"Cloudbreak, the best wave on earth! That day was perfect! Bombs coming down the entire reef rifling big barrels. Hit some amazing waves and a very bad beat down on a wipeout followed by 6 more waves to the face after that so you had to earn them! But what a day, glassy giant tubes with a great crew of friends in the water trading off. Tavarua, the most magical place on earth."

-Jojo Roper 

"I saw the swell a few weeks out and I thought wow it could get really big and good but predicting that far out, it could change. I got down to Fiji and the forecast still stayed the same and a couple of pros flew down I kinda knew it was gonna be something big. I didn’t have a big enough board for what the forecast was saying so I had to look around the island and found this 7’8 Rusty and I said to myself this will work. I kept telling myself that whatever happens happens and not to stress out.

The day before the swell I went out to surf and my stomach was turning and I was just overthinking a lot of stuff, I just wasn’t feeling good but got a couple fun waves to help boost my confidence.

The morning of the swell I just felt calm and told my self I’m here, let go, go out and try to get something. I watched it for a while, it had a weird bump on it so I waited then saw a couple waves going underneath the pack. I thought it’s now or never so I slowly got ready and got in the water. I sat under the pack of guys and this wave came to me so I spun and had a super late drop and got to the bottom and bottom turned and saw the lip about to land on me so I jumped off. In my head I was like damn I blew that wave so whatever wave I get next I’m pulling in no matter what. I sat for a while and saw this wave that looked like a medium size one that no one wanted so I spun on it and it had an easy drop but looked like it was stretching out. So I grabbed rail and held on for my life and it worked out."
-Mick Davey