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Topic: Banzai Pipeline


In the News (Sun 29 Nov 09)

  
  Pipeline - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pipeline (computer), a chain of data-processing stages or a CPU optimization found on modern processors
Banzai Pipeline, a surfing spot on the North Shore of Oahu
Pipeline, a 1963 song by surf rock band The Chantays, also recorded by Johnny Thunders, Hank Marvin, and The Ventures.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pipeline   (202 words)

  
 Banzai Pipeline - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Banzai Pipeline, or simply "Pipeline" or "Pipe", is a surf reef break located off Ehukai Beach Park in Pupukea of O`ahu's North Shore.
Pipeline is often called the world's deadliest wave, since more people have died there, or have been seriously injured, than at any other surf spot.
Among the many famous surfers to earn a reputation surfing the Pipeline are Butch Van Artsdalen, Gerry Lopez, Rory Russell, Shaun Tomson,Kane Quinn, Mark Richards, Michael Ho, Simon Anderson, Dane Kealoha, Tom Carroll, Gary Elkerton, Sunny Garcia, Kelly Slater and bodyboarder Mike Stewart.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Banzai_Pipeline   (365 words)

  
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For you ladies, forget Waikiki Beach because at Banzai Pipeline you'll find incredible hunks who can blow Brad Pitt out of the water, with their firm hardbodies and bulging muscles just waiting for you to enjoy.
For you men, you'll want to keep coming back to Banzai after seeing the half naked women who are 'Kristie Brinkley' look alikes with their thong bikinis, long hair, crystal colored eyes, and a body to make any man beg for mercy.
Banzai Pipeline is very much unlike Waikiki beach where the water is quite dirty, full of liter, and seaweed all over the shore.
www2.hawaii.edu /~turner/oahu/banzai.htm   (1454 words)

  
 Surfhistory.com - Great Waves: Pipeline, Oahu
Pipeline is located in the middle of a seven-mile stretch of coast on the North Shore of Oahu, Hawai'i.
Pipeline reacts quickly to changes in wind, swell, and sand build-up, and when conditions aren’t right the surf can get really ugly.
And while Pipeline has long been the most photographed wave in the world, featured on hundreds of magazine covers over the decades, the truth is it comes into peak form just a few times each season.
www.surfhistory.com /html/locations/pipeline.html   (336 words)

  
 RIP CURL PRO PIPELINE MASTERS
The Rip Curl Pro Pipeline Masters is the final jewel in the crown of the Vans Triple Crown of Surfing.
Staged at the famous and dangerous Banzai Pipeline, the Pipeline Masters will determine both the ASP World Surfing Champion and the Vans Triple Crown of Surfing Champion for 2005.
Banzai Pipeline is perhaps the most spectator friendly of all big-wave venues around the world.
calendar.gohawaii.com /eventDetail.atm?5184   (159 words)

  
 Skaterock - Features - Pipetruck - Don Redondo
It is a surfing spot on the north shore of Oahu Hawaii that is STILL known as one of the heaviest waves on earth.
First named the "Banzai Pipeline" by Mike Diffenderfer in the late 50's or early 60's; it used to be considered too gnarly to ride.
Pipeline was first recorded by the Chantays in the 60's and remains one of the all time classic surf songs.
www.skaterock.com /features/pipetruck.html   (734 words)

  
 Surfzilla vs. the Banzai Pipeline - Salon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
I went to cover the final Association of Surfing Professionals surf contest of the year at Pipeline, and six out of seven days I was there the sea was flat, flat, flat -- apart from a few puppy-ripples you might find on a 50-foot potato chip.
The ocean doesn't care that today is the Superbowl of surfing and it is the field; it says "ha ha ha ha" and rolls away to attack Venezuela where they don't want anything to do with it.
Slater reserved himself for choice surf events in '99, in which he competed as a "wild card." Naturally, he was there at Pipeline, lending star aura, being the big dog in the park.
dir.salon.com /story/people/col/cintra/2000/01/20/pipeline/print.xml   (999 words)

