hawaii on seshn

Bruce Irons and some homies having a sesh’ at Waimea River. Looking pretty mental on this particular day. If you watch the footy, at one point the wave almost starts to barrel. It’s great to see Bruce back in true form and being free. 

Our homey Forrest Troxell, just placed 3rd in the HASA Men’s Open Finals. Big Ho’omaika’i to you braddah, keep ripping Maui and we will see you here on the mainland in August!
 
Above: Forrest Troxell in the HASA Men’s Finals

Ah yes, Hawaii, land of beauty and pork. Not exactly what you would think of first when thinking about Hawaii, but I love their pork down there. I went once, and had an all you can eat experience that has never been matched since. I could have closed the place down, but I was so full….and well….nevermind. Here’s a video of the DC skate crew hitting Hawaii; those lucky dudes.
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As we all know, local boy Jamie O’Brien, took the 2008 Da Hui Backdoor Shootout back in January and took home a cool $50,000. He was followed by Bruce Irons who nabbed $25k and Ola Eleogram who brought home $15 g’s. DC Shoes just released the following footy from the contest. As you can see from the waves, this contest proved to have some of the best conditions at Pipeline in recent memory. 
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                                                               …you get an Orangeman in a grass skirt? No, you get George Freeth, often billed as the “first surfer in the United States”. Apparently, Georgie’s old man hailed from Ulster (one of the four Irish provinces having six of its nine counties now in Northern Ireland) and fell for a Wahine after he emigrated to Hawaii. The offspring of their loins turned out to be a rather interesting dude. As inscribed on a memorial statue at Redondo beach in California…
“George Freeth was born in Honolulu November 8, 1883 of Hawaiian and Irish ancestry. As a youngster he revived the lost Polynesian art of surfing while standing on a board. Henry E. Huntington was amazed at Freeth’s surfing and swimming abilities and induced George to come to Redondo beach in 1907 to help the building of “the largest, warm saltwater plunge in the world.”
George Freeth was advertised as “the man who can walk on water.” Thousands of people came here on the big red cars to watch this astounding feat. George would mount his big 8-foot long, solid wood , 200 hundred pound surf board far out in the surf. He would wait for a suitable wave, catch it, and to the amazement of all, ride onto the beach while standing upright.
George Freeth introduced the game of water polo to this coast. He trained many champion swimmers and divers. George was the “first official lifeguard” on the Pacific coast. He invented the torpedo shaped rescue buoy that is now used worldwide. On December 16, 1908 during a violent south bay storm, George rescued 6 Japanese fisherman from a capsized boat. For his valour he received “the United States Lifesaving Corps gold medal.”
George Freeth died April 7, 1919 at the early age of 35 years as the result of exhaustion from strenuous rescue work.”
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The Volcom crew recently made a trip over to Hawaii to seshn. Check out their footy below:
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