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Teahupo’o gives us a fantastic season, Isn’t it? Kauli Vaast caught perhaps the best wave of his life this month. The CT was treated to one of the best competitions it has been able to organize in recent history. The CT ladies managed to surpass the historic performance(s) that stole the show in January’s Pipe Pro.

And then Monday came, and if you’ve been following or reading the forecasts over the last few weeks, you know it shouldn’t have happened. At least it shouldn’t have happened. That Well, that’s for sure. Monday would have been a big favorite for the first rest day during the Olympic competition window, not because there wouldn’t be waves, but because there would be wind. A lot of it was blowing really hard in all the wrong directions.

But instead of waking up to a victory at sea, the competitors woke up to a mad race to get their moves in.

“When the local Kauli Vaast says this morning’s Teahupo’o was ‘perfect,’ that carries extra weight. You can’t argue with that,” noted Evan Quarnstrom, who has been in Tahiti for some time covering the Games. The slowness.

Add Monday to the list in a season that will go down as an all-time season. Not just because this was the year the Olympics came to town, but because golf consistently rises to the occasion and puts on the best show(s). Gabriel Medina went viral with a claim that would be hard for even the most salty of Gabs haters to ignore. Ramzi Boukhiam and Joao Chianca were throwing hay bales at each other to the point that Chianca knocked out excellent scores from his final heat total (twice). In fact, Boukhiam’s heat total of 17.80 would have been good enough to beat the entire field on Monday, with the exception of Joan Duru’s insane performance against Alan Cleland in Heat 4 and, of course, Chianca, the man he was up against.

And now we’re just waiting for the final day of competition. Most expect the next opportunity to come at the end of the competition window, which means we’ll have about a week of rest days before we see Olympic surfing in Teahupo’o again. Whatever the call, it’s going to take a lot to top Monday.