that was a beautiful one might been M Pang yeah M has really uh developed into an outstanding pipeline Surfer he’s born and raised here on the NorthShore his dad Dennis been making boards right uh for decades out here and a good Surfer and Waterman as

Well um and check it out just drawing a perfect line getting nice and deep and coming out and then everybody loves the Airborne Dismount that always generates reaction from the crowd on the Beach right right never fails like woo yeah I mean it’s like as as reliable as a Japanese taking a

Picture throwing a p sign Kawaii yeah they uh are so still on the PE sign it’s great and uh just like that as reliable as that the crowd will always uh go wild for an aerial dis aerial Dismount angle beautiful water angle we got the silhouette in the barrel deep it

Spits he disappears comes out that’s what we like to see a pipeline the Fly Away out of the screen uh and uh who’s the most badass Hawaiian Warrior of all time oh wow was it uh do we give it to kamehame the first uh or there’s some other oh man

Lesser known but very Fierce Warriors let me first I get back to actually PA was a pretty fierce dude and he comes um from the Pacific we don’t know I mean if it’s Tahiti um some would say s cuz he brought a a chief with him named peely

And peely came up with PA the great story of when PA leaves his brother Lop Pelle is um they’re at odds with each other cuz PA’s kind of like kind of rugged and he’s not you know the nicest brother so PA actually kills his nephew

Lop Pelle and and puts him into the hole of his canoe as a sacrifice and an offering before his departure wow uh and Lop Pelle is not happy about that uh anyway he sent on his way and then there’s some people that want to to go

With him and there’s a cool story of these these um these Maka or like prophets that wanted to join him and one of them guy named makua Mana he jumps off the cliff apparently floats like a bird and lands on this tiny little uh I mean it’s it’s literally like 3 in this

Tiny little triangle that’s on the back of the canoe and he perches up there for the rest of the ride comes to Haw is and it is known for being in Haula and a couple other places builds um a heo there called monoa heo anyway I’m

Talking a lot and hopefully I’m not um losing track of where I’m going with this but yes um there were a lot of stories and legends of and and histories of of chiefs that came to Hawaii in different waves of migration okay and Pa is known for bringing the cup um

Particularly worship of the war god coup um and coup is um you know is an actual like often times C is Manifest into an actual K or an image um kukailimoku is one of these manifestations and Kamehameha uh inherits this statue uh you know that is a sculpture I guess

You’d call it um and that becomes sort of their source of Mana for um for taking charge and so a lot of these Warriors um would bring that coup with them into battle so I mean PA is one of them um Alo also an Avid surfer uh but

If you want to read some cool stories of H history I felt like this would make really good movies like Kung Fu movies um alilo and his um his his amazing Warrior um stories that he’s you know and and as a surfer too II is a great

Story um Kamehameha so a lot of these warriors were Avid Surfers Kam as I mentioned earlier learned to swim at a very young age was a you know Avid surfer said his favorite thing to do is surf by jumping off a canoe into big waves um and his wife kumanu had a few

Wives but kumanu was his favorite wife who was also a very skilled Surfer um so it’s interesting how surfing and and Warrior kind of culture are integrated in Hawaii in times of old and in times of present yeah so you know having to uh kind of Channel Your Inner Warrior

Spirit to prepare yourself mentally for pipeline is been a a common theme and um thing that we’ve heard from Surfers at Pipeline and and everybody who’s kind of been around this this surf break for any amount of time uh some of the bottoms of surfboards um for riding pipeline uh you

Know I I probably say the most common would be that you know single to double concave right um definitely want some nice sharp edges as uh Papa AA on Daddy Duty right there with uh his little one as we see up in writing I believe that is Moana

Oh oh that might be m k b I think yeah M Kai I’m going to go back to this Warrior one because I’ve got a bunch of favorites okay um there’s a couple of kuhao was actually Kam’s trainer like he was like the mentor Warrior to keha and they say

Kikua Pio was just an incredible um Warrior and hand to hand combat uh you see a surfer going to combat here Pipeline and I think this is myai berdine yeah that’s uh the wave we just watched live and the young Northshore kid coming uh up through the ranks and

Gets a spot on the vcom backdoor whoie backdoor shootout team for team vul I mean another one um would be khik Kei who is the ruler of Maui and as long as that guy was alive no one could conquer that Island wow uh very tough dude and um um so Hawaii has

