Boys are at Pipe, women are at Maui… historically, the women haven’t been allowed to have a permit at Pipe.”
Wright, often combative, is curiously tranquil here, eyes with a new placid look, sheepish even, although she lights up when it comes to men etc. Tyler Wright is the hub upon which the episode revolves. In the first episode of the seven-part Apple TV series Make or Break, we are transported back to December 2020, to the commencement of the 2021 tour. Mikey? Hot and salty and greasy (like a sunbathing German) and a sometime wildcard.Īnd, all three of ‘em swindled for a total of $1.5 million after a family friend turned bookkeeper salted agambling addiction with the storied surfers’ cash. Owen? Returns from a catastrophic brain injury, bleeding on the brain, paralysis and (temporary) inability to speak to win his first event back on tour one year later and return to his normal position as a world title contender, although this year’s mid-year cut is proving troublesome.
There is no more compelling story within pro surfing than the Wright family.Įven the most cursory examination reveals myriad story lines: the two-time world champ Tyler who won a tour event at fourteen, qualified at sixteen and who threw it in briefly before returning to the tour and carving and plating her two titles. Personally, as an individual, no, I don’t want to go and surf Pipe."