Von Rupp/Roseyro, plus Dupont surmount stacked field at TUDOR Nazaré Big Wave Challenge I Post Show

What a monumental day it's been at the Tudor-Nazare big wave challenge and as we expected major performances from some huge names from the big wave scene convening here at Nazare. The swell continued throughout the day we're looking for the likes of Lucas Schombo who's been decorated really with everything that you can win in terms of the glittering prizes he's achieved at this wave down the years but he didn't have it all his own way today Kai Lenny great to see him back in action here and this morning surfers pushing so hard guys like Nick Von Rupp were giving it everything and you could see how much it meant to him to try and get the win and guess what he's gone and done that an amazing team performance from Nick Cloud teaming up with Clermont Nazare has been one of the rising stars of the big wave scene and a multi-disciplinary and served a bit notice last time out 12 months ago and then getting the biggest score for a male this time around Clermont Nazare very much announcing himself in this event as we'll get ready for the awards ceremony and there's not no really anywhere else comparable to this scene here on the cliff with the waves that just crash underneath you can actually feel the vibrations see the spray come up the rescues going down right underneath the crowd's noses here really is an absolutely magical part of the surf world and it's been a real pleasure to be back here again once again to celebrate the culture and the excitement and surfers that are here for months on end each winter dealing with the cold dealing with the danger factor putting in the commitment and the training well that all pays off hard to think of someone really that spent more time committed and dedicated to this place than Nick Von Rupp over the last few seasons obviously based here in Portugal anyway just down the coast in Praia Grande this is his home and up here whenever we can and I think this is going to be a really emotional moment to have a Portuguese winner in terms of the team at this venue looking back towards the town beach and a real contrast in the sort of magnitude of the waves that fill in there which just really underlines just how magical the bathymetry is here and a freak of nature that this place is really are being treated to something that's pretty rare see waves of this size and magnitude so consistently and on top of all that we just so happen to have this outcrop and a rock which provides the perfect stadium really type atmosphere for fans to come and watch and enjoy it all and really be involved to be part of the event you see spectators clapping the rescues and that's one of the reasons why this place has really just gone down as one of the biggest tourist attractions in Portugal back when surfers like Garrett McNamara and Andrew Cotton and the likes when they were first surfing out here I don't think many people really heard of Nazare wasn't particularly well known now absolutely one of the places a must do whether you're a surfer or just a tourist over here in Portugal coming to Nazare is very much on the itinerary right now skis heading back motoring back into the harbor everyone back safely which is of course the most important thing anytime there's a session out here there is always the element of danger which is part of the reason why it is so exciting great to see everyone getting back in there fine and we're approaching that awards ceremony I think it's going to be a lot of energy from the crowd here as well just really enjoying the fact that Nick von Rupp with his mate Clement Rosario the Europeans representing Carlos what a day mate what a day Paul amazing we did it again huh the surfer was good you know I really like the way the new generation approached the waves and the results I think was fair I was talking to João just now you know I didn't agree with some scores but the result was fair we've already talked about this and you know every year we come into this event we look at names like Kai Lenny Lucas Schenker and we've generally thought okay there's a lot of talent in in the field but they have kind of been in a league of their own they brought new lines completely stuff that no one else is doing the way they've attacked and I think obviously with the result that we've seen here but just overall from the points of everyone feels like everyone else is elevated here João yeah I really I mean I think it's it's beautiful to see that's what makes the sport progress and you know back in the day and surfing you know airs were unheard of and then you know that was that whole revolution that you know Kelly's generation brought and big wave surfing it's you know it's kind of uh really similar in that sense and Kai and Lucas really brought this completely different approach to big wave surfing and just this attack mode you know and and not like we were saying not so much surviving obviously these sizes but um but you know then the fact that guys like Clement are watching you know and studying it and then just coming up and then bang you know they're able to you know really skyrocket to the top guys like Ben Larg you know so again what Carlos is saying this is what is so important for uh something that requires so much experience but big wave surfing really needs also the youth movement you know it needs that different approach like different lines and just something that makes it you know um continually evolving and and it's great we just witnessed that right here right now let's check out some vision of our men's winners Clement Rosario and Nick Van Rup victorious here at Nazaré on the day which promised much really in terms of the forecast of what was going to go down a couple of days out you never really know what you're going to get until the day but we saw some great performances from these guys snap has been really impressive i mean they didn't have the lead for all of the day though Nick and Clement did have that lead there for a hot little minute but uh yeah you see the game face on there Nick Clark see how serious he is the preparations everything dialed in these two and they're not here to make up the numbers i mean it's obvious really but they were here for the win huge yeah look at Clement just waiting kind of like then you you don't really see it and then suddenly goes into that massive slash so deep backs it up and i really love the way that he deals with the bumps you know feels like he's just