Surfers around the world have long held Tahiti close to their hearts. Not only is the Polynesian island nation home to one of surfing’s most beautiful cultures, it also houses one of surfing’s most famous, feared and intimidating waves. Ever since the mind blowing 1998 Gotcha Pro first put Teahupo’o on the map surfers have been fascinated with the ferocious reef break known as “The Wall Of Skulls”. As well as an endless competition highlight reel some of the greatest waves of the past 25 years have been ridden in Tahiti, powered by both paddle and PWC.
In 2024 Teahupo’o will be thrust into the wider global sporting spotlight, after France declared the notorious South Pacific reef pass would become the host surfing venue. Not only will the eyes of the world be focussed on the incredible beauty above and below sea level, but on the people and the way of life that make Tahiti so special. If conditions collude next August the images will be beamed around the world, and the tiny town could change forever.
In the latest episode of No Contest, host Ashton Goggans makes the trans-Pacific pilgrimage to Teahupo’o, the little fishing village that punches above its weight in surfing circles, to run a microscope over the impact the Games will have on this patch of paradise. After touching down in Papeete he connects with modern surfing powerhouses Kauli Vaast, Michel Bourez, Vahine Fierro and Eimeo Czermak, meets the man who can lay claim to first surfing at The End Of The Road, local “Godfather” Peva Levy, and connects with two of the area's favourite modern hosts, Tereva David and Tahurai Henry, to tap into the mana of the islands and find out what makes Tahiti tick.
This special episode of No Contest comes at an important time in the life of one of surfing’s most special corners. We hope you enjoy watching the show as much as we enjoyed pulling it together.
If you enjoy the episode above then you'll love this exclusive interview with headline act Michel Bourez: win.gs/3uQKRcv
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It’s horrible that the Olympics is going to ruin the coral reef building a new spectacular tower which can compromise the famous wave
The Olympics is a horrible, ruinous proposition for any community, it's why we fought it for years here in Boston, USA. Power to the Tahitians for fighting that development.
How are they allowed to do that?
I saw am article saying that they are now using a cruise ship which will not be near the bay either to preserve it.
No its not
I know, I was just commenting on a similar thought. These villages tend to disappear, there’s a reason locals sometimes try to keep these places “secret.”
I’m glad he’s a strong minded person and will not sell any piece of his land. That land is priceless.
No mention of Mike Stewart and Ben Seversen being the first guys to surf there in the 80's
I was lucky enough to be part of the production crew for the 2012 contest. We had 3 lay days while we waited for the swell. Except for the fact that my wife wasn't with me, it was a wonderful time. Truly magical. The valley, the waterfall, the reef, and most of all the people. So friendly and welcoming. So great.
Thank you for an amazing documentary! ❤
A Fantastic untouched village. Always be proud of it and stay that way 🙏🙏👍👍🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
Soo beautiful. I like to imagine that nearly anyone in the world who could live this life for a couple of years would perceive life in a way in which peace, brotherhood and love of nature become one's north star in a dramatically powerful way.
This channel has 🔥 content. Keep these coming!
Paradise, so glad the locals are keeping it that way. Enjoy!
You and Zeke together are freaking awesome!!
I really enjoyed this piece--conveying the spirit of Teahupoo in a harmony of lovely ambassadors.
I have been looking to go to French Polynesia in the next year and this was very insightful.
Good luck and respect to the locals for not allowing bebek to ruin their paradise.
@saveteahupoo Power to the Tahitians for fighting the making of a new tower on the reef
Yeah, it would be a sane decision since it wouldn't hamper the judges work.
Teahupo'o / thank you for sharing/ it's a village that has ❤/spirit
Definitely does!
Produce directed, and Director of photography was spot on for this doc. Cheers to the crew for the wonderful work. 🙌🏼🤘🏼
RESPECT 💙
Been to the islands in 2012. Magic.
Never Let Developers Ruin Your Paradise
Tahiti, My number one Bucket List
Excellent video thanx
Places like this stay the same when people from other cultures don't exploit their culture for own personal benefits and treat other travelers like they were there first
Yes. Keep Teahupoo. Teahupoo.....🤙🤙🤙
I remember when I first met Poto thru Johnny boy , he told us about his home break . I could see him just going through some heavy barrels! Very powerful surfer.
Excellent production
Thank you folks for the great video! I love pristine Moorea & the wonderful people! Aloha ke Akua, Michèle On Oahu
I'm from the Pacific Islands of PALAU ! 🇵🇼 Awesome video !!! 👏 👏 👏 💯
Let them go somewhere else leave this piece of surf heaven alone Laird my heart goes out to you ❤
I paddled every morning at 5am to reach Haapiti. It was worth it. Got spooked by the odd shark fin passing right in front of my board.
