Kai Lenny, Nathan Florence Surf First-Ever Tandem Tube at Jaws (Video)

Surfers, when it comes to waves, typically don’t like to share. Unless it’s a party wave, or a local legend graciously calling in a grom on the set of the day, most surfers want as many waves as possible, and primarily all to themselves. Selfish? Probably.

Guess most surfers weren’t listening when their parents or elders were instilling the basic principles of generosity and charity during the toddler years.

But occasionally, there’s some novelty opportunities in which two or more surfers get together, willingly, on the same wave to share something special. Like, for example, when brothers Kai and Ridge Lenny surfed – what they called at the time – the first-ever tandem tube at Jaws. But it turns out, that wasn’t the first; there’s more to the story.

A few years before Kai and Ridge shared the tube at Jaws – with Ridge on the GoPro behind Kai for the POV angle – Nathan Florence and Kai pulled it off first.

“The first double barrel I got with anyone out at Jaws was with Nathan Florence on this super stormy day,” recalls Kai in the video above. “Nathan never tow surfs. And that’s the fun part. He rocks up with this tow board, and the foot straps are all janky. Nothing is put on right.”

As for Nate:

“Kai had called me one time a few years ago, saying, ‘Come tow Jaws!’ I had never done anything like that, and I just saw a glimpse into how fun it could be.”

Nate, famously, does not tow surf…ever. Hence, the whole ethos behind his self-proclaimed “Slab Tour” – a globetrotting search for the heaviest, meanest, scariest waves to paddle. But for this instance, Kai convinced him. And they went for the double tube.

“We started towing in on the same waves,” said Kai. “He’s just the barrel wizard. So, he was in front of me, and he started fading, and fading. The only regret from that wave was not having a GoPro. That would’ve been insane.”

Then, of course, Kai pulled it off again with Ridge…with the GoPro.

“That was probably the best moment we’ve ever shared together,” said Ridge.