Meet the Waterman of Tahiti

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  • Опубліковано 30 гру 2019
  • Surfer Matt Poole takes part in The Waterman: an all-round ocean based competition in Tahiti, French Polynesia.
    At Teahupo'o, one of the craziest waves in the surfing community, there is yet another competition that takes place: an all-round ocean based race, Waterman Tahiti.
    The Waterman Tahiti Tour is THE standard against which all other “waterman” competitions are measured. Stand up paddle (SUP), open water swimming, prone paddleboard, body surf and lifesaving highlight the versatility and endurance of the athletes. Each year, they train to be able to meet the different challenges and exceed their personal limits. The Waterman Tahiti Tour is a championship measured in points amassed over 5 stages.
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  • @msdsplayground8360
    @msdsplayground8360 4 роки тому +13

    Wow..what a challenge, humbleness, what skill.

  • @hope4surf
    @hope4surf 4 роки тому +11

    Total respect for these guyz! HNY!

  • @jonathanrath3036
    @jonathanrath3036 4 роки тому +10

    Matahi is a legend already.

  • @lareessa1
    @lareessa1 2 роки тому +1

    Socorro, é muito legal ver isso, como o esporte transforma as pessoas em alguém melhor, sempre se aprende algo, seja a derrota , seja a vitória. E fisicamente é incrível, ele é uma máquina.

  • @nathkling4604
    @nathkling4604 4 роки тому +3

    All the videos are so cool

  • @KylieJonkman
    @KylieJonkman 4 роки тому

    So impressed this is a mixed race!

  • @russellcole3549
    @russellcole3549 2 роки тому +10

    This is a nice video about a Red Bull sponsored paddle board racer. I liked it. My friends and family (two generations) are paddle board racers. But "The Waterman?" Okay, guys on paddle boards and surfboards can be water men (or water women). And they did some swimming in one of the events. But let's not forget traditional Polynesian canoes and kayaks and body surfers and windsurfers and kite boarders and free divers and scuba divers and sailors from round-the-world racers to beach catamaran junkies and lifeguards and marine biologist counting fish and pearl divers and the old woman I met in the Caribbean who dunked her eighty-year-old self in the ocean every day. She told me she felt timeless for a little while when wet and floating once again. A Waterman can be identified by his or her affinity for, and mastery, of a discipline or disciplines in and on the water. But it also is a connection to the ocean that transcends the individual sport involved and has nothing to do with competition. My father was the greatest waterman I have ever met. He swam from Catalina Island to the mainland and taught four sons to body surf, even in the winter when nobody else would go in the water in Southern California because it was "cold" and swam every day of his life until he died at 84. But he never swam a race, never competed, and never cared whether he was better than somebody else in the water. What was important was being in the water, not measuring yourself against someone else's personal or spiritual experience.

    • @foto21
      @foto21 2 роки тому

      Great post. I spent a lot of my youth in the water, and then unfortunately got away from it too much. Plan to move south. I'd have to build up to the cold, but I'm more at home in the water than many. But you have to live the life, or it just flies away.

  • @kylewattssurfing3266
    @kylewattssurfing3266 4 роки тому +1

    Awesome yeeeeees coooool....

  • @987mooz7
    @987mooz7 4 роки тому +3

    Aito👏
    Puissants le bro🙏☄
    Damn de caillasse

  • @Roger-tv7sf
    @Roger-tv7sf 4 роки тому +3

    Take me there next time

  • @lS-qp6zq
    @lS-qp6zq 4 роки тому

    💪🏼

  • @tord6712
    @tord6712 4 роки тому +3

    This is why dutch wanted to go to Tahiti

  • @prosimian
    @prosimian 4 роки тому +12

    Waiting for the Dutch van der Linde comments

  • @kelseymariebell1357
    @kelseymariebell1357 6 місяців тому

    Beautiful video 🙏🏻

  • @987mooz7
    @987mooz7 4 роки тому

    THANKS you 😉🤙
    Maruru Redbull 🤙

  • @katereitzel
    @katereitzel 4 роки тому +1

    Good job. :-)

  • @ayatchafaqui
    @ayatchafaqui 3 роки тому +3

    What a humble man , this was great to watch

  • @mts1189
    @mts1189 4 роки тому +1

    This man from where?

