Teahupoo

Teahupoo is an old commune associated maintaining with Taiarapu-West with Tahiti on the peninsula with Tahiti Iti in French Polynésie.

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Teahupoo (delivery T-piece-have-hou-Po-O, the wall of the heads) is a Spot of surfing universally famous for its lefts, sometimes monstrous. Indeed, one there finds undoubtedly, proportionally speaking, the regular waves broadest and thickest of the world. The very escarpé bottom collapses brutally of long swells on the coral reef, thus creating very particular waves, requiring an instantaneous and brutal takeoff for then connecting a tube . This spot appears among most dangerous of the world, the coral bottom being with a few tens of centimetres of surface and enormous vagueness being crushed on the coral barrier. There are unfortunately regularly accidents, sometimes mortals. The spectacle can however be there with the height of the legend of the spot like in August 2000, when Laird Hamilton overlapped a titanic wave and passed in a tube of the dimension of a hangar.

Each year in May, an international competition takes place there, the Billabong Pro Teahupoo bringing together the surfers of turn WCT.

Details of the spot

Winners of competition ASP

Teaahupoo accommodates each year a stage of the championship of the world of surfing.

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