No surfing at day four at the Billabong Pro Tahiti

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Teahupoo. Photo: EiTB

The Billabong Pro Tahiti may be taking its time to get off the ground, but the world’s best surfers are finding plenty of ways to entertain themselves in the interim. They will have to do it all over again today – the Billabong Pro Tahiti has been called off this morning.

According to official Billabong Pro Tahiti surf forecasters Surfline, conditions on Tuesday and Wednesday are looking good and there may be some action in the ocean behind that as well.

“It does look like we’ll see successive swells for the last few days of the waiting period,” Kevin Wallis of Surfline said, “Although the timing on the second, and larger, of the SW swells will be cutting it very close.”

Most of the ASP Top 45 joined the Teahupoo locals for a Donovan Frankenreiter concert held at the marina last night. Bruce Irons (HAW), Joel Parkinson (AUS) and 1999 ASP World Champion Mark Occhilupo (AUS) were among the surfers singing back-up to the delight of the crowd and their peers.

Another call on competition will be made tomorrow morning at 7am.

Back into competition

Aritz Aranburu will be back into competition when swell arrives after the Basque surfer, 2008 ASP World Tour rookie and defending ASP European Pro Surf Tour champion, Aranburu twisted his knee during the MSF expression session at the Quilsilver Pro Gold Coast and pulled from the Rip Curl Pro Bell's Beach.

At 22, Aranburu has been on the rise for the past two years and is now a member of the Elite Top 45 surfers of the 2008 ASP World Tour.

He will face against Joel Parkinson (AUS) and Damien Hobgood (USA) in heat 6.