Ever wondered what it's like to sit on top of a 7m wave?

Come and sit, let me describe it to you...

It's dark, the atmosphere is full of droplets, blown away by the winds... the air is almost liquid and becomes hard to breath. everything is moving around you, as the wave arrives. The ocean itself is sucked away from the reef.

Try to picture a massive, dark mountain of water, coming at you at a constant pace. And then it gets bigger, and bigger, and bigger... until it breaks. Like a crazy waterfall, tons of water suddenly drop.

And then, there's the sound.

Have you ever been outside during a thunderstorm? Feeling the thunder in your chest, almost as a second heart? Being torn apart between fascination and fear? Try to picture that feeling, when lightnings strike way too close...

This is the moment you are looking at right now, something that could so easily kill you, that you've never felt so alive before.

As for the title, this is what "Teahupo'o" means in Tahitian.