Is it a sport?
Look at this!
Is it an art form?
Is it a lifestyle?
There you go, Joshy. We're on film.
We are live.
-The 2021 season. -We're on.
I'm Stephanie Gilmore.
My name is John Florence.
-Filipe Toledo. -Tatiana Weston-Webb.
-Kanoa Igarashi. -Johanne Defay.
-Gabriel Medina. -My name is Kelly Slater.
I've won 11 World Titles.
Tyler Wright screaming down the line.
He's got the speed. Ítalo.
This year is the greatest assemblage of talent
in the history of the sport.
And everyone wants to win.
Gilmore belts the lip line.
Answering back, Johanne Defay.
Any of these guys could beat anyone.
Look at this.
We come from a sport of, "Oh, we're hippies."
We're not. We're competitive little assholes.
Each heat is 30 minutes long,
going into battle one-on-one with their competitors.
Go Medina!
And there's a variety of different ways you can score.
Medina takes to the sky.
Doing an air.
Pulling up and under the hood.
Getting a barrel.
This is where Morgan needs to strike.
Or doing a series of carving turns.
Throws it up high in the lip.
Oh, my gosh.
When luck doesn't go your way…
Scores, let's put 'em in.
…there's some hard emotions to deal with.
If you make any mistake, the other chicks are gonna eat you up.
This is so frustrating.
There's more chance to go wrong than go right.
The event is off, following a shark incident.
It is so much pressure, your sponsors, your family, your friends.
Ups and downs of surfing, hey.
It's gonna push them to the limits in every aspect of their life.
This one going wide open on Mikey Wright.
-…bleeping. -Is it?
Oh, it's just Mikey.
Hello.
Hello Tyler.
Hello, Michael. What're you doing?
Not doing all right.
How's your brain?
Yeah, it's doing all right.
My brother got in a fight with some big waves and lost.
Did you-- How is your rehab going?
Yeah, it's been going good.
I'll see you Sunday. We'll do dinner Sunday or something.
He had stitches in his elbow, nerve damage in his foot.
It's like, "You didn't need to do that."
Love you too. Bye-bye.
Sorry about that.
Hard-core family, the Wrights, eh?
No, it's terrible. We're terrible influences on each other.
And that's something that I-- Actually, I don't like,
because people are like, "You guys are so resilient."
I'm just like, "Shut up. We're so stupid."
Like, honestly, we're not healthy for each other.
We talk about them as a collective so often
but the Wrights need to be considered as total individuals.
I can recall seeing Tyler Wright being around the event sites
when she was, like, 14 or 15.
She was just a very innocent schoolgirl who also just happened to be very gifted.
But the thing with Tyler Wright that you have to understand
is that all the growing up that she's done has been within the prism of pro surfing.
I think what happens is a little bit of arrested development.
You broke the board?
Yeah. I fell off the wave and there was one coming behind it.
I wasn't even on the surfboard.
I'm glad you're looking after yourself.
I was kinda raised in surfing.
It's gone yellow. Like, yellow down the front. It should be fine.
My dad, well, he was, like, just get them all hooked on surfing
then that makes his life a lot easier.
We're learning on being able to say, "It hurts…"
"but it's fine."
You're a dickhead.
I was, like, 14 when I won a really big comp.
I can do the mac and cheese if you want. I'm pretty talented.
Once I did that, it wasn't like,
"Could I win a World Title?" It was more like, "When?"
Back then, I was a weapon. Like, I was a very good athlete.
The world champ in 2016, Tyler Wright gets her first win.
I think I was too young at that point to say,
"Yes, this was what I wanted to do.
But I know I do this job really well."
Tyler Wright has gone back-to-back
and is your 2017 World Champion.
She was a world champion.
She's in the prime of her life.
And then she disappeared for, like, two and a half years.
With back-to-back World Titles,
we've just received word Tyler Wright has withdrawn
from the Corona Open due to illness.
Just arrived to a comp, wasn't feeling well.