You know a martial art known as the Lua and it was kind of like a grappling martial art uh that you know actually gets integrated I’ve read some old stories of how when you know Jiu-Jitsu was kind of an early thing and then some you know some people talk about how the

Lua got kind of in some of the early days would get mixed in with some of that kind of grappling um it was a kind of like bone popping or dislocating of Bones and you know tie people in knots they would say um so kind of interesting so so anyway yeah there’s

Quite a few uh to that answer that question there’s quite a few uh Warriors in in h history look at these waves stacking up for team vul just a little over the halfway point 13 minutes 50 seconds remaining let’s go ball around and Mr ball stack can he squeeze out of

Of that one not going to be able to somebody on the back door Noah Dean so Noah I believe is the lone regular foot in this heat for team vulc and he’s been seeking out those back door gems he’s like all right you guys don’t want

To go right all Camp over here yep I’ll I’ll take care of Duty on this side you guys watch that side you guys watch the front door I watch the back door stand guard there’s that precarious paddle back out through back door yeah uh you have to have nerves of Steel

To do that like I I would do the paddle around uh but you kick out and you see those lines to have the kind of DP the P like I think I can make it yeah I was like oh I’m going the other way uh we got a message from Eric kave

As we watch a replay of no de’s back door wave well positioned and you saw that last pump right there to get through that was really nicely done um so Eric kav’s mother’s Genoa kave oh a very accomplished Hawaiian yeah I know how’s it and uh there was a beach boy called Indian

Pete and um so it was uh his uncle Peter and he was so dark he looked kind of East Indian and uh oh wow there was another person uh wow that was named Patrick Patrick Thomas adul I know a lot of Doos in Haula and a lot of them Surfers too so

AA to that family Anda to the kav I know a lot of them musical family um through generations and we still have a lot of the K playing hawaian music yeah and so and also you know brought an uncle over here surfs in a Malo in uh out in town

Every time if you don’t know what a Malo is it’s a loin cloth and uh traditional garb get rid of the tan lines uh that is um not not a a huge piece of material um and um the t-shirts guys I believe they’re available at theoi.com we’ve got a couple of questions from

Mark and uh other folks asking about t-shirts for this year’s event and I believe they are um at uh theoi.com yeah some viewers tuning in from Las Vegas the ninth Island Mahalo okay there’s a question about a history history of the hoie and um now there’s the word hoie in hoen

Means club so there’s been many hys throughout Hawai history political uh hoies um even Duke’s club that became known as The Beach Boys their Hawaiian name was the Hui nalu club which is basically Surf Club yeah so huie is a group that comes together so um you know

Often times you hear today when people say oh the hoie they’ll think specifically of the hu nalu but the hu nalu is its full name which means the club of surfers sometimes translated as wave sliders but healo is the word for Surfer surfing so it’s a club of surfers

Um so the huo healo is is born in 1975 1976 and um here on the NorthShore the Hui nalu club uh comes out in like 1908 uh some say earlier 1905 they call themselves The Moana gang and that was in Wy key we saw this back door wave that’s noine our only regular

Footer bus in airs yeah um well I’m getting a messages uh it’s difficult to navigate theoi.com so we’ll double check on that um with uh our team that’s working out the merchand to make it more desirable if it’s hard to get it is uh very limited St addition

Availability but we’ll make sure uh we try to get the message out to where the easiest and best place is to purchase some that replay the back door shootout t-shirts nice work there from noad deine yeah Noah has gotten two in andout barrels at back door in this heat so he’s happy with

That um and uh yeah that question you just answered Isaiah came from Craig all the way over in Seb Bastion Inlet in Florida and Joff from Ventura County vur California wondering uh g off uh he he he he writes it there it’s pronounced Joff oh okay yeah J FF but it’s yeah

Spelled like a with a G um and um you know who makes the calls uh about you know those big events Jaws the Eddie Etc and uh each event kind of has their own um crew yeah that will uh decide whether it’s on or off you know um this theoi

Back door shootout does as we say it it’s event that is more for the Surfers so Surfers do have a lot of say um in to go or no go what the what the day schedule will be or whether it’s on or off um yeah we’re real fortunate

These days especially we see through surf line for example that you can have a forecast that looks pretty far out and you can try to plan the best you can but sometimes these swells are actually bigger than expected we saw that with um that first SW at waya Bay this year

Early on in the year um it it you couldn’t tell until it hit the buoys of exactly how big it was um but that was a really big one they said it was almost as big as the Eddie that ran last year and that was massive oh man it was quite

