A newly crowned Coco Ho on the presentation podium after her Women's Rip Curl Pro Search Final win against Chelsea Hedges.
Coco's father Mike Ho, no stanger to victory himself having formally held both the Pipe Masters and Triple Crown titles, was apparently so excited at his daughters win, Coco feared he might jump off one of the cliffs at Belgas! Adriano talking about his horrific injury during the Rip Curl Pro Search event in Chile.
"I was a month and a half out of the water so that one was the worst. When I got hurt I can’t exactly remember everything because it was so powerful... I just remember when I got hurt I saw that everything was red in the water because it was my blood and after that nothing."
Check out more gnarly injuries. Reggae on the webcast commentary this morning, talking about Kai Otton and Tom Whitaker, who were pretty stoked about this morning’s swell at Supertubos. As Reggae put it: “I saw them getting ready in the car park and they were just so excited to finally get some juice.” CJ was certainly enthusiastic about ex pro surfer and Rip Curl Pro Search Contest Director Damien ‘Dooma’ Hardman’s performance during today’s TMN Expressions Session! During a post win interview after his victory against Nic Muscroft this morning, Bobby confides to our man Dane Sharp quite how much he wants to see a Rip Curl Pro Search globe on his mantle!
Don’t forget to keep watching the live webcast for all the surf action and exclusive interviews. Otto describing the best meal he can cook… An omelette which turns into scrambled eggs – and voila, the scramlet is born!
Er yeah, sounds delicious Kai…
Check out the video. A very relieved Ben Dun explains how tense he felt before his heat this morning against Phil Macdonald. The new ASP system means that there are no second chances for the surfers in Round 1 – you either win your heat or pack your bags.
Fortunately for Dunny he won with a 12.33, but when we interviewed him backstage, he explained that it wasn’t all plain sailing:
“I was lucky that I got that first wave or I think I would have been out. I’d been surfing at The Wall all day yesterday and this morning, but during the heat Phil went and surfed a bank further down the beach I didn’t even know about! I was just lucky to get a good one…” Normally chilled Filipe frantically trying to explain to security the urgency of being allowed to get access to the Supertubos site following the carnage of last night's massive 15ft swell.An unidentified Portuguese journalist onsite and caught up in the chaos at Supertubes this morning.After being recently named the as the #1 "hottest girl in pro surfing" by Transworld Surf, Alana Blanchard talk to us about the perils of using hot looks to help along a surfing career.

Check out the interview in full

Kekoa Bacalso chatting about some of his most knarly injuries.

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