Photo: Ydwer van der Heide
Keahi grew up around the legendary surf spots of Noosa on Australia’s Gold Coast and splits his time between there and the North Shore of Oahu and, at just 25 year’s old, he’s already got five waveriding world titles under his belt. He missed most of the 2016 tour due to injury but returned for the final event and won it, throwing Airton’s title chase off course, and caused an upset in 2017 as well when he won the final event in Mauritius and snatched third place overall from under Paulino Pereira’s nose.