Cymatic Surfboard Review Here is Matt McMullen's review of the Slater Designs Cymatic surfboard after testing it out on the North Shore. Matt is an experienced surfer from Huntington Beach who normally rides hand shaped poly boards. For this trip, Matt rented a 5'5" Cymatic model with the new Volcanic construction. At 5'10" 155lbs, the small size provided a very loose, fast feel. He opted for the Eric Arakawa futures fins in a thruster setup. Matt found the light EPS volcanic construction made the Cymatic extremely quick and responsive, especially for its size. The combination of drive from the thruster fins and the strategically placed channels delivered sharp turns and speed to blow past sections. Even in windier conditions, the Cymatic stayed controlled thanks to the precise engineering. Matt was able to bury the rail confidently and execute tight maneuvers in the pocket. He attributed the lively feel to the board's light weight build and the familiar Sci-Fi inspired tail outline. After two weeks testing out the Volcanic Cymatic, Matt is very impressed by its blend of speed, drive and loose performance. It exceeded his expectations of how a small, eps board would handle and he's now sold on the...

Firewire's Tomo REVO If you're a surfer, you're likely familiar with Tomo's boards. Known for their futuristic, symmetrical design and all-around rippability, Tomo's boards have become a favorite among surfers of all skill levels. One of Tomo's most popular designs is the EVO, a board that blends down-the-line speed with a rounded nose and decreased swing weight to create a great groveler for small waves. But now, Tomo has taken the EVO to the next level with the release of the REVO.  The REVO features Tomo's vee quad concave, which Firewire calls "the cutting edge in performance hull design." This bottom contour is designed to go faster than anything else you've ever ridden, while still being incredibly maneuverable. The vee down the middle of the board has been deepened, giving the REVO faster and more nimble transitions rail-to-rail, without sacrificing the ability to keep it on rail through huge power carves. The board's outline has also been refined, providing a bit more curve that works well with the increased rocker, leading to more aggressive turns in the pocket.  The REVO comes stock in sizes ranging from 5'4" (26.8 liters) to 6'2" (44.2 liters), with five fin boxes so that you...

MID 6 Surfboard on Quad Setup on South Shore Oahu Surfing     Tiny (195 lbs), a regular at our surf shop, recently purchased a 7'10" mid 6 surfboard and has been putting it to the test at various surf spots in the South Shore of Oahu, including bowls, rock piles, and Haleiwa. He recommends a four-fin or quad setup for this board length. Whether you're a beginner or a pro, this board is a great option for those looking for a little more length in their surfboard. Come check out our selection of mid 6 surfboards and find the perfect setup for your next surf session.  

STAYING HEALTHY BY STAYING DISTRACTED The holidays are here and for a lot of us that means eating. Lots of eating! There’s nothing better than Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners, and I can’t wait for some of the ono grinds I’ll be enjoying in the next few weeks. I’m sure I’ll probably enjoy a bit too much in fact. One of my friends once told me that Thanksgiving isn’t over until you hate yourself, and that the same rule applies for Christmas dinner too (that one made me laugh). Overeating isn’t something we do only on holidays. Overeating and obesity have become chronic problems in the US, and here in Hawaii. While beautiful people come in all shapes and sizes, the reality is, that many of us could improve our surfing (and our health) by losing a few pounds. Shortly after the indulgence of Christmas comes the New Year’s resolutions. One of the most common resolutions is to lose weight. If that is one of your resolutions in 2019, maybe it’s time to look at a new strategy or distraction. I recently read an article about a researcher who found that he had gained a lot of unwanted weight and decided...

TAYLOR JENSEN "TJ PRO" Surfboard Review by Todd Miller Todd got he TJ Pro Carbon Surfboard from Hawaiian South Shore and this is his verdict! How's the board? " The board is really good, very responsive, it noserides really good. A lot of Drive!"  

 The Sub Driver 2.0 - Lost's Flagship High Performance Shortboard The Sub-Driver has been the go-to small-wave board for …Lost’s team of pro riders since it was introduced over a decade ago. Kolohe Andino rode this board to five WQS wins when he qualified for the Championship Tour in 2011, and just about every other pro on the team has ridden it as well. But it also thrives under the feet of everday surfers, who enjoy the clean outline, forgiving rails, ample volume, and medium rocker. The latest version has been updated with a wider, more forgiving nose, a smoothed out hip, more volume in the center (courtesy of a vee on the deck), and a deeper concave on the back third of the bottom. Model: Sub-Driver 2.0. The latest update to …Lost’s most popular, pro-level, small-wave board.Ability: Intermediate to advanced surfers.Type of waves: Waist- to head-high points and beach breaksFin setup: Five-fin FCS and FuturesConstruction: Lightspeed / Black Sheep BuiltSize range:5'6" X 18.50 X 2.32 V25L5'8" X 19 X 2.38 V27L5'9" X 19.25 X 2.40 V28L5'10" X 19.50 X 2.43 V29.25L5'11" X 19.75 X 2.46 V30.50L6'0" X 20 X 2.50 V31.75L6'1" X 20.25 X 2.53 V33L6'3" X 20.63 X 2.63...

