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Billabong Pro Teahupoo 2008 Surf Contest Headlines

Bruno Santos wins The Billabong Pro Tahiti

The Billabong Pro Tahiti Highlights

Billabong Pro Tahiti Final Match-Up:
Bruno Santos 9.16 (Bra) vs. Manoa Drollet (PYF) 6.83

Billabong Pro Tahiti Semifinal Results:
Heat 1: Manoa Drollet 18.33 (PYF) vs. Joel Parkinson (Aus) 10.27
Heat 2: Bruno Santos (Bra) vs. CJ Hobgood (USA)

Billabong Pro Tahiti Quarterfinal Results:
Heat 1: Joel Parkinson 16.33 (Aus) vs. Andy Irons (Haw) 6.14
Heat 2: Manoa Drollet 17.84 (PYF) vs. Adrian Buchan (Aus) 9.83
Heat 3: Bruno Santos 9.83 (Bra) vs. Adriano de Souza (Bra) 9.03
Heat 4: CJ Hobgood 15.00 (USA) vs. Bruce Irons (Haw) 10.16

Billabong Pro Tahiti Round 4 Results:
Heat 1: Andy Irons (Haw) 18.93 vs. Luke Stedman (Aus) 13.26
Heat 2: Joel Parkinson (Aus) 18.50 vs. Dane Reynolds (USA) 8.17
Heat 3: Adrian Buchan (Aus) 15.50 vs. Dean Morrison (Aus) 14.50
Heat 4: Manoa Drollet (PYF) 15.00 vs. Tom Whitaker (Aus) 5.33
Heat 5: Bruno Santos (Bra)15.34 vs. Tim Reyes (USA) 3.70
Heat 6: Adriano de Souza 12.50 (Bra) vs. Kai Ottan (Aus) 10.84
Heat 7: CJ Hobgood 9.00 (USA) vs. Chris Ward(USA) 2.10
Heat 8: Bruce Irons 15.16 (Haw) vs. Mikael Picon (Fra) 8.73

Billabong Pro Tahiti Round 3 Results:
Heat 1: Andy Irons 15.50 (HAW) vs. Royden Bryson (ZAF) 12.47
Heat 2: Luke Stedman (AUS) 17.53 vs. Jay Thompson (AUS) 12.40
Heat 3: Dane Reynolds (USA)18.17 vs. Jordy Smith (ZAF) 12.23
Heat 4: Joel Parkinson (AUS) 13.06 vs. Tiago Pires (POR) 10.00
Heat 5: Dean Morrison (AUS) 17.94 vs. Michael Campbell (AUS) 15.00
Heat 6: Adrian Buchan (AUS) 18.63 vs. Ben Bourgeois (USA) 16.40
Heat 7: Tom Whitaker (AUS) 17.66 vs. Dayyan Neve (AUS) 11.37
Heat 8: Manoa Drollet (PYF) 14.00 vs. Kelly Slater USA 9.83
Heat 9: Bruno Santos (BRA) vs. Taj Burrow (AUS)
Heat 10: Tim Reyes (USA) 16.74 vs. Pancho Sullivan (HAW) 12.33
Heat 11: Kai Otton (AUS) 16.94 vs. Heitor Alves (BRA) 9.4
Heat 12: Adriano de Souza (BRA) 17.83 vs. Daniel Wills (AUS) 9.17
Heat 13: Chris Ward (USA) 19.17 vs. Bede Durbidge (AUS) 7.3
Heat 14: CJ Hobgood (USA) 19.64 vs. Luke Munro (AUS) 14.06
Heat 15: Mikael Picon (FRA) 11.27 vs. Bobby Martinez (USA) 6.93
Heat 16: Bruce Irons (HAW) 18.17 vs. Taylor Knox (USA) 16.34

