A Last Chance For Surfing Glory At Pipeline And Honolua Bay | All In S2E4

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The European leg of the WSL World Tour season is finished and Kanoa Igarashi and Steph Gilmore are off to Hawaii, where a year's worth of surfing their hearts out will culminate at two of the best waves in the world: Maui's Honolua Bay and Oahu's Pipeline. See how Kanoa and Steph handle the mounting pressure in this episode of All In: Life on the WSL Championship Tour.
Courtside out here with the boys trying to get out here trying to do the toys. I don't have no flow
Gilmore up again once that world title so badly
Canola garage she crushes it in the pocket big flow
Setting up on the inside an amazing read she comes true. So amazing
Stephanie Gilmore
Yo, what's doing calling the bitches
You're looking really good mate
Vacay's over
This year's just kind of like I'm out of the race
It makes me look back on the events that maybe I didn't commit to fully
Steph Gilmore down into knockout position how quickly things can change when from first to third in a blink of an eye a
hectic circumstance right now
Frustrated myself thinking about the fact that I could be in the title race too if I'd actually went for it
So going to Maui I was I don't even want to go
But to motivate myself, it's pretty easy to be honest
It is one of the most magical waves on planet Earth. It's like this glistening beautiful perfect right hander
You're looking out to Molokai on the horizon in this big beautiful Bay
It's green and lush and to be able to compete there. It's like the Christmas present for us at the end of the year
We're only women at the event. So the priority and all the focus is on us and I really love it there
It's just tropical Hawaii at its finest
Drive up and down the coast and find so many different waves to surf. The people are really nice. The food's awesome. Thank you. I
Have always done well at Honolulu big layback huge frontside rift. So class is so
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Stephanie Gilmore, I get fired up from Honolulu
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Tomorrow's gonna be a huge bigger. Yeah
Sick 24th part. I'm sure I'm sure you're out there
Have a good one. Have a good one, man
Leading up to the Pipe Masters that's coming up. It's the last of in the year if you lose here
It's like it's a huge blow for you
Your goals of being in the top five so many people gonna be let down
Every day I feel pressure
Igarashi miss times the finish and there's so much going on in my life and around me rear best year for a canoe
I got a little confidence a lot of head noise. It's been a tough heat. It's not easy out there today
All of a sudden I'm in this like real Zen state
Even though I had so many other distractions around me. I'm like fired up
I all I want to do is compete and like get ready for it
It's not like he's just relied on his talent. He works so hard
He's winning events and then at you know, 730 the next morning he's in the gym training
It's pretty impressive to see his goals and what he wants to achieve
He wants to be there before everyone arrives for the contest
He's working at weaknesses and he's going to the top five and he's made the final here before and got a semi-final before so
He can do it easily if he puts his mind to it
Every hour that goes by it's like you're nowhere closer to the last event of the year
Straight into the pit
Excellent score you the pipeline contender each and every year we come here now
That's so cool, it's great if you're thirsty you just have a drink ruining my vibe
This is rad
5.11 5.10
This is actually the board that I rode last year in the event. This is the board. I rode when I won the world titles
so
Both these boards I should probably hang them on the wall
They're like brand-new. They still have much more to give and
They go way better in the ocean than hanging on the wall
Like a really sweet mother
This year made me think about okay, you know the world title race. So what is your purpose here?
What am I doing? That's actually encouraging other girls together. Like am I inspiring anyone on my actions on tour inspiring?
Doing these rising tide events at each tour stop really showed me just how many young girls there are and how much
they love surfing I
remember being a young girl and hanging out with my heroes and just
Soaking in every single sentence that they said and learning so much from them girls. We're gonna get a group photo with everyone
Today we did a little bit of yoga a bit of stretching and and now we're gonna paddle out with all the girls
And there's actually some fun waves
It's a really fun program because the girls get a lot out of it and and you know
It's beneficial for not only the girls but for us too. So yeah, it should be fun. Let's go
Should we go try catch some waves?
Yeah, it looks pretty small
Tanya nice to meet you. I
Think we're gonna take over. I
Love seeing more girls confident in the water
Showing girls what's possible as so many women have done before myself and
generations of female surfers who led the way for us
We just need to do the same thing
For the young girls to get a chance to see us firsthand to be there in the sand paddling out with us
That's something money can't even buy. You know, it's like a wonderful experience. I
Wish I was in the title race
But no matter what the situation is no matter what the numbers are no matter what the whole rankings everything is that proud parent feeling
Like it means the world to me my toast my toast. I don't don't don't don't you can do that. Yeah
No, sorry, that's the way
I'm Dambini. So don't don't don't don't surfing the sink. I said
I
Wait for me to like give back to my parents represent my parents represent my family showing my parents like yeah
I'm really proud to be Japanese, you know
See my parents proud that for me puts a real big smile on my face
Welcome to the final stop on the championship tour for the women top number ten
The Lululemon Maui Pro Honolulu Bay is looking very tricky out there today
The workout saw my body was hurting and it was a big day
I ended up just grabbing a board that my shape of Darren and maybe there's a little bit thicker
It was kind of a different shape and a squash tail and just had a few very different things to what I've been riding all
year
Kind of looked at me like why are you riding?
Shortboard, why are you riding that board? That's so weird and I got excited about this challenge
Can you go out there and make it happen on a board that you don't really know how to surf, right?
It's just a challenge. This is fun
It's a game the things that make you comfortable strip it all back and see if you can still perform
Stephanie Gilmore really came to see how she performs without a world title in the back of her mind
Will she have that motivation to go after the event title here?
