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The History of Valentine’s Day—and Four Gifts for the Discerning Lover

Feb 6, 2024

The History of Valentine’s Day—and Four Gifts for the Discerning Lover

 Valentine’s Day is right around the corner and many of us are looking forward to spending time with our significant others. But although most of us celebrate Valentine’s Day, we might not all be aware of how it started. Valentine’s Day is the holiday of Saint Valentine, but the Catholic Church actually acknowledges the existence of three Saint Valentines, all of whom were martyrs. The most commonly held legend connecting a Saint Valentine to romance is that Emperor Claudius II outlawed marriage for young men in order to encourage them to be better, more focused soldiers, but a man named...

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What Hyaluronic Acid Hiaruronsan can do to your skin?

Jan 11, 2023

What Hyaluronic Acid "Hiaruronsan" can do to your skin?

Hyaluronic Acid "Hiaruronsan" A friend of mine named Dyanne Taylor is a regular at Kewalos and has been surfing there for years. She’s a fixture of the spot, an aunty to just about everyone, and over the years has taught many of the top pro surfers in Town to swim when they were keiki. A while back, I suggested a product to Dyanne when she mentioned to me all of the sun spots she has developed after decades in the sun. The product is called hyaluronic acid, although the Japanese call it hiaruronsan. It is actually created by the body naturally,...

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The Surfer’s Secret to Happiness

Mar 24, 2022

The Surfer's Secret to Happiness

The Surfer's Secret to Happiness "They don’t seem to regret all that time they don’t spend actually riding waves." Surfer: @kalei.fukuda A while back a visitor from the mainland stopped into Hawaiian South Shore and told me about an article called “The Surfer’s Secret to Happiness.” I eventually ended up finding the article, in “The New York Times,” and thought that it was pretty cool. It talks about how, as surfers, we only spend the smallest fraction of our time standing up on our boards and actually “surfing,” but how, despite the fact that most of our time is spent...

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Manu-O-Ku The White Fairy Tern of Honolulu

Jan 5, 2022

Manu-O-Ku The White Fairy Tern of Honolulu

Manu-O-Ku The White Fairy Tern of Honolulu Photo from nawaiekolu.org I love learning new things, and this week I was fortunate enough to meet a woman who taught me something new about a bird that I’ve been seeing for years! Many of you may have seen the white birds that live around Honolulu and often fly out above the ocean. They move quickly and hang out in the trees in Town, as well as in the lineup at many of our surf spots, such as Kewalos (where I often see them). These birds are called the white fairy tern and are...

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Lynne Boyer Surfing World Champion and Hawaii Artist

Sep 24, 2021

Lynne Boyer Surfing World Champion and Hawaii Artist

Lynne Boyer Surfing World Champion & Hawaii Artist The other day I was at Kewalos checking the surf, and I was two women painting in the grass. I decided to go over and check out what they were doing, and while I was talking to them I found out that one of them was Lynne Boyer, the 1978 and 1979 surfing world champion! I ended up talking to both women for a while, and Lynne told me her story, which was really quite interesting! She moved over to Oahu with her parents when she was 11, as her dad was in...

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Carissa Moore and Gabriel Medina Reset the Balance With Well-Deserved World Titles

Sep 16, 2021

Carissa Moore and Gabriel Medina Reset the Balance With Well-Deserved World Titles

Carissa Moore and Gabriel Medina World Champions Photo Credit to WSL This was a weird year for the WSL world tour. The abbreviated season started at Pipe (it normally ends there), then had events at Sunset and Steamers Lane cancelled due to COVID-19 concerns. A four-event leg in Australia got things going again, but then Brazil and Tahiti were cancelled due to the ongoing pandemic, which left only two events on the schedule—the Surf Ranch and Mexico. When the dust had settled, Gabriel Medina and Carissa Moore had both dominated and were way out in front. But to make things...