Billabong Pro Tahiti Round 2 Results:
Heat 1: Kelly Slater (USA) 18.70, Jamie O'Brien (HAW) 13.90
Heat 2: Bruno Santos (BRA) 10.00, Mick Fanning (AUS) 9.17
Heat 3: Bede Durbidge (AUS) 13.74, Nic Muscroft (AUS) 2.97
Heat 4: Chris Ward (USA) 14.50, Jeremy Flores (FRA) 12.90
Heat 5: Taylor Knox (USA) 11.83, Aritz Aranburu (EUK) 7.44
Heat 6: Dane Reynolds (USA) 14.50 vs. Travis Logie (ZAF) 12.26
Heat 7: Royden Bryson (ZAF) 13.33 vs. Neco Padaratz (BRA) 9.60
Heat 8: C.J. Hobgood (USA) 16.67 vs. Ricky Basnett (ZAF) 6.17
Heat 9: Tom Whitaker (AUS) 15.84 vs. Daniel Ross (AUS) 9.40
Heat 10: Mikael Picon (FRA) 15.07 9.83 vs. Ben Dunn (AUS)
Heat 11: Tim Reyes (USA) 10.50 vs. Jihad Khodr (BRA) 5.53
Heat 12: Ben Bourgeois (USA) 17.00 vs. Roy Powers (HAW) 10.00
Heat 13: Bruce Irons (HAW) 18.33 vs. Leonardo Neves (BRA) 16.9
Heat 14: Luke Munro (AUS) 17.76 vs. Fredrick Patacchia (HAW) 17.24
Heat 15: Jordy Smith (ZAF) vs. Rodrigo Dornelles (BRA) 11.17
Heat 16: Jay Thompson 17.10 (AUS) vs. Kieren Perrow (AUS) 16.67

Billabong Pro Tahiti 2008 Surfing Pictures. Credit ASP Tostee

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Jamie O’Brien Wins Von Zipper Air Tahiti Nui Trials In Epic Teahupoo

TIME DIFFERENCE: GMT - 10

COORDINATES: 17°83 S, 149°67 W

BAGGAGE CLAIM: Faa Airport, Papeete (PPT)

TRANSPORTATION: Rent a car and have a boatman lined up. Good distance between the airport and the end of the road, and from there, it’s either a two mile paddle or a two minute boat ride - you decide.

ATTITUDE: Don’t bother bringing any because the wave is the one with the attitude here. Half the surfers are shaking in their shorts, the other half are shaking their heads in disbelief, and those in the channel are happy as clams - unless of course one of the sets swings wide, then they’re all buggered.

THE WAVE: Breaking 700 metres out to sea, “Chopes”, as the break is affectionately known, is one of Mother Nature’s masterpieces. The old lady reckoned placing a 100 metre drop-off just 50 metres away from a half-moon-shaped reef would create a phenomenon… and she was right. This treacherous, left to right peeling reef-break boasts thick, bone-crushing barrels accessible only via a very-vertical takeoff. Once standing upright all surfers need to do is survive being spat out of the tube 50 metres later and then avoid the teeth of the razor sharp reef which sits high and dry directly in front of the wave.

Billabong Pro Teahupoo Wipeouts


PERKS: Spend a day taming Teahupoo with your mates and you’ll likely reckon you can save the world next time the need arises.

PERILS: This wave has claimed lives in the past and comes eerily close to doing so on a regular basis.

APRES SURF: You survive a session out here, just walking around feels like a party. Not much in the way of nightlife but there’s always plenty of very friendly locals who are keen for a chin-wag.

ASP WORLD TOUR HISTORY: Beginning as an ASP WQS early in the peice then evolving into a WCT a few years later. Billabong joined the party in 1999 and the best of the best have been shaking in their shorts since.

NOTABLE: First off, there’s not much that’s not notable about this wave, but the most recent record there was set by Slater, who surfed the perfect heat, scoring the first-ever 20 out of a possible 20 points against Damien Hobgood during the final of the 2005 Billabong Pro Tahiti. Hobgood would have his revenge though, claiming the Billabong Pro Tahiti in 2007.