 Surfer’s Union
Led by Liam McNamara and Pancho Sullivan, the Hawai‘i Pro Surfer’s
Union enjoyed their first year in action. The first challenge they took
on was to change the tedious trials system of the Rip Curl Pro Pipeline
Masters contest.
Just because local Pipe talent like Jamie O’Brien does
not do the ‘QS or the ‘CT, (he has made it through the Pipe Masters
wildcard trials all the way to the finals) he should not be excluded
from competitions that take place in his backyard. “By forming a Union
and having paid legal representation, we might be taken more seriously
and protect our events here in Hawai‘i and make sure we have stronger
representation in events,” Pancho explained at a Union meeting earlier
this year. “Because the way it has been going, we’re being weeded out.”
No Pipe Trials
In a meeting between Hawai‘i Pro Surfer’s Union members and the ASP
technical committee, the ASP acknowledged that Hawai‘i and Pipeline are
special places, and recognized the need for change. The 2006 Rip Curl
Pro Pipeline Masters will see 15 surfers who are not part of the top-44
on tour, (and are for the most part, local Pipe chargers,) seeded into
the main event. These surfers have been invited to the contest via
their scores from the 2006 Monster Energy Pipeline Pro. This
qualification process replaced the need for the Pipe Masters trials and
opened the door for more of Pipe’s locals to enter the main event.
2006 Xcel Pro presented by No Fear
The prestige and money of the Xcel Pro at Sunset Beach was raised this
year when contest directors made the high-performance, big wave contest
a four-star World Qualifying Series event. Last year the Xcel Pro was
only a three-star WQS contest with a smaller prize purse. This year
Xcel Pro competitors received more money and WQS points for their
performance.
MAKING WAVES
Jamie
Sterling was awarded The Surfline Best Overall Performance Award for
distinguishing himself through inspired performances at the greatest
number of different venues around the globe in both paddle and tow-in
disciplines, earning the most ballots from the judging committee and
the $5,000 prize.
Shane Dorian won the Monster Tube Award this year
at the Billabong XXL Awards and $5,000 for his now legendary enormous
backside barrel at Tahiti’s Teahupo‘o on September 11, 2005.
 Recording artist Jack Johnson
and his wife Kim were honored as Environmentalists of the Year at the
17th annual Waterman’s Weekend hosted by the Surf Industry
Manufacturers Association (SIMA) Environmental Fund. Legendary
Waiki-ki- Beach Boy Rabbit Kekai was awarded the Lifetime Achievement
Award.
Manulele Inc. grew this year, adding Billabong Surf TV to
its action sports lineup, revamping the well-known Board Stories TV
with a fresh new look, up-and-coming musicians and more sick free
surfing footage and FreeSurf Magazine became a frequent flyer on
Hawaiian Airlines, now carried on all trans-Pacific flights.
The World’s Tandem Champions Live Here
Brian Keaulana and Kathy Terada won the ISA World Tandem Surfing
Championship title in August during the Duke’s OceanFest games. The
progressive tandem partnership of 20 years looked flawless on every
wave and pocketed a nice $1,000 for their talents.
Rip Curl WCT Search Mexico
In June, the illustrious World Championship Tour went loco at a hollow,
rifling right-hander for the Rip Curl WCT Search Mexico. Although
contest directors kept the exact location of the event secret, it
didn’t stop many of the Top 44 from calling the event “the best ‘CT
contest ever.” Bruce Irons claimed he got the barrel of his life. Older
brother Andy took home the victory by busting a giant lien-air in the
final and dismantling a red-hot Taylor Knox. Viva Mexico!
Worldprosurfers.com
Worldprosurfers.com launched during the Quiksliver Pro France and is
bridging the gap between Joe Pro and Joe Schmoe, bringing ‘CT fans into
the minds of the pros during WCT events. The site is freshly loaded
with a barrage of unique commentary, interactive interviews, technique
tips, 3G mobile downloads, fresh video footage, in-depth features and
all the latest news in an innovative magazine format.
Taking Over
 Being
a dark horse in a surf contest only makes winning sweeter. At the 2006
NSSA National Championships, Kekoa Cazimero went into the Open Men’s
final as an underdog and left Lower Trestles a champion. The Kaiser
High student wasn’t considered a threat for the Governor’s Cup in the
NSSA National Championships program. That didn’t deter the 17-year-old
from winning the NSSA’s most prestigious title. Cazimero beat out his
competitors by doing his own thing in the final and avoiding the paddle
battles with other competitors.
