Last Thursday morning, at around 7am Tahiti time, an amazing thing happened: The Olympic flame arrived in Teahupoo. It will now travel 12,000 miles to the other side of the planet in its now famous ...
The surf at the Tokyo Olympics was unremarkable at best, with conditions that could be described as unpredictable slosh. It was nearly impossible for competitors to show the kind of awe-inspiring ...
The best surfers dream of waves that are almost, but not quite, unsurfable. The glorious and notorious Teahupo’o can be that kind of wave, thundering just off the coast of Tahiti in French Polynesia.
Ten years ago, in their very first year of running the tour, the World Surf League was given an amazing gift. A crazy jaw-dropping day of ten foot Teahupoo, with Kelly, Gabriel, John John, and a ...
As the Olympics get going in earnest this week, not everyone’s attention is focused on host city Paris. Surf fans are heading to Tahiti, half a world away in French Polynesia. Why? Well, apart from ...
For the surfers ready to take on the beautiful, beastly wave called Teahupo’o, riding inside the deep barrel could mean the thrill of their life – or a dangerous dance with disaster. Top competitive ...