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The Ultimate Surfer—ABC’s Newest Surf-Themed Reality TV Show

Aug 19, 2021

The Ultimate Surfer—ABC’s Newest Surf-Themed Reality TV Show

The Ultimate Surfer—ABC’s Newest Surf-Themed Reality TV Show Photo Credit to @ultimatesurferabc The Olympics just awarded its first surfing gold medals, Bali and Puerto Escondido are on lockdown, COVID-19 is still raging, and the WSL has adopted some hair-brained new competitive format whereby the world title will be decided at a one-day champions event at Trestles. Just when you thought surfing couldn’t get any weirder—well, it turns out it can. ABC announced a new surfing reality TV show this week, and, based on the trailers, it will be chock full of beautiful influencers, cheesy drama, and, of course, Kelly Slater....

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Surfrider Spirit Sessions With Ezra Rodriguez and Hawaiian South Shore

Aug 18, 2021

Surfrider Spirit Sessions With Ezra Rodriguez and Hawaiian South Shore

Surfrider Spirit Sessions With Ezra Rodriguez and Hawaiian South Shore Surfrider Spirit Sessions were created in 2006 through a collaboration between executive director Cynthia Y.H. Deroisier and Girl’s Court therapist Emma Pavich. Inspired by Deroisier’s book “The Surfer Spirit,” Pavich asked Deroisier to join her in creating a program that used surfing as a platform to reach at-risk children. In 2009, Surfline Spirit Sessions became a registered, independent non-profit corporation, and it received its 501©(3) status in 2010. It provides six events each year for 100 Oahu youth (during spring, summer, and fall), exposing them to the challenging and empowering...

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Local Girl Carissa Moore Wins the First Olympic Gold Medal for Surfing!

Jul 29, 2021

Carissa Moore as the First Olympic Gold Medalist in Surfing

Local Hawaiian surfer Carissa Moore won the first ever Olympic gold   The 2020 Tokyo Olympics marked a monumental milestone for surfing, as the sport made its Olympic debut and saw its first ever gold medalists crowned. On the women's side, Hawaiian superstar Carissa Moore etched her name in the history books by claiming the inaugural Olympic surfing gold. The 4-time World Champion from Honolulu defeated South Africa's Bianca Buitendag in the finals to ascend to the top of the Olympic podium.   View this post on Instagram A post shared by Team USA (@teamusa)   Moore's triumphant Olympic run...

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Weekly Surfing Update (July 16, 2021): The Situation in Indonesia

Jul 16, 2021

Weekly Surfing Update (July 16, 2021): The Situation in Indonesia

The Situation in Indonesia The waves have been firing in Indonesia the past few days. Nias was 8-foot+ and all time, with virtually no one there, and hundreds of other waves in the world’s best surf zone have been firing too. And that’s just the warm-up. The main event is forecasted to hit late this month, with crazy numbers topping out at around 15 feet at 18 seconds—a potentially historic swell for the Indonesian archipelago. The problem, of course, is that Indonesia has been officially closed to tourism for the past year due to COVID-19. You might be wondering, then,...

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A Near Miss and an Important Lesson Learned

Jul 12, 2021

A Near Miss and an Important Lesson Learned

A Near Miss and an Important Lesson Learned We talk about health a lot in our newsletter, from exercise regimens to healthy diets and everything in between. As I get older, I am becoming acutely aware of how important health is, and how letting our bodies go can affect us in a myriad of ways, from getting in the way of surfing and other hobbies to putting us in the hospital.  But sometimes even if you take good care of yourself, you still end up having a medical crisis. Sometimes it’s genetics, other times it’s just plain bad luck. Last...

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Back-Footed vs. Front-Footed Surfing

May 21, 2021

Back-Footed vs. Front-Footed Surfing

BACK-FOOTED VS. FRONT-FOOTED SURFING 📷 @adam.eyes 🏄‍♂️@bourezmichel If you talk to enough people about surfing, you are bound to hear the terms “back-footed surfer” and “front-footed surfer”. While these terms are self-explanatory, there is a lot more riding on them than their simple definitions. Different surfboards and different styles of surfing work better with front and back-footed surfing, so it’s worthwhile taking a closer look at the two approaches. Prior to the invention of the thruster, most surfboards being ridden were single fins and twins. Most of them were voluminous with the widest points of the surfboard farther forward than midpoint. While...