I ended up going to hospital.
When I arrived, they didn't quite know what was wrong,
so they had the infectious disease guys coming down,
and then they found, like, everything.
Influenza A, bronchitis, pneumonia, fluid around my heart,
post-viral syndrome,
which is essentially an umbrella term for "you're really fucked."
And you're on 24-hour care now with no answers.
It was a fight for your life for a year and a half.
She was in a horrible state.
And to walk out of her house
you know you'd cry, but you can't talk while you're there. It was horrible.
Coming back, you know, kind of putting myself back together,
it's nerve-racking and it's an anxiety. There's doubts everywhere.
I'm very happy with that.
Last time we put you in that heel-to-toe balance, you fell over.
-Okay, awesome. -So, I'm gonna put you in the water.
Yes! I'm ready.
Hey!
That was just beautiful.
She's starting the journey back to where she wants to be.
Beautiful Honolua Bay.
The opening of the World Surf League Championship Tour.
This cliff has played such a crucial role
in making and breaking dreams.
This is the beginning of the road to the WSL Finals.
Welcome to the Maui Pro presented by Roxy,
and the return to Championship Tour Surfing,
and the return of Tyler Wright.
Oh, my God.
Do you guys have a screw by any chance?
The fin won't go all the way in.
Is that your first time putting fins in?
Help! I look really unprofessional.
Ladies first over here on Maui.
After this, we're heading over to the North Shore of Oahu for the men.
Let's talk about what we've seen so far. The best of the best are performing.
Current world number one, Carissa Moore,
comes through in the first heat of the 2021 Championship Tour.
There's a reason why she is the most feared competitor
on the Championship Tour.
Every season there's a handful of names
that are vying for that World Title.
The most winning surfer ever on the Women's Championship Tour,
Stephanie Gilmore, one of the all-time greats.
You had Steph with the seven, Carissa with the four, Tyler with the two.
Those are the women that have held court for over a decade.
We all know that Steph only chases one thing and that is victory.
That's never been a problem for the seven-time World Champ.
Tyler's proven that she's capable
of matching Carissa and Steph when they're at their best.
Tyler's obviously been through, you know, quite an ordeal,
both physically and psychologically.
When you're competing at the elite level, whatever sport it is,
it's hard not to lose an edge
if you're not at that elite level all the time.
Tyler Wright versus Johanne Defay, who's got the edge?
One minute, 25 seconds remaining.
Whether or not she'll be able to rediscover that ability,
that's going to be the real challenge.
We are gonna be looking at an incredible year.
And the year starts for Tyler Wright.
Here we go in five, four, three…
This is gonna be a huge test.
…two, one.
Here we go.
Tyler Wright dropping into a bomb.
The role of the judges
is to transform something that's highly subjective and artistic
and put an objective criteria on it.
Beautiful grab rail carve.
Competition heat works on a time frame of 30 or 35 minutes.
You can catch as many waves as you want in that time,
but you gotta focus on quality.
All right, Johanne Defay. A beautiful wave.
Judges will take note of speed…
The answer back from Johanne Defay, equally as impressive.
…power, flow, control.
Laying that board on rails, seeing the pink underside of that surfboard.
And they will reward innovative and progressive maneuvers.
7.83 for Johanne Defay, so she answers back.
They will be scored from one to ten,
and at the end, the two best scores will determine that surfer total.
Tyler Wright, straight back to business, beautiful arching top turn.
And she tries to finish but gets upended.
Tyler Wright for a 6.83.
Had she finished off,
it would have been up in that excellent range.
Johanne Defay only needing the 6-point ride.
She'll do it with turns like that.
I can't pick a winner
because both of these ladies are impeccable.
There's some really strong surfing on both waves.
This is where you lean on the judges and their expertise.
The score comes in…
about as close as it gets. And now Tyler Wright is on her way.
The last few years were really rough,
and it took a lot to come back.
I think people often be like, "Oh, were you scared you wouldn't surf again?"
