Meet the Waterman of Tahiti

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Surfer Matt Poole takes part in The Waterman: an all-round ocean based competition in Tahiti, French Polynesia.
At Teahupo'o, one of the craziest waves in the surfing community, there is yet another competition that takes place: an all-round ocean based race, Waterman Tahiti.
The Waterman Tahiti Tour is THE standard against which all other “waterman” competitions are measured. Stand up paddle (SUP), open water swimming, prone paddleboard, body surf and lifesaving highlight the versatility and endurance of the athletes. Each year, they train to be able to meet the different challenges and exceed their personal limits. The Waterman Tahiti Tour is a championship measured in points amassed over 5 stages.
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Пікірлер: 101

  • @msdsplayground8360
    @msdsplayground83604 жыл бұрын

    Wow..what a challenge, humbleness, what skill.

  • @hope4surf
    @hope4surf4 жыл бұрын

    Total respect for these guyz! HNY!

  • @lareessa1
    @lareessa12 жыл бұрын

    Socorro, é muito legal ver isso, como o esporte transforma as pessoas em alguém melhor, sempre se aprende algo, seja a derrota , seja a vitória. E fisicamente é incrível, ele é uma máquina.

  • @jonathanrath3036
    @jonathanrath30364 жыл бұрын

    Matahi is a legend already.

  • @nathkling4604
    @nathkling46044 жыл бұрын

    All the videos are so cool

  • @KylieJonkman
    @KylieJonkman4 жыл бұрын

    So impressed this is a mixed race!

  • @russellcole3549
    @russellcole35492 жыл бұрын

    This is a nice video about a Red Bull sponsored paddle board racer. I liked it. My friends and family (two generations) are paddle board racers. But "The Waterman?" Okay, guys on paddle boards and surfboards can be water men (or water women). And they did some swimming in one of the events. But let's not forget traditional Polynesian canoes and kayaks and body surfers and windsurfers and kite boarders and free divers and scuba divers and sailors from round-the-world racers to beach catamaran junkies and lifeguards and marine biologist counting fish and pearl divers and the old woman I met in the Caribbean who dunked her eighty-year-old self in the ocean every day. She told me she felt timeless for a little while when wet and floating once again. A Waterman can be identified by his or her affinity for, and mastery, of a discipline or disciplines in and on the water. But it also is a connection to the ocean that transcends the individual sport involved and has nothing to do with competition. My father was the greatest waterman I have ever met. He swam from Catalina Island to the mainland and taught four sons to body surf, even in the winter when nobody else would go in the water in Southern California because it was "cold" and swam every day of his life until he died at 84. But he never swam a race, never competed, and never cared whether he was better than somebody else in the water. What was important was being in the water, not measuring yourself against someone else's personal or spiritual experience.

  • @foto21

    @foto21

    2 жыл бұрын

    Great post. I spent a lot of my youth in the water, and then unfortunately got away from it too much. Plan to move south. I'd have to build up to the cold, but I'm more at home in the water than many. But you have to live the life, or it just flies away.

  • @987mooz7
    @987mooz74 жыл бұрын

    Aito👏 Puissants le bro🙏☄ Damn de caillasse

  • @kylewattssurfing3266
    @kylewattssurfing32664 жыл бұрын

    Awesome yeeeeees coooool....

  • @Roger-tv7sf
    @Roger-tv7sf4 жыл бұрын

    Take me there next time

  • @jaws2323
    @jaws232315 күн бұрын

    Thank You

  • @ayatchafaqui
    @ayatchafaqui3 жыл бұрын

    What a humble man , this was great to watch

  • @surfdetective
    @surfdetective4 жыл бұрын

    Love what red bull does to promote the most radical lifestyle..........not so happy about the drink...

  • @LoganLuqman

    @LoganLuqman

    4 жыл бұрын

    nail on the head

  • @Makta972

    @Makta972

    4 жыл бұрын

    Crappy drinks. But hey, they have to do it for the MONEY

  • @dexter131

    @dexter131

    4 жыл бұрын

    Watch the videos and don't buy the drink.. you don't have to support every branch of a company. Not everything has to be all or nothing, everyone is so polarized in today's society, they forget it's okay to be in the middle on some things. I agree with you 100% though - love the lifestyle, not the beverages.

  • @zacharybuerkle2244

    @zacharybuerkle2244

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@dexter131 right? its a way for them to fund their platform. I respect that

  • @currenwiggin8982

    @currenwiggin8982

    4 жыл бұрын

    I drank my first one today. Got me threw the slowest day of school.

