Is It Premature To Start Thinking About Teahupoo?

Alright, so the Billabong Pro Tahiti is still a good ways off. The waiting period isn’t for another 20 days, in fact. But if it’s wrong to look forward to the tour to throw themselves over cerulean Tahitian ledges than the surf world isn’t right. Who will get the biggest wave? Who will mysteriously drop out “with an injury” if the swell charts are painted red? And the greatest question of them all: Who will win? Kelly won’t be around to defend his 2016 championship so that podium’s wide open. Anyone? Filipe? Is that your hand that just shot up in the back? Here, we have Joel Parkinson, Jack Freestone, and Jack Robinson chatting about their favourite aspects of the left-hander.