“Whatever you think it’s gonna do, it’s gonna do something a little more screwed-up,” says Mason Ho of the world’s most iconic wave. This is what the Red Bullocks say:

“Pipeline is the Yankee Stadium, center court at Wimbledon, and the Melbourne Cricket Ground of surfing. Surfers grow up on the myths of the hallowed reef break, and magazines write biblical lines in its honor while young surfers read them more fastidiously than their school books.”