Technically an Indian Summer occurs when a period of unseasonably warm weather occurs during autumn, after the first frost but before the first snow. Of course, we don’t have frost of snow in Hawaii (except on Mauna Kea), so we can’t have a real Indian Summer. But if there were ever a Hawaiian version, this year might be it. After having our first northwest swell of the season in mid-September—a solid eight-foot pulse that had the big wave crew pulling out there mini-guns and heading to Sunset Beach—the North Shore fell back asleep. Meanwhile, the South Shore has been pumping out late-season swells well into mid-October, including last week’s sizeable run of waves and this week’s smaller ground swell. Photo by: Kuhio Vellalos But if we have been in the midst of a Hawaiian Indian Summer, that’s about to change. The atmospheric conditions in the North Pacific are switching the second half of the month, and the pattern we are coming into is much more reflective of what we normally see in the early winter. A solid north/northwest swell fills in on Wednesday, with the North Shore moving into the six- to eight-foot range, and a second more north/northeasterly swell...

The longboard world tour ended with a bang this week at Malibu, one of the spiritual homes of traditional surfing. Blessed with a late-season southern hemisphere swell, First Point lit up with long, dreamy walls that were perfect for noseriding. When the dust settled, we crowned two world champions from opposite ends of the age spectrum—but the one thing they both had in common was world-class surfing. Photo of Joel by WSL / THOMAS LODIN At 45 years old, Joel Tudor had done it all. He’d won two longboard world championships, single-handedly brought traditional longboarding back to the mainstream, and started the Duct Tape Invitational tour, which is the most sought-after invitation-only event for young loggers. But a talent like Tudor is never satisfied, and after he won the first event of this strange, two-year COVID-19 season at Noosa back in 2020, there were whispers that he might try for his third title. Joel didn’t do well at the Surf Ranch last month, so he came into Malibu as an underdog, but after Eduardo Delpero fell out of the event early, the door was opened for a third world title. All Joel had to do was finish ahead of Harrison...

🎉Celebrated Fourth of July With a World Full of Swell🎉 As we celebrated Independence Day here in the US, the Southern Hemisphere celebrated with us, serving up pumping surf in numerous regions during the July 4 weekend. 📷 @keana.rivet Things got started in Tahiti late last week, when Teahupoo turned on in a big way with one of the most hyped swells of the season. This one was forecasted weeks ago, and according to sources on the ground it ended up delivering the size we’d been expecting—although video has yet to start trickling out. And Teahupoo isn’t done, as a second and potentially even bigger swell is stacking up for the middle of the month as well. Of course, whenever Teahupoo fires, Oahu gets swell a few days later, and that’s exactly what happened this holiday weekend. Long-period forerunners started filling in on the 4th, with the swell peaking on the 5th and still pumping on the 6th. This was the biggest south swell of the summer so far, with reports of 6-foot+ at swell magnets and Big Bowl turning on for a heavy crowd of Ala Moana regulars. We typically only get one or two swells this size each...

NEWSLETTER MARCH 2021   Cargo Slowed Due to COVID-19 at Los Angeles Port - Expect Shipping Delays As if COVID-19 hasn’t affected life enough already over the past year, the latest news out of Los Angeles is that there is a huge backlog of cargo ships stuck offshore. Nearly 700 stevedores are either sick or out of work due to COVID-19 infections and quarantines, so there simply aren’t enough people to process all of the cargo ships that come into the port. On top of that, everyone stuck at home during COVID-19 this year has been ordering things to help keep themselves occupied (including surfboards!), so more ships and more cargo are coming into the port than normal. The Los Angeles Port normally handles 10-20 ships per day, but lately they have been receiving upwards of 30! This influx of cargo and lack of employees to process it has created a huge maritime traffic jam and huge amounts of cargo that is not getting unloaded and shipped to retailers, with dozens of ships stuck off shore in line, waiting to come into the port and unload. In mid-February, there were ships that had been waiting over two weeks to get...

Hailing from San Diego, CA, Taylor grew up with a passion for riding any type of surf craft that he could get his hands on. At the age of 13, he fell in love with Longboarding and since then he has become one of the most successful and dominant competitive Longboarders in the World today. Over the course of his career, and with many more years to go, he has racked up 3 WSL World Longboard Titles, 6 North American National Titles, 3 Australasian National Titles and over 50 professional career victories along the way. When he’s not chasing swells and contests all over the globe, Taylor spends his downtime with his wife Nava and daughter Jagger, splitting their time between the beaches of San Diego, CA and the Far North Coast of NSW, Australia.     Taylor Jensen has won three longboard world championships, with back-to-back titles in 2011 and 2012, and a third in 2017. Throughout his career, he has competed on his signature model, the TJ Pro shaped by Dan Mann, which is available in Firewire Timbertek, and will be available in Thunderbolt Black (carbon fiber) and Red (Xeon fiberglass) starting in April. To get us hyped up for...

Foods that Give You Energy in the Day and Help You Sleep at Night Between work, family, and surfing, life can be exhausting sometimes. But responsibilities keep coming, and so do swells—so it's up to us to find the energy to keep up. Fortunately, there are a few things we can do to make sure our energy stores are topped off. For one, getting enough sleep each night is essential. But beyond that, we can also benefit our bodies by eating the right foods. Here are five foods that can help give us energy during the day—and a couple more that can help us unwind in the evening, when we are ready to rest. 1) Brown rice: Carbs are the popular topic of the day when it comes to healthy eating. Too many carbs end up getting converted into fat, but if you don’t have enough of them, you won’t have the energy needed to support physical activity. The trick is to eat the right amount and the right kind of carbs—namely, complex carbs. In Hawaii and Japan, rice is a major source of carbs for many of us—but we tend too eat too much of it, and the wrong kind....