Duke needed no invitation. He stroked forcefully down the face of the wave, then slowly, deliberately, rose on one knee, sphinx-like, as he set course, then stood upright and proud atop the board, arms folded across his chest.
Drone footage of the crowds and chaos at Mavericks on the recent large December swell.
The 2015 elite Men’s Championship Tour will be contested by the WSL Top 34, made up of the top 22 finishers on 2014 CT season, the top 10 finishers on the 2014 Qualifying Series (QS) and two WSL wildcards.
A selection of frames from the Finals Day of the Pipeline Masters, courtesy Matt Dunbar.
Mavericks showed some fang over the weekend on the first real day of the 2014-2015 big-wave season.
"You go out through this super deep harbour where nothing breaks and you come around the corner into Armageddon." Ross Clarke-Jones describes his first glimpse of Nazaré from the water.
Julian Wilson has won both the Billabong Pipe Masters and the Vans Triple Crown of Surfing after defeating Gabriel Medina in the closest Pipe Final on record.
