5 Things You Won't Ever Do on the North Shore

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Anyone can hop an airplane to Waikiki, rent a car and drive to the Country to surf the North Shore. Once there anyone can cruise Foodland, walk the beach right of ways, and watch Pipe, Sunset and the Bay do its thing. All of us can do a lot of things while visiting the North Shore, actually feeling like a real surfer while we're there.

But are we even close? Here are five things most of us won't ever experience on the North Shore….

Surf Legitimate Pipeline/Waimea/Sunset
Sure we can all paddle out and catch a few six-foot bombs at Inside Sunset, and maybe even cruise the 4-6 foot days at Pipe/Backdoor/OTW, but we ain’t surfing real Pipeline or the Bay or Sunset the way it’s supposed to be surfed during a pumping swell. Good news is there’s no harm in mind surfing it, something most of us do pretty damn well.

Stay at the Volcom Pipe House
This is the castle above all castles and unless you’re surfing royalty, it’s highly doubtful any of us will score a suite, a room, the basement or even the living room floor. Would be even tougher to pitch a tent in the yard. This house is the best house in the history of ever, and unless you’re part of the crew, or know one of da caretakers like your own brother, you can always walk the right of way and dream about how cool it would be to wake up and have a cup of coffee with Alex Grey and the Kauai boys.

Live Off the Land
Yeah the boys camped in the bushes back in the day, and ate fish from the sea, and surfed their hearts out. But it just can’t be done now. If any of us tried sleeping on the beach today we'd get kicked out and arrested if not simply slapped or robbed of all one's belongings. It just isn’t happening-you're gonna have to fork over some dough!

Win a World Title at Pipe
This is the difference between the pros and the rest of us. You’re in Hawaii and you win the World Title just before Christmas! It’s happened to only a few surfers in the history of the sport, enough that you can probably count them on one hand if not two. Can’t even imagine what that would be like or how it would feel to be the best surfer in the world and none of us will ever know.

Scrap or Luau with the Hui O He’e Nalu
Truth is, if you are smart enough to read this and I'm smart enough to type, then we're all smart enough to know how not to get slapped while surfing the North Shore. It’s as easy as ABC's and 123's … it's basic: we respect the locals and they show us respect back by getting all the best waves.

After thought … here's where it gets weird. If I (and the rest of you!!) haven’t ever scrapped with the Hui or lived off the land or stayed at the Pipe House or surfed macking Pipe/Waimea/Sunset, can we even call ourselves real surfers? I'm not so sure … all I know is all this time I thought I was pretty badass surfing Pinballs. —-SKIP SNEAD


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Anyone can hop an airplane to Waikiki, rent a car and drive to the Country to surf the North Shore. Once there anyone can cruise Foodland, walk the beach right of ways, and watch Pipe, Sunset and the Bay do its thing. All of us can do a lot of things while visiting the North Shore, actually feeling like a real surfer while we're there.

But are we even close? Here are five things most of us won't ever experience on the North Shore….

Surf Legitimate Pipeline/Waimea/Sunset
Sure we can all paddle out and catch a few six-foot bombs at Inside Sunset, and maybe even cruise the 4-6 foot days at Pipe/Backdoor/OTW, but we ain’t surfing real Pipeline or the Bay or Sunset the way it’s supposed to be surfed during a pumping swell. Good news is there’s no harm in mind surfing it, something most of us do pretty damn well.

Stay at the Volcom Pipe House
This is the castle above all castles and unless you’re surfing royalty, it’s highly doubtful any of us will score a suite, a room, the basement or even the living room floor. Would be even tougher to pitch a tent in the yard. This house is the best house in the history of ever, and unless you’re part of the crew, or know one of da caretakers like your own brother, you can always walk the right of way and dream about how cool it would be to wake up and have a cup of coffee with Alex Grey and the Kauai boys.

Live Off the Land
Yeah the boys camped in the bushes back in the day, and ate fish from the sea, and surfed their hearts out. But it just can’t be done now. If any of us tried sleeping on the beach today we'd get kicked out and arrested if not simply slapped or robbed of all one's belongings. It just isn’t happening-you're gonna have to fork over some dough!

Win a World Title at Pipe
This is the difference between the pros and the rest of us. You’re in Hawaii and you win the World Title just before Christmas! It’s happened to only a few surfers in the history of the sport, enough that you can probably count them on one hand if not two. Can’t even imagine what that would be like or how it would feel to be the best surfer in the world and none of us will ever know.

Scrap or Luau with the Hui O He’e Nalu
Truth is, if you are smart enough to read this and I'm smart enough to type, then we're all smart enough to know how not to get slapped while surfing the North Shore. It’s as easy as ABC's and 123's … it's basic: we respect the locals and they show us respect back by getting all the best waves.

After thought … here's where it gets weird. If I (and the rest of you!!) haven’t ever scrapped with the Hui or lived off the land or stayed at the Pipe House or surfed macking Pipe/Waimea/Sunset, can we even call ourselves real surfers? I'm not so sure … all I know is all this time I thought I was pretty badass surfing Pinballs. —-SKIP SNEAD

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