Photo: WSL/Heff
gosh, the waves this year on the north shore has been the biggest in many many years. and now the past swell made the best quality waves for the past few years. pipeline totally going off! the guys surfing the volcom contest scored big time. pipeline doesn’t get any better than this.
Photo: WSL/Beilmann
and the most craziest rides of years! the whole world was in awe watching this contest. so was i.
watching Seth Moniz growing up is exciting. to see this little boy living out his dreams makes me so happy. at the age of 8, he was on the right path to a successful career. when ever i asked him to go surfing, he would never say no.
i took Seth to japan for the first time when he was 10 years old. we pulled up to a freezing cold river mouth in shikoku this one afternoon. i told him “go jump in and catch a few.” he said “uncle, it’s too cold.” i told him “hey, you came all the way here from hawaii, go catch a few.” he zipped up his 1mm wetsuit full of holes and jumped into the freezing river. luckily i got to shoot this video laughing the whole time. it was the cutest thing ever.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-2joSIVzp0[/youtube]
then i heard about this video that just came out on surfer magazine dot com. i watched it and couldn’t believe how good this kid got! watch Seth Moniz killing the beautiful waves on the island of oahu. awesome!
[vimeo]https://vimeo.com/154004890[/vimeo]
