It was also rainy and overcast first thing in the morning, but like they say in the islands, “If you don’t like the weather wait ten minutes.”
Sure enough, by the second heat, the Hawaiian sun broke through the clouds and instantly made the waves look better and perhaps even a bit more user friendly until a twelve-foot set cleaned up everyone in heat No 3.
With the sun shining, the waves cranking, a reported 150,000 people watching online, and a thousand or so fans on the beach, Day one of the Volcom Pipeline Pro was worth the wait.
45-year old Derek Ho (pictured) — the oldest competitor in the event — had one of the best rides of morning when he stroked into a beast on the second reef, “It was just a matter of being in the right spot out there,” he said humbly about his barrel that had the beach screaming.
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