RE-AIR: Joao Chianca - His debut at the Billabong Pro Pipeline, A massive North Shore winter, The year that changed everything, The road to the Championship Tour, Performing at Pipe, His surfing family, and Big goals for his rookie year

This week, we are re-airing our episode from 2022 with then rookie
standout, Joao Chianca. Championship Tour rookie Joao Chianca joins
the podcast to talk about making his debut at the Billabong Pro
Pipeline. He recaps his huge winter on the North Shore, enjoying an
amazing run of swell, staying at the Volcom house for the first
time, and competing in his first career event. He breaks down how
he prepared for Pipeline, how he took a short break to recharge for
the season, and how different it is surfing in heats with one other
person versus free surfing with hundreds of people in the lineup.
He looks back at his road to the CT, growing up in Saquarema with
his big wave surfing brother Lucas Chianca, idolizing Gabriel
Medina and Adriano de Souza, competing and traveling the Qualifying
Series with Samuel Pupo and Mateus Herdy, and his life-changing
2019 that eventually led to qualifying for the tour at Haleiwa last
year. Joao also touches on making the switch to riding Channel
Islands boards, the challenges of competing at places he’s never
surfed before, and his big goals for his rookie year. Learn more
about Joao and follow him here. Watch him live at the VIVO Rio Pro
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