Makua Rothman

Backdoor Shootout Day 1 Highlights: Watch Pipeline Go From 2 to 20 Foot in One Day!

“Hawaiian kine kind of day. 2 feet one moment, twenty feet the next.” – Bethany Hamilton

The guarantees in life are death, taxes, and the Da Hui Backdoor Shootout scoring.

The forecast for opening day was a lifeguard’s nightmare and a surfer’s dream. Small and clean in the morning, with each set getting bigger throughout the day—a recipe for tourists losing their sandals or, worse, their lives.

The day started with the SUP and longboard divisions, which, as you’d imagine with a long-period swell at Pipe, was like trying to park a lifted Yota in a compact spot at Foodland.

Every heat had a broken board and a wipeout reel to go with it. But in the longboard final, Pipeline put on its prettiest face as Kala DeSoto packed a 9.88 in the best display of longboard tube riding I’ve ever seen personally.
The action just kept getting crazier and crazier as a twenty-second interval W swell pulsed through the afternoon. For a while, there were no second-reef roll-ins, just mutant double-ups that had Pipe’s greatest stalwarts pin-dropping from the lip. Sinpei Horiguchi for Team Japan was guillotined, and like a warrior, he paddled back out after for more.

Only one surfer would find the chip-in, and of all people, it was Bethany Hamilton. The conditions had deteriorated at that point, but the drop sent shockwaves through the crowd. The swell peaks tonight. Tomorrow will be equally as menacing.

Where modern surfing began: Honolulu | NO CONTEST: OFF TOUR

While Hawaii’s Oahu is widely recognised as the home of modern surfing, the incredible waves at the famed venues of Pipeline and Waimea Bay can often overshadow the spiritual home of what the Hawaiians refer to as the Sport Of Kings. Honolulu, or “Town” to those living on the famed North Shore, is where it all began for the beach boys at Waikiki, situated between the Ala Moana Beach Park to the west, and the iconic Diamond Head to the east.

With perfect, long, warm water waves lapping onto the sands of Waikiki year-round the environment is perfect for humans of all shapes, sizes and abilities to try their hand at wave riding. while for the local community surfing has proven not only to be a form of employment but a way of life, and a means to achieve international success and fame..

In this episode of No Contest host Ashton Goggans shares waves at Waikiki, and roams the streets of Honolulu with everyone from Pipe Master Jamie O’Brien to world long boarding champions Kai Sallas and Kelia Moniz, and gets an insight into how one of the world’s busiest bucket list tourist destinations manages to maintain its appeal to travellers and locals alike. Beyond Waikiki's ribbon of white sand Ashton samples some of the South Shore’s heavier waves and catches up with the family behind one of surfing’s most famous brands, the Sugiharas from Town & Country.

Still need more? Ashton gets a tattoo, Jamie gets an amazing barrel, and a whole heap of groms get stoked at the annual Local Motion Surf Into Summer contest. What’s not to love! We hope you enjoy this episode as much as we enjoyed pulling it together.

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BSTV: Da Hui Backdoor Shootout 2023

On this episode of Board Stories, the waves are pumping at Da Hui Backdoor Shootout. We're going to see the highlights from the event, as well as hear from the athletes and get up close and personal with rising Pipeline star, Kala Grace."

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Freesurf Magazine is Hawai'i's premiere surf publication, keeping you up-to-date with the latest in beach lifestyle and board sports. Located on the North Shore of Oahu and in conjunction with Board Stories TV, the magazine is directly connected to the source of the action, as well as the athletes and industry players who set the trends.

Board Stories / Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational 2023

On this Season Premiere of Board Stories, we are diving into the 2023 Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational, where 40 of the best big wave surfers compete in this most prestigious event. We'll also hear from Hawaiian Water Patrol on their process of working this exciting yet dangerous contest. Finally, we'll hear from the winner of the Eddie and learn about their humble beginnings.

https://www.FreesurfMagazine.com

Freesurf Magazine is Hawai'i's premiere surf publication, keeping you up-to-date with the latest in beach lifestyle and board sports. Located on the North Shore of Oahu and in conjunction with Board Stories TV, the magazine is directly connected to the source of the action, as well as the athletes and industry players who set the trends.

