Fearless Moroccan charger Boujmaa Guilloul, 29, loves nothing more than a mid-year trip to the Polynesian paradise of Tahiti and, more specifically, to windsurf the bone-crunching super-slab at Teahupo’o.
Story Boujmaa Guilloul // Photos Ben Thouard
(This feature originally appeared in the July 2013 issue of Windsurf Magazine. Print and digital subscriptions for readers worldwide are available HERE.)
With longtime buddy Baptiste Gossein based in the island’s South West, Bouj is unlikely to miss his annual June jaunt to flirt with the razor sharp reef at ‘the end of the road’. Most may know Boujmaa as a double-looping aerial Hellman, or even as a one of Morocco’s most stylish surfers. But it’s when he marries the two elements together and starts pitching his jumping skills against the thick, barreling lip at Chopes that things start to get really interesting. The man himself talks us through what the place means to him.