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Blog-Understanding the UV Index and How to Stay Safe in the Sun-Surfing News Hawaii-Hawaiian South Shore

Mar 11, 2021

Understanding the UV Index and How to Stay Safe in the Sun

How to Stay Safe in the Sun   I was chatting with FCS rep Keoni Watson sometime ago, and he mentioned that the UV index was going to be super high on that weekend—pushing as high as 11. That sounded pretty gnarly to me, but I realized that I didn’t really know what the UV index meant, or where it even came from, so I decided to do some research. I found an online guideline from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and discovered some really interesting information.  As it turns out, the UV index was created in 1994 by the EPA and the...

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Blog-Home Remedy: Rubber Bands That Repel Ants-Surfing News Hawaii-Hawaiian South Shore

Apr 30, 2020

Home Remedy: Rubber Bands That Repel Ants

Summertime is here, which means sunny days, warm water, and south swells. Unfortunately, it’s also ants’ time! I hate these little pests, which always seem to descend on my house in mass whenever I drop a crumb on the ground or leave food out. But the other day, my wife turned me onto a new way to keep ants away: rubber bands! Apparently, during the monsoon season in Japan, ants can be a real problem. But as the monsoon season approached, her family would wrap rubber bands around the legs of chairs and tables—and just like that, their food would...

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Apr 12, 2017

"step up or step aside" - Kelly Slater

John John Dominates Margaret River With Historic Performance The Rip Curl Bells Beach starts today, but the world (and the world tour) is still in shock from John John Florence’s performance last week at Margaret River. Main Break is notorious for being one of the most difficult waves in the world to surf well, and that point was proved time and again last week as the world’s best looked to be surfing…well, not quite at their best. The wonky, fat walls of Main Break simply don’t lend themselves to exciting, high-performance surfing, and more often than not leave competitors looking...

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Apr 4, 2017

Drug Aware Margaret River Pro - Going Small to Go Bi

Drug Aware Margaret River Pro Going Small to Go Big The Drug Aware Margaret River Pro is on this week over in West Australia, the second stop on the WSL world tour. And to be honest, the main venue at Margaret River Main Break is not the most exciting wave in the world to surf or watch. The backup venues of North Point and The Box are exciting—North Point is the ultimate barrel to boost setup, and The Box is one of the original slabs—but we usually don’t get more than a day of competition at the backups, which is...

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Jan 14, 2017

Harley Ingleby talks about THUNDERBOLT TECHNOLOGY

What is THUNDERBOLT TECHNOLOGY Available CHISHOLM CJ NELSON Models and TOLHURST HARLEY INGLEBY MODELS Audio Harley Ingleby: (Start 1:49) - Billy Tolhurst and I have worked really closely for over 15 years. And, we’ve not only always tried to push ourselves about shapes and designs, but also with different blanks and laminations. We’ve been working for a couple of years behind the scenes with Thunderbolt Technologies. It’s just been amazing to work really closely with them and push that to a new level. I’ve worked with other sandwich constructions before, which have been okay, but to be able to work with Thunderbolt Technologies and I’ve really...

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Aug 6, 2016

Donald Brink Surfboard

WHO IS BRINK SURFBOARDS Donald Brink, 34, was born and raised in South Africa. He started surfing at the age of 15 after his family relocated to the coast, and quickly developed a fascination for surfboard design and dynamics. After a few years of observing in the shaping room, Donald gained the confidence in 2005 to wield a planer for the first time. Today he continues to hone his craft, while taking the art of shaping down some unconventional paths. Donald looks at each board as an extension of the rider’s feet, building each custom board according the surfer’s stance....

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Jan 16, 2016

Getting to Know Father of the Modern Longboard

Reinventing the Log Getting to Know Bill Stewart, Father of the Modern Longboard Bill Stewart in front of his air brush in front of his surfshop Bill Stewart is said to be the father of the modern longboard, but his influence started long before curves became cool again. In 1967, Stewart was repairing dings and experimenting with shorter surf craft as the Shortboard Revolution came into full swing. He’d cut down old longboards into shorter designs, then take what he’d learned and build on it the next time. By the time he invented the Hydro Hull he was already established...

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