I was like, "No. I was scared that I would never live a normal life,
will never be able to get up."
I feel like there is a resilience in that,
that I never thought I really would have again.
The comeback will not be complete until she's lifting that trophy.
Tyler Wright into the quarterfinals.
For Stephanie Gilmore, this is gonna be a great matchup.
Yeah!
-Harry. You're not in the nude, are you? -No.
Well, I gotta go…
I'm Stephanie Gilmore, and I'm seven times World Surfing Champion.
Are you the greatest surfer of all time?
No, I gotta win one more to be the greatest of all time.
I want to win an eighth World Title, for sure. That's, like, my main goal.
That's what I'm here for. I'm not just interested in just existing on the tour.
That winning feeling, it's addictive.
Like, I think back to my earliest memories of performing on a wave,
and the reason I loved it was because I was 12 years old
and all I wanted was be the best surfer in the world.
I always just thought everyone wanted to be the very best in the world
at something when they're a kid,
but over time, I realized that's not the case.
She was 17 years old, and she was just amazing.
She's been on the championship tour for 14 seasons.
The new champion of the world - Stephanie Gilmore!
I love competing. It's a good challenge to be out there
and I've been doing this for a while,
but it just never gets old. It's so cool to be out there.
Tyler Wright, Stephanie Gilmore.
Nine World Titles total in this quarterfinal.
Clash of the titans.
You got Steph, she's run the game for the last few years.
I've been out of the game for two and a half years.
She's also won seven World Titles. I don't know how she's done that.
Like, that's a fucking lot.
When it comes to actually competing, I fucking love it.
We come from a sport of, "Oh, we're hippies."
We're not. We're competitive little assholes.
This is Stephanie Gilmore versus Tyler Wright.
Here we go. Steph taking off on this one.
Caught behind that section.
That wasn't what she was looking for, not against Tyler Wright.
Tyler Wright here.
Early advantage goes to Tyler Wright
as the scores lock in at 8.33 for Wright.
Gilmore's opener, a 2.67.
So Tyler already putting seven-time World Champ against the ropes.
They've had so many heats together,
they know how each other works.
Tyler Wright screaming down the line.
She has the lead over Stephanie Gilmore.
Gilmore looking for a 4.87 to take that lead back off of Tyler Wright.
Five minutes, 30 seconds on the countdown.
Steph Gilmore looking like she's on her way
to coming back in this quarterfinal.
And the number in for Steph Gilmore.
That's enough to put Gilmore into the lead over Tyler Wright.
I wanna win World Titles,
and I wanna win World Titles with my health and well-being intact.
I'm not here to mess around anymore. I'm there to do a fucking job.
And I will do that job, and I will win.
Tyler Wright looking for the barrel.
Finds the barrel.
Another swooping carve.
Tyler Wright has just set the bar.
That was unbelievable.
It was just chills up my spine.
It's a 10! Tyler Wright gets a 10!
The judges have given Tyler a perfect ten.
Just beautiful to see Tyler Wright back.
-Ten. -Last time today.
Always another day.
-Right on, Tyler. -Thanks so much, guys.
Good job.
-Have a good day. -It was so stoked on that last wave.
-Great surfing, Tyler. -Thank you so much.
What did you expect?
I love it so much. Welcome back.
I think when you're looking at comebacks you're like,
well, you don't really owe the world anything.
Like, you could walk away and sail off into the sunset,
and you'll still be one of the greatest that we've ever had.
But one of the things that we've talked a lot about for her is,
the more that you win events, the more that you will have that platform
to speak about the things that are important to you.
-We're on. -Rock and roll?
I think sport's a great place for change.
Yeah.
For me, personally, we have a long way to go to really be an inclusive sport.
You got your job done out there. Now we can talk about the extracurriculars.
Surfing is sexist.
I mean, you look at marketing, competition, investment,
and it just start stacking up.
Women are like, "Okay, no. We're not bound to surfing's origins,"
which has been very male-dominated.
