Tahiti Teahuppo, Trials Action
11/05/07 17:52
Teahuppo 1 May 2007.
Its over 12 years since winning the event for the first time at 16 years of age and until that day none of the top 40 had seen 10-12 foot (Hawaiin)waves for a comp at Teahuppo.
For Koby it was his lifetime break, $8000 at the time was the more money than he had ever earn't in his life and it paved the way for a lifetime of Wildcard Entries to this comp not to mention a life as a professional surfer.
This week he was knocked out in the quarter finals of the Trials by the new guard Manoa Drollet who went on to win the trials, young and hungry. Whilst Kobes directs his"media manager" to deal with mis-quoted articles about his fame,has little training due to a movie meeting in LA with Hollywoods greats and a brief stint with his New York supermodel partner ,Moana Drollet has done one thing, visualize and focus on the next event at hand in an effort to get a leg into the door of worlds surfing stardom,a reminiscent scenario perhaps. Heres some snaps.
Its over 12 years since winning the event for the first time at 16 years of age and until that day none of the top 40 had seen 10-12 foot (Hawaiin)waves for a comp at Teahuppo.
For Koby it was his lifetime break, $8000 at the time was the more money than he had ever earn't in his life and it paved the way for a lifetime of Wildcard Entries to this comp not to mention a life as a professional surfer.
This week he was knocked out in the quarter finals of the Trials by the new guard Manoa Drollet who went on to win the trials, young and hungry. Whilst Kobes directs his"media manager" to deal with mis-quoted articles about his fame,has little training due to a movie meeting in LA with Hollywoods greats and a brief stint with his New York supermodel partner ,Moana Drollet has done one thing, visualize and focus on the next event at hand in an effort to get a leg into the door of worlds surfing stardom,a reminiscent scenario perhaps. Heres some snaps.