  • @surfdetective
    @surfdetective 4 роки тому +117

    Love what red bull does to promote the most radical lifestyle..........not so happy about the drink...

    • @LoganLuqman
      @LoganLuqman 4 роки тому +6

      nail on the head

    • @Makta972
      @Makta972 4 роки тому +9

      Crappy drinks. But hey, they have to do it for the MONEY

    • @dexter131
      @dexter131 4 роки тому +19

      Watch the videos and don't buy the drink.. you don't have to support every branch of a company. Not everything has to be all or nothing, everyone is so polarized in today's society, they forget it's okay to be in the middle on some things.
      I agree with you 100% though - love the lifestyle, not the beverages.

    • @zacharybuerkle2244
      @zacharybuerkle2244 4 роки тому +1

      @@dexter131 right? its a way for them to fund their platform. I respect that

    • @currenwiggin8982
      @currenwiggin8982 4 роки тому +3

      I drank my first one today. Got me threw the slowest day of school.

  • @sw-sq5gk
    @sw-sq5gk 2 роки тому +1

    Dont know the man, but he sounds like a great person

  • @ethan_hunter
    @ethan_hunter 4 роки тому +2

    I do this sport

  • @leemcmullan
    @leemcmullan 2 роки тому

    SPARTA!!!

  • @NBFACADEMY
    @NBFACADEMY 4 роки тому

    Motivational my word for this video.....

  • @lwf5205
    @lwf5205 2 роки тому +2

    Polynesians dont have the luxury if time for themselves to reach that higher level compared to Mr.Poole who might have himself to focus on

  • @stokes58
    @stokes58 4 роки тому +7

    1:22 has got to be one of the deepest I've seen there.

    • @stokes58
      @stokes58 4 роки тому

      @ham and cheese Pray tell, what doth thou see in the depths of fury friends soul?

    • @stokes58
      @stokes58 4 роки тому

      @ham and cheese He certainly has, the little bastard.

  • @issacf4416
    @issacf4416 4 роки тому +2

    Maybe Red Bull should’ve done this feature on the teachers and not the student. I’m not surprised though.

  • @najibelmaghraoui3132
    @najibelmaghraoui3132 4 роки тому

    More to Red Bull Surfing

  • @sergioramirezmunoz2914
    @sergioramirezmunoz2914 4 роки тому +2

    Amazing

  • @hunyotiago1271
    @hunyotiago1271 4 роки тому +1

    Last comment of 2019
    Happy new year fellow Red Bull fan

  • @kelseymariebell1357
    @kelseymariebell1357 6 місяців тому

    Si beautiful - not above nature, part of 🙏🏻

  • @thenotoriousttg_clint
    @thenotoriousttg_clint 4 роки тому

    Wow, not that much views for having 9 million subscribers?!

  • @qini8331
    @qini8331 4 роки тому +4

    Sounds like we got Watermen of other countries.

  • @idumpyourassdaily
    @idumpyourassdaily 4 роки тому +10

    I Already Have....

  • @reihanahaggie8111
    @reihanahaggie8111 4 роки тому

    Pronunciation - Teahupo'o not Chowpoo... please!

  • @intosavage9213
    @intosavage9213 4 роки тому

    epilogue part 3

  • @luckybroi
    @luckybroi 4 роки тому +4

    My last comment in 2019
    Happy new year all
    Let it be an awesome year for you

  • @vito7590
    @vito7590 4 роки тому

    You broke the football

  • @BruhMoment-ko4nw
    @BruhMoment-ko4nw 4 роки тому +5

    Red dead fans know how much this video means

  • @kevinagee4364
    @kevinagee4364 4 роки тому +1

    did he win the whole thing?

