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Zeke Lau and Jamie O’Brien split the peak, Hawaii

Here’s a killer split-peak moment from the Billabong Pipe Invitational (see also: Pipe trials), featuring Zeke Lau taking on Backdoor and Jamie O’Brien swinging into Pipeline. Jamie progressed to the final, but Zeke didn’t unfortunately. And, the final won’t run until tomorrow – conditions deteriorated as the day progressed and a final in the afternoon conditions would’ve been thoroughly anti-climactic. So, we wait until tomorrow. Til then, keep an eye for our gallery from today, coming shortly…

full frame // Mar 8, 2016
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Here’s a killer split-peak moment from the Billabong Pipe Invitational (see also: Pipe trials), featuring Zeke Lau taking on Backdoor and Jamie O’Brien swinging into Pipeline. Jamie progressed to the final, but Zeke didn’t unfortunately. And, the final won’t run until tomorrow – conditions deteriorated as the day progressed and a final in the afternoon conditions would’ve been thoroughly anti-climactic. So, we wait until tomorrow. Til then, keep an eye for our gallery from today, coming shortly…

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