The Quiksilver ISA World Junior
Surfing Championships: Hawai‘i’s first team victory ever in a World
Junior contest. Major players in helping bring home the victory
included first and second finishers Tonino Benson and Clay Marzo (Under
16 Boys), and third and fourth place Carissa Moore and Lani Hunter
(Under 18 Girls.)
 ‘Ewa
Beach’s Kekoa Bacalso took out the international competition at the ASP
sanctioned 2006 Billabong Junior Pro at Narrabean, Australia, becoming
the first Hawai‘i surfer since Andy Irons (1998) to win the Billabong
Junior Pro.
 Carissa. Need we say Moore?
It
was a historical year for Carissa Moore’s blossoming surfing career.
The thirteen-year-old Punahou student made history at the NSSA National
Championships in July when she won the Open Women’s title for the third
year in row. That victory gave Moore her ninth NSSA title, the most any
grom has ever won in history. And she has four more years of amateur
competition to go. The regular-foot is also the first person to
successfully defend the Governor’s Cup title two consecutive years. If
that’s not impressive enough, the modest teenie bopper came home to
Kewalos in August and dominated the Boys 14-and-under division at the
Rip Curl Grom Search, adding another impressive victory to her stellar
resume.
Kaka‘ako
The Aina: Alexander &
Baldwin Inc. was selected by a state board to develop a $650-million
project on 36.5 acres of state land in the Kaka‘ako area. The original
land development was planned for three residential buildings and a
bridge to be built over the Kewalo Harbor channel.
The People: It’s
been a hard and long battle since May 2005 with many marches to the
capitol and talking to legislators and the Governor.
Outcome: The
People prevailed over big business, special interests and money. Bill
HB2555 became law on July 11, 2006, preserving this last public
oceanfront land in Honolulu for our keiki, for public use and
protecting it from becoming another Waiki-ki- by prohibiting the sale
of public land and prohibiting residential use in Kaka’ako Makai.
PEOPLE POWER ’06: LAND DISPUTES
Pu-pu-kea-Paumalu
The
Aina: The Pu-pu-kea-Paumalu property drew attention 15 years ago when
plans for 500 homes on the area were announced. Those plans were never
realized, but the Pu-pu-kea-Paumalu property was put up for sale by the
Obayashi Corporation of Japan in 2006.
The People: This was an
once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to safeguard and strengthen O‘ahu’s
heritage, visitor economy and quality of life by securing the area for
open space rather than luxury homes. Once the community learned the
property was for sale the North Shore Community Land Trust (NSCLT)
began working to raise over $7-million to acquire and protect the
property.
Outcome: Thanks to a lot of fundraising and some star
power, the North Shore Community Land Trust is looking to a future of
open space. Go to www.northshoreland.org for more
information.
 Kawela Bay
The
Aina: Owners of Turtle Bay Resort on the North Shore of O‘ahu want to
build 3,500 more residential units (condo, timeshare and hotel) on and
around Kawela Bay based on an agreement and land use permit that are
nearly 20 years old—and based on an environmental impact study that is
even older. A lot has changed in 20 years and much of the North Shore
community wants an updated assessment before the development is allowed
to proceed. They are now attempting to subdivide more than 700 acres of
land from Kawela Bay to Kahuku Point and proposed a new shoreline
certification for parcels of land including Kawela Bay and Kahuku Point
for which the stated purpose is “development of land.” Currently, the
sprawling Turtle Bay Resort has only 500 units, so the magnitude of
adding another 3,500 would expand the resort to eight times its
existing size.
The People: On June 7, 2006, the Sierra Club- Hawai‘i
Chapter and local community group, “Keep the North Shore Country” filed
a lawsuit in the First Circuit Court of the State of Hawai`i against
the City and County of Honolulu, Director of the Department of Planning
and Permitting Henry Eng and Kuilima Resort Company to require a
Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for Kuilima’s Resort
Expansion Project at Kawela Bay and Turtle Bay Resort.
Outcome: Still in progress. Go to www.keepthenorthshorecountry.org
for updated information.
GOING THE DISTANCE
Laird Hamilton
In May 2006, tow-in surfing pioneer Laird Hamilton completed a
426-kilometer crossing between London and Paris in two days on bike and
stand-up paddleboard to raise funds for Don King’s Beautiful Son, a
documentary about King’s autistic son, Beau.