When you look at sexism within surfing…
LOL.
…you do look at the first event.
Boys are at Pipe, women are at Maui.
Both incredible waves,
but historically, the women haven't been allowed to have a permit at Pipe.
Pipeline was so mythical to me as a kid.
There was a poster on my friend's wall,
and I remember looking at that wave over and over and over for years
and just thinking, "I don't know how guys can turn around
and catch that wave. That's so scary."
I first surfed Pipe when I was 12.
I remember this wave picked me up and slammed me
on my back on the reef with my board.
For a second, I felt like I'll never come up.
It was just gonna hold me here forever.
That's what surfing is.
That fear and danger that comes along with it that's also enticing.
I guess Pipeline's legendary because of its shape and intensity.
To be able to paddle those waves and ride 'em is super dangerous.
Someone dislocated their shoulder this morning.
You dislocate your shoulder on a big day here
and you're stuck in the pit of the wave
and then you're gonna be smashed by a couple more,
good chance of getting really hurt.
You know I've had friends basically get scalped and get run over,
and we've had a lot of people die at Pipeline.
A friend of ours died out here about 10, 12 years ago.
He was eventually found right here in front my house.
No, it's a big challenge.
There's never not a challenge at Pipeline.
-Oh, my God. Look at this wave. -That's what I'm about to do.
Look at this wave.
Oh, my God.
-Ivan, go out there. -Oh, my gosh. Who was that?
I don't know but that was sick.
Surfing here on the North Shore is everything.
Our whole little town is built around it. Everyone here surfs.
My name is John Florence.
I'm a professional surfer, and I have two World Titles.
It's on, Ivan. We gotta go.
I was born and raised here,
and so I've spent my whole life watching this wave from a really young age.
Every time the waves are good, you'd be going to school
and, like, look at-- Go check the waves from the beach park right here
and you'd have a knot in your stomach. "The waves are good.
Damn, I have to go to school."
Your mom must have been a nervous wreck.
Yeah, my mom-- I don't think she was a nervous wreck
'cause she was the one-- She surfs out here still.
I mean, they grew up right here,
and so I had them in the water when they were, like, two weeks old, so…
We were at the beach so much, and he started surfing.
And then he got quite good at it.
When he was eight years old,
and it was cool for all of us guys to feel like we were looking out for him
and making sure he was safe, but also, like,
seeing that he wasn't scared, and he was totally confident.
Eventually, you start working your way up,
you start getting more waves,
and all of sudden, you're like, "Okay, I wanna get a big one today."
That feeling of, like,
when you're going on your first couple of bigger ones, you're just like,
"Okay, this is it. I'm gonna go on this one."
Your heart's racing. Your heart's racing.
And then, like, you might paddle for one and you don't go,
and you're sitting there like "I almost went on that wave."
Finally, like, you just work up the guts to just go on the next one.
You just commit to it.
John John Florence pulling into this big Pipeline beast!
And he's out!
It would mean a lot to me to win a Pipe Masters.
John John Florence still chasing that Pipe Masters trophy.
Back in 2013, finishing runner-up against Kelly.
Give it up for Kelly Slater.
And runner-up to Jeremy Flores a couple of years ago.
'Cause he got second to me. He got second to Jeremy.
He's going, "Guys, I've been so close.
I've had my hand on that trophy. So close to it."
If you look in a lot of sports, you'll see when people play on their,
like, home court or home-field advantage or whatever--
There's that extra added pressure.
The wave should suit that guy.
And for whatever reason, the pressure seems to, like, take over.
There's just this thing where, like-- When you wanna win something so bad,
you almost forget the moment.
Okay.
Then the pressure is horrible.
You just feel a certain expectation, and you have to live up to it.
Welcome to Pipeline, the one and only.
No other wave in the world compares to the Billabong Pipe Masters'.
Attention surfers!
All surfers must clear the area.
Thank you, guys.
We're clearing the area.
What a day we have today on finals day.
