Surf Garage Blog

In the North Shore community, there is a new movement called “Build shopping mall at Pupukea”. Of course the locals highly protest to this movement. Do we need a shopping mall in Country? We’ll never get back something lost once in nature. We need to think more about SAVING rather than building. We carry T-shirts [...]

This is not a baby lion but my dog, Hana. She was 5 months old that time. She couldn’t jump in the water but now she is 2 years old and we enjoy together trying the Stand Up Paddling. She gave me much hard training as she moved around on top of the board. Small [...]

We got boards from “Aviso” included “Dick Van Straalen/Rasta model”. Should be fun. Has a deck concave for a good response with cool look. Recently, not so good surf condition early morning but guys said getting better around lunch time. Once a while get 2 – 3ft sets and still chilly.

Newest DVD title “BELIEVE” is on the market now. Rasta, Dick Van Straalen, The Fitzgeralds and more and more. One of sound track play by Andrew Kidman too. Same taste as a Morning of the Earth, Litmus, Glass Love. Must see if you like a fish or weird surfboards. $31.

When I was in Japan last February I saw “Cameron Dias” at show window of SoftBank that is one of the best cell phone company at ROPPONGI. I saw so many US celebrities on tv commercials, magazine ads, posters at train-stations, like a can-coffee, cars & many of etc… This is common in Japan, lots [...]

Kai Sallas came in today drop his surf photos. His longboarding is great! I’m one of his surfing fan. He represents “Donald Takayama Surfboards” and also one of our pro-rider. 2008 Surf-Tech/Donald Takayama put his signature model “EhuKAI” on the market. Good Board! Come check it out.

http://www.ripcurl.com/index.php?proLive_en Did you see “Ripcurl Pro” at Bells beach, AZ? Like a double overhead MEAN condition. Slater & Fanning are same 1st round heat, they show us grate top turns under that condition. Those guys are PROs. Fanning lost 1st round. BIG swells on the way, we may see Grate Bells when winds are more [...]

Jay brought in boards today from Mahaka for us, Mahalo Nui Loa. He brought in EPS foam+Epoxy resin board that had ultimate light weight with nice flex. Market said “Hard time to quit use EPS board if used once” Good performance board, also this construction really good for Stand Up boards. His rocker is amazing. [...]

Yesterday’s Pipe was little bit bigger than this photo with windy condition. 23 years old loco hapa Japanese body boarder killed by 8ft sets. Pipe is Pipe, No shit… Kouhei Chiba/legendary surfer & shaper in Japan stop by this morning. We just got first delivery of “303 surf boards” this morning those shaped by him. [...]

I surfed at Bowls this morning (as usual). Set height was like a 2ft+ once a while.This is my dog. Her name is “Hana”. She made 2 years old on March 8th. She is a mix with Golden and Labrador retriever mix. She is so sweet, my first dog. Please come see Hana when you [...]