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Walking into a World Championship Tour (WCT) locker room is a bit like getting a pit pass at a Formula 1 race. It’s a place where the machinery lies bare for all to see and an opportunity to look under the hood of what everyone is driving. And while we’re not exactly comparing engines at pro surf events, there is something to knowing what’s under the feet of the world’s best surfers.

Over the last couple of years, it’s been widely suggested that Filipe Toledo is one of the fastest surfers on the planet, if not the fastest – not only in the unbridled free surfs, but also at the elite competition level.

World Surf League webcast anchor, Ronnie Blakey, has seen a

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