Greatest Maui Swell Of All Time? Ma'alaea Freight Trains Goes Off | SESSIONS

Across the seven seas every surfing town has one: a mythical wave that is spoken of more than it is ever sighted. You can live somewhere your whole surfing life and only ever hear of the perfect point that has to be seen to be believed, or the ballistic beach break that only exists for a few hours before sinking into the sand as quickly as it surfaced, not to be seen again for another dozen years. In Maui that wave is called Freight Trains, and it this story on steroids.

On July 17, a few days after the Code Red Two swell thumped into Teahupo’o in Tahiti, it continued across the South Pacific and turned north, stealing through the tiny gap between the coast of Maui and the uninhabited islet of Kayo-olawe at the exact perfect angle needed to turn the Ma'alaea Harbor into the world’s fastest wave. So rare is this gem that Maui’s Kai Lenny, rider of the world’s wildest waves, had never surfed it before.

Kai can finally now say he has enjoyed the rarest gold his home island produces after scoring Freight Trains as good as it gets, as this jaw dropping clip demonstrates, with some of Kai’s very own GoPro shots stealing the show. As you can see from the footage, Kai was far from alone in the lineup. Everyone from Hawaiian legend Michael Ho to Maui’s four-time Jaws champ Billy Kemper was in the water, alongside a cast of hundreds. Young gun Eli Hanneman, who was three-years-old the last time the Freight Train came to town, was another standout alongside Ian Walsh, Imaikalani Devault, Makua Rothman and a long list of Hawaiian underground chargers. Take a bow Sai Smiley, Torrey Meister, Ian Gentil, Mikey O’Shaughnessy, Kona Oliveira, Kevin Sullivan, Mark Anderson, Steve Roberson, Jackson Bunch and Luke Shepardson, just to list those who manhandled Ma'alaea in the director’s cut above.

“I think this goes down as one of the all-time greatest days on Maui, at least in my lifetime,” concludes Kai, after the day of days. "The waves were all-time, all day long, I can’t believe what just happened."

Marc Chambers filmed the entire thing on land and compiled his footage with water, drone and all other angles of the swell of the century for this Sessions edit. All aboard!

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BEST WAVE OF MY LIFE (2020 REDBULL/WSL BIG WAVE PADDLE CHAMPION) PRO SURFER ELI OLSON

Eli Olson tells the tale of how he got the 2020 Redbull / WSL Biggest Paddle Award and all the process leading up to that day.
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2020 Rocky Point Classic

Celebrating the life and love of fallen North Shore surfer and Chas Chidester, a crew of friends and peers throw an unofficial event at Rocky Point each year to honor his memory, The Rocky Point Classic. This year, Makua Rothman took home $500 bucks and some good memories at Chas' favorite surfing beach. video edit: Mike Latronic

Surfing's Ultimate Wipeouts | Terror Vault

Sydney's Cape Solander is a super dangerous reef break that creates the gnarliest wipeouts on the planet. As Koby Abberton says 'Pound for pound, Cape Solander is the heaviest, scariest wave in the world'.
Tim Bonython has been documenting Cape Solander almost from the beginning and so we decided to create a series of Terror Vault wipeout & moments edits with his home wave Cape Solander.

Featuring, Koby Abberton, Mark Mathews, Justen 'Jughead' Allport, Richie Vacuilk, Makua Rothman, Bones Dwyer, Perth Standlick, Damien Wills, Jesse Polock, Hayden Blair, Evan Faulks, Kirk Flintoff, Andrew Mooney, Mitch Parkinson & Ryan Hipwood.

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Full Highlights from Volcom Pipe Pro 2020 | Red Bull Signature Series

The 11th edition of the Volcom Pipe Pro returned in 2020 to the legendary Hawaiian surf break known as the Banzai Pipeline.

Join Sal Masekela and the Red Bull Signature Series Crew as they unfold what happened at the event in 2020.
Volcom Pipe Pro is a multi-day surfing contest featuring 144 of the best surfers in the world.