going over the bumps yeah i mean that was early on this morning right the waves weren't the biggest then but just the approach that they were showing the attacking lines the aggression the management of the speed and the control all of those elements that really set them up built that platform for that second heat that they surf when they actually did the damage of the schools yeah what steps out uh out of this team it's the way they are approaching the wave today was kind of unique you know with some really new way of uh surfing big wave red bull and very smooth too very consistent and even Nick that didn't have the best day of his life was pushing really hard was able to put together some scores too i think this risk element is what's really cool and you see that line and you see a lip that is just so menacing and that you still have you know that attitude yeah just go and try to attack it and Nick you know he didn't make some of the turns and you could see he was a little bit bummed but he was already evolving his attack and you know and just that is already a big shift and and um i think yeah we just witnessed like a big a big jump and and that's really cool that's really cool well on their way back in our winning team Nick and Clement caught up with AJ McCord thanks so much Paul Nick Clement incredible performance so far today what did it take for you to to get to the top of the leader board a lot of training a lot of training with Clement here last year we almost won we should have won but judges admitted they didn't see my last wave so i mean this year we came back even more training we've been training all season long Clement's been absolutely ripping i've been getting a couple ways as well and it's been a long season we're just stoked that you know Clement was really able to get two sevens i got a six on my first heat and and we're on you know in the leaderboard that's what we want and you're not just on the leaderboard as a team but you're the one-two punch in terms of the men Clement how much does that speak to the strength of you two together yeah it's it's nice to have a nice team i think together you have the experience i'm more young and a bit more crazy sometimes but yeah i think we we do a good team together and we got some pretty nice wave i'm super happy to be on the leaderboard with Nick and Giverdelle i think as well let's see what uh Lucas and Schumbo is gonna uh Scooby and Schumbo gonna do last year they beat us kind of last minute so we hope it's not gonna happen again congratulations great show today thank you thank you thank you great interview great interview they're already feeling it aren't they yeah but it was on edge until the end it was really on edge until the end and i like the way they're seeing it you know it's a rivalry there's a lot of energy they're motivating them yeah yeah switching over to think about our best female performance and we talk about experience and how important that is here and really there is no substitute for it in terms of getting the read on the wave and you think of surfers like Fred and Justine Justine Dupont with a partner Fred David and Justine so dialed into this wave the amount of time she's been spending here for several years now and that commitment pays off big time she's living here yeah full time full time i think junior was born here right Elias i think so yeah i'm not sure but um yeah what a what a story i mean Fred and her they moved here they again this full commitment to the break to the wave and um yeah it you know her talent and small waves longboarding and you can just see like just the lines that she's going for she's all wrong and like i said you know always i have to highlight that she's stoked all the time you know she's always happy yeah and that makes a huge difference you know that was that was such a such a beautiful hook under the lip you know fell over spray and committed to the short break look at that and made her out of that unbelievable that was cool all right time to go down to our awards presentation with Chris Cote surf world proud and with that it is time so to help us award the trophies as well we have president of WSL Europe Francisco Spinola and Manuel Siqueira the mayor of Nazare we have seen some incredible performances over the year and this wave truly is a monster and one woman has come to this wave and tamed this beast time and time again your winner for the Tudor Nazare big wave challenge best women's performance give it up for Justine Dupont let's get the whole team up here Justine an incredible performance yet again you're unstoppable here at Nazare and i can see you are one of the greatest mothers to ever surf this wave that's an easy one to say Justine tell us about your challenge today tell us what it feels like to be one of the most dominant surfers in the history of this event um i think it's just because i have a good surrounding so i'm just gonna thank so much my team thanks so much eric because you can say we we should have a prize for the best driver in Nazare for all time it's eric he's the best driver for all the time the crazy swell as well all the time they are there all the time putting the time in the water so yes thanks so much eric um i have a lot to say thanks thanks a lot to my love thanks to andre because his wife is pregnant she was about to give birth yesterday in fact she postponed for tomorrow like this andre could do the safety for us since the beginning since our first day here so thanks so much and thanks jessica to let him go under the and yeah thanks so much to the family that take care of our little one when we are in the water so thanks a lot family machado thanks to you and um yeah well done clement it's a it's really sick to to see this young kids coming up and it's a bright future for him he's pushing the the level of big wave surfing uh he's french so it's a proud and uh yeah well done well done clement and uh he making the the thing a bit harder for chumbo lucas chumbo but he's such an inspiring surfer lucas he's amazing so well done lucas for your amazing um recovery and uh yeah it was uh hard because he broke his ankle with me in mavericks uh one month and a half something like that ago and he came back to nazaré to surf and to try to fight against the came on came on got the best of it so yes thanks everybody so that is sorry i was speaking for uh thanks so much the water safety thanks so much to all of you guys to come here and to make the noise on the cliff you make it special