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 ...

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 ...