good morning. gosh, last night was nuts. i thought my house was going to fly away. the winds were clocking at 50mph when i checked at 2am in the morning. there is a HIGH WIND WARNING, HIGH SURF WARNING, FLASH FLOOD WARNING, AND EVEN A SNOW BLIZZARD WARNING FOR THE BIG ISLAND. this is pretty much the worst it gets here in paradise. feel sorry for those tourists coming off the plane today. in fact, the honolulu marathon is this sunday so a lot of japanese tourists here in waikiki. hotels are full, rent-a-cars sold out, and waikiki packed. more bad weather on the way….

this is the winds as of 7:50am. wahiawa had wind gusts of 70mph and maui had gusts of 79mph. that’s typhoon strength winds. but for now, the winds are a little lighter than last night but still blowing out there. hundreds of schools closed today. all schools on the north shore, all schools on the east side, all schools on the west side, and a lot of schools in town. no electricity on the north shore in many other areas, still dangerous winds, trees on the road, and a bus got struck by lightning on the east side too.

as for the surf, check out bowls now. it gets like this only a couple of times a year. victory at sea. so the best thing to do today is stay indoors. forget the surf, forget school, and forget work. haha. just joking… as for me, i’m going to catch up on emails and maybe watch a dvd or something. i ain’t leaving my house…. have a nice day…

and last, check out this photo. this was a picture of the week. this photo was taken in indonesia. the first time i went on a boat trip to indonesia, i saw a volcano erupt right in front of my face. it was nuts. i thought that was a once in a lifetime thing but a few years after that, i saw another volcano erupt right in front of my face again. that time was in japan. i was on my way back from okinawa to tokyo and i was looking out of my window and seen the top of this mountain start to smoke. luckily i had my video camera and shot it. the people on the airplane were freaking out. that was nuts too. 2 live volcano’s? lucky….

good evening on this windy ass tuesday. gosh, it’s blowing out of the south/west and got some kite surfers out at bowls. waves came up in town but victory at sea. north shore is blown out too but somehow they finished up the contest. hawaii’s makua rothman won the contest. the wind and weather is bad and no sign of clearing up. but that’s ok because we live in hawaii and there will be many more good perfect swells coming in the next few months.

still can’t believe it only cost a quarter to call japan and talk for 5 minutes. so for all you japanese who come to hawaii, look for the nearest pay phone. that’s the call….

bowl tickets, but no flights. yeah, they are selling 17,500 sugar bowl tickets for new orleans but not enough flights to get everybody there and back. heard guys are flying to kauai and maui to make the flight to the mainland. and the prices is going up. $2500/per person. gosh, i could go to the mentawai’s for that….

looking back at okinawa. makes me want to dive again. check out those mahimahi’s in the background. such a beautiful sight….

check out this nice omilu kyle nakamoto speared the other day on the east side…. nice photo….

and check out these new vonzipper sunglasses. got my eyes on them…. i’m lucky to be sponsored by vonzipper which happens to be the hottest selling sunglasses in the world right now…..

good morning. 6:30am here on this cloudy, windy, stormy surf day. south/west winds are the worst winds for our surf here and it’s here to stay. as of 5:50am, kaneohe is clocking south wind gusts of 24mph and it’s supposed to get stronger throughout the day. get use to going shopping or watching movies because the surf sucks. if the winds go more to the south, the north shore might clean up it’s a lot cleaner than yesterday but still bumpy and lumpy. town, forget it. heard from micah that sandy beach was 6′ and epic yesterday but that was yesterday. today is a whole different story.. have a nice day….

no, this is not john travolta, this is me. when i was in high school, i use to be the best dancer. i went to all the disco’s to challenge everybody. then when i go to japan sometimes and see guys dancing at the train stations, i feel like putting on my dancing shoes and going for it. not too many people saw my moves and now i’m going to bust it out. being it’s the holiday season, i felt like i have to. so CLICK HERE TO SEE MY HOLIDAY DANCING ROUTINE I PUT TOGETHER…. HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!
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