  
 First ever Women's Surfing Event at the Banzai Pipeline   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
For the past several years permits for Pipeline have been so tight that a women's event at Pipeline or any new surfing event seemed out of the question.
As unfortunate as it was that the WQS at Haleiwa was once again limited to WCT girls it may have been the push the women needed to get their Pipe permit from the city.
With a nickname like Banzai, you shouldn't have to ask if she surfed the Pipeline; she also pioneered places like Waimea, and Sunset Beach back in the late 70s and early 80s.
www.surfersvillage.com /news.asp?Id_news=15058&Region=-+Hawaii+News+-   (700 words)

  
 EXPN.com - Banzai Pipeline...Worth the Wait
Oahu's Banzai Pipeline lived up to its bone-rattling reputation today and all in good time for the start of the Xbox Pipeline Masters.
Legendary local Pipeline surfer Michael Ho, winner of the Pipeline Masters back in 1982 and a finalist 15 years later in '97, was the first casualty of the day.
The 2001 Xbox Pipeline Masters will be showcased on network television next weekend, airing on NBC sports on Sunday, December 23, 2001, at 3:00 p.m.
expn.go.com /srf/s/mastersfrstrnd.html   (1114 words)

  
 North Shore Hawaii: Banzai Pipeline (Ehukai beach park)- surf, sun, sea, visit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Banzai Pipeline is world famous for its tubular wave created where the shallow water and coral shelf combine to resemble pipes, thus giving this beach its name.
The phrase “Banzai” which is actually a Japanese word spelled Bonsai and meaning the art of growing dwarfed shaped trees in small shallow pots was given to this beach in 1961 when Bruce Brown, a famous surf cinematographer, shouted out "Banzai" as Phil Edwards took off on one of these barbarous waves.
Pipeline is THE wave every serious surfer wants to ride because it is the hardest.
www.northshore.com /visit/beach-pipeline.asp   (446 words)

  
 randall paulson surfing banzai pipeline pipe masters
You see he wants to win the Pipeline Masters at Banzai Pipeline this December (December 8-20, to be exact about it) so dearly, it's become his life's work.
So much so, that it would not be out of like to say Paulson has a love affair with the wave's kaleidoscope hue's of greens, blue and Krylon-white overspray."Pipeline's the most beautiful wave in the world," he declares, chin out.
So committed to his goals of becoming the main man with the master plan in the Pipeline, Paulson has purposely made moves, literally and figuratively, to better both himself and his surfing.
surfermag.com /features/onlineexclusives/randallppipeline   (838 words)

  
 2001 VANS TRIPLE CROWN OF SURFING
BANZAI PIPELINE, O'AHU, Hawai`i (September 18, 2001) -- A dramatic format change and record prize purse will lure the very best of the Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) Top 44 to challenge Pipeline’s elite for the title of world’s best tube rider at the $150,000 Xbox Gerry Lopez Pipeline Masters, December 8 to 21.
The final jewel in the 2001 Vans Triple Crown of Surfing‘, the Xbox Pipeline Masters is held at Hawaii’s famed North Shore big wave venue, Banzai Pipeline, and determines the Vans Triple Crown of Surfing Champion.
Even today, with adventurers exploring every break on every remote island on the globe, Pipeline is a surfers' Mecca, the proving grounds where the sports' greatest have soared to unseen new heights and also had their dreams pummeled in an explosion of whitewater on coral reef.
holoholo.org /triplecrown/tcs2001/index.html   (1239 words)

  
 Pro surfer dies at Banzai Pipeline - The Honolulu Advertiser - Hawaii's Newspaper
More than 50 people held hands in a circle on the beach at Banzai Pipeline after the death of professional surfer Malik Joyeux of Tahiti.
Malik Joyeux walked up the beach after finishing his trials in the Rip Curl Pro Pipeline Masters at the Banzai Pipeline last Dec. 8.
An internationally known professional surfer from Tahiti died yesterday morning after he wiped out on a wave at the popular Banzai Pipeline surf spot on the North Shore.
the.honoluluadvertiser.com /article/2005/Dec/03/ln/FP512030354.html   (827 words)