All we've seen all morning long is stellar surfing.
Gabriel Medina on fire.
Ítalo Ferreira, who's getting knocked out. And he was a bit injured.
Coming up next, a super heat with world champs,
John John Florence and Kelly Slater.
At waves like Pipe, local knowledge plays a big factor.
But at the same time, it just comes to, like, who has been on-- Who is--
Who's on the best waves that day. Who's in the rhythm.
John John Florence, two-time world champ.
Kelly Slater 11-time world champ.
Kelly Slater at Pipeline,
he has a very special relationship with that wave. I mean, we've all seen it.
He is one of the scariest competitors to have in a heat out there.
You have to take it seriously.
Kelly is the best of all time and always will be.
I mean, he won his first World Title in 1992.
That was the year I was born.
He's just been through it all. He's had-- He has so much experience.
To be competing against him at the highest level you can possibly compete
within our sport 28 years later,
he's gone through three generations of beating people.
If I have a heat with John John,
I'm gonna wanna kick his ass, you know, because why else am I there?
When I was young, seeing him win here at the Pipe,
he was this hero kind of icon.
Now you look at it, and he's this competitor.
I just wanna beat him.
Here we go. Countdown…
In 5…
Really strong, powerful swell out there at the moment.
Four.
You're gonna see these big figure eight S-turns…
Three.
…but the judges will be looking for big powerful surfing
on powerful waves.
Two.
Equals a good score.
One.
Kelly Slater and John John Florence facing off
to earn a spot in the final.
Slater parks it in the pit and comes out.
John John drops into this one.
The spit comes out and so does John John.
Obviously, everyone's in the excellent zone
but we do need to think,
"Is there a moment on this wave that's incredible?"
To be up into the nine range,
I think those are the things we need to really break down.
Score for black, 9.33. Red, a 9.23. Black, you're in first.
For me, competing is all about the mindset.
I'm a bit of an introvert naturally,
and so that's what I like about competing as it gives me that opportunity
to just block everything out and just go into my own little world.
I just surf.
John John wants it.
It's an exit for John John Florence.
Slater, backdoor.
Way behind. That one runs off without Kelly.
Let's see what John John's thinking here.
Time traveling another section.
And he comes out.
John John Florence is putting on a show
and putting a big challenge to Kelly Slater.
Yeah, Slater looking anxious right now.
Black still needs a 9.83. One minute remaining.
Here we go.
Through there, draining barrel.
Way back there, Kelly Slater.
Can he come out?
John John Florence clearly winning it.
It's going to be Gabe Medina
and John John Florence for the final.
John John Florence versus Gabriel Medina. Who is gonna win the Pipe Masters?
We are live from Honolua Bay on the island of Maui.
We're looking at a full day of action, and it looks stellar out there.
The Women's Pro Maui surfing event
on hold after a recreational surfer was attacked by a shark this morning.
Maui Pro was scheduled to kickoff,
but a deadly shark attack halted the contest at Honolua Bay.
Hey. What's happening?
We've had a shark attack.
This person is flatlining on the beach.
Okay. Where was it? How far-- Where was it from the bay?
It was in the bay.
Wow. Okay.
From what I understand,
the guy who got attacked was very close to the beach.
You know, 20 feet off the beach or something.
It's a primal fear that we just deal with when we surf.
There's nothing foolproof other than staying out of the water.
Shark attacks hit home pretty close.
The emotional stress and trauma that that has on a group of surfers,
especially during an event window,
especially because we were meant to be out there.
I think everyone was pretty rattled.
I've already had people crying.
Like, people are freaking out, and people are asking me about options.
Number one.
Are we in agreement
that we'd like to cancel the remainder
of the Maui Pro at Honolua Bay?
If we do,
do you want to finish at Pipe?
Yeah. I think running this event at Pipe is a really interesting one.
I think it's worth getting all the women together.
I'm gonna bring all the women in
because obviously, Pipe is-- is Pipe.
