it’s always nice to stop by TSSC in shikoku and see the happy faces. i’ve been riding for them for over 17 years and it’s all the magic boards i’ve been getting from TSSC that’s putting me in the best barrel at the best time! thank you Yassan and all the TSSC family.

if you surf in shikoku, you won’t be alone. everybody knows where to go on what swell, what wind, and what typhoon. this day, this river mouth was the best! i’m glad i was there!

good to see young kids going out and challenging themselves. Go-Naminori Blogger Kairi Noro is only 13 years old but surfing man size waves. Go-Kairi!

jun jo, mikala jones, and photographer zak noyle showed up from hawaii on one of the hottest days of the year. if it wasn’t for this bathroom giving us shade, we’d all die of a heat stroke. it was so hot and humid! now i appreciate the cool tradewinds in hawaii a lot more.

want to know how expensive my job is? this is the 8th camera i drowned. it’s like flushing $300 or 25,000 yen in the toilet 8 times. i hope canon or nikon can sponsor me someday. i guess 8,000,000 views on youtube isn’t enough for big companies like that. that sucks.

i guess i wasn’t the only one scoring waves this typhoon. the okinawa boys were scoring good sunabe. check out THE BEACH BLOG for some photos. see you guys next month!!!

this is cool! 6 fins? i want to try one.

good morning. wow! feels good to be back in a air conditioned room sleeping on a comfortable bed alone. no people sleeping next to you, no snoring, no mosquitos, and nobody waking you up. i slept 8 hours straight and now that i feel like i got all my power back, i feel like surfing! haha. but once i step outside, i know it’s going to be another hot day.

there is probably only one place in japan where you would eat desert before you eat your meal. it’s all you can eat cake for 1 hour so while you’re waiting for your meal, you just start eating cake after cake. this was my first round. then i had another one after this. so 4 pieces of cake before lunch. gosh, my mom would have killed me if i did this as a kid. haha.

i ordered the dry curry. then i had some italian pasta.

then it was back to my sweets.

and sweets, and sweets.

then i finished it off with a brownie and vanilla ice cream. 5 trays so 10 deserts! i was so full!
then i jumped on a train and headed to tokyo. then i would love to tell you what i ate last night but i better not. lot’s of people already don’t like me. haha. then if i told you what i’m going to eat tonight, i would lose all my friends.
anyway, thanks to toda-san, takami-san, matsu, and tomoyuki-san for the wonderful road trip. i’m kind of bummed it has to end but i totally forgot i’ll be back in a few weeks. yeah! see you soon.
today is a relaxed day. going to lock myself in the room and work on my computer. have to sort out over a thousand photo taken these past few days. hopefully can post lots later. have a wonderful day!