Meet the Waterman of Tahiti

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ธ.ค. 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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ความคิดเห็น • 100

  • @msdsplayground8360
    @msdsplayground8360 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

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

  • @hope4surf
    @hope4surf 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Total respect for these guyz! HNY!

  • @jonathanrath3036
    @jonathanrath3036 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Matahi is a legend already.

  • @lareessa1
    @lareessa1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +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.

  • @KylieJonkman
    @KylieJonkman 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    So impressed this is a mixed race!

  • @nathkling4604
    @nathkling4604 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    All the videos are so cool

  • @russellcole3549
    @russellcole3549 2 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว

      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.

  • @ayatchafaqui
    @ayatchafaqui 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    What a humble man , this was great to watch

  • @surfdetective
    @surfdetective 4 ปีที่แล้ว +117

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

    • @LoganLuqman
      @LoganLuqman 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      nail on the head

    • @Makta972
      @Makta972 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

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

    • @dexter131
      @dexter131 4 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @currenwiggin8982
      @currenwiggin8982 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @kylewattssurfing3266
    @kylewattssurfing3266 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Awesome yeeeeees coooool....

  • @987mooz7
    @987mooz7 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Aito👏
    Puissants le bro🙏☄
    Damn de caillasse

  • @Roger-tv7sf
    @Roger-tv7sf 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Take me there next time

  • @tord6712
    @tord6712 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This is why dutch wanted to go to Tahiti

  • @prosimian
    @prosimian 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Waiting for the Dutch van der Linde comments

    • @rickyspanish5602
      @rickyspanish5602 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Sacrificial Lamb just need some moah moneh

  • @lS-qp6zq
    @lS-qp6zq 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    💪🏼

  • @katereitzel
    @katereitzel 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Good job. :-)

  • @kelseymariebell1357
    @kelseymariebell1357 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Beautiful video 🙏🏻

  • @mts1189
    @mts1189 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This man from where?

  • @987mooz7
    @987mooz7 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    THANKS you 😉🤙
    Maruru Redbull 🤙

  • @NBFACADEMY
    @NBFACADEMY 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Motivational my word for this video.....

  • @sw-sq5gk
    @sw-sq5gk 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @ethan_hunter
    @ethan_hunter 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I do this sport

  • @najibelmaghraoui3132
    @najibelmaghraoui3132 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    More to Red Bull Surfing

  • @leemcmullan
    @leemcmullan 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    SPARTA!!!

  • @hunyotiago1271
    @hunyotiago1271 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Last comment of 2019
    Happy new year fellow Red Bull fan

  • @lwf5205
    @lwf5205 2 ปีที่แล้ว +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

  • @issacf4416
    @issacf4416 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @stokes58
    @stokes58 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

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

    • @stokes58
      @stokes58 4 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @stokes58
      @stokes58 4 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @sergioramirezmunoz2914
    @sergioramirezmunoz2914 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Amazing

    • @mts1189
      @mts1189 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes

  • @kelseymariebell1357
    @kelseymariebell1357 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Si beautiful - not above nature, part of 🙏🏻

  • @thenotoriousttg_clint
    @thenotoriousttg_clint 4 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @intosavage9213
    @intosavage9213 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    epilogue part 3

  • @luckybroi
    @luckybroi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

  • @vito7590
    @vito7590 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    You broke the football

  • @reihanahaggie8111
    @reihanahaggie8111 4 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @qini8331
    @qini8331 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Sounds like we got Watermen of other countries.

  • @notveryobviousguy4373
    @notveryobviousguy4373 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Dutch is smiling somewhere

  • @kevinagee4364
    @kevinagee4364 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    did he win the whole thing?

  • @idumpyourassdaily
    @idumpyourassdaily 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I Already Have....

  • @BruhMoment-ko4nw
    @BruhMoment-ko4nw 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Red dead fans know how much this video means

    • @ImperatorCHAOS
      @ImperatorCHAOS 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      But this guy totally got a plan

  • @jameshamana
    @jameshamana 4 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @darraghobrien1028
      @darraghobrien1028 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @Skyewastaken2
    @Skyewastaken2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @IPM71
      @IPM71 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @Skyewastaken2
      @Skyewastaken2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      OMG YES!!!

  • @manamana8638
    @manamana8638 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Blablabla🤪🤪🤪

  • @timdale4047
    @timdale4047 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This dude doesn't have a pension plan eh

  • @canbeanyone5265
    @canbeanyone5265 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Money .

  • @capronfunk4869
    @capronfunk4869 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hi

  • @lmean-ll4rv8le5j
    @lmean-ll4rv8le5j 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    ..

  • @nigelpar
    @nigelpar 3 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @nachoorciani9264
    @nachoorciani9264 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Like?

  • @ryudragonpunch9025
    @ryudragonpunch9025 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The waterman of Tahiti just happened to be white huh?

  • @talhatekcan4666
    @talhatekcan4666 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Fourth comment

  • @Makta972
    @Makta972 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Humm so Tahitian are White ? 😕

    • @JohnSmith-oo4qx
      @JohnSmith-oo4qx 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      The good ones are

    • @elenastewart3963
      @elenastewart3963 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      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 ปีที่แล้ว

      he is not tahitian, he is a popa'a

    • @Mollygaga42
      @Mollygaga42 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Are you jealous !

    • @user-dn6yh8jr1o
      @user-dn6yh8jr1o ปีที่แล้ว

      @@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 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @Dubstep011011
    @Dubstep011011 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Not really about Tahitian watermen

  • @laurainebuchanan6452
    @laurainebuchanan6452 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Get some resin n cloth and fix it ya gay lord

    • @MikeRoberts1964
      @MikeRoberts1964 4 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @powskier
    @powskier 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @Jay-fq8uz
    @Jay-fq8uz 2 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @mts1189
    @mts1189 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @mts1189
      @mts1189 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      ?

  • @dominiopublico1881
    @dominiopublico1881 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Boring!