ok, i just checked up my youtube account and found something good, and something bad. the good? i finally hit 10,000,000 views! omg, my dream was just to get 1,000,000. and now i have over 10M and 4000 subscribers. thanks for watching!
so want to hear the bad? i clicked on one of my videos and to my surprise, an advertisement commercial came on before my video started. shame on you YouTube! i didn’t want any advertisements on my videos so i declined the hundreds of emails from YouTube trying to get me to do it. now, the don’t respect my request and just start advertising big companies such as Heineken Beer and stuff. so instead of me making money, they are. i think that’s pretty disrespectful. it’s things like this that big companies like YouTube do and i think this is the beginning of the end for them. so please watch the videos but don’t but the product advertised. it’s just not right.
this one is my favorite. i push a lot of people to do things they don’t want to do. why? because i know they will love it later. the 2 boys slept over my house and i woke them up in the dark to go surfing. they didn’t want to go, but now they can look back at this video and laugh. Seth Moniz and Shun Murakami were just 2 little kids wanting to become world champions. now Shun just was in Fiji surfing with the best, and now Seth is in Nicaragua surfing with the best. back when i shot this video in 2008, nobody knew these 2 kids. now, the whole world knows these 2 kids. i’m super stoked for them!
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Surf and Eat on Saturday morning.
Welcome to Beautiful Blue Honolulu!

i was very fortunate to be able to participate in the 1990 world championships in japan. back then, there was no media like how we have today. after the contest finished, it took 3 months for the world to know the results. yeah, there was only surfer and surfing magazine back then. and by the time the report and photos hit the printing press, people forgot. and the cost to print a page out was really expensive so most were left out. now days, the media is amazing. live video and live scores? unbelievable. we’ve come a long way and surfing is now a mainstream sport. luckily i’m able to watch from my computer or iphone.

the kids are representing their countries very well. Hiroto Arai doing it for japan.

Josh Moniz is no longer shy. 3 years ago, he would freeze in front of a camera. but after being interviewed so much, he’s getting use to the spotlight.

Reo Inaba representing both east side hawaii, and japan.

can you believe josh is only 16? or 17? this kid looks like a man.

Seth Moniz backside is fun to watch. he’s pushing it harder and harder each day.

and no, Seth is not shy. he’s the youngest of the Moniz brothers and is the most competitiveness. this kid only wants 1st place.

gosh, i miss relaxing in molokai. i learned so much from that trip and hopefully it will make me a better person. i go around telling everybody “hello,” even the people i never use to like. seems weird but i feel better at the end of the day. spread the aloha!