Watch: Goddesses
Here at Swellnet, the first we heard about the Fierro sisters of Tahiti was in 2018, when Harry Bryant relayed a story from the channel at Teahupoo.
On a guts up six-to-eight foot day, when chins were jutted and faces unsmiling, oldest sister Vahine paddled past with a frangipani behind her ear.
"We hadn't even seen a girl for ten days, and then out paddled this girl with a huge smile and frangipani in her hair," said a bemused Haz.
"She paddled straight to the inside, said hello to everyone...and then took off on the next set."
"Simple as you like."
Fast forward three years and Vahine is sitting equal-fifth on the Challenger Series, one good result away from a berth on next year's Championship Tour, while her younger sisters Heimiti and Kohai are also blossoming into great surfers.
Recently, filmmaker Morgan Maassen spent some time in Tahiti with the Fierro sisters and today he posted this short film.
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gunna be so cool to watch live at Teahupoo next year.
Tahiti must be an amazing place to be.
Hope she makes the tour. Good luck Vahine.
How was that last wave? Wow.
Unfortunately it's a lot like a Hawaii, it's looks great in the shinny vids but there is a lot of poverty. Absolutely fantastic people and culture though!
Yes that’s why I said place to ‘be’. Aware that it probably isn’t all rainbows and waterfalls. However it really does look like paradise on earth.
Would like to do a trip one day. Love to hear other’s experience
Don’t know about the daggy title, but a nice bunch of very talented and nature loving girls…wish everyone was like them and gave the planet a little more respect.
Well, they definitely look like they're enjoying themselves, zero attitude, 100% Joy. Refreshing to see.
That was bloody awesome. You could feel the stoke through the bloody screen - taking off with a smile that wide. Nice change from the looking hard, dropped shoulders, been here a thousand times, too cool for school, show no emotion, harder than you crew.....
The colours in the opening sequences up to the boat were amazing…greens on greens on greens. Amazing.
Very cool
As roadkill said great colours and nice to see a different clip. Cracker Barrel at the 3 min mark too. The woz would advertise that as a 15ft set.
Enjoyed that, nice clip, awesome frames and the girls can surf with... a smile wish them well.
Can surf…ripping
Way off topic here.... Why no discussion on swellnet regarding Slater's anti vax rant?
Morgan Maassen > beautiful film > thank you.
"We are witches..." I don't know what that means
One of the coolest questions I have heard lately.
At the end, the last superb barrel, the music of a rising, I think I hear the oppressed, women, nature, indigenous, poor - standing up.
Witches
Time to sit and think.