Presents Capi Bar - Video and story by Juani Gayol 

The forecast called for a good swell, which magically falls on a holiday for Australians, as it does in South America on Easter Friday. It predicted a tremendous swell generated by a storm in the middle of the ocean.

That day, Waxhead, Matt, texted me to come film in the morning. We got up at 5:30, I met up with him, we checked out the waves; they were huge but kind of choppy, and we went to this beach and there were some great tubes.

The first thing I did when I got down to the beach was tell him, "This looks like Pipeline." And I asked him if it was usually like this, and he said no, that the banks had been bad in recent years but now they'd formed again and looked incredible.

My first impression when I saw her roll was that she looked just like Pipe.

And that's where the whole show began.

When we arrived there was no one in the water, some were just getting in and we saw that even in the videos circulating, even Joel Tudor comments that if they didn't say it was Sydney he would have thought it was Pipe and so on.

It was heavy and there was a lot of current to get in. Those who entered had to endure some serious guillotines to the head, and many bounced, obviously. There weren't as many crowds because the waves were very heavy, and at the peak of the crowd, there were between 15 and 20 people in the water.

That's when I started filming with the drone because there was a lot of backlighting from the sunrise; that's what with the offshore winds and how it brushed the waves and left all the water in the air. With the sun in your face, you couldn't see anything.

That's why I flew the drone so you could see the wave. There I was able to catch Kobi Clements' wave, which was insane, and a couple more barrels.

And more so mid-morning, when my drone battery ran out and the sun was a little better, I looked for a better angle and started filming, and I caught a few more tubes. That's when I caught Jordy's, who'd had several good ones before, but that was the best of the morning; everyone thought he wasn't going to make it. A giant one came down, a whole section fell in front of him, chased him, covered him, and when he came up, everyone on the beach screamed like crazy.

It was a magical morning for Sydney and I dare say it was the most magical morning of the year and of several years in Sydney, according to what the locals say.

The show off the beach was incredible because it was vacation time, so everyone was with their kids watching the swell, which was a spectacle. People were screaming like crazy, and the amount of sticks they threw was incredible; that also raised the screams of the entire audience.

It was a very good experience, and the truth is that I feel fortunate for the timing of my arrival in Sydney, having caught that swell and recorded it and generated all the content I generated.

It was incredible for me, it was like starting off on the right foot in this new experience in Australia.