good morning. yesterday i was watching 2 contests. the tahara pro in irako to the left, and the rip curl pro in bali to the right. it was a day for the hawaiians in both small shitty beach break waves to epic 100 yard perfect barreling lefts….

dustin cuizon kicked ass, pulled airs, and ripped up the waist high waves to win the tahara pro. check out the shaka….

while bruce irons was half way around the world pulling into 5′ barrels beating fellow hawaiian fred patachia in the final to win the rip curl pro. it’s about time the hawaiians start to get some results. i’m tired of watching kelly slater and the australians winning everything. i hope this is a confidence booster and hope more wins are to come. hawaii needs another world champion…. and so does japan….

gosh how time flies. a big project was in the making about a year ago that i was invited to. it’s coming up next month but i can’t talk about it too much. all i can say is that i will be somewhere in the indian ocean standing in the front of this huge boat holding my surfboard in one arm, my speargun in the other, my camera around my neck, and my a beer in my mouth. it’s called “DREAM SURF TRIP”….. shit, i can’t wait. bon voyage….
**and last, check out CHIAKI’S BLOG for a clip of the fireworks saturday night in chigasaki. pretty sick…

good evening. wow, last night was nuts!!! went to the fireworks show at chigasaki and gosh, it was unreal. i went there last year but this year was 10X better. the coordination of the show was amazing. probably the best fireworks show i’ve ever seen. it was an hour long with all different types of fireworks. heart shaped, star shaped, happy faces, and there was even a water mellon one. yeah, it was nuts. we had front row seats and i’m still buzzing from what i saw…

people were screaming and everything. it was loud, bright, and right in your face…

they had this awesome fireworks that shot off to the side and landed in the water. then the thing lit up the whole place. never seen that one before. waterproof fireworks? what’s next?

after every fireworks show, there is a party that follows. this year it was at pop’s. it’s weird how small japan because i felt like everybody knew everybody in that place. daisuki and simple vibrations were jamming live and the vibe was awesome… and to my friends in hawaii, there were more girls than guys. only in japan….

the happy faces of japan….

more happy faces of japan…. gosh, i looked at my camera this morning and these were the only photos i took. i blew it because there were so many of my friends there. guys like u-ske, matsuo, kazuya, and many many more. the only bummer thing was there was no jacksan. so i ended up drinking beers all night and now i’m paying for it. atama itai….

i tried to take a photo of the band and all of the people jumping up and down dancing. and this how it turned out. gosh, i suck at taking photos in the dark. can somebody please step forward and show me how to take these kinds of photos. i know there is a way and i can’t freakin figure it out. it’s killing me…

my last few weeks in hawaii, i was trying to eat healthy foods. why? to get ready to pig out in japan. and i’m already eating like a pig. got a long way to go and at this rate, i might weigh more than kalua when i get back home..

been making the killer smoothies back home. this one is a strawberry/vanilla/honey smoothie. ummmmm….

i went to maguro-ya a few weeks ago. at that time, this sashimi was like gold. but the sashimi i’ve been eating in japan is platinum…

there’s a pretty good hormone yakiniku place in tsujido. went there the other night and had my favorite. raw cow liver with an ice cold beer…

then came out the hormones, heart, tongue, and other body parts of the cow nobody in america eats. well, that’s what most people think. what do you think hotdogs are made of????
**more japanese exotic foods on the way…
**by the way, kelly slater lost early in the wct rip curl contest “somewhere” in indonesia yesterday. they held it at uluwatu’s and finally, somebody else besides kelly slater’s going to win. might be interesting… they are going to finish it up today and the waves should be going off!!!
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