Tahitian Pearl Princes:
5 Princes of legend for the legendary tahitian pearl
Rodolphe Vinh Tung
Third meeting at the international Tahitian Pearl campaign in Free Spirit. This time, we find the dancer, prince of the slipstream, Tahitian prince of the Tahitian Pearls, Rodolphe Vinh Tung in France at Enghien-les-Bains, on the lake of the resort “Ile de France” on June 18 and 19, 2005.
The accommodating host for a second year, the first leg of the World Wakeboarding Cup and our lagoon prince, European triple champion and winner of the 2001 Word Games, Rodolphe Vinh Tung. After the rounds in Moscow and Singapore, it’s Doha in Kuwait that gives us a meeting with Rodolphe for the final round.
The concept of the Tahitian Pearl Princes
Rodolphe Vinh Tung, Pearl Tahitian Ambassador, was chosen by the Gie Pearls of Tahiti for his discipline, work ethic, and an intense vision of movement.
Fear, discipline, harmony, emotions, peace, shadow and light, the Tahitian treasure is versatile in his power. Conquering fear, he uses his adrenaline to go beyond himself, to leave behind emotions, to pass his limits and reach perfection.
Rodolphe Vinh Tung symbolizes the Tahitian Free Style that expresses itself in beauty, strength, gracefulness, and perfection.
He is the third Prince to promote the Tahitian Link and to bond with the Free Spirit Pearl. The idea of the Tahitian Link is a generic line of Tahitian pearl jewelry made to wear like an I.D. code composed of thousands of small ornaments for the neck, wrist, and ankle.
Rodolphe Vinh Tung: A Portrait
Rodolphe spent all his childhood in Tahiti, among the southern archipelago community of Fariipiti. The French champion Pierre Carmin initiated him to water-skiing; who took Rodolphe under his wing and introduced him to wakeboarding.
The wakeboard principle is simple: the rider uses the wave created by the boat pulling him to perform tricks and freestyles. Known as an extreme sport, wakeboarding is part of water sports. To make the connection with a better-known sport, one could say that the wakeboard is to waterskiing what snowboarding is to skiing.
In the 90s, he joined the wakeboarding circuit and became a European professional. His totem, the dolphin, is in his image: lively and precise. Rodolphe, called Rodo by friends, remains an emblematic figure of his growing profession.
