Sugoi Tanoshimi!!
I can’t wait!!!

hey, i wanted to congratulate Takashi for winning the big contest at ikumi beach the other day. i heard he won a ticket to the big All Japan Contest in ibaraki. that’s cool. for those of you who don’t know Takashi, he got a double spread in GO-NAMINORI WEB MAGAZINE VOL. 2. how did he get it? he took off at kaifu, he pulled into a barrel, got the shot, and the photo was published in the magazine. it’s pretty simple. go-naminori is all about making dreams come true. you don’t have to be famous to be in our magazine. you just have to enjoy surfing as much as we do…. SURF YOUR DREAM….

and also wanted to congratulate my friend Ryo Kubota for his team such an awesome accomplishment. ryo is my surf/dive buddy and a very smart guy. he not only surfs good, dives good, and heads the Surfers Foundation Hawaii Chapter, ryo also is a japanese native that speaks fluent english attending the University of Hawaii. he brought up his big project to me before but i had no idea it was at this level. so when i found out they won first prize and his team won over $27,500 in cash and prizes, it must be something big! they are team members to DIAGENETIX, which owns the technology that can be used for simultaneous copying and detection of sequence specific genomic DNA. eeh? what does that mean? now you can imagine the face i gave ryo when we were diving one day and he was telling me about it. haha… i still don’t know what it means but winning such a competition against the smartest people the university has to offer is huge. i’m so stoked to see my friends doing so good!!!
last, had one question for ryo. “hey ryo, i seen the words “copying” and “detection” of DNA. does that mean you can take DNA and copy people? if so, can you please make for me 2 kirby’s and send them to my house. i’ll have one do all my computer work and have the other answer my calls. then i can live even a happier stress free life than i’m already living. let me know how much it will cost me. haha… mahalo…

good morning. 6:10 am. small windy waves again. i had an hour to kill between meetings yesterday at 3pm so i went to check this spot that works really good in the east trade wind swell and super high tide. i wasn’t planning to surf but when i pulled up, there were only 2 guys out and the waves were super good! i grabbed my board, paddled out, caught 5 waves, and was pretty day happy. score!! today will probably be good too but i’m sure everybody knows about it by now. lucky lucky lucky!!! today, i’m going to look for somewhere else. see you in the water….
**hey, we’re over here working pretty dam hard on vol. 3 go-naminori web magazine. there’s going to be some awesome photos and stuff in there. i was looking back at some photos and had some i didn’t even know i took. time is just flying by and i’m glad i’m taking a lot of photos because good photos never die… stay tuned for vol. 3 coming soon!!!

for all of you who don’t know yet, but there are big things happening for kelia in the next few months. first, an article in the upcoming surfer girls magazine. then she has the nationals in california, then the world champion roxy jam in france, and then japan. yeah, JAPAN IS CONFIRMED!!! the dates are august 5-15th. if you know any events that would be cool for kelia to go too, please let me know. thanks…

remember that secret beach break in bali? the one that nobody knows about? i totally forgot about it because it seemed like years ago. but i don’t think seth forgot about it because this was the set of the day. wait till you see the fisheye barrel shot i took. pretty dam sick!!!

vol. 3 will have some north shore photos in there too. this is miyazaki’s ma-kun having off the wall to himself one winter morning…

and because we want to try different things and try to please everyone, we have a special section in vol. 3. i hope you will be happy…. i already know about 100 friends of mine that will be. i got to shoot 3 lovely models this past weekend. this section is presented by Tiare and it will take more than a blog to introduce her. i’ll get to that so stay tuned. but for now, we’re still sorting through 1,657 photos….