With less than week to go until the waiting period of the Billabong Pipe Masters, all eyes are fixed on the charts. Will the World Title showdown get swell befitting the occasion?

Take in every frame of this super critical under the lip take-off John John made at Pipe last weekend.

Fins-free down the face and then small tweaks in direction to thread one from deep inside the pack.

This Friday the North Shore will see a large groundswell out of the NW which should produce solid 10 foot sets at exposed reefs. Not only this, the swell is likely to move accumulated sand off the reef at Pipe in readiness for the Pipeline Masters.