Like, it's a super gnarly wave, so…
Or the fear factor is the biggest thing
that stands in the way of finishing at Pipe.
To turn around for the women and go,
"Hey, you know the wave that we've been watching
since we were kids?
It's the most dangerous wave in the world.
It's the most competitive lineup in the world."
But it's a huge challenge to put on the table.
So, I know you guys all know we've had a shark attack this morning,
and that person's passed away.
I think that the sentiment is more about us feeling comfortable
after having something that's quite horrific go down.
So the way we see it, we're looking at being able to run our own day at Pipe.
Us finishing this event at Pipe is a pretty pivotal moment
for women's surfing.
I haven't looked at the forecast,
but if the forecast looks fine
and it is an option…
Yeah.
I feel like we really should back ourselves in this situation.
I knew it was big,
but I really believe in the women that we have on tour,
and I just think it's an opportunity missed
if we don't show up in these lineups now.
It would be a--
a moment in women's surfing history.
But at the same time, fuck, it's Pipe.
Such a freak accident.
If that had been another day, it could have been one of our mates.
It just doesn't seem like a place that I'm gonna get attacked by a shark.
The girls are at Pipe.
-That's awesome! -That will be mental!
Tyler's gonna come back and move into the spare room upstairs.
-Okay. -The good room.
The good room.
Sorry, bud.
That's all right. I didn't want it.
Sorry. Tyler takes precedence, unfortunately.
-Wow. -That's sick. I'm excited.
I'm confident on all the boards that we had in Maui.
Yeah, let's figure out, like, what you're gonna want.
It's like, "Okay, it's this big. The waves are like this. This is my board."
Through illness, I dropped between 16 and 18 kilos.
So I had to change my board to my weight.
Should we ever look at a 5'8" and a half?
Just 'cause you're so small,
that would probably be something worth trying.
When I look at waves with consequences, like Pipe,
I have to go figure out how to be more precise
or I could really get hurt.
All right, well, I think I should go to work then, on that note.
-I got shit to do. -Yeah, you--
-I'm stoked. -Feels good.
Working with Tyler, and the same with John John too,
when we're working on boards,
they don't give me technical feedback.
Like, it comes way more from feeling.
With John, especially,
my shaping style has developed along with his surfing style.
And they really are intertwined
just because he's been on my boards his whole life.
It's time for the Pipe Masters finals.
John John Florence versus all-time rival of Gabriel Medina.
They qualified together as rookies.
Both fighting for a third World Title with two apiece.
For Gabi and John, you see these surfers and it's electric.
They wanna beat each other more than anything.
And they're kind of like fire and water.
One's going with the flow, where the other is, like, just explosive.
John John's the perfect surfer.
He's a really humble guy. He keeps to himself.
Medina is so skilled.
He's the scariest guy to compete against
if you're trying to win World Titles, for sure.
You have all these guys coming out of Brazil. They're such good surfers,
and they're so fast, and they're driven,
and they wanna win more than anything else.
It seemed like Gabe was on a mission to win.
Gabe Medina becoming a Pipe Master
and a two-time world champ.
He's just an animal competing.
Medina's already got a Pipe trophy.
John thinks it's his turn to finally get his.
No one can believe he doesn't have one yet.
When you watch the way John John and Gabriel compete,
you most probably couldn't have two different styles
to the way those two do it.
We begin in five, four, three, two, one.
Gabriel Medina locks in the first wave.
A big wide-open pit. Medina gets the first score.
Looks like we've got John on his first wave of the final.
-Oh, no. -Goes to the bottom.
Gabriel Medina, a 4.43.
For John, there's no comfort in this final.
It's a 5.57. John goes to first.
Florence, on the prowl.
The speed he got off this drop was incredible.
Just lunged into this pit, squared up.
Black, a little more complete,
and red probably has two of the best turns of the exchange.
Previous wave of John Florence gets a 5.57.
John goes to first.
-What a turn of events. -John John is on a roll.
John at backdoor.
Still traveling in this pit. Florence comes out.
