Ryan Callinan stars in opening round of Tahiti Pro.
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00:00 6.67 to 4.93 keeps Liam O'Brien in the lead.
00:11 Here comes from Arcal coming back.
00:13 Got a long wall.
00:14 In front of him and it comes out.
00:16 That was magic.
00:18 And he does feel like he erased that one that he didn't make.
00:22 So feeling good.
00:23 Ryan Calinet back at it.
00:26 That is incredible.
00:27 We're going to take another couple looks at this Carissa.
00:29 That was just incredible.
00:31 I think those are the obviously the highest scores is when we're all surprised.
00:38 Just came through the foam ball.
00:40 Jesse, we're going to take another look from the water angle.
00:42 Yeah, some guys having a look and he's just snuck that one under and just as Strider mentioned
00:47 like the wave previous it was just as good if not better than this one and kind of got
00:52 caught.
00:53 But look at the tube monster right there.
00:54 He's completely disappeared.
00:56 Disengage the fins right there.
00:57 He was like sliding sideways and somehow engaged the rail again and came out.
01:01 He was like shocked that he made it.
01:03 That's how deep he was and just making sure he was paddled to the metal the whole time.
01:07 Huge pump right there.
01:08 As deep as you can get.
01:10 This is massive, massive for Ryan.
01:13 Massive scores too.
01:15 Vaults into the lead with a 9.1.
01:18 One judge goes 9.5.
01:19 Throw in the 9.5, the 9 point ride.
01:23 Average the 9.3 and the two 9s.
01:24 You get that 9.1 and a big lead for Arcal.
01:29 Those are the moments that we love here.
01:32 Slow motion you can really break this down Jesse.
01:35 Got pretty deep right there.
01:37 Super deep.
01:38 As much as it was kind of a short barrel, mostly for today we had a lot of south more
01:41 angled waves that ran down the point.
01:44 But seeing from the side angle almost straight into it, he disappeared for quite a good time.
01:50 So the judges are going to take notice of that.
01:53 And just culminating it up.
01:54 He has such a clean, beautiful style and always on rails.
01:58 You see it right there.
01:59 Driving through just one of the side fins and the middle fin.
02:03 Keeping all that rail engaged.
02:04 Bringing it all the way around.
02:06 Just classic surfing from Ryan.
02:09 Beautiful.
02:10 Then you have the good part of it.
02:13 The 9.1, that's the highest men's single wave score of the day so far.
02:17 Can you describe to us what it's like in a barrel out here at Chihopu?
02:21 Not a lot of people have experienced that.
02:23 Yeah, that one came in really west.
02:26 So some waves hit the reef up the top and kind of have more of an angle towards the
02:31 boats and then this one almost comes away from the boats.
02:35 And Barron looked at it and he had priority and he turned it up which would have been
02:39 a really hard backside wave to make because I kind of had to pump a lot.
02:42 I pulled in and I went "oh it's not as open as I'd like" and then it kind of just kept
02:46 getting more open and I hit the foam ball and felt it spin and I was like "oh I'm too
02:50 deep" and then it just felt like I was like "oh I'm still going, I'm still going" and
02:55 then the fog cleared and it was super open and I was so pumped to be still standing on
02:59 my board.
03:00 But yeah, I've had some nice waves out here but just to get one in a heat, it's pretty
03:06 special.
03:07 Well, I got you on my fantasy.