Filipe is leaving for Tahiti for the second time this year

Will he arrive just in time for the code red swell? Returning from Costa Rica he announced it on Instagram stories


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Two-time world champion Filipe Toledo will make his second visit of the year to the Teahupoo Olympic venue in the coming days, he said in an Instagram story from the plane on which he returned from a family vacation to Costa Rica.

Toledo said he will now go home to sort things out and it will be time for another training camp in Tahiti.

He did not specify dates, but if it is not long before he is going to find himself in a Tahiti that is much less friendly than the one he experienced in May, when he travelled with the Brazilian Surfing Confederation for the first training camp, prior to the start of the Tahiti Pro.

A swell similar to the code red that broke in 2011 is on its way to Tahiti, Swellnet forecaster Craig Brokensha announced.

July 10 and 11 are expected to be the biggest days, just for tow, they reported.

Brokensha said the sea will be rough in the days leading up to the swell and it is expected that the waves will continue to break afterwards.

Toledo left the 2024 Tour after the Pipe stage, saying he needed a break for his mental health.

While "on vacation" he visited Madrid, Mexico, Costa Rica, Waco and Lemoore and visited Tahiti only once.

 

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