2023 Da Hui Backdoor Shootout
in Memory of Duke Kahanamoku
The final day of the Da Hui Backdoor Shootout has ended without a winner due to injuries sustained by multiple...
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By Aukai Ng The North Shore of O‘ahu has bred a great pool of talented local surfers. Young surfers who...
By Alexandra Kahn Kalani Rivero is not a new name or face to the crowd residing on the North Shore of O‘ahu, but to outsiders he has never been in the limelight as some of his closest friends are. Perhaps it is because he started surfing at an age when...
Kirra Pinkerton
Is Going for Gold
By Rebecca Parsons Kirra Pinkerton is the type of person who knows what she wants and goes after it. Pinkerton...
Intro By Mike Latronic Interview by Aukai Ng The next generation of surfers are charging harder than ever in waves...
Ho’omua
Dick Brewer
by Steve Morgan It was the summer of 1981. We were motoring our way out to the tip of Point Loma in a nominal watercraft I had purchased six months prior for $300. On board were Dick Brewer, myself, and two other friends, Dave Peterson and Keith Hennant. Although a...
By Rebecca Parsons For Gabriela Bryan, surfing has always been a family affair. Bryan spent her childhood on Kauai’s north...
Intro by Jim Kempton Interviews by Mike Latronic They say the world is shaped by two things: stories told and...
Vying for the World Longboarding Title in Malibu By Rebecca Parsons Photos by Tommy Pierucki Kelis Kaleopa’a was destined to be a surfer. Her mom and dad surf. Her grandma surfs. Her cousins surf. And she grew up in Waikiki. So naturally, when she was old enough to swim, she...
By Rebecca Parsons As kids, many of us can admit to dreaming of becoming a professional athlete. While it’s a...
By Aukai Ng The Banzai Pipeline is touted by many as the most rewarding yet consequential wave on the planet....
Maalaea
By Jud Lau
It really does feel like it was all a dream. Words can scarcely describe what was experienced by several hundred of Hawai’i’s finest surfer’s, and witnessed by thousands of spectators. It was euphoric, monumental, historic. Perhaps one of the most remarkable days of big wave barrel riding to ever go...