4-6′ windy shitty surf.

good morning. 6:30am on this freaking windy morning. outside has some winds with gusts up to 22mph and expect it to get stronger as the day goes along. the buoys are up on the north shore and so are the waves. 2-4′ now but expect 6′ by this afternoon. round 2 and 3 of the pipeline masters will run today. after this swell, nothing is coming so they have to go. if you go to watch the contest, take a jacket for the rain, and take a wall for the wind. as for town, chest high sets at bowls. 5 guys out. gosh, solid south swell in town in december? the past 2 days were unreal. thanks santa…. anyway, got to get out of here. will try to send a photo of pipe from my blackberry. hope it works… aloha…..
**last night i went to check out this canon seminar held in downtown honolulu. it was 4 hours long but worth every minute. some of hawaii’s top surfing, wedding, and journal photographers showed up. i was kind of nervous in my shorts, tshirt, and slippers. leaned a lot about the new canon equipment and met the key guys for canon in hawaii and usa. there was a guest speaker named Paul Gero. paul’s been shooting for 35 years and started when he was only 12. he had a slide show of his work. oh my… it was awesome. paul shot for magazines such as time, sports illustrated, national geographic, and even covered president bush. his photo were awesome and gosh did i learn a lot. i’m really glad i attended that seminar and can’t wait to next year. and how’s this? they cleaned my sensors on my camera while i was waiting. for free!! and the seminar was free too!! thanks canon…. can you sponsor me a 600mm lens and i’ll put a sticker on my surfboard. i’ll even put the sticker on my forehead.. haha….

*check out Paul F. Gero’s WEBSITE…..

up until now, i’ve been using the old school phones with no email and no internet. went in to t-mobile the other day and was looking around for a new phone. $249 for a new blackberry pearl was kind of steep so i was going to stick to my old outdated phone. then one of my surfing friends that works there walked in. i’ve known john park for a long time. he’s the marketing manager at t-mobile and has been there for a long time. he asked me what i was doing there and i told him just checking out the new blackberry’s. he gave me his card and told me to call him because he had an extra one. oh my gosh!! score!!! i was so stoked!!! i finally had time today to play with it and it took me all day to figure things out. it’s too high tech for me but i got to get on it. now i can do things on the road and don’t have to sit in front of my computer all day. perfect timing for north shore. now you will see some up to date photos of the waves and stuff. keep you posted… just give me a few more days to figure it out….
**can somebody tell my why i can’t check my hotmail with my blackberry??? it’s freaking driving me nuts….

here are some photos from yesterday…..

4 groms. 2 hawaiians, and 2 japanese…. when these kids first met each other, they were pretty shy. but when they seen the waves, it was a different story..

this was kewalos yesterday around lunch time. 3′, off shore, and super fun….

getting into the water at kewalos is tricky. you have to jump off the rocks and time the waves perfectly. i made sure the 4 kids got in safely and didn’t get hurt. then it was my turn. i slipped off the rock and put a deep cut in my toe. shit!!! that hurted. i’m just glad none of the kids seen me. haha… but i’ve been surfing here for so long and this was my first time i got hurt. oh well…. if i showed you a photo of it now, you would freak. there’s a lot of sand and mud stuck in there. i better get in the water to get it cleaned out…

like i said, when these kids met a few hours before this, they were totally shy. my nephews can’t speak any japanese and the 2 yugawara kids can’t speak any english. so how do they communicate? through surfing…. when i first went to japan, i couldn’t speak any japanese. but through surfing, i’ve made lifetime friends… i hope these kids do the same….
*check out some snaps from the kewalos session. i took video off my dig camera so the quality isn’t that great….

this is shun on a 4’11 TSSC matchi shape….

this is joshua on a 5’2 HIC eric arakawa shape…

this is ryota on a 4’9 LEFT naka-san shape…

and this is seth on a 4’5 TSSC mike woo shape…