Echo of the waves

Wave of 'mana'

Tereva David is working with the local Teahupo'o community to embrace the Polynesian way of living in harmony with the environment.

One of the best to ride the Paris Olympics' ferocious wave in front of his village, David has run camps for promising young French Polynesian surfers for the past decade.

David, 35, teaches them respect not just for the wave, but for themselves, for each other and for their culture and environment.