Massive it was so consistent uh got a couple questions about the reef you know we’ve been talking about how shallow it is it’s you know only a few feet deep literally 3 to 4T deep where these huge waves are breaking and um you know the impact and the power of these waves I

Mean if you come down here and sit on the beach you can feel some of the rumble and the vibration and it would be interesting if anybody had access to a RoR scale right uh to measure what kind of impact and what kind of um you know

Readings we would get from these waves and how much energy is being released and displaced but great questions um the punch of these waves definitely uh enough to uh harm even the most talented Surfers um and uh Patrick wanted to uh hear more about or the any truth to the Duke’s Longest

Ride uh riding uh from way outside you know maybe I think that’s Castle way out there so when the South swells get really big outside of Wy key there are some uh pretty spectacular waves that can be ridden and you can go for a long time yeah so that yeah there is that

Story and I think um you know there was someone who um confirmed confirmed that I think it was uh Tom Blake that confirmed that he saw Duke’s wave um that he caught from way outside Castle so it’s like an outer Reef outside of where the Outrigger um

Is today Outrigger Canoe Club not the hotel yeah way out to the left and rode it all the way across into the beach at like Queens area or at least maybe to like where walls is today and so we have you know some um confirmation that that

Did happen and that would be you know probably what a th000 yards maybe you know oh yeah 10 football field cuz you’d have to go through all those spots at old man’s and that and then get through the Publix and then ride it from Publix all the way across to walls um so

One thing I will say though is you know I’m sure you know it’s possible Wy Ki was different as far as the surf is concerned back then because once they dredged the alaw canal um you know the river changed and you know as we know the relationship between the land and

The waves um Through Rivers is kind of essential to the development even here at pipeline right this Valley back here as water would come through kind of cut through the reef yeah um and most surf spots that have a channel that channel is formed from a nearby River um and so

Once that was diverted it was good for alamana BS it kind of created a new wave in some ways for alamana BS but Wy key changed quite a bit here we go Rider up this looks like Ballam stu oh yes it was and he was flying through that barrel and then got

Dismounted fluttering boardless and his his legs were kind of kicking in the air it’s like wait where’s my board it was right here under my feet now it’s gone it’s hard cuz these are all goofy Footers and the the sun is headed down and we get kind of

Back lit here could have been mik KY berdine I think it was ball okay yep I got a glimpse of the board he was riding yep oh yeah that is uh Mr ball stack and then that backwash is what really created the the mess right there for balaram and

Thankfully he’s up and okay so close to coming out of that um Tobias Duffy chimes in with uh saying he came across a giant Hao on the valley floor of yeha and uh it’s gated a road leading to it is protected by cam lands I never find information

About it um yeah there’s a few heo um near waya UA the bay and the today it’s also the there’s a valley that waya Valley is a park um and kamea schools owns a lot of the property around that um so there’s a few heo one is on um the

You know the Northeast side of the of the bay up that everyone knows right right yep that’s the one that is uh very intact and well known but there’s also as pointed out here another heo on the west end of that and theyve um I mean my wife is actually an

Anthropologist and she you know we and you know there’s some people that have done a lot of work over there with that heo on making sure that you know it’s taken care of so heo if you don’t know heo is like a um a a significant kind of a shrine there’s

Various there’s different sizes of them um Temple is probably not the right word but a structure oh my goodness uh we have some third reers outside at the top of your screen right there those are not clouds here it comes boys big white water Ezra rodrig joins us for the final

Two minutes here and then we’ll uh do a quick wrap up for you guys on this day number one of the hoie backdoor shootout 2020 4 edition what a great finish we had brother through this afternoon oo what do you do when you know it’s coming you’re sitting there and you’re like I

Should paddle out to save myself but if I want to get shacked I need to stay under this Reef you know uh it’s kind of uh yeah the nerves of Steel to Hold Your Position I would be stroking for the Horizon she is showing up yeah and we’ll

See how the angle is when it comes comes into the reef here this one could be uh one that may or may not offer the potential Moana Jones hasn’t really caught a wave yet so we’ll look for her to be in the spot she knows this place

Very well and that one you know had a little bit of a close out right there nailbiter Heats right after right before the horn Moana Wong couple times with you oh good stuff here we go roller oh they’re getting getting mowed oh that would have been way worse if

There were a couple yards inside they would have got the white water on the back the wave was the lawnmower and the Surfers are the [Laughter] grass oh did you guys think Beach enjoying bam Stacks wave was pretty pretty hot in this intense man noad Dean

