Supertubos supplies the barrels before Portugal's title-contest heats

World Surf League's training-day highlights draw an unusually fast audience, with water-level shots prompting requests for more.

Channel: World Surf League Story of October 16, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 37,605 views a day, 12 times a normal first day on this channel (3,214).

Highlights: WSL Fantasy LIVE Training Day | MEO Rip Curl Pro Portugal presented by Corona Cero 2026

The jerseys are on, but the points aren't at stake yet. At Supertubos, Championship Tour surfers are dropping into hollow waves, launching above the lip and finding their lines before Portugal's competition begins.

The World Surf League's training-day highlights reached about 23,000 views in ten hours, already several times the channel's usual full-day audience for a Short. That brisk start comes while viewing across the channel is well below its usual daily pace.

This is the league's promotional warm-up reel for its Portugal event, not competition highlights. A rock soundtrack replaces commentary as the edit moves from boards being carried down the beach to deep barrel rides and aerial attempts. Between those airborne moments, surfers carve hard turns through the shifting peaks. A closing aerial view pulls back to show the lineup and the event village along the shore.

The stakes come from what follows: Portugal is billed as the season's penultimate Championship Tour stop, before the Pipe Masters. The accompanying training broadcast also gives fantasy players a look at contenders before making their picks, answering one viewer's question about the purpose of the warm-up coverage.

Another viewer asks for more of these water-level shots during competition. Here, those close views put the curling wall of water, rather than a score or a commentator, at the center of the action.

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The numbers

The training reel has already passed the channel's usual full-day Shorts audience, despite a quieter day for views across WSL.

the video's first day

usual first day here

3,214

this video

37,605

subscribers

1,660,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

780,576,666

views per day

46,621

typical day: 218,311

the video

views

22,578

comments

9

days online

1

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

World Rugby

2,050,000

New Zealand Cricket

1,990,000

PGA Tour

1,780,000

World Surf League

1,660,000

All Blacks

1,420,000

Lord's Cricket Ground

1,290,000

As of October 16, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.