"Chris is smooth and graceful to the point of being balletic. It must be nice to be calm in the eye of that storm."

It's just over 24 hours till the waiting period for the most anticipated comp of the year begins, The Billabong Pro Tahiti. So to get in the mood Tim Bonython has cut this Teahupoo clip.

"There was frost in the car park at 5am as I began the hour long walk into Shipsterns Bluff. With my head torch lighting the track, I could hear a huge southerly swell colliding with the rugged cliffs of Cape Raoul 45 minutes away from my destination. On arrival Shipsterns was maxing with 12 - 15 foot lumps of ocean buckling their way down the reef."

As a young band you can't be too precious about where you get a gig: backyard parties, country RSLs, supermarket concourses, all are satisfactory stages for a burgeoning ensemble. And tonight, for The Pinheads and Skegss it was a surf shop floor. 

And now here's something for the Greenough generation. An underground charger pulling in under hand power as Pink Floyd's 'Echoes' provides the background score.

The World Tour scored excellent waves at the resurrected J-Bay Pro so high hopes surround the next event on tour, the Billabong Pro Tahiti. So, will there be swell?!

So li'l Jack is in Tahiti at the behest of his sponsor when a new swell hits the charts. What's a precocious grom to do?