UNKNOWNTAHEITOR: HEITOR & BRASILIANS CHARGE MEATY TAHITI

Footage: Francielle Ferraz He may have had a little trouble getting through heats, but you'd have to be clinically dead not to have had your socks blown off by the work of rookie Heitor Alves this year. At every stop this year he's pulled something crazy out of the bag. His go-for-broke duels with Dane Reynolds at Bells and J-Bay, in particular, have raised more eyebrows than a plastic surgeon. Likewise, it should astonish no one that he charges just as hard when the contest scaffolds are pulled down - check this clip from a couple of months back as Heitor and event winner Bruno Santos gave Chopes the once-over, a couple of days after the Billabong Pro ...