Stab Magazine | The Last Pipe Swell
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The Last Pipe Swell

Featuring John Florence, Koa Smith, and whoever else is fortunate enough to be stuck on Oahu.

cinema // Apr 30, 2020
Words by stab
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We’re two days from May, so it would reasonable to assume that the North Shore’s recent, substantial run of surf will be its last for quite a few months. 

And good fucking riddance, if we’re being honest.

While the #content has been a welcome distraction from the anguish of our isolated lives, it’s also been physically painful to watch as the Brothers Florence, Jordy Smith, both Koas, and every other supremely fortunate being who calls Oahu home threaded backlit caves while we were banished from the beaches. 

Yeah, Pipeline was pumping.

“Some of the best I’ve ever seen,” said Koa Smith in our recent New Normal interview. 

Don’t believe him? Hit play above. 

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