For three days in a row last week, Backdoor Pipeline was the worldwide epicenter for high performance barrel riding. Check out John John, Sunny, Joel Centeio, Archy, Kekoa Bacalso, Torrey Meister, and more duke it out in the best Backdoor of the season.

Day two at Pipe sees Dusty Payne requalify for the World Tour in dramatic fashion, Slater dominate, and Parko bow out. More photos and highlight video soon...

The waiting period to the first annual www.insurfnews.com's “Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is” Backdoor Challenge has come to a close... vote for a winner here!

Alex Gray's cover raises a question we deal with every month, can you put a closeout—or a maneuver that wasn't pulled off—on the cover? It's taboo in skateboarding circles, but what about surf?

On top of the cash prize and the bragging rights as the ultimate backside Backdoor surfer, the winner will now receive an original Clark Takashima painting of the winning wave...

Just after the Pipe Masters finished for the day, Bruce Irons paddles out and shows everyone who the boss is.

While I'm biased 'cuz I'm a goofyfoot, insurfnews.com's "Backdoor Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is" backside tube riding contest is the coolest thing I've seen in a long time!

"I began to paddle as fast as I could and was able to duck dive the first one but the second one was a bomb—at least 10 foot Hawaiian and doubling up. I paddled to it my fastest and ditched my board at the last second but it was like 6 ft deep so there was no escape from hitting the reef..."