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.

It’s horrible that the Olympics is going to ruin the coral reef building a new spectacular tower which can compromise the famous wave

@enzo1406

6 ай бұрын

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.

@Bigtimereallifeshorts

6 ай бұрын

How are they allowed to do that?

@lwh8302

6 ай бұрын

I saw am article saying that they are now using a cruise ship which will not be near the bay either to preserve it.

@mikemoloney506

6 ай бұрын

No its not

@Mysucculentchinesemeal

6 ай бұрын

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.”

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!

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Good luck and respect to the locals for not allowing bebek to ruin their paradise.

I really enjoyed this piece--conveying the spirit of Teahupoo in a harmony of lovely ambassadors.

Paradise, so glad the locals are keeping it that way. Enjoy!

You and Zeke together are freaking awesome!!

Tahiti, My number one Bucket List

Excellent video thanx

Thank you folks for the great video! I love pristine Moorea & the wonderful people! Aloha ke Akua, Michèle On Oahu

I have been looking to go to French Polynesia in the next year and this was very insightful.

Teahupo'o / thank you for sharing/ it's a village that has ❤/spirit

@RedBullSurfing

6 ай бұрын

Definitely does!

Yes. Keep Teahupoo. Teahupoo.....🤙🤙🤙

@saveteahupoo Power to the Tahitians for fighting the making of a new tower on the reef

@kornofulgur

6 ай бұрын

Yeah, it would be a sane decision since it wouldn't hamper the judges work.

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

Produce directed, and Director of photography was spot on for this doc. Cheers to the crew for the wonderful work. 🙌🏼🤘🏼

Been to the islands in 2012. Magic.

Never Let Developers Ruin Your Paradise

I'm from the Pacific Islands of PALAU ! 🇵🇼 Awesome video !!! 👏 👏 👏 💯

RESPECT 💙

Excellent production

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.

Let them go somewhere else leave this piece of surf heaven alone Laird my heart goes out to you ❤

Of course the Olympics would want to do that to such a beautiful place

Good video, and good waves.

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.😃

@rickchipman4477

5 ай бұрын

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.

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.

Forgot to mention Mike Stewart and friends that first rode the place in the 80s🤥

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.

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!

Beautiful

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

That was a good watch eh

@RedBullSurfing

6 ай бұрын

💪💪💪

Moorea is so sick

Thorouly enjoy this one

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.....

It's Tey-ah-who-poh-oh.Aloha

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.

Wicked video

This place is one of the most beautifull in the world, and Olympic games will destroy it ...

Its crazy this surfers start surfing in teahpoo at like 12-15

Thanks for watching DIRT with Josh Rosen

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.

Mauruuru Roa,Team Coquí Bodyboarders in the house

Best thing in the world, don't allow the corporate world to come in and ruin everything.

You sound literally identical to Warren Miller's son- wild tbh

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

@ShmooyShmoo

3 ай бұрын

Jobs…

Tay ah who poe oh, though locals seem to ignore the second o

Merci RedBull 🙏

eyyy eimeooo the beast

If he owns it, why is he letting the Olympics ruin it with a new reef-destroying mega tower?

Moore a is Home!

Time for future entrepreneurs to start new companies.

Always thought it was pronounced chopooh? Howd that happen?

@kornofulgur

6 ай бұрын

It's still tchopoo

No Olympics Tahiti !!!

What a lance Burkhardt type of thing to do

Nobody owns the ocean..The Ocean Owns You!

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 ...

@torsteinhoset3402

6 ай бұрын

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.

@Whitehorseandryder

6 ай бұрын

That's probably also part of what keeps Tahiti from becoming Bali..

@jeffhubbard4688

6 ай бұрын

Which is why Teahupoo might keep it's charm, and it's eco system..................

@markdoolan7282

5 ай бұрын

That’s probably what preserves the place. If you want to wreck something good , share it!

They speak English, French and Tahitian. They speak better English than we fo in Hawaii. In Hawaii we just speak pidgin broken English.

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 🤯

thank you for the correct pronunciation, most say "choo-poo" which means soup lul

These people pay obscene amounts of taxes, and the state wont let them protect their own property? Thats a shame.

Iaorana

To bad it's about to be steam rolled by the Olympic games

Why is surfing even in the Olympics in the first time 😂

Mike Stewart???

For foreigners, its not pronounced Cho-pu, its 2023 stop being ignorant

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

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.

Oro is the true owner

Why hasn’t Red Bull sponsored Nathan Florence yet?🤔

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.

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.

It’s pronounced Cho-poo

@unrealuknow864

3 ай бұрын

That is a pronunciation he left off, but you hear the island native calling it Teahupoo

This is a video about selfishness and ownership of nature, humans aren’t custodians of this land, they’re just inhabitants

The Olympics has zero business coming in such a tight magical protected community. Shame on France as usual..

@Frankbug

6 ай бұрын

Cette communauté, c'est aussi la France, en plus coup tu dis n'importe quoi, le projet a été changé.

@dongaza6878

6 ай бұрын

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

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 KZread.

Theo po was made FAMOUS from boogers.....

@Killereggman

3 ай бұрын

its hard for local surfers growing up, there's no beachies and like 3 learner waves 15km drives...... Shiit with French price!

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🤔

@kornofulgur

6 ай бұрын

Come on, Teahupoo isn't like in the Code Red video everyday, and we're talking about good surfers, not beginners.

@jerrybow8779

6 ай бұрын

@@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🤷🏽‍♂️

Owns what

Tiahoopou? Tf

Wasn't it AzHiAziAm that coined Code Red?

Thats not how you you pronounce the name of the break. Come'on man

@unrealuknow864

3 ай бұрын

Except the native pronounced it Teahupoo also

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.

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.

Bruno Santos ,em 2008,passou a triagem e ganhou o Campeonato em um mar gigante 🌊⚡️

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.

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

Pronunciation of Teahupo'o sounds way off 🤔

@Town_Country96

6 ай бұрын

Because they pronounced it weird lol the locals pronounce it “Cho-pu”

@alexn6060

6 ай бұрын

@@Town_Country96 Incorrect. Thats how internationals mispronounced it for years. Its actually Tea-hupo'o as said in the vid.

@Town_Country96

6 ай бұрын

@@alexn6060wrong answer, try again.

@masterpropper2485

6 ай бұрын

@@Town_Country96 No they don't

@Town_Country96

6 ай бұрын

@@masterpropper2485 🥴

Small minded people living in that town...construction is necessary for safety and will increase property values. Stop living in 1954

Pronounced Teahupo'o = O not uuu unless your shiting of cource

Tell the Olympics to stay away. Don't do it. They have no rights, but will bulldoze your village.

Why after all these years are they not pronouncing it “Cho-poo” any more?

@masterpropper2485

6 ай бұрын

Because that's not how it is pronounced.

@DustinKeiser

6 ай бұрын

@@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”