How did he do that? He's a magician.
Fifty-two seconds on the clock.
On the move is Gabriel Medina. Can he go the distance?
No, he cannot!
It's official.
John John Florence wins his very first Pipe Masters trophy.
Oh, my God.
You know how long he's been dreaming of this day?
To have your name on that trophy
is one of the greatest achievements in this sport.
I was really happy with the way the final went
because usually Gabriel's the one to catch a bunch of waves underneath
and then get a rhythm going and end up winning,
and so I was able to switch it. And it worked in my favor.
John has brought back the Pipe Masters to Hawaii.
Winning it felt really good. It felt like a bigger relief to win it.
It's definitely nice to win at home around family.
Yeah, I am super proud of him.
It just seemed like he was destined for that, honestly.
John, congratulations. Your first of probably many, so, good job.
They've added some new fish and stuff to this one.
-It's more blingy. -I like the fish. The turtle too.
Dude. You just won the Pipe Masters.
That's cool.
Check that off the list.
Yeah.
-Here you go. -Too late.
You know, when we head into Pipe, like, it's just a high-risk wave.
Personally, as an individual, no, I don't want to go and surf Pipe.
Pipe is scary.
I've had brothers that have been critically injured out there.
I'm happy not to go out just now.
That one.
As a mum watching it on the TV, you always watch the wave,
and it's a big one and it hits them on the head, and you go…
"Did they come up?"
Then you just wait.
You worry.
You freak out because that reef is unforgiving.
You make your read and it's, like-- It's full-bore. It is straight commitment.
Yeah, once you're in, you're in. Like this.
Yeah. Like, this thing's gonna rip your head off.
We've got a massive final coming up for the Maui Pro at Pipeline.
Tyler Wright versus Carissa Moore.
I think Carissa's commitment to the sport and the craft,
I think is unmatched.
As a Hawaiian native, for Carissa, it's--
it's almost the same thing as John John, right?
It's part of her destiny to win at Pipeline.
This is going to be one for the history books.
Tyler Wright kicking things off.
-Oh, my God. -I hope she's okay.
That was gnarly.
It's pretty scary, eh? 'Cause it's so shallow.
-Fuck. -No, she's okay.
First score for red, a 1.93.
Carissa Moore locks in.
Sees the wave spit without her.
Both ladies have pulled in and got beaten down.
1.93 and a 1.83. It's about as tight as you could imagine.
Tyler Wright looking at this one.
Hey. Fucking go.
Red, you're in first, a 5.17.
Here goes Carissa Moore.
Big drop-in, big wipeout.
The ocean was kinda changing.
This huge rainstorm came in.
It was so bad, I couldn't see.
I had to pull out.
Now it's up to Carissa Moore.
Now Carissa Moore has 7.23.
She goes into the lead and puts pressure on Tyler.
Solid one setting up for Tyler Wright with 30 seconds.
Will Carissa Moore get one at the back? Here she goes.
Score now in for red. A 3.17. Goes back to first.
Down to ten seconds.
Will she get another chance?
Five, four, three, two, one.
-No, she will not. -Carissa runs out of time.
Tyler Wright winning at the Pipeline.
It can't be underestimated.
Yeah!
-Congratulations. -Hey, we did good work.
All right. Good work, team.
-Job done. -Well done.
Today marks a special day in women's surfing history.
For Tyler to be winning an event at Pipeline,
it is a new era for pro surfing and for--
for women in pro surfing, absolutely.
The young women of the next generation
don't have to imagine themselves at Pipe.
They can see themselves there
through the representation that's just happened.
And I think anything that does that is great.
Rivalry, Gabi versus Ítalo is as big as it gets.
They are the best in the world,
and they are not holding back.
In the end of the day, everyone wants to win.
It's hard.
Winning the World Title, it's everything.
It's game on.
There's a lot on the line for me.
I have to find a way to win it.
It's about putting your name in the history books,
and becoming a legend.
Let's go!