{"id":758216,"date":"2026-06-25T00:24:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T00:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/758216\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T00:24:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T00:24:13","slug":"watch-james-omitai-and-manua-babin-absolutely-charge-heavy-teahupoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/758216\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch James Omitai and Manua Babin Absolutely Charge Heavy Teahupo&#8217;o"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-326101\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-326101\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/teah-670x388.jpg\" alt=\"Teahupo'o bodyboarding\" width=\"670\" height=\"388\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-326101\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Just a send-lord sending it. Photo: YouTube\/\/Screenshot<\/p>\n<p>        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/favicon-surf.png\" alt=\"The Inertia\" width=\"30\" height=\"30\" class=\"lazyload\"\/><\/p>\n<p>In the surf world, bodyboarders <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theinertia.com\/surf\/fcking-spongers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">are often looked down upon<\/a>, both literally and figuratively. But if you\u2019re in the know, you know that bodyboarders are often some of the craziest, hard-charging lunatics in the lineup \u2014 especially when it\u2019s a lineup like Teahupo\u2019o. And when it comes to crazy, hard-charging lunatics at Teahupo\u2019o, Tahitians James Omitai and Manua Babin have the market cornered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTahitian send lords James Omitai and Manua Babin aren\u2019t afraid of big glassy bombs,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=g_5_OZluEuU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">wrote Webodyboard<\/a> on YouTube. \u201cIn fact at their local zone Teahupo\u2019o, they thrive on them.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just a send-lord sending it. Photo: YouTube\/\/Screenshot In the surf world, bodyboarders are often looked down upon, both&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":758217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,63,362502,362503,362504,41998,105],"class_list":["post-758216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bodyboarding","tag-james-omitai","tag-manua-babin","tag-teahupoo","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=758216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/758217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}