“A fin to the head again” Tween surf prodigy Uriah Anchor returns to world’s deadliest wave 

Little blond boy with waterfall of Rapunzel-like flaxen hair takes on the mighty Teahupoo!

The eight-and-a-piece-year-old surf prodigy Uriah Anchor became famous two years ago when he outshone Filipe Toledo at Teahupoo, riding the joint as if he was born there, a plastic helmet his only protection against the deadly reef.

And, yeah, deadly it is, La Jolla surfer Patrick Phillips, killed there last week. 

Uriah Anchor is the surf handle of Uriah McDonald, a kid out of Oceanside, California. He’s part of the “child charging heavy waves” subgenre of surf content that’s been generating buzz over the past couple of years.

In his latest video, part of his Tahiti vlog series, the lil man, fresh from getting a fin in the head and having it all sewn back into place in California, has a real good swing at decent sized, four foot-ish, bigger sets, Teahupoo.

He don’t get a ton of waves, looks he’s gettin’ pushed into the wave in the vlog, but he sure don’t back away from shading himself deep in the Teahupoo cabana. The video is an interesting study of how damn fun the joint can be when it ain’t so big and there’s just enough west in the swell to make it fold.

How do you think you’d go at baby-to-mid Teahupoo? You got enough power left in those old blades to get you down the face, enough flex in the hips to square up and enough residual skill to get through the short barrel section?

And, what’s your thoughts on the new gen of super kids? You burning inside ’cause all your mammy and paps did was drive you to the beach maybe once a year with not even one trip to Tahiti or Hawaii?

Or you happy you got to figure out the mysteries of life all on your own?