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Surf Splendor

230 – 5 Minute Recap: Tahiti Pro

Surf Splendor

David Lee Scales

Sports

4.8653 Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2018

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Welcome back to the 5 Minute Recap. A quick concise overview of each event on the WSL championship tour. Today, a recap of the Tahiti Pro Teahupo’o. Supported by Finatic.com, use promo code “podcast” to support this show and get your first month free. All eyes were on Filipe Toledo as we approached the 2018 … Continue reading "230 – 5 Minute Recap: Tahiti Pro" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:18.3

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1:13.2

podcast thanks and now the five minute recap of the tahiti pro chopu start your watches now all eyes were on

1:26.0

filippe teledo as we approached the 2018 Tahiti Pro.

1:30.3

The only diversion we ever took was to check the swell forecast, but even that was mainly in relation to Felipe.

1:37.3

Felipe is currently the most exciting, uninjured surfer in the world.

1:42.3

And on a world tour with 11 stops, he would be considered a favorite

1:47.0

at eight of those stops and actually unstoppable at some of them. To Felipe's credit, he wasn't always

1:53.4

favored at those eight. When he qualified on tour, there was a question regarding his power surfing

1:58.9

and his rail surfing. but over the last three years

2:01.8

he's developed a fuller repertoire and now the only question that remains is his ability in large

2:07.3

barreling reef breaks and on the current tour that means chopu and pipeline in 2018 he's won two events

2:14.9

already rio and j bay this put him in first position on the rankings

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