Kai Lenny & Lucas Chianca, Nazaré Tow Surfing Challenge | SOUND WAVES

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Follow Kai Lenny and Lucas Chianca behind the scenes as they take on the Nazaré Tow Surfing Challenge in its brand new team format.
Oh my gosh, look at this. Look at it.
When it's really big, you can see through the barrel from here.
Yeah, you'll see. Tomorrow you'll be like, are you kidding me?
This one is 10 kilos and this one is 9 kilos.
Magic that I'm going to use tomorrow in the championship, I think.
Oh look, there's Chumbo.
Here we go.
Open the window, yeah?
We're ready, whatever you are.
Okay, I'm almost ready.
7 mil booty?
7 mil booty.
This guy wears, it's going to be like 7 mil everything. Let's go.
Hello? Hello, can you hear me?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go.
Straight, straight, men down, men down, men down.
Hopefully he doesn't say that.
Have fun.
Why are you with your partner?
I'm not that happy with Chumbo. He ran me over yesterday, so he better make it up today.
I think we're going to make the best team out there.
Check, check, one, two, can you hear me?
Say aloha.
Aloha.
Okay, guys, if you can, just call us when the set's coming. Oh my God, it's coming.
Hey Rich, this is Kai. I'm telling Lucas now.
Looks like we got a little bit of a set coming.
There's a freaking bomb behind this one.
Under it too, which is sick.
I was wearing the GoPro 360, and the wave is so hard.
Oh my God, don't lose that footage.
Noah's going to give it to Lucas, but I guarantee he's going to lose it, so I can put it away.
I love this place.
That'll kick your jet lag right out.
You want to change here?
I'm just going to go to dinner like this.
Okay, good.
I accidentally stayed out for six hours.
That's what happens when you're having fun.
No complaints.
We're going to do it again tomorrow.
Michael and Myra, how are you doing, good?
Good to see you.
When I got here in Portugal, especially in Nazareth, I feel so much at home.
I'm doing what I love, and Portugal just received me with open arms, and I'm just giving back with more open arms.
We just had so much fun in our session.
The main thing for me and Kai is we are always looking for performance, and go fast, and get more waves we can.
And that's really good, because I just found a really perfect partner for me.
My board.
My booties.
I love this. Actually, when I came first time to Nazareth, I didn't have any sponsor.
Then, two years after, I got the sponsor from Red Bull, and this was a dream for me.
And now, I have my blocker.
I think it's my ski.
Just a second.
Only a hug.
Just meeting Chumbo to talk about tomorrow.
Hey, Kai.
What's up, bro?
I don't think people are going to be looking at the rates tomorrow.
I think that's an advantage. We just make sure we keep on that.
Because if we need something, like we need another big wave, it's like, okay, boom.
Yeah, that's true. That wave was big today.
But you guys have two radios?
You have one of the radios.
I have one.
I think if you just tell me the best wave of the set, then I'll be reading the wave as well.
This guy will be yelling at me, too.
I'll be doing this, too.
Hey, Carlos.
What's up, Kai?
Well, priority.
You guys want to make sure?
We have first priority right now.
Yeah, we're going to start with first priority.
We're going to start with first.
F***, that's amazing.
But listen, you guys don't get stuck too much.
Don't wait for a set for 10 minutes, 15 minutes at the most.
Love you guys.
Love you, man.
Bye.
Valeu.
All right, grandma.
Time for bed.
Thank you, guys.
Thank you.
At the end of the day, I don't surf big waves to really compete.
I surf big waves because it's what I love to do.
Definitely think I broke a rib.
I can do this all my life, every day.
Lucas is, without a doubt, one of the best big wave surfers coming out.
You need people like him to push you to the next level.
The sky's the limit.
We keep doing our performance and getting biggest waves in the world.
We're going to grow in this sport for sure.
We're only scratching the surface for what's possible in big waves, towing in.
And I think it's not so much about riding the biggest wave ever.
It's about performing on the biggest waves ever.