thanks a lot thank you one of the greatest to ever do it justine dupont ladies and gentlemen yeah and justine won now so you guys can have your baby give it up one more time teamwork makes the dream work congratulations justine dupont all right so the tutor nazaré nazaré big wave challenge best men's performance winner had to go out there and battle some of the best big wave surfers on the planet so after nearly two hours in the water challenging conditions i want to hear a huge nazaré round of applause representing france give it up for clement rossetto clement you went up against some of the biggest names in this sport and now your name is right there with them among the elite what's it feel like to get a victory here at this incredible wave yeah i still can't believe it uh last year we finished second with nick i finished second individual it was such a big dream i watched from from just there the podium and now i'm on top of the podium uh chumbo is pushing me a lot i have nick pushing me as well we trained super hard all the season lucas was not here for one month and a half he was not training he was injured so he was there today on the water pushing hard and we were like super scared that he will get the lead uh i'm super happy i can't wait to be here next year and try to give my best on the water and that everyone's will be at 100 percent and i'm super proud to to be here today well i know you have a big team behind you but your performance out there will now be considered legendary one more time give it up for clement and now we've been talking about teamwork all day long not just the team of surfers in the water but the team of spotters behind us the safety team the team that put together this entire competition it takes a village to put on an event of this magnitude but the end of the day it's all about the team that's in the water your best team performance winners for the tutor nazare challenge represented right here by clement rosario and by portugal's nick von rup your team champions raise that flag hi nick so nick you put in a lot of time a lot of energy and a lot of effort out here as does your team why don't you go down the line and tell us what it means to you to be standing on this stage with these champions it's been blood sweat and tears for 10 years 15 years nazare is such an important place for us this season we put it all on the line we're here in the water whether it's six foot 100 foot onshore offshore two weeks ago we had one of the biggest swells ever we're out there we're the first ones and i want to thank all these guys right here this this means a lot to us because you know we created mountains of the sea exactly for this to push the levels and we pushed the levels two weeks ago when it was really big we and i want to thank clement for being such an incredible surfer and you know getting better better driving uh and all the rest of the team that's supporting uh for us to make this possible so and this is also for portugal is these are some photos that are going to be uh shown on front pages all over europe all over the world so get them now your team champions the 2025 tutor nazare big wave challenge i want to say congratulations to all of our competitors and thank you to our safety teams for keeping watch on these athletes and now it's time it's time to celebrate big wave surfing it's time to celebrate this beautiful city of nazare let's hear it one more time for all of our athletes for our winning team another epic event in the books thanks chris emotional scenes nick runner-up absolutely delighted to represent portugal and the best team really embodying what it means to surf successfully and safely crucially out here at nazare as we see a demonstration of the inflation inflated on the stage best place to be inflated and instead of seawater going in your face i'm a stray at galicia straight out of the bottle love this stuff here great energy what a fun day of competition that we've had amazing so so cool yeah nick really i mean blood sweat and tears he really put it all together and to honor with the victory for his project the mountains of the sea and you know like all of his sponsors and he really you know uh puts it all puts it all on the line and and this is a great testament yeah it was it was it was a key fight and lucas i mean amazing that after coming back from an injury and pushing it on a really hard day so bouncy stretching his injury like through and through laura obviously also you know a rookie coming in so strong ben third amazing great day for europe great day for france taking out both men's and women's individual performance come on rosario and justine's upon let's dive into those men's scoreboard and just see exactly what clement was able to do in terms of his numbers and someone that really was able to rise to the challenge that's been set really and that bar's been set really high by lucas shanker just a reminder again lucas shanker has won this event every time it's around he's been unbelievable here paddling he's won towing best team he's been absolutely incredible out here big story as well ben log first time ever in the event third place that's huge massive massive yeah the first chance he he got and he immediately shows that youthful you know exam what we were talking about here and and just uh really honoring that place this opportunity that garrett gave him you know and he grabbed it he grabbed it with all he got and yeah so you know these guys are really a lot of grit a lot of energy yeah and just honoring this massive wave isn't it you know i really like the testimony you know the speech they were very true you know everything that i see behind the scene you know everybody was saying face to face to to the cameras and no mask at all you know this is what we leave for real you know like you know it's the big wave story we've been building here and been reading here and at nazareth and we are just witnessing the future of the sport yeah overall performances that we saw today as well we know we talk about competition generally like elevates the level as well in big ways there's something a little bit different but we saw again how this format really just allows everyone to get there and really shine and push their limits yeah i i fully agree i mean you know i think if there's too many teams in the water you know i think so that's been an adaptation and i think the rules and the formats are always evolving so that it's all about the high performance right so that what it