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Kanoa Igarashi and Steph Gilmore Give Us a Look at Life Inside The World Tour Pressure Cooker

Stephanie Gilmore and Kanoa Igarashi are two of the best surfers in the world. They thrive in high-pressure situations.

Professional surfing has changed a lot in the last decade or so. No longer is it a bunch of people surfing hard and partying harder. Now, professional surfers are athletes who train for their sport. There’s real money to be made. They are superstars. In Red Bull’s All In series, the camera follows some of the best surfers in the world. This time, it’s Kanoa Igarashi and Stephanie Gilmore. The piece looks at the last few months of the 2019 WSL season, where “ultra-competitive athletes battle it out contest to contest, balancing their personal lives with the professional demands of competing at the highest levels.”