  • @katereitzel
    @katereitzel4 жыл бұрын

    Good job. :-)

  • @prosimian
    @prosimian4 жыл бұрын

    Waiting for the Dutch van der Linde comments

  • @rickyspanish5602

    @rickyspanish5602

    4 жыл бұрын

    Sacrificial Lamb just need some moah moneh

  • @tord6712
    @tord67124 жыл бұрын

    This is why dutch wanted to go to Tahiti

  • @987mooz7
    @987mooz74 жыл бұрын

    THANKS you 😉🤙 Maruru Redbull 🤙

  • @kelseymariebell1357
    @kelseymariebell13577 ай бұрын

    Beautiful video 🙏🏻

  • @kelseymariebell1357

    @kelseymariebell1357

    7 ай бұрын

    Thank you 🙏🏻

  • @sw-sq5gk
    @sw-sq5gk2 жыл бұрын

    Dont know the man, but he sounds like a great person

  • @lS-qp6zq
    @lS-qp6zq4 жыл бұрын

    💪🏼

  • @ethan_hunter
    @ethan_hunter4 жыл бұрын

    I do this sport

  • @NBFACADEMY
    @NBFACADEMY4 жыл бұрын

    Motivational my word for this video.....

  • @mts1189
    @mts11894 жыл бұрын

    This man from where?

  • @najibelmaghraoui3132
    @najibelmaghraoui31324 жыл бұрын

    More to Red Bull Surfing

  • @stokes58
    @stokes584 жыл бұрын

    1:22 has got to be one of the deepest I've seen there.

  • @stokes58

    @stokes58

    4 жыл бұрын

    @ham and cheese Pray tell, what doth thou see in the depths of fury friends soul?

  • @stokes58

    @stokes58

    4 жыл бұрын

    @ham and cheese He certainly has, the little bastard.

  • @lwf5205
    @lwf52052 жыл бұрын

    Polynesians dont have the luxury if time for themselves to reach that higher level compared to Mr.Poole who might have himself to focus on

  • @issacf4416
    @issacf44164 жыл бұрын

    Maybe Red Bull should’ve done this feature on the teachers and not the student. I’m not surprised though.

  • @leemcmullan
    @leemcmullan2 жыл бұрын

    SPARTA!!!

  • @intosavage9213
    @intosavage92134 жыл бұрын

    epilogue part 3

  • @sergioramirezmunoz2914
    @sergioramirezmunoz29144 жыл бұрын

    Amazing

  • @mts1189

    @mts1189

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yes

  • @thenotoriousttg_clint
    @thenotoriousttg_clint4 жыл бұрын

    Wow, not that much views for having 9 million subscribers?!

  • @kelseymariebell1357
    @kelseymariebell13577 ай бұрын

    Si beautiful - not above nature, part of 🙏🏻

  • @hunyotiago1271
    @hunyotiago12714 жыл бұрын

    Last comment of 2019 Happy new year fellow Red Bull fan

  • @qini8331
    @qini83314 жыл бұрын

    Sounds like we got Watermen of other countries.

  • @vito7590
    @vito75904 жыл бұрын

    You broke the football

  • @reihanahaggie8111
    @reihanahaggie81114 жыл бұрын

    Pronunciation - Teahupo'o not Chowpoo... please!

  • @teimoanateheiura6064

    @teimoanateheiura6064

    4 жыл бұрын

    In tahitian pronunciation is TEA HU PO’O

  • @luckybroi
    @luckybroi4 жыл бұрын

    My last comment in 2019 Happy new year all Let it be an awesome year for you

  • @idumpyourassdaily
    @idumpyourassdaily4 жыл бұрын

    I Already Have....

  • @Roblox-di5hw

    @Roblox-di5hw

    4 жыл бұрын

    Cixly same

  • @Murqd

    @Murqd

    4 жыл бұрын

    Cixly same

  • @cixlydad3370

    @cixlydad3370

    4 жыл бұрын

    Cixly same

  • @idumpyourassdaily

    @idumpyourassdaily

    4 жыл бұрын

    Jan Dinand Brinks no cap...😂

  • @ahron1031

    @ahron1031

    4 жыл бұрын

    Same

  • @timdale4047
    @timdale40472 жыл бұрын

    This dude doesn't have a pension plan eh

  • @notveryobviousguy4373
    @notveryobviousguy43732 жыл бұрын

    Dutch is smiling somewhere

  • @Skyewastaken2
    @Skyewastaken24 жыл бұрын

    .....Coulson? I have a feeling no one is gonna understand this reference

  • @IPM71

    @IPM71

    4 жыл бұрын

    It's a magical place... And I live there ;)

  • @Skyewastaken2

    @Skyewastaken2

    4 жыл бұрын

    OMG YES!!!

