Tag Archives: hawaii

Brett Barley at Volcom Pipeline Pro 2010

Brett Barley -a Buxton, North Carolina local- turned a lot of heads at the Volcom Pipeline Pro on Jan. 29th.  The 20-year-old goofy footer eagerly took one of only five perfect 10.0s and racked up the highest heat score of the contest: 19.67.  DelmarvaNOW.com says “Gnarly Barley Makes the East Coast Proud,” and I couldn’t agree more.  It’s awesome to see a Cape Hatteras kid charge (and score big) at Pipe.

SURFER: “Barley, who entered the event as somewhat of a dark horse, smashed the events highest heat total by surfing a nearly flawless heat… eliminating Hawaiian heavies and pipeline specialist.”

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Eddie Aikau 2009 Last Heat

The amount of time between set waves is, like, stunning.  This is nutty and awesome.

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Humongous Waimea from Surfermag.com

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Read Chris Dixon’s blog post, which seems to successfully convey just how awe-inspiring these “fifty-foot walls of liquid death” were.  Man, do I wish I was there to witness this!

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“And the speed was indeed ridiculous…” The New York Times on Alaias

Alaias seem to be all over the place these days.  Check out this article from today’s New York Times:

Ancient Surfboard Style Is Finding New Devotees by JAMIE BRISICK

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