  • @notveryobviousguy4373
    @notveryobviousguy4373 2 роки тому

    Dutch is smiling somewhere

  • @jameshamana
    @jameshamana 4 роки тому

    Surfboards and paddleboards cant be recycled. Bet that got dumped in a landfill in beautiful Tahiti. Nice one

    • @darraghobrien1028
      @darraghobrien1028 4 роки тому +1

      Bruh his board got broken. It happens. What do you expect him to do? Tf

  • @manamana8638
    @manamana8638 2 роки тому +1

    Blablabla🤪🤪🤪

  • @Skyewastaken2
    @Skyewastaken2 4 роки тому +1

    .....Coulson?
    I have a feeling no one is gonna understand this reference

    • @IPM71
      @IPM71 4 роки тому +1

      It's a magical place... And I live there ;)

    • @Skyewastaken2
      @Skyewastaken2 4 роки тому +2

      OMG YES!!!

  • @timdale4047
    @timdale4047 2 роки тому +1

    This dude doesn't have a pension plan eh

  • @canbeanyone5265
    @canbeanyone5265 4 роки тому

    Money .

  • @capronfunk4869
    @capronfunk4869 4 роки тому +1

    Hi

  • @lmean-ll4rv8le5j
    @lmean-ll4rv8le5j 4 роки тому +1

    ..

  • @nachoorciani9264
    @nachoorciani9264 4 роки тому

    Like?

  • @ryudragonpunch9025
    @ryudragonpunch9025 2 роки тому +2

    The waterman of Tahiti just happened to be white huh?

  • @nigelpar
    @nigelpar 3 роки тому

    Please boycott Red Bull until they hand over the murderer to face Thai justice. Thanks...

  • @talhatekcan4666
    @talhatekcan4666 4 роки тому

    Fourth comment

  • @laurainebuchanan6452
    @laurainebuchanan6452 4 роки тому +1

    Get some resin n cloth and fix it ya gay lord

    • @MikeRoberts1964
      @MikeRoberts1964 4 роки тому

      Probably, but you can't fix it and have it ready the same day or even a day later.

  • @Makta972
    @Makta972 4 роки тому +1

    Humm so Tahitian are White ? 😕

    • @JohnSmith-oo4qx
      @JohnSmith-oo4qx 4 роки тому

      The good ones are

    • @elenastewart3963
      @elenastewart3963 4 роки тому

      Some look like real Polynesian polynesian but some looks white cause they’re interracial kids, most of the time it’s because their grand grand farther/mother were from Europe and part of this big wave of sailers coming in Polynesia in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Those kids have like mix European and Tahitian (even from other island like Poumutu) blood, some will actually have a thick Tahitian accent when you hear them talking in French. It’s all a big fam there tho there’s no distinctions, hope it stays the same.

    • @uriels4097
      @uriels4097 4 роки тому

      he is not tahitian, he is a popa'a

    • @Mollygaga42
      @Mollygaga42 4 роки тому

      Are you jealous !

    • @user-dn6yh8jr1o
      @user-dn6yh8jr1o Рік тому

      @@JohnSmith-oo4qx aint no way ur a bigot its the 21st century but i guess u can tell urself that to make urself feel better

  • @remyespugna5989
    @remyespugna5989 4 роки тому +1

    Quel foutage de gueule, c'est comme Coca sponsor des Jeux Olympiques...

  • @powskier
    @powskier 4 роки тому +1

    Lost total respect for the Aussie with his high tech gym crap. Go Polynesians!

  • @Dubstep011011
    @Dubstep011011 2 роки тому

    Not really about Tahitian watermen

  • @Jay-fq8uz
    @Jay-fq8uz 2 роки тому

    lol the way he explained how Tahiti is in the middle was pointless.

  • @mts1189
    @mts1189 4 роки тому +1

    Who's play pes mobile 2020 here. .....

  • @dominiopublico1881
    @dominiopublico1881 2 роки тому

    Boring!