good morning. small waves in town but north shore is coming up. just talked to tony who’s out there already and said that solid 4′ sets are rolling in to sunset point. i’m going to check out some heats at the grom contest at haleiwa. see ya out there…
it was 12 years ago when tokura-san invited me with him and ohmi-san to snowboard at niseko in hokkaido. that’s when i met the legend snowboarder taro tamai. i remember getting ready at his house. he put a beacon around my neck. i asked him what that was for? he said, “in case of an avalanche”. huh??? so we take the lift up to the highest part of niseko. walk 15 minutes to the back side of the mountain. i looked down and wow!!! pure powder snow untouched.. it was the 4 of us and the whole mountain to ourselves. we took turns flying down and everybody was super stoked. the best snowboard experience of my life. then when we got to the bottom, i looked around and there was nothing in sight. we ended up walking in waist high deep powder snow for an hour getting back to the main road. my legs were killing me…. a great experience with the most experienced guy, taro-san….. this is tokura-san, taro-san, and me when we finally got to the road… thanks tokura-san, ohmi-san, and taro-san….
