Finding Speed episode 3 covers the second week of the team’s back-to-back camps in Portugal, and round 2 of the Portugal Cup at Padela. This week Jack and Rueben were joined by first year junior team rider Tom Westgate, and Gravity School Coaching rider Tommy Walker, who is also a first year junior. Both Tom and Tommy have big personalities, which meant for an entertaining week.
Tom had just returned from 3 months skiing in Switzerland and Canada, where he had completed his training to be a qualified ski instructor. He was really excited to get back on the bike, and especially excited to ride his new RAAW Yalla! for the first time. Tom is big mates with team junior riders Oscar and Theo, so he was really keen to set a fast time on the Ventoso Gravity Park Leader Board and get ahead of his counterparts.
Tommy came to the coaching camp on a mission. He made it clear early on that he was keen to learn as much as he could, as efficiently as he could, and go on to set the fastest junior time on the Leader Board. We also got the news on day 1 of the camp that Tommy had been selected to race the first 3 rounds of the World Cup series, so this fired him up even more. It was all set to be a big week of coaching and racing.
This Swell Chase takes the award for one of the best paddle sessions I’ve EVER filmed.
Ask Nathan Florence, Billy Kemper, Jo Jo Roper, Benji Brand, Soli Bailey & the Coffin brothers. Cloudbreak was at its absolute dreamy best.
Having arrived back into Sydney on the Monday after 5 months in Europe to catching an early flight out the following morning to Fiji.
2 days later on Thursday the 7th of March this edit shows how historic this day was. Enjoy.
I checked Surfline and it said the wedge was 8-12ft, so I puled out the boogie board from the back of the work van, borrowed some fins from a body border that was getting out of the water and went and caught some bombs – The Poopies Channel