Can 23 Juniors Manage To Pillage Some Waves Around A CT?

Before the mid-year cut comes around to ruin peoples’ days/entire livelihoods, each CT event features a total of 54 surfers.

The average coach bus seats 50 – 60 people. So, we are talking about an actual busload of the world’s best and fittest surfers descending upon a location for about two weeks, usually with one wave in their crosshairs. 

You might imagine it’d be hard to pick off a few corners during such times. So what happens when you throw 23 junior surfers into the mix? 

Apparently, everyone still gets a fuckload of waves. 

Billabong has a long history of upskilling their junior team via coaching and sheer exposure to quality waves and surfing at their Bloodlines camps. 

The Euro crew identified the Peniche comp as an opportunity to keep the Bloodlines flowing, and you can watch the results above — though we already spoiled the results. 

Remember when we said everyone gets a fuckload of waves? 

Supertubos steals the show — despite appearing incapable of doing that when ‘the show’ is the one the WSL has been trying to put on in recent years — and the team backs it up with some HP surfing at HP beachbreaks north of the comp site. 

It’s also worth noting that Billabong was calculated and considered while rolling with such a deep crew. They chose emptier stretches of sand and made sure the kids surfed in different groups so as not to flood the lineup all at once.

In other words, they did it right.