good morning. 6am on this beautiful monday morning. had a great weekend? hope so. i went to the rokkasho rhaposdy event yesterday and wow!!! what an eye opener. learned a lot about the nuclear plant in aomori and i left feeling a little down. i felt sorry for the japanese people that protested the project because it was like nobody was listening to them. could that happen here in hawaii? i hope not. but it’s scary just thinking about it. i can go on and on right now about this topic but will come back to it later. just wanted to thank ryo kubota and surdfrider foundation for getting the word out. and thanks ryo for the tshirt and avocados. see you in the water…
oh yeah, the waves. ummm, looking small but looking fun. chest/shoulder high in town with a lot of surfers out. light winds and this swell supposed to linger all week until a bigger swell hits around the 20th. heading to the airport to pick up a famous japanese pig hunter…

news out of bali. ketut “mega” semadhi is the first balinese surfer to win the billabong pro junior. it happened yesterday at kuta reef in bali. how sick is that? garut winning last week, now mega winning this week. the two hottest groms out of bali are living up their expectations… i’m so stoked for them….

if you don’t know who mega is. he’s the grom out of dreamland that boosts the biggest airs. the first time he came to hawaii and stayed with me, i took him and garut out to bowls. they were 15 years old at the time and they were turning heads. well, until mega stepped on vana and had 20 break off in his foot. he went in pretty worried. why? because there’s no vana in bali so he didn’t know what the heck was in his feet hurting so much… that was pretty funny…

good sunday evening… surf, surf, surf…. yeah, everybody go surf….

pulled up to kewalo’s this morning with jun jo. there was a full on photo shoot going on. like 10 pro surfers, 3 photographers, and a lot of local surfers. sat back and fired away…. this guy was busting some pretty big airs….

photographer eric baseman was out shooting jessie merle jones. eric takes some of the best fish eye photos out there. and is also a really cool guy too…

i took so many good photos of nick mita last year and this year. this is like a throw away photo. still nice but got much nicer ones. if this was me, it would be a keeper….

kazuya sato is from chigasaki, japan. super cool soul surfer. went on a trip to the philippines with him and he was smiling the whole time…. oh, see that yellow camera? that’s u-ske. yeah, u-ske is on a photo assignment here in hawaii and is probably getting some sick shots. u-ske is another top fish eye photographers in the world. and also a cool guy….

jun jo rips. that’s all i have to say about jun. once again, check out u-ske getting the sick shot… can’t wait to see his photos in some magazine in japan…

jason shibata is another cool guy. known jason since he was a grom. watched him grow into one international household name….

minetou ushikoshi rips too. he was jpsa grand champion a few years ago. i was surprised to see him in hawaii today. well, everybody was. ushikoshi’s a pretty cool guy too.
**been saying that everybody’s a cool guy yeah? i guess i only hang around cool guys… i don’t hang around assholes. and i don’t shoot assholes either… so every photo you see on go-naminori are cool people…. now i’m going to put on my shades and act like a cool guy too… see ya… haha…
**by the way, stay tuned for some cool video from today’s cool super session…. cool yeah….[:?????????:][:?????????:][:?????????:]

good morning. 6am sunday morning. small swell rolling into town. nothing big but looks good enough for me. chest/shoulder high at bowls and the park with pretty clean conditions. 8 guys out at rockpiles, 25 out at bowls, and more at the park. going to jump on the boat and search for the best spot today. then come back in to check out the rokkasho documentary at 2. busy, busy, busy… but loving every minute of it… have a nice day..
**oh, wanted to congratulate my nephew isaiah moniz for getting 2nd place at the t & c air show at queen’s yesterday. he won $750… 13 years old and winning that kind of money? i asked him what he was going to do with all that money. his answer, “spend it”…

went to snappers to watch russ and ciara play live. gosh, their getting better and better each time i see them…..

first there were 2, then there were 3, then there were 4. it was pretty dam awesome. good friends and good music. can’t beat that…

i was wondering when i seen the helicopters hovering over waikiki friday afternoon. then yesterday morning when i was shooting queen’s, i seen them again along with the coast guard searching for a body. the body of world renown photographer Sergio Goes. he was free diving off waikiki and went missing at 3:40pm friday afternoon. they found his body yesterday. such sad news for such an awesome photographer. if you don’t know who Sergio was, check out his website by CLICKING HERE…. what a tragic loss….