Only Kai Lenny could get smashed by Teahupoo… Then pop up a better man because of it.

Maybe Teahupoo is one of those magical places that rubs off on waterman who go over the falls there. But geez, surely there’s a better way?

Kai Lenny was in a little funk after he lost his heat in Tahiti. He missed out on the right waves, and Sean Poynter closed out a section he was eyeing off in his heat winning run. So what does Mr Lenny do when he’s sad? He waits by the phone for one of his mates to call. And call they did, Tahitian legend, Raimana called up, and it went a little like this:

“Excuse me, is this Kai Lenny?”
“Yes, I’m a little sad because I lost my heat in the stand up world tour”
“Cheer up mate! Teahupoo is going off, lets go for a paddle.”
“Ok”

We might be paraphrasing a little, but when Raimana calls, you do what he says according to Kai. So he got in his truck with a little Naish SUP, and paddled out to the biggest he’s ever seen Teahupoo. After a few ‘baby waves’ as Kai says, he dropped into an absolute monster.

“It just sucked up, and I felt the tail and the nose touching (the water), but the middle wasn’t. Oh my God… Teahupoo is unique in the sense that it’ll spin you like a top, and you’ll do like eight cartwheels. It’s so fast you can feel your brain bouncing around inside your skull… It was like somebody just injected me with life!”

Sounds like some serious good vibes being passed on by the wave called Teahupoo. Check it out, Kai is positively Stoked!

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