Red Bull team surf Mark Richards Pipe Weapon

The Red Bull project air is all about the development of new school surfing, namely the so exciting aerial.
But on that day, the elite team was about to receive a very special challenge: To surf the Mark Richards 1978 Pipe weapon.
And so, the world champ Mick Fanning, Jordy Smith, Sofia Mulanovich, Julian Wilson, Michel Bourez and Sally Fitzgibbons had their history lesson, back to the roots of competitive surfing, when Mark Richards was world champ with Lightning Bolt. The single-fin replicas are a symbolic, tactile reference to the origins and “from there you have a base to build an innovative performance” said Andy Walshe, Red Bull’s high performance director.