good morning. 5:30am and it’s so dark that i can’t see the waves. but i see some 5′ whitewash and there’s no wind so it must be good. got to beat the traffic. i’m going surfing… have a nice day…
**wanted to thank kazu-san at aloha street magazine for hooking me up… check out some of my favorite places in hawaii….

jun jo and some of his buddies opened their new shop in4mation in waikiki…

want the best healthy, cheap, and ono smoothies on the island? go to “da spot”….

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good evening. check out the conditions this morning at backdoor/pipe. the waves were small but it was such a beautiful day. look good and you can see somebody getting barreled…. the waves were coming up throughout the day and it was solid 5′ and perfect by evening. tomorrow? yeah, it’s going to be epic and probably the best day of the year!!! the backdoor shootout will probably get started tomorrow so i’m going to wake up early and sneak in an early morning session…. 7’0’s in the car ready to go… have a great evening….

check out this photo. this is some where in japan. do you know where? back in 1996, i was with todd mitsui and mike woo during a jpsa contest going on at tsujido. i was supposed to surf the contest but up the road, the waves were going off so i free surfed instead. i’m glad i had understanding sponsors…. i use to surf this spot on small days and it was pretty fun. but this day there was a typhoon swell and the waves were barreling.. nobody was out so we were on it. shortly after this session, a surfer died by hitting the wall so they closed this spot and nobody could surf there ever again… i think i got barreled on every wave that day… todd surfed it backside and said it was pretty heavy. one mistake and your going to be sashimi on the wall…. another good memory….
*check out these next 2 photos. i was looking at them and just tripping out how similar they are….

joshua moniz one day ago….

and tony moniz two days ago… same blood, same style….

and last, check out the new 2008 surfing world calendar…. mr. april, hayato maki doing a bottom turn at a secret location in the philippines….

check out this photo. shinpei pulled into a barrel and pushed out through the back. my camera almost hit him in the head but i got off a snap. this is what it looks from behind the wave. pretty cool….

and yes, it’s still so dam shallow out there…. ouch….

and last, i was surfing the net and found this free wallpaper download from surfermag.com. guess who took it? kin kimoto…. this photo is sick!! gosh, i can’t wait till the waves get like this again…