{"id":114894,"date":"2016-02-02T07:53:22","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T14:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=114894"},"modified":"2016-02-02T07:53:22","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T14:53:22","slug":"surf-video-day-2-highlights-2016-volcom-pipe-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=114894","title":{"rendered":"Surf Video &#8211; Day 2 Highlights &#8211; 2016 Volcom Pipe Pro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Banzai Pipeline, North Shore, Oahu, HAWAII \u2013 (Monday, February 1, 2016) &#8212; The best waves of the winter graced Pipeline for the Volcom Pipe Pro today, a World Surf League (WSL) Qualifying Series (QS) 3,000 rated event with a $100,000 prize purse, up to 3,000 valuable ratings points on offer and qualification into December\u2019s Pipe Invitational.<\/p>\n<p>North Shore favorite and defending event champion John John Florence (HAW) posted the highest heat total of the day, a near perfect 18.84 for two cavernous Pipe waves. The 23-year-old competed against fellow Hawaii surfer Eala Stewart, New York\u2019s Balaram Stack and Italy\u2019s Leonardo Fioravanti.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a really fun heat, I\u2019ve been excited to watch it all day,\u201d said Florence.\u201d It\u2019s been slowly picking up since this morning, conditions are incredible. The whole day I was just like, \u2018please stay the same, please stay the same.\u2019 Still light offshores, big, beautiful sunny barrels.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kelly Slater (USA) had a tough heat against Chris Ward (USA), Gavin Beschen (HAW) and Yago Dora (BRA), but made it through to the fourth round in second place behind Wardo. The 11-time World Champion won the Volcom Pipe Pro in 2014 and is eager for another shot at victory in the primer conditions.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Sh4dJay2S3I?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Banzai Pipeline, North Shore, Oahu, HAWAII \u2013 (Monday, February 1, 2016) &#8212; The best waves of the winter graced Pipeline for the Volcom Pipe Pro today, a World Surf League (WSL) Qualifying Series (QS) 3,000 rated event with a $100,000 prize purse, up to 3,000 valuable ratings points on offer and qualification into December\u2019s Pipe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surf","category-video-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114895,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114894\/revisions\/114895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}