EP 102: 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

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 your ad choices.
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