So I think I'll tow Chumbo first.
He'll get a good one and then we'll switch.
I'll get a good one and then we'll start going back and forth.
Where Lucas is?
You know, we said 820.
He's not sleeping in my house, so it's not my responsibility.
Oh, there he is.
Hey, what's up, Mr. Kai?
We're here to watch you, bro.
You're ready.
I'm ready.
He's ready already.
You see it?
I haven't seen it yet.
I couldn't see because of the fog.
But at three in the morning, the water comes to the road, the main road here, to the avenue.
Last ten years, don't come with that violence.
I think today is going to stand the test of time for big wave surfing
because it's sort of the rebirth of towing surfing.
You ready to do this, bro?
Always.
Yeah.
Welcome from Nazareth.
A historic first ever tow challenge event.
Team Young Bulls will be the team to watch.
They are going to push the limits of progressive tow surfing today.
Here we go.
As you watch this massive wedge of a peak.
He's just putting it on right.
That's a pretty solid hack, wasn't it?
That was big.
That was straight up big.
Straight up.
That was just big.
Kai, the next one?
Kai Lenny, first wave of the event.
Complete spin, 360 degrees, lands with control, and then drops back in and loses control.
Oh, and what a tumble.
Wow.
He landed, bounced right back off, and was just in the air, in the air, in the air, and then landed and skipped out.
As Rich said, they're going to have to adjust the scale for Kai.
I get you one today.
Today, you get 60 foot barrel.
How does this next set come in with its second peak?
It's first peak and a half.
It's traveling very fast towards first peak.
Is that Trumbo?
Yeah.
Critical spot.
Oh, my God.
Where was he going?
That was horrible looking.
Oh, there he is.
Oh, God.
It's going to be a gnarly save he's going to have to do here.
He gets smashed.
I think they're going to switch.
I think there's probably only about 20 minutes left, so hopefully it pulses a bit and Kai gets a good shot.
Huge set coming up.
Lenny's getting whipped into this gigantic right.
Apexing with all the energy here.
Oh, that's the one.
I did a snap, and I looked back.
It was on you.
Lucas and Kai were going to always be the team to watch today, but they definitely proved that they are the most talented duo that we have seen in a very long time.
I had no idea it was that big.
God, I love big wave surfing.
This is why I love it.
Just come in and you get to relive the session again.
What?
Oh, yeah, dude.
You backdoored it.
A little bit deeper.
Good job.
Kai is more crazy than me.
Today I realized that.
But I like that.
We push each other.
Well, there you go.
Round of applause for an incredible day of surfing right there.
It's a massive waves.
Are they doing best team yet?
We better win.
So at this point, I'd like to actually call up the men's wave of the day.
Congratulations to Kai Lenny for the wave of the day.
Well, I was going to say I wouldn't have been able to ride that wave without Lucas.
So, Lucas, come on up here.
This is as much your award as it is mine.
Last few years competing with this guy, paddle and surfing.
And we're just like battling each other, hitting boards.
And we're good friends.
But it was fun to finally be able to team up and have the camaraderie to do it.
And thanks for doing it, buddy.
You might stay up on the stage because the next one.
Come on, stay up on the stage.
You guys are the best team.
All right.
So you are the best team as well.
Chemistry is real.
Team Young Bulls.
One more round of applause for all the competitors.
Until next time.
I want to show to Lucas.
He's just sitting there.
I'm going to be naked.
Bye.
I'm naked.
Is that our call sign?
He got stuck in the nose of the ski.
And then, oh my gosh, after I went to grab him, then I flipped the ski.
Oh, you don't know how many times he tried to kill me, dude.
He loves it.
You better get used to it.
We have cameras.
Tumbo, you like toe surfing?
I love toe surfing.
If you had to choose one, to paddle or toe the rest of your life, which one?
It's so hard.
It's normal.
Okay, I keep toeing.
Oh, my seat's so warm, Vincent.
You're missing out.
Look.
Oh, butt is warm.
I love warm, my warm butt.
