Billy!

Congrats Billy for the HIC pro sunset win!

HSA contest update

HSA contest update. They will be running all the divisions at Renicks on Sunday!

Aloha \m/
Kaz Sano
Novus Swell

Final

Final coming up in few minutes!

Halloween Weekend

I stayed up in North Shore for Halloween and passed out candies at Mahina Maeda's house. Where she lives is the place to be in North Shore if you are a kid. So many trick or treaters stopped by.

McGill ohana is one of the most fun families ever. When they stopped by, i was on the ground laughing for a long time.

Kelia "Sister" Moniz stopped by with her godson. i've known she's into Justin Bieber but never thought she would dress her godson like him!

here's where she got her costume inspirations from. (i took the photo from her blog, thanks Sister)

No, Mahina was not sharing her candies with me... :( haha.

I took Mahina to Haleiwa to meet up with Bailey & Kylie Nagy, Ocean Tsutsui, Dax McGill, and Indie Pyzel.

After our session, Bailey and Mahina wanted to do some photoshoot.

I took about 100 shots to get these two shots. pretty funny tho huh?

note to self, don't take picture of these two together... if i se the exposure to Bailey, i can't see Mahina and if i set the exposure to Mahina, Bailey gets over exposed. ha ha.

Lunch at Waialua Bakery. This place is sooo good!

When i got back to town, i went with Zeke Lau to check out an used truck for Zeke.

Yes, Zeke is now a proud owner of a brand spanking used truck!

I want to congratulate Koa Smith and Seth Moniz for winning Rip Curl Gromsearch International Finals at Puerto Rico!

Koa won the Under 16 division.

Seth won the Under 12 division. (yet another photo stolen from Sister's blog. ha ha)

Great job guys!

I also want to congratulate Carissa Moore for coming in 2nd at Rip Curl Pro Search at Puerto Rico!

This puts her 3rd in the world ranking. the crazy thing is, she's in 3rd despite of missing one event to attend her graduation. amazing!

speaking of amazing, Steph Gilmore claimed 4th world title!

As for mens world title race, Kelly Slater is looking like going to claim his 10th one. BUT it's not a sure thing yet.

Today, they had the first day of HIC Pro at Sunset beach.

I couldn't be there but was watching it online and i must say i was impressed with all the young surfers. they were all surfing really good in very challenging condition there.

There's a sign by Mahina's house...

Slow Children huh? funny cuz i didn't see Kaito running around there. ha ha.

i don't know about you, but i'm still in shock about A.I.. I guess i'll talk about him later. i just hope his families and friends are doing alright and hope media will be sensitive enough to leave them their space.

Kaz

R.I.P. A.I.

This has to be one of the saddest day in recent surfing history. Andy Irons has passed away at age 32.

it's so nuts because he just withdrew from Puerto Rico event yesterday from being sick and he was on his way home. According to Surfer magazine, he was too sick to travel on his connecting flight from Texas to Hawaii and he passed away in a hotel there in Texas.

He was looking so good this year on tour. he was looking healthy with genuine smile on his face, looked like he was back in the game ready to get his 4th title next season.

i'm still in shock and can't believe the news.

my prayer goes out to his family and friends. R.I.P. A.I..

S2W41: Things We Do

From filming all the time, I've collected some funny clips. Specially with Zeke picking on some of his favorites. haha. So here's a collection of what we do when we are at the beach between sessions.

Enjoy the video!

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Haleiwa

Surfed Haleiwa. Super fun but crazy backwash. Kindda fun getting pounded. Haha.