  • @kevinagee4364
    @kevinagee43644 жыл бұрын

    did he win the whole thing?

  • @aquamansurfer

    @aquamansurfer

    4 жыл бұрын

    It's not clear or..

  • @jameshamana
    @jameshamana4 жыл бұрын

    Surfboards and paddleboards cant be recycled. Bet that got dumped in a landfill in beautiful Tahiti. Nice one

  • @darraghobrien1028

    @darraghobrien1028

    4 жыл бұрын

    Bruh his board got broken. It happens. What do you expect him to do? Tf

  • @BruhMoment-ko4nw
    @BruhMoment-ko4nw4 жыл бұрын

    Red dead fans know how much this video means

  • @ImperatorCHAOS

    @ImperatorCHAOS

    4 жыл бұрын

    But this guy totally got a plan

  • @manamana8638
    @manamana86382 жыл бұрын

    Blablabla🤪🤪🤪

  • @canbeanyone5265
    @canbeanyone52654 жыл бұрын

    Money .

  • @capronfunk4869
    @capronfunk48694 жыл бұрын

    Hi

  • @lmean-ll4rv8le5j
    @lmean-ll4rv8le5j4 жыл бұрын

    ..

  • @redbull

    @redbull

    4 жыл бұрын

    ...

  • @nigelpar
    @nigelpar3 жыл бұрын

    Please boycott Red Bull until they hand over the murderer to face Thai justice. Thanks...

  • @ryudragonpunch9025
    @ryudragonpunch90252 жыл бұрын

    The waterman of Tahiti just happened to be white huh?

  • @Dubstep011011
    @Dubstep0110112 жыл бұрын

    Not really about Tahitian watermen

  • @Makta972
    @Makta9724 жыл бұрын

    Humm so Tahitian are White ? 😕

  • @JohnSmith-oo4qx

    @JohnSmith-oo4qx

    4 жыл бұрын

    The good ones are

  • @elenastewart3963

    @elenastewart3963

    4 жыл бұрын

    Some look like real Polynesian polynesian but some looks white cause they’re interracial kids, most of the time it’s because their grand grand farther/mother were from Europe and part of this big wave of sailers coming in Polynesia in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Those kids have like mix European and Tahitian (even from other island like Poumutu) blood, some will actually have a thick Tahitian accent when you hear them talking in French. It’s all a big fam there tho there’s no distinctions, hope it stays the same.

  • @uriels4097

    @uriels4097

    4 жыл бұрын

    he is not tahitian, he is a popa'a

  • @Mollygaga42

    @Mollygaga42

    4 жыл бұрын

    Are you jealous !

  • @user-dn6yh8jr1o

    @user-dn6yh8jr1o

    Жыл бұрын

    @@JohnSmith-oo4qx aint no way ur a bigot its the 21st century but i guess u can tell urself that to make urself feel better

  • @nachoorciani9264
    @nachoorciani92644 жыл бұрын

    Like?

  • @talhatekcan4666
    @talhatekcan46664 жыл бұрын

    Fourth comment

  • @powskier
    @powskier4 жыл бұрын

    Lost total respect for the Aussie with his high tech gym crap. Go Polynesians!

  • @Mollygaga42

    @Mollygaga42

    4 жыл бұрын

    Jealousy is a curse !

  • @eastcoastsailingcenter7768

    @eastcoastsailingcenter7768

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Mollygaga42 looks like its the other way round ...

  • @remyespugna5989
    @remyespugna59894 жыл бұрын

    Quel foutage de gueule, c'est comme Coca sponsor des Jeux Olympiques...

  • @laurainebuchanan6452
    @laurainebuchanan64524 жыл бұрын

    Get some resin n cloth and fix it ya gay lord

  • @MikeRoberts1964

    @MikeRoberts1964

    4 жыл бұрын

    Probably, but you can't fix it and have it ready the same day or even a day later.

  • @Jay-fq8uz
    @Jay-fq8uz2 жыл бұрын

    lol the way he explained how Tahiti is in the middle was pointless.

  • @mts1189
    @mts11894 жыл бұрын

    Who's play pes mobile 2020 here. .....

  • @mts1189

    @mts1189

    4 жыл бұрын

    ?

  • @dominiopublico1881
    @dominiopublico18812 жыл бұрын

    Boring!

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