  
 Bud Light 14th Annual World Championship of Women's Bodyboarding sgmag.com
The Bud Light World Championship of Women's Bodyboarding is supported by Manta Bodyboards out of Australia and holds the distinctions of being the only women's competition at the famous Banzai Pipeline, the longest-running women's wave-sport event, and the first competition of its kind, which was created in 1990.
The waves at Pipeline on a west swell are ideally suited to this ancient ocean art form.
The Pipeline Bodysurfing Experience will showcase many of Hawaii's finest watermen and lifeguards displaying their wave knowledge and tube skills in the ultimate bodysurfing arena: Banzai Pipeline.
www.sgmag.com /surf/bud/index.html   (387 words)

  
 Malik Joyeux Tragedy Pipeline Hawaii
Tragedy struck again at the world’s deadliest surf spot this morning when Tahitian surfer Malik Joyeux was killed at Pipeline on Oahu’s North Shore.
Joyeux, 25, a well-liked goofyfoot who recently came to prominence charging the treacherous barrels at Teahupoo, was one of approximately 60 surfers in the lineup on a sunny, six-to eight-foot Friday morning.
At noon Hawaiian time, the shocked North Shore surf community formed an impromptu prayer circle on the beach at Pipeline in honor of their fallen Tahitian brother.
www.surfermag.com /features/onlineexclusives/malikrip   (891 words)

  
 WahineSurfing - Historic day as women surf alone at the Banzai Pipeline   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The T&C Surf Women's Pipeline Championship is the first ever stand-alone women's surfing and bodyboarding competition to be staged at Pipeline, and as a testament to the depth of talent available in the women's ranks, the age of competitors today ranged from 13 to 44.
The highest scorer of the bodyboard rounds was North Shore resident Claudia Ferrari, formerly of Brazil, and a stalwart of women's bodyboarding at Pipeline over the years.
The prize purse for the T&C Surf Women's Pipeline Championship is $4,000, to be divided up with $1,500 going to the short-board surfers, $1,500 to the bodyboarders, and $1,000 to the longboarders.
www.wahinesurfing.com /news.asp?Id_news=2381   (1389 words)

  
 Johnson rules waves at Banzai Pipeline - The Honolulu Advertiser - Hawaii's Newspaper
Johnson won the Kekaha Nalu Hanana 'O Ehukai bodysurfing contest yesterday at the Banzai Pipeline.
Johnson's best wave came in the closing minutes of his heat, when he successfully rode through a Pipeline barrel.
Johnson was raised near the Banzai Pipeline, and he still surfs there when the waves roll in.
the.honoluluadvertiser.com /article/2006/Mar/26/sp/FP603260360.html   (403 words)

  
 Irons, Slater master surf, advance at Banzai Pipeline - The Honolulu Advertiser - Hawaii's Newspaper
The first and second rounds were completed in 5- to 8-foot waves at the Banzai Pipeline.
Irons, who is also the defending Pipeline Masters champ, had to surf in the very first heat of the day.
The Pipeline Masters is also the final event in the Triple Crown series.
the.honoluluadvertiser.com /article/2003/Dec/14/sp/sp10a.html   (731 words)

  
 The Banzai Pipeline Tube Slide
Twin, translucent slides tower above the Kinderlund section of Schlitterbahn West marking the start of the Banzai Pipeline.
Riders bring their inner tubes to the top of the tower and get a brief bird eye's view of the park before dropping into one of two tunnel slides.
The Banzai Pipeline Tube Slide is located in the Kinderlund section of Schlitterbahn West near the Polywog Pond.
www.schlitterbahn.com /nb/attractions-banzaipipeline.asp   (146 words)

  
 R.I.P. Malik Joyeux from Tahiti dies at Banzai Pipeline
R.I.P. Malik Joyeux from Tahiti dies at Banzai Pipeline
Surfers said Joyeux had just caught a wave at Pipeline and was cheered on by his fellow surfers.
O surfista tahitiano Malik Joyeux, 25, faleceu nesta sexta-feira em Pipeline depois de cair numa onda.
www.globalsurfnews.com /news.asp?Id_news=19432   (1005 words)