really does boil down to is that it doesn't get too tactical so i mean i think all across the board in all sports you know it's like watching a football match you know if you see guys playing for the tie or getting too tactical it gets boring it's not a show it's not like it's not all on the line you know and so this is the format has to kind of follow that you know and then the surfers obviously they're going to do their thing they're going to be competitive they're going to learn the rules read about them know that it's 45 minutes no it's not in an hour and a half you know they have to adapt to that but the bottom essence of it is really to put on a show and and i think yeah when it when all those elements come together like it did today it's really cool how you know overcome the conditions and rip let's check out the women's leaderboard now and of course one of the other things unique about this event having both the men and the women out in the same lineup in the same conditions and justine dupont really she's been unbelievable at this event throughout it's cool to see laura crane get involved unfortunately she did get hurt early on but i think a very bright future for her michelle bouillon as well as ever as you might expect great surfing from her the wind here still eludes her she just seems to be getting better and better every time though and then the teamwork we talk about how important that is being crucial and there we go von rap or zero not a lot in it you know a couple of points really something maybe of a surprise in general if you look at the form the winners from last time out shanker and scooby but in that third place position that classic blend of youth of experience both of you guys have been mentors here and you've brought on that next generation how cool is it to see koti and young ben laar getting involved amazing amazing you know be able to teach someone for a long time and seeing how that guy it's it's getting better and better and more mature and mature and and one day you're teaming up with him and you end up giving a show this is one of the outlines of the event for sure you know ben and and cody finishing up at the top of the rankings and just performance at yeah top five yeah let's dive into our top five moments from the day quite a lot to pick through obviously every wave that breaks really is pretty significant but we've dialed into it wipeouts that's gonna happen anytime you get a big wave event luckily today no one really seriously hurt but he's got three in a row he was charging on he was just going for it and he managed to get back on he totally bounced back and yeah and i think um the backup he had a key key backup there goes lucas captain different face on the second heat yeah that one looked like that's the beauty of it it could have gone either way and these lines look how hard he is on that bottom turn how long he stays on that rail it's incredible he really is the you know he brought the future of big wave surfing and it's great that he made it that he did you know obviously so fresh from from his injuries so i mean again i was gonna say that you know it would be very easy for him just to step back and say no i don't want to compete you know i'm not feeling 100 but instead of doing that you know that's the thing about team you know he wants to be partner with scooby you know and say scooby i'm gonna be there with you i'm gonna do my best to be back and he's here you know and he did his best and he didn't sell it cheap you know no you know he rolled to the end and absolutely yeah good job good job for them and but this guy clement he was all over today it was his day yeah that was his day he really shined a nice kid too yeah super super very good attitude too yeah really really cool and he's just stoked i think it's that same stoke of when you get that opportunity here's justine and that's the queen of big wave huh yeah she's the best with the baby on stage as well how great was that moment amazing amazing yeah she really had a wonderful day oh my god yeah this this way was something else she went for that inside kind of like carve two turns yeah like right on the hook you know and made it out of the form yeah you're the boys yeah the top moment the team performance unbelievable seats here as we saw clement and nick that chemistry that you do need to have that it's not two individuals just surfing together in the same bracket it really is about clicking personality you guys talked about it during the live call as well there's a lot of things that need to work there to get that magic and last minute decisions is it 25 minutes you know did you catch a good one i can do better you know but still passing the chance to another a lot of things like really in live live action you know like every single decision every single pickup you know is kind of like can frustrate you and you want to blame your partner if you miss something you know so many things at stake and to keep that positivity all the way through i think it's what's carlos saying it's the things that big wave surfing can contribute to the world at large and hopefully i can just put in one last little kind of plug to hope zones foundation you know this organization that is focused here in nazareh and that we're you know putting all our energy to planting a seaweed farm just a little bit south here of the harbor and honoring you know just the nature side of things and i think um that's what it's so cool that you know it is surfing it has this beautiful side of being connected to nature but yeah we're really trying to get as many people behind us you know nixon ambassador so i was really stoked personally but everyone's behind us justine everyone that shows up to the cleanups and stuff that we do in the harbor and yeah check us out at hopezones.org it'll be great you know any support um and just yeah just the good vibes goes a long way more power to you for doing that boy it's been an absolute pleasure having a couple of legends alongside you here sharing your thoughts and your insights on big wave surfing it's been really really cool thank you so much for that we're going to send you out with some highlights don't forget march 15th portugal seems like the place that we'll be back here for the ct in paniche can't wait for that in the meantime thanks for league for broadcast around the world and may not be retransmitted reproduced rebroadcast or otherwise distributed or used in any form without the written consent of the world surf league