But Vai is a person of many talents. Hailing from Mahina on Tahiti’s north coast, Vai started shortboarding when she was 16. By 18, she had discovered longboarding after a French brand came to ...

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Travelers can head to several surf spots on the island: Papara, Papenoo and Taapuna are for the beginner to intermediate crowd, while Teahupoo (on Tahiti's southwestern coast) is for experts only.

"Hosting the Olympics at Teahupo'o is the best spot they could ever pick just because it's such a good wave at that time of the year," said local Vahine Fierro, who won the Tahiti Pro in pumping waves ...

The surfing competition will take place at the world-famous Teahupoo surf break in Tahiti and construction has begun on a $5 million judging tower that will sit on the lagoon’s coral reefs.

First up, Tereva David of Tahiti, widely respected as one of the wisdom keepers of the world’s heaviest wave, Teahupo’o. To surf in Tahiti is to experience surfing unlike almost anywhere else.