Good video, and good waves.
Of course the Olympics would want to do that to such a beautiful place
Beautiful
If you go to Tahiti, make sure you get down to Teahupoo and be one of those people watching, and hooping and hollering from the shoulder (assuming like me you have no intention to surf it!). It's a fairly long drive but if there's a swell I guarantee you will have a moment that will stay with you for the rest of your life. The most exciting and beautiful place I have ever been to. The people are so nice too! 😃Everyone is so nice to each other while jostling for position in the most polite way possible.😃
There are some places in Nature that should not be fkt with. They deserve our reverence and respect...not commercialism. Why in the heck they would want to hold giant spectator events at a special place like 'chopes is beyond me. Want to charge big surf for the Olympics, take it somewhere already messed up. Only my opinion for what it's worth. Surfing for 15yrs shaped my life and soul. Landlocked and 76yo, I relive favorite waves and places everyday. Peace out to all my water brothers and sisters. May everyday be hollow, overhead, and shark-free. Love to all. Peace.
The sirens of da island be calling me hard to come heal out der bruh
the locals rip, and were very nice to me. i paddle into some heavy stuff, chopes is scary if it huge and the pack is sitting deeper pushing the limits
Forgot to mention Mike Stewart and friends that first rode the place in the 80s🤥
French Polynesia is nothing but amazing, great people, culture and nature, and coming from Hawaii it just feels like home... I will be back soon I'Orana!
Lets hope it stays undeveloped and that pure looking Tahitian Polynesian people retain their culture and identity and don’t sell out to be displaced by foreign blow in’s and multiculturalism and interbreeding.
Great video. What's with the weird English subtitles? The interviewees are speaking English but the subtitles don't match what they are saying. It isn't a voice recognition thing, the subtitles rephrase what they say, which seems kind of messed up.
Are all forgetting about Poto Vetea David... Junior World Champion.... pro surfer No disrespect to Michel he rips and has been a success pro surfer but Vetea carved the way for guy like Michel.....
A 5 million dollar judging tower........... I mean talk about overkill. who is coming to judge? King Charles? Drone tech is off the charts now. whats wrong with using them and just have the judges on the shore with wicked Ultra 4k screens around
Jobs…
Seems to be a pattern with the surf tour and developers. The WSL could go away and the brands can pay for their own contests.
That was a good watch eh
💪💪💪
Thorouly enjoy this one
Moorea is so sick
Wicked video
You sound literally identical to Warren Miller's son- wild tbh
Its crazy this surfers start surfing in teahpoo at like 12-15
Tay ah who poe oh, though locals seem to ignore the second o
Merci RedBull 🙏
This place is one of the most beautifull in the world, and Olympic games will destroy it ...
It's Tey-ah-who-poh-oh.Aloha
Best thing in the world, don't allow the corporate world to come in and ruin everything.
Mauruuru Roa,Team Coquí Bodyboarders in the house
Thanks for watching DIRT with Josh Rosen
If he owns it, why is he letting the Olympics ruin it with a new reef-destroying mega tower?
The only thing this video fails to point out is how outrageously expensive everything is for mere mortals like most of us , the ones that don't surf professionally, don't have sponsors or connections on the island,and have to pay for a surf trip that requires some very deep pockets ...
They do point it out, and also make a point out of explaining very correctly that this allows for people to earn good wages. Everyone who travels to low cost countries and praises how cheap they are should be aware that these low prices are big part of how the low income levels (read: poverty) are sustained.
That's probably also part of what keeps Tahiti from becoming Bali..
Which is why Teahupoo might keep it's charm, and it's eco system..................
That’s probably what preserves the place. If you want to wreck something good , share it!
No Olympics Tahiti !!!
thank you for the correct pronunciation, most say "choo-poo" which means soup lul
What a lance Burkhardt type of thing to do
Always thought it was pronounced chopooh? Howd that happen?
It's still tchopoo
Time for future entrepreneurs to start new companies.
U know Maui n Papeete are related Brother and Sister ❗Maui is the Man ,, Papeete is the Sister of MAUI 💯 There are alot more connections 🌬 than we know ⛰🏔.. Kauli rips but 2 me Matahi iz da Man Frkn Chargez Ballz Out 🤯
Mike Stewart???
Moore a is Home!
Why is surfing even in the Olympics in the first time 😂
They speak English, French and Tahitian. They speak better English than we fo in Hawaii. In Hawaii we just speak pidgin broken English.
Nobody owns the ocean..The Ocean Owns You!