Once again, if anyone can beat anyone, this is the event that everybody wants to win. Here we go
Stephanie Gilmore beautiful carve there and commits to a big rail turn
Hang on to this one trying to stay on her feet. That's always the directive from her coach Jake Patterson finish the wave on your feet
Steph Gilmore, she gets the victory. She's moving through to the round of 16
In round three, my back was sort of hurting I considered pulling out. This is not good
I should just go home do rehab and get ready, but my good friend Nikki Van Dyke. She needs to requalify
Savannah had climbed up the rankings and got a good result. It would knock Nikki out
So then my motivation changed to that it was sort of like cool do it for something. That's not for you. Do it for somebody else
Running down the line blasting it off the lip and she'll kick out under the hood there Lima big section
She loves the barrel at Honolulu and had no exit
Absolutely pulls into a sick barrel before she doesn't come out at the end of that one Gilmore will get this wave
To celebrate another victory over her longtime rival of Sylvana Lima
Yeah, it's all that coaching you gave me the other day
Very good physio
We'll work on your low back a little bit and into the sacrum anything your shoulders neck
Yeah, just like the tightness and stuff through here and my neck
It's sort of like just shut down my breathing a bit like my breathing is up in here
Yeah, we want to do is get that fluid into the muscle tissue so that it's eliminating the waist
My back was hurting I was a bit worried about it. I was thinking all this isn't what I want to feel
This is just a toothbrush light movement stimulates the lymph
Yeah, we're always pushing our bodies in these ways tweaking things here, and they're got to stay on top of them
little toothbrush thing
Sometimes you just can't do everything right
That's pretty healing
Faithful sins mud for extra speed
We've got a battle getting started right now. Steph Gilmore has had enough with the grommet on tour Caroline marks
My back really hurt a lot. You know at that point you don't want to do more damage, but
she'd beaten me all year every single matchup that we'd had Caroline had beaten me and
She was going for a very first world title
I wanted revenge and I sort of went into an overdrive of competitiveness
Gilmore on a gorgeous wave at Honolulu Bay
Digs into a searing carve eyeing off the lip line Caroline marks on a bomb out the back tagging that first section
So good
She's so spicy and the judges love saying that I felt like I'd tried to tap into her youthful
Confidence and that kind of carefree
You know the world's at my feet
Setting up her first turn on that pink DHT
Clean frontside critical stuff there from Steph Gilmore a little bit of a tap into the lip with a free fall drop
If Steph keeps this lead to take out Caroline marks Carissa would then achieve a fourth world title
tagging that first section
Forced to carve does this wave have enough wall
Gets a backside hack off the top and carves her way through this inside corner Caroline stays on her feet Carissa now holding her breath
Numbers coming in for Caroline marks. It is not enough
Caroline marks goes down swinging against Stephanie Gilmore. It's official Carissa Moore is now a
four-time world champion
Carissa Moore your 2019 World Surf League world champion
She beat me all year, so it's nice to get her back
Yeah, I want to say congrats to Caroline. Carissa in the semi, so I think she owes me, right?
Maybe she'll just let me on the wall free
My gosh
I
Was a great win I felt awesome that was definitely sweet revenge there against Caroline
But I wanted to be Carissa the newly crowned champ
She's driving and pumping and look at that sensitivity of the board under feet
So responsive the minute the ankles and the feet styles that stands there and gets to enjoy it
Finding a piece or calmness when you're surfing it's it's an amazing feeling
It's just this almost meditative experience
such an incredible sense of gratefulness and
When you have that whilst you're competing it lets things kind of go your way Oh
Beautiful opening maneuver and another searing forehand turn
Drives up into that first section. She gets that layback snap under the lip beautiful a back jam
High-quality surfing very even sort of waves maybe a little more aggressive from step
This has been a very close battle Carissa Moore
This will be a last shot at a 25 seconds remaining as she drives into that first section
Fades back into it to set up another critical turn and lays it all on the line
And it's not enough the seven-time world champion Stephanie Gilmore in the finals
final heat of 2018 I
Just always had such a confidence to when I was competing
Being young I remember paddling out thinking I've already won
Maybe it was arrogance and confidence and ego everything all mixed together
But these are the moments in my life that you learn so much about being in those
Frames of mind that you're virtually invincible a lot of athletes are always trying to figure out how to get to those moments
Love the attack mode that she's got going on big huge snap and that's what champions do they save their best for last
Pushing her own record even further as we close this one down
Fifth time in her career here at home. Okay, your champion is Stephanie Gilmore
In the second row, let's welcome Stephanie Gilmore
An amazing amazing event and you for everybody to have the first year as equal prize pay for all of us
It's a monumental year for us
And yeah
I'm really proud to be a part of that and to have the WSL lead the way in that way
Surfing of all sports like that's really special
It's your best place in the world, thanks
one more time for Stephanie Gilmore the greatest of all time breaking her own records and
Now taking a fifth title
Not too much has changed
Pretty much the same dorky little tomboy surfer girl is still smiling like too much. I
Was a great win. I felt awesome
It was so cool to see Chris win another one and Caroline and like he and such a wonderful world title race
It just felt good to beat all of them in one event. I loved it
You know, I didn't win the world title but it's still like an enjoyable
year, it's still an enjoyable time to be on tour and
Being around the events being around the girls
surfing great waves
That was really special
amazing end to the year
Masters if it is on my only motivations is trying in the top five and to do that
I'll find you know, at least a quarters or semis
Thank you, I came back home
This is like the offseason time every world surfing champion that ever came from Australia has spent a chunk of their life here
So many wonderful changes within our sport within the last few years. This is an amazing time finishing the year with a win
I really want to get the top five whatever it takes to get the top five
Locked in deep. Is he still rolling through this one?
