good morning. happy saint patrick’s day!! better wear your green. if you don’t wear green today, your going to get pinched. well, that’s how it was when i was a kid. is that true? it’s 7:15am and the waves on the north shore looks pretty fun. pipe’s 3-4′ and cleaner than yesterday. 15 guys out and i bet you can paddle out there and get a lot of waves because nobody’s here. town has some waist high waves. one guy out at rockpiles and 13 or so at bowls. stay away from kewalos’ because every single amateur surfer is there for the NSSA HAWAII RVCA REGIONAL contest. a little morning sickness today but should be cleaning up. it’s just another typical spring day here in hawaii. i’m going to ride my green surfboard today. some saint patrick spirit. have a good one…
spent one hour last night making a short clip on my last philippines trip. should be up on video tonight or tomorrow. stay tuned…

flying on domestic flights in third world countries is pretty interesting….. all these excess luggage has to fit on a plane not bigger than a VW vanagon….

well, maybe a little bigger. this is a 20 seat passenger airplane…..

customized for 10 people and 8 surfboard bags….

and this is the airport. classic yeah? this is the smallest airport i’ve ever flown into…

these are the baggage handler helpers….

complete airport and airplane in one photo. stay tuned for video….

good evening. stayed home and did some carpenter work outside. my brother and i, with the supervision of my mom built an extension of our deck between our houses. if you ever seen us work together, you would laugh. we all have different opinions in what we think is the right way. half the time we just argue. but that’s how our family gets along. and that’s how the job gets done the right way. well, maybe not the right way, but our way. so the extension is done and everything’s looking good. a job like this would have probably cost about a lot of money if we hired professionals but we did it in 2 hours. it felt pretty good pounding nails. it’s like a stress reliever. not that i have any stress or anything. haha. i spent some time downloading old surf footage of me when i was younger. gosh, those were the good old days…

this is a clip of me surfing rocky point in 1993. the good old days…..

and this was in 1995 at pretty big backdoor. one of my best barrels of my life….
i just figured out how to use youtube. now i can finally post some video clips of all the years i’ve been shooting with my video camera. got some classic stuff from 16 years traveling around this world. i just need some time to get to all the footage. more like, i need a lot of time. i just put this dolphin clip off my olympus dig. camera that i lost. it was a few months ago when i was going out diving and past by this pod of dolphins. i’ve swam with wild dolphins a lot but this time, i had my camera. i dove down to about 15′ and shot this while the dolphins were swimming by. if you listen good, you can hear me making grunting noises. i tried to bring the dolphins in but they didn’t want to come this day. sometimes i make noises, they turn and come right up to me. anyway, it was cool swimming with the dolphins. actually it’s always cool…. check out my first youtube post…..


and last, check out japanese pro surfer tomohisa yoshikawa’s interview on GO-NAMINORI. CLICK HERE FOR INTERVIEW..

good morning. woke up at 6:30am, opened my eyes for 2 seconds, and went back to sleep. it’s cloudy, windy, and sunday… it’s 8:30am now and i’m checking the waves. north shore came up in the 2-4′ range. the conditions aren’t that bad and there’s 8 guys out at pipe. it would be epic if this was in november but after our 40 days and 40 nights of perfect surf, i’m kind of over it. town came down. way down… knee or waist high if your lucky. 15 guys out at bowls. i’m going to put on my hard hat and get out my hammer. it’s been a while but i feel like building something… have a nice day…

just wanted to congratulate yoshi on the grand opening of his shop in osaka called “LATINA”. cool clothes and hot staff…. haha…. congratulations and see you soon yoshi….

check out the “LATINA” website by CLICKING HERE….

and last, wanted to wish kazu-san from aloha street a happy birthday again. we had an awesome night starting out with dinner at champa thai. i took down the mu i caught the other day and they cooked it thai style. deep fried with the best garlic hot sauce. it was super good…. after dinner, i forgot what happened…. all i know is that we had fun…. happy 28th birthday kazu-san… haha…..