Perhaps Bede Durbridge knows something the rest of us don't?

Just days before the Billabong Pro Teahupoo - the most frightening event on tour - begins it's waiting period, Durbridge hits the surf at D'Bah. At a gutless one foot, it's not the sort of surf one would normally use to train for Chopes. Unless they get skunked for waves yet again, in which case his aerial act will come in mighty handy.

All photos by Adam Weathered.//STUART NETTLE