  
 Banzai Pipeline by The Blue Hawaiians: Song Music Downloads
Sorry, at this time no downloads have been found for "Banzai Pipeline" on album Sway.
Sorry, at this time no streams have been found for "Banzai Pipeline" on album Sway.
Banzai Pipeline by The Blue Hawaiians: Song Music Downloads
www.mp3.com /tracks/2317001/dl_streams.html   (103 words)

  
 Ehukai Beach Park - The Banzai Pipeline
When you think of Ehukai Beach Park, the Banzai Pipeline comes to mind.
This beautiful tubed surfing break got its name in the late 1950s when Bruce Brown, a famous surf cinematographer, shouted out "Banzai" while narrating the film "Surf Surfari" as a surfer dropped in on a particularly vicious wave.
When it's "cranking," the surf, besides being the most spectacular in the world, can also be the most dangerous.
www.aloha.com /~lifeguards/ehukai.html   (314 words)

  
 Haleiwa Vacation Rentals in Hawaii-Oahu - North Shore Beachfront Steps from Banzai Pipeline from Vacation Homes.com
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If you are interested in "North Shore Beachfront Steps from Banzai Pipeline", a Haleiwa Villa / Home, click here to send them an email.
vacationhomes.com /21744   (580 words)

  
 Surfing in Oahu - Surf Oahu's Banzai Pipeline
Just west of Ehukai Beach Park; here you'll find the much celebrated Banzai Pipeline, a spot where the shallow water and coral shelf combine to create powerful tubular waves that resemble pipes, thus giving the place its name.
When the surf is calm, this stretch of beach can be good for swimming.
The Pipeline at full strength is unforgiving, even for the pros.
away.com /tripideas/haleiwa-hawaii-surfing-301129.html   (226 words)

  
 Historic day as women surf alone at the Banzai Pipeline....
The TandC Surf Women's Pipeline Championship made its foray today with an overwhelming turnout of 96 surfers from nine countries partaking in this historic event.
The TandC Surf Women's Pipeline Championship is the first ever stand-alone women's surfing and bodyboarding competition to be staged at Pipeline, and as a testament to the depth of talent available in the women's ranks, the age of competitors today ranged from 13 to 44.
The prize purse for the TandC Surf Women's Pipeline Championship is $4,000, to be divided up with $1,500 going to the short-board surfers, $1,500 to the bodyboarders, and $1,000 to the longboarders.
www.globalsurfnews.com /news.asp?Id_news=15970   (1407 words)

  
 SurferMag Message Boards: Monster Energy Pro at the Banzai Pipeline, Hawaii   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Monster Energy provides consumers seeking a boost of energy to fuel their active lifestyle with a proprietary blend of vitamins, herbs and amino acids that packs a vicious punch with a smooth flavor that's easy to pound down.
In addition to world-class surfing action, this year’s Monster Energy Pro will also feature a variety of additional events including a traditional opening ceremony as well as live music and entertainment throughout the contest dates.
Last year, the event enjoyed perfect, barreling rides in the range of 8-12 feet, showcasing world-class talent at the world’s premier surf location.
forum.surfermag.com /forum/showflat.php?Number=905044   (795 words)

  
 Top20Surfing.com - Your Top20 Guide for Surfing!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Hawaii is probably the most famous surfing mecca that exists, every year thousands upon thousands of surfers make the trip to pay respect to the birthplace of surfing.
The North Shore of Oahu is home to perhaps the best stretch of surfing waves in the world, including Sunset Beach, Waimea Bay, and the world's most renowned and revered wave, "Pipeline" (or "Banzai Pipeline"), so named for the yawning chasms it regularly hurls over the heads of awe-struck surfers.
The eastern central coast of Florida, particularly Brevard County, is renowned as the "small wave surfing capital of the world," and is home to such surfing luminaries as Kelly Slater, Todd Holland, and Matt Kechele.
www.top20surfing.com   (2375 words)

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