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- Hey, I'm Lauren.

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I'm the senior editor
at Jezebel and I am here

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with Maluhia Kinimaka, Moana
Jones, and Brianna Cope.

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- Whoo-hoo.

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- Three of the stars of
the upcoming Prime series

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"Surfer Girls Hawaii."

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Is it okay to say this is like
the real life "Blue Crush"?

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- Yeah.
- Yeah.

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- Guaranteed?
- "Blue Crush" 2.0.

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- I mean, literally.
- We truly are actually.

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- Okay, so the one thing,
the one "Blue Crush" parallel

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that blew my mind is the rock training.

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- Oh, yeah.
- Oh, yeah.

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- So that's real, and that's
something you guys really do.

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- And there's like
different ways to do it.

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You can do it like with rocks,

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you can do it like pulled training.

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There's like so many ways
to train underwater now.

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- So you literally take a giant rock

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and just stick it to the bottom and walk?

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- If you do big waves,
it's like really important

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that you have a good breath hold

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because you'll probably get smoked

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and you'll be under the water for like-

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- Definitely, definitely.

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You've all surfed pipe, right?

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- Mm-hmm.
- Yeah.

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- Do you guys each have like
a first memory of doing it?

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- The first time I ever went out to pipe,

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I like didn't want to go out
'cause it looked really scary

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and it was really small.

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It was only like two to three feet

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and I went out there, and on
my first wave I dropped in

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and just like wiped
out super badly for me.

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- I think the first
time I ever surfed pipe,

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it was like for a girl's
junior pro contest,

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and myself and then my
friend Tatiana Weston-Webb

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who's on the tour, we're standing waiting

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to go surf our heat and the
girls in the previous heat

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had gotten on the jet ski

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to get like a lifeguard assist back out.

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- I remember this.

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- And it was like maybe 10...

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You think it was six foot?

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(group indistinctly chattering)

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- It was a straight closeout.

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- Yeah, it was a straight closeout.

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- It was bad. Like, it wasn't a real pipe.

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It was just like this weird-

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- Yeah.
- It was so scary.

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Tati and I, we were waiting on the beach

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and we saw the jet ski go up,
try to make it over a wave

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and then just flip backwards.

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- With all the people on it.

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- With all the girls on it.

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- Obviously, you all touched on this

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a little bit in the series

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just about the mental toughness of surfing

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and I think it really
shows throughout the series

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how you're out there alone,

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you have to like anticipate the waves,

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you're in competition with yourself,

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but you're in competition with everyone,

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but you're trying not
to focus on everyone.

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Like, how do you even stay
calm in that situation?

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- For me, I think like meditation

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and just like trying to focus on myself

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and like do deep breathing

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'cause there's so much things going on.

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And like when you go into the water,

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you want that connection
with you in the water

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and not like you and like your coaches

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and you and all the people.

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You really want to feel like at peace,

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and that's a big thing
for me what I try to do.

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- When I try to like deep
breathe, I start to like gag.

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(group laughing)

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- Also, another thing I kept
thinking throughout the series

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is what do you guys do to unwind?

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Because I go to the beach
(chuckles) when I need to relax.

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- [Brianna] That's what we do too.

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- You go to the beach.
- Yeah.

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- I surf.
- Calm.

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It's very calming.

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- I think that's why we all still surf.

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Because I think if I didn't have surfing,

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I would be as crazy as Moana.

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- Mm-hmm.

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- It's my favorite place.

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I could be in there for like nine hours

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and like be so much happier in the ocean

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just like than being on land.

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Like, I get like anxiety

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if it's been too long that I haven't surf.

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- Wow okay, so you don't
do anything, go anywhere.

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It's just the ocean.

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- We're just the ocean.
We never leave guys.

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This is a rare sighting.

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- Yeah, we like anything
in the ocean pretty much.

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Like snorkeling, like fishing,

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- Diving.
- like diving.

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Pretty much anything that involves

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- Like being in the water.
- Like being in the ocean

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makes us like unwind.

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- What do you want people to take away

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about the sport of
surfing from this series?

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- I hope that people
get to learn that like

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about the cultural roots of surfing

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and learn more about the
identity of the people

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and the women who are descended

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from those that created the sport.

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- That's like what we all
hope and like get to see

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how surfing brought us all together.

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- Yeah, and how surfing is like more of...

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It's like way more to
us than just a sport.

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It's like we don't look at surfing like,

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"Oh, that's our sport, that's our career."

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- It's our lifestyle.

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- Yeah.
- It's lifestyle.

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♪ I'm going for the goal ♪

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♪ Got the world on my shoulders ♪

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