To bad it's about to be steam rolled by the Olympic games
These people pay obscene amounts of taxes, and the state wont let them protect their own property? Thats a shame.
For foreigners, its not pronounced Cho-pu, its 2023 stop being ignorant
Oro is the true owner
Why hasn’t Red Bull sponsored Nathan Florence yet?🤔
It’s pronounced Cho-poo
That is a pronunciation he left off, but you hear the island native calling it Teahupoo
Yes the wave is unique but it's expensive and polynesian know than people don't have the choice to pay... Business is business even in a paradise place.
This guy is not right this place got his first fame win Laird Hamilton surfed it for the first time nobody had served it before him that was known he was going through a divorce. There’s a big article on it. 25 years ago.
Iaorana
The Olympics has zero business coming in such a tight magical protected community. Shame on France as usual..
Cette communauté, c'est aussi la France, en plus coup tu dis n'importe quoi, le projet a été changé.
Tahiti est Tahiti. Rien avoir avec ta France de bouseux. Rien n a change pour le moment et degage de la avec ta tour en ferraille de macaque
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Bruno Santos ,em 2008,passou a triagem e ganhou o Campeonato em um mar gigante 🌊⚡️
american plan is: 3 cups of coffee everyday. european plan is: 2 cups of tea everyday. So TAHITIAN plan is: No Tea No Coffee No Day. No Way Go Away.
No truer advice on money,saying it's like sand picking up rocks and saying the land is always there. I think men get this
Wasn't it AzHiAziAm that coined Code Red?
Tiahoopou? Tf
The local riders on here “make this wave look easy” is an understatement. I hope this village stays the same, unfortunately these beautiful places tend to disappear when kooks put them on KZhead.
Half the surfers at the Olympics won’t even be able to surf chopes if it gets big, I bet they hold the female division in 3-4ft🤔
Come on, Teahupoo isn't like in the Code Red video everyday, and we're talking about good surfers, not beginners.
@@kornofulgur bro half the Wsl surfers can’t even surf it well when it gets heavy and on the Girls side there maybe half a doz at a push. Both times I’ve surfed it it’s scared the #@#@ out of me and I consider myself pretty confident in heavy water having grown up on the north shore🤷🏽♂️
This is a video about selfishness and ownership of nature, humans aren’t custodians of this land, they’re just inhabitants
Theo po was made FAMOUS from boogers.....
its hard for local surfers growing up, there's no beachies and like 3 learner waves 15km drives...... Shiit with French price!
Thats not how you you pronounce the name of the break. Come'on man
Except the native pronounced it Teahupoo also
The Olympics began as a way for nations to showcase their people and pride. What it has become is a corporate mess filled with bribes, leverage and corruption. The roots are still strong but the fruit it produces has become tainted.
Let's be honest about all this "we're keepin' it real". Nobody wants their favorite spot to get overrun. These guys have a lot of advantages when it comes to keeping out the kooks (and yet, there are other videos where the wave is overrun with tourists). Why even allow the Olympics to come? Look in the corner of the video - Red Bull sponsorship - yeah, we're making money, but we need to make more. How can we do that? "We're not in a poor country guys." What does that mean? We make enough to fly around the world when we feel like it? Marketing - nice promo video for Red Bull - selling a dream lifestyle to those who can only afford a can of caffeine.
Pronunciation of Teahupo'o sounds way off 🤔
Because they pronounced it weird lol the locals pronounce it “Cho-pu”
@@Town_Country96 Incorrect. Thats how internationals mispronounced it for years. Its actually Tea-hupo'o as said in the vid.
@@alexn6060wrong answer, try again.
@@Town_Country96 No they don't
@@masterpropper2485 🥴
Please pronounce the name the way the Tahitian's do- it does not end with poo the way poo is pronounced in English. All you have to do is listen to them say it and then practice saying it that way until you've got it.
Pronounced Teahupo'o = O not uuu unless your shiting of cource
Please do not let anyone build anything new there, DO NOT LET THEM, we have enough crappy commercial nonsense in the world..Boycott any new building FFS
Small minded people living in that town...construction is necessary for safety and will increase property values. Stop living in 1954
Tell the Olympics to stay away. Don't do it. They have no rights, but will bulldoze your village.
Isn't it pronounced "Chop-pu"? Ironic this video comes up on the same day that the craze for this place (Olympic venue in 2024) caused damage the reef.
TAYAHUPOO should b jailed for that butchering.
Why after all these years are they not pronouncing it “Cho-poo” any more?
Because that's not how it is pronounced.
@@masterpropper2485 that was the only way people said it forever, I feel like even locals use to say it like that way, or they also call it “chopes”