good morning. 6:30am saturday morning. chest high swell in town but south/east winds already on diamond head. bowls is clean but will probably be onshore soon. north shore is looking 4-6′ and pretty clean. the buoy is still pretty big so watch out for freak 8-10′ sets. 4 guys are out at pipe now. backdoor looking good. i’m heading out there. have a nice day….

big news!!! andy irons withdraws from 2009 WCT world tour. yeah, no andy irons, and no bruce irons on tour in 2009. that’s going to suck. 2 of the best surfers in the world and both from hawaii. now if kelly slater quits too, professional surfing will be finished. surfing needs their stars and andy and bruce were two of the biggest ones. hope they make a full comeback in 2010….

this is kazubo-san and kazuma-san the other day at kewalos. just wanted to say hello to everybody in okinawa. hello!!! and thanks for the emails. hope to see you guys soon….

hey guys, come feb. 11th, i’m going to get my new blackberry curve that i’ve been waiting for. from that day on, your going to see live shit. i mean, real time surf reports. keep posted…
**one last thing. it was wakita getting hurt the other day at pipeline, then yesterday, another japanese surfer got hurt out there. i don’t want to say his name because i don’t think his family in japan even knows yet. the 25 year old kid since i’ve known since he was 10 years old in the hospital being carefully watched. seeing him in the hospital last night suffering like that broke my heart. if it wasn’t for fellow surfers out there, he wouldn’t be with us. hey guys, please surf safe. the waves in hawaii are no joke and people are getting hurt everyday. watch out for everybody and don’t push your limits. i’ve been to queen’ hospital too many times and hate the feeling of waiting for the ambulance, or medevac helicopter bringing my friends in. that’s one of the worst feelings in the world… i’m just praying for a full recovery….

hello hello, what another great day of surfing.. checked v-land this morning around 9:30 and it was firing. got out there and had so much time that the time just flew by. next thing you know, it was 1pm. 2-4′ and some barrels on the inside. i went with suzuki-san and takumi-san. then seen almost every japanese staying on the north shore out there. it was a full on japanese @vland session… saiko!!

shoyu chicken plate for lunch from ted’s bakery. awesome after such a long session. i felt like taking a nap after…

then we checked pipeline/backdoor. only 3 girls out. oh, i mean 3 surfers out. those 3 girls on the beach were doing a photo shoot for japanese playboy magazine. i offered to be light man but they told me to go home. haha…

then we checked haleiwa at 2:30pm. 3′ and looked pretty fun. but after scoring perfect vland, we were over it… back to town….

if the north shore had waikiki right in front, it would be the number one travel destination in the world. but for now, we’ll just have to get use to the two best travel destinations in the world, that is only an hour apart. girls gone wild in waikiki…

end off the evening with some stand up paddling. what a great day in the ocean…

and for all you townies. diamond head was chest/shoulder high this evening at 5pm. i was so tired that i probably couldn’t even walk down the hill. tomorrow i’m surfing all dam day again. it’s going to be much bigger than today so i’m planning to get much more barreled than today. surf your dream…
**stay tuned for haleiwa, waimea bay, pipeline, and velzyland galleries on GO-NAMINORI.COM… CHECK IT DAILY…

north shore today was going off. velzyland 3-4′ and perfect. surfed
almost 4 hours. i’m so tired….