At around the 00:50 mark here, you can clearly see Chilean pro Cristian Merello is stoked out of his mind with this tuberide at a rare Easter Island bombora. Is it because of his connection with all the ghosts and legends that surround Rapa Nui? Or is it the novelty of the score itself: a chilly throbbing left every bit as lengthy and scary as Cloudbreak or G-Land? Or is it the fact that it took a Chilean surfer of Merello's caliber to bring this mysterious rock back into modern surfing relevance?



It's probably none of that. It's probably just the same, old, wonderful stoke that comes with bagging a big, spitting tube with just your buddies around.





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