With the Ste out kick out air Yeah couple of nice back door waves for noine I think uh team vulc has to be pretty satisfied with what they were able to put out today round one you know everybody’s kind of feeling it out um you know getting used to the format and

Uh putting their best foot forward trying to make something happen and you know we did have some really cool standout moments Seth mon definitely uh putting them good scores but we’re going to take you guys uh to a short commercial break because the contest is

Over that is the end of our final heat but we’ll be right back to wrap up today’s competition so stay tuned and enjoy this noad back door Barrel you come snap too bringing it Back Got a large long period SW heading towards Islands this weekend 40 to 60 fa an exposed oh my bu the hoie back door shootout 20124 is presented by gold nuts Hawaii and Kiki Beach bu Bungalows special Mahal to the members of the hu oal Monster Energy athletic Brewing caloa tortillas Odum water Waka

Water Saltwater Society Hal Eva juice this live presentation is produced by Zone media creators of ocean paddler TV Hawaiian extreme sports TV and in the zone not to be a carpenter tomorrow so I’m not okay so we are back live for the wrap up of this day number one 2024 the

Hoie back door shootout it has been uh a great day of a mix of wave riding we saw longboarders we saw standup paddle surfers we saw body Surfers and then we had the uh afternoon of short board team surfing and there you see the normal crowd Rocky cannon with Ezra Rodriguez

And Isaiah Walker right here and um it’s been a fun day you know it’s been uh a mix of different kinds of conditions starting small in the morning building throughout the day with the last Heat those second third reef sets bombs coming in it’s here guys SW is here

Relatively speaking it started off small right uh but for for this event it was smaller than smaller than but it worked out perfect I thought because you know the events that we’re running you know in honor of Duke were long board standup body Surf and then as

The day got on it like became more appropriate for the types of uh divisions that we were covering yeah yeah and you know uh we saw some great moments um Team snapped five Seth mon our team Japan kenin Matsunaga had a great back door wave you know Jamie

O’Brien Shaden pararo jle COA Smith they all had some pretty good waves too Billy keer yeah and our Brazilian team Kor Oliva got himself in the mix Ian Goa had a couple this was early on Kenshin Matsunaga from our first heat way back around lunchtime that was a beauty I love that

One it was a long barrel uh super deep this is when the waves were just starting to really turn on and uh that’s Ian Goan go team Brazil beautiful and I believe this is Seth mon Seth’s good one this one kind of just grew and got

Bigger down the line and he had two of them right back to back crystal ball was on fire he was on fire back to back a nice style really uh solid and tuned in for sure no no beautiful threading through this back door he had a few good ones that was his

Steezed out kickout one yeah so I mean you know those were just a few of the moments we had so many other waves uh that were really quality Cola Grace good to see him back out there to see him of course uh it was a year ago that he

Nearly died it ain’t easy you know Hawaiian water Patrol saved his life only kolana and the boys and um we had uh you know uh Benji Brandt for Team snap getting in the mix to we just saw crystal ball on a couple Billy keer and then in this last te noine

Stack had a couple nice ones M Pang actually M Pang had Beauty on the map too so we’ve got some scores to sift through we’ve got a pretty good solid idea of you know what to expect for this year um we had also the Florence Brothers putting out some uh some nice

Scores so tomorrow we’re going to reverse the order of the teams that’s what I heard so team vulc will be starting us off we’ll get into tubos Peru Northshore boy snapped five 96712 na new Earth Project and team Japan so that’ll be the order for tomorrow reverse and we’ll see if we get

Two rounds in uh that’s a possibility uh it’s all going to be conditions pending as we know we’ve been talking about the uh ability of pipeline to really switch from okay to average to excellent yes you know in in a matter of uh a span of

A couple hours so we’ll have to wait and see what is actually happening when we wake up tomorrow yeah and the athletes that didn’t do good in their first round they get like four more times to surf at 35 minutes it’s amazing you get more of your favorite Surfers and you get more

Big barrels different conditions different moods of pipeline I’m excited gang yeah you know this event non-elimination there’s no Shockers only shotgun only Shockers so on behalf of all of our crew like to say thank you to Cliff and botell who joined us as well Isaiah Walker Ezra Rodriguez Rocky

Cannon we’ll see you tomorrow with more the hoie back door shootout action thank you Balo so much for tuning in we are really blessed and grateful we’ll see you have a beautiful day Mollow He