Learn to think weather better Image Pierre Tostee and the Association of Surfing Professionals Andy Irons of Hawaii gets the tube of his life on his way to winning last year's qualifying rounds of the World Championship Tour event at Teahupo-o. When Teahupo-o works, the result is awesome. Tomorrow the world's best surfers tackle Tahiti's infamous Teahupo-o in preparation for the Billibong Pro starting May 8. The reef works well with waves right down to two feet and remains safe to five.
Bigger waves trigger the same kind of visual stimuli in male surfers as naked women.
The surfing pros that survive the awesome drop at 10 feet start babbling in tongues. Translate those contorted syllables and they describe death. Weather, of course, is the key ingredient governing whether Teahupo-o is a monster, or if it fails to present. According to Mike Perry , Billibong Pro surf forecaster for the Teahupo-o event, the reef prefers a southwest swell. A swell from due south is not as dangerous, as it tends to push across the reef and not on to it.