To follow up Laird’s
journey and to raise more funds for Beautiful Son, Hamilton convinced
tow partner Dave Kalama to cross the entire Hawaiian Island chain on
bike and stand-up paddleboard with him. The trek was roughly 430 miles
and took nearly a week to complete in October. They started from the
southern point of Hawai‘i Island and finished the arduous peddle and
paddle trek at Kilauea Lighthouse.
“It’s a great opportunity to
bring awareness and hopefully raise funding for Don’s film about
healing autism. I am honored to have the opportunity to help
Don.”—Laird Hamilton
Chris Owens
In July
2006, the North Shore’s Chris Owens became the first person to solo
paddleboard all of the channels that connect the Hawaiian Islands. His
mission was to raise money for Malama Na Pua, a Native Hawaiian
traditional healing center. Chris’s journey culminated at the 10th
Annual Quiksilveredition Moloka‘i to O‘ahu paddleboard race where he
and his son CJ completed the course in six hours and 47 minutes.
“It was a really proud thing for me. We got going and my son’s right behind me, and we’re heading across the channel.”
—Chris Owens
 John John Florence Signature Board Model
With
the help of shaper John Pyzel, John John Florence has taken his surfing
to new levels of performance. And this year Pyzel put Florence in the
board design history books by making John John’s board dimensions into
a Surftech epoxy signature model. Florence is the first grommet in surf
history to a have a signature surfboard. C’mon, what’s a better
Christmas present for a pre-pubescent surf rat than a surfboard from
the gnarliest grom out there?
PLANET PAINS
It seems February and March 2006 were nothing but a blur of varying
downpours. After being hit with three weeks of excessive rain
throughout the islands, Kauai’s 400-million-gallon Kaloko Reservoir dam
collapsed on March 14, launching a massive surge of water that tore out
hundreds of mature trees and carried residents with it, killing seven
people. On March 30, 48-million gallons of raw sewage pumped into the
Ala Wai Canal due to a major sewer main rupture. It was the largest
spill of untreated raw sewage in the state’s history, effectively
closing all beaches on the South Shore for weeks. Additional sewage
spills in Waimanalo, Kailua, Kane’ohe and central Honolulu had state
officials posting signs to stay out of the water all around the island.
Who Put the Quarter In?
Most Hawai‘i residents awoke in rumbling beds on Sunday, Oct. 15 when a
6.6 magnitude earthquake rattled the islands, damaging buildings,
triggering landslides on the Big Island and knocking out power across
the state. The quake was centered off the Kohala Coast on the western
shore of the Big Island, and there were at least a dozen aftershocks,
including one that measured 5.8. With most residents cut off from any
kind of communication, the quake initially incited fears of a tsunami,
but The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center on O‘ahu said the quake was too
deep underground to cause one.
An Inconvenient Truth
It
seemed obvious this year—even in isolated Hawai‘i Nei—that the earth is
trying to heal itself from the stresses of massive global climate
change. A must-see documentary came out in 2006 called, An Inconvenient
Truth. The film offers an educational and provocative look at global
warming’s deadly progress by exposing the scientific facts, myths and
misconceptions that surround the issue. If the vast majority of the
world’s scientists are right, the human community has just ten years to
avert a major catastrophe that could send the planet into epic
destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and
killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced. It is
without a doubt, this and next year’s most important film. Log on to
www.climatecrisis.net for more information.
Survival of the Fittest?
The news stations and coconut wireless were buzzing with shark talk
throughout 2006. There were many sightings and bitings around the
islands, but the most intriguing sighting of the year was Hawaii Shark
Encounters owner Jimmy Hall’s meet-and-greet with a Great White Shark,
spotted three miles outside of Hale‘iwa. North Shore residents on O‘ahu
noticed quite an increase in visits from the men in grey suits,
provoking a community debate over if the shark tour companies,
(chumming waters three miles off of Hale‘iwa Harbor daily) were partly
to blame.
Free Sunny
Former surfing World
Champion Sunny Garcia is going to Federal Prison for not paying his
taxes. Sunny was one of the top pro surfers in the world from when he
dropped out of high school in 1986 to compete on the pro tour, to his
retirement after the 2005 season.
He was the World Champion in 2000
and the second pro surfer to win over $1 million in prize money. The
trouble he got into had to do with income taxes on $161,450 in cash and
traveler’s checks earned in surf contests in Fiji, Australia, South
Africa, France, Spain, Portugal and Brazil. He also admitted that