Kaz Sano Blog!: Matty Costa Hit Me!! - Photoshoot at Tracks

i had another exciting day today... Of course partly thanks to Matty Costa AGAIN!

Woke up early, picked up Derek Wong and went to Tracks again. It was looking good again today!

Davin Jaime, Matty Costa and Kaulana Apo were out there surfing already. They told me that they got there before sunrise, paddled out when it was still dark.

I wanted to shoot some photos. since they are all goofy footers, i decided to shoot the lefts so i don't end up with bunch of butt shots even tho the lighting wasn't the best.

I wanted to be out there before the wind pick up so i got ready and was out there!

i tell the kids to come hit me so they get close enough for good shots.

This was the first wave Matty and I connected... so like 15 minutes into shooting. Matty was turning right by me... I was thinking "Yes, perfect positioning!"

I'm still thinking "yes!" right here.

Now i'm thinking "@#%!$#@^#@!!"

Matty HIT my camera!

When his board hit my camera, it was so loud people on the beach told me that they heard the "bang!"

luckily i just got little scratch on my housing and Matty's fin got little scratch. that was scary!

Matty, when i said come hit me, i meant come close BUT not really hit me! ha ha.

After that i wasn't getting as close as i wanted to the kids. They were all ripping tho, specially Matty.

Here are some shots of him.

noticed how i'm far away from Matty now? ha ha.

Derek was surfing the right but came over to the left for this one.

Kaulana was making surfing look easy.

and yes, he landed this and was stoked i was there to get the shots.

Devin Brueggemann came out after a while. Better watch out for him, he's surfing good these days.

Davin and i never connect. We've tried so many times and i think we got one shot after like 2 years. ha ha.

we were doing better today tho. we connected few times.

Kylen Yamakawa came with his brother Cole. Cole was surfing the right so only got Kylen.

Didn't look like Kylen was worrying about breaking his board today. ha ha.

The side-offshore wind was getting strong and i was getting too much spray on the camera so i came into film from land. while i was filming, more people showed up.

Alyssa Wooten! She was one of the original grom i took around everywhere. she's all grown up now.

Tracks locals, Elijah Gates and EJ Mitsui.

Scotty Quizon showed up with his son John... But while John was having fun surfing, Scotty was fixing John's other board. Sucks to be a father of a surfer kid. ha ha.

Kalani David showed up too. He's so tall now. i hate these kids keep getting taller. soon, they'll be all taller than me.

The guys finally came in after hours of surfing. when these guys get together, they are always doing something weird.

I'm still trying to figure out what they were pointing at... ha ha.

Derek, Kylen, Cole and I decided to check out Maili Point but before that, we stopped at McDonalds. yes, our favorite place. ha ha.

There were so many flies there, they had these traps set up everywhere. not so cool to see when you are about to eat.

hate to be this guy. one leg trapped on the trap. he was trying to escape the whole time we were eating. ha ha.

When we got to Maili Point, bunch of Japanese Jrs were there practicing for tomorrow's VQS.

Ryuta got vana (sea urchin) stuck in his hand. That thing was in his hand deep. welcome to Hawaii! Hope that thing's not too bad.

Little onshore wind by the time we got there but was still looking fun!

On our way home, there was this police car driving way too close to the car infront of him for good 15 minutes.

I hate when they think they can do whatever they want. if i were driving like him, i'd got a ticket! We should be able to pull over cops to give them tickets. that should even out the field.

I stopped by Best Buy to get ANOTHER external hard drive. I went through 2 terabyte one in 6 months. i got so many external hard drives now, soon i'm gonna need to rent a storage place just for them. ha ha.

well, as i was walking into Best Buy, this is what i saw.

I know in California, there are bunch of Mexican people hanging out at Home Depots to find jobs... I guess Asian people are now hanging out at Best Buys to find jobs here in Hawaii. ha ha.