good evening. went down to watch my nephews and niece surf their finals in the local motion surf into summer event at bowls. it’s amazing how long this contest has been running. i use to look forward to this contest every single year when i was competing. 6 guys out at bowls? you got to be joking….
the kids got escorted back and forth across the channel. they don’t know how lucky they are. well, me too. thanks rocky canon for the ride. if you weren’t there, i wouldn’t have even gone out to shoot….. by the way, this is the menehune division finals. stacked!!!
so here i am in the water with my 2 nephews surfing their final. josh and seth don’t like to lose but i think they understood that only one of them can come in a winner. so they worked together and sat at the end bowl, right were uncle told them to sit. yeah, i told myself that i wasn’t going to say anything because i didn’t want to make them nervous. but once that horn blew to start the heat, i was yelling my head off. haha… i think i was more nervous then them…. but the boys just freaking went off. josh is the shy one but the way he was surfing today wasn’t shy at all. he was like a mini sunny garcia. doing power snaps… and yes, if your 11 years old and doing power snaps like men, you deserve to win. and joshua did that. he won….
seth is like a wave magnet. he catches a lot of waves and does a hundred turns until the wave is done. if it wasn’t for his older brother, he would have won that heat hands down. but 2nd place right behind big brother is still a keeper…. and yeah matchi, your board seems to be working really good….
isaiah was on fire these past 2 days. the only bummer thing is that the waves were junk in the finals and couldn’t get a good one. if he did, goodnight… check out this freaking turn in the finals. i always think isaiah is old but the kids still only 13 years old… he got 4th but don’t let that result fool you. i didn’t say anything in isaiah’s heat because i know what he will say. “uncle, you embarrass me…” it was hard, but i kept my mouth shut. haha…
kelia cracks. i get nervous watching her because she’s so nervous. after she did this snap, i yelled to her, “ride it till the end”… as soon as i said “end”, she fell. shit!!! then she paddled back out and said “uncle, you make me nervous”…. haha. so after that wave, i didn’t say anything. and she did her thing and won the girls shortboard final. wait, i thought kelia was a longboarder? i guess not….
this is the best part of contests. getting your trophy and your big goodie bag. i sure miss that. anyway, just wanted to congratulate all the competitors in the contest and hope you get to surf until you get as old as me….
