![]() ![]() “Like I said I’m not into big waves, I just like big Teahupoo, because it’s home. Kauli, very far from Teahupo’o, doing what he must to get to the next stage of his career. How the season’s churn of inauspicious events Anglet cancelled due to flatness, prolonged dribble in Israel, and now trying to resurrect his campaign in Portugal’s customary spring north’s winds compares with say, letting go of the rope on a the wave of a lifetime at giant Teahupoo last August, when still aged just 19. I wonder how he squares away chasing the dream in the gunmetal grey, tide ravaged Atlantic, literally a world away from his French Polynesian idyll. ![]() He’s friendly, polite, but hardly effervescent. With a fair bit of hype and status as Europe’s next big thing, making the Challengers feels close to a par performance if the first full season post-pandemic isn’t to be a regressive one for the 20-year-old Tahitian.īraced against the buffeting blow, studying the confused Portuguese swash for opportunities, Kauli is chiseled in the collegiate sports captain mode, with slightly waspish eyes and soccer player’s thighs, if not quite those of a downhill skier. We’re standing in a wind buffeted carpark in Santa Cruz, Portugal, on the second last day of the last event of the QS season in Europe.Īn extreme low tide has hobbled the swell to a meagre waist high flappers, while a biting nortada - a murderous, cold, onshore north wind that somehow penetrates not just every hole but also into your soul - certainly ain’t making life any prettier.Īfter a poor QS campaign, Kauli now needs to win the entire event to make it into the Challenger Series, something he did last year at a relative canter. “I’m not a big wave surfer,” says Kauli Vaast without a smidgen of irony. ![]()
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