“If it’s not the right time, it’s just not going to happen,” says timeless Hawaiian style icon Gerry Lopez, who shaped surfing even more than he shaped surfboards (and that was a lot). Lopez ...

An open mind is what led Mr. Gerry Lopez—rather, Mr. Pipeline—into a career in surfing. He wasn’t ambitious so much at the start as he was plainly curious. Surfing, at least in Hawaii, at the time he ...

Editor's Note: This is the fifth installment of an ongoing series illuminating a number of pearls of wisdom from the great Gerry Lopez. It’s easy to identify yoga or yogic principles in many ...

Here’s a not-so-bold, not-in-the-least-bit-farfetched claim: Gerry Lopez is one of, if not the, most barreled surfers on earth. From the North Shore of Oahu (and Pipeline, of which he is the absolute ...

Editor's Note: This is the fourth installment of an ongoing series illuminating a number of pearls of wisdom from the great Gerry Lopez. “I’ve really come to believe that, especially in this day and ...

Discuss the matter and state of surf shops with a surfer of Gerry Lopez’s stature and tenure–a shop owner himself between 1970 and 1980–and you might find yourself wondering, like me, whether it isn’t ...

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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- On Saturday at Mt. Bachelor, the 13th annual Gerry Lopez Big Wave Challenge was in full swing, combining surf and snow on the slopes. KTVZ News was on hand for a beautiful day on ...

Free and welcome as Mr. Pipeline is with (and on behalf of) the surfing community at large, he admits his transgressions in exposing spots, and professes lessons learned therein. Primarily: Keep your ...

During a conversation with Gerry Lopez earlier this year, he confided in me that he’d recently taken up foiling, and that it may well be his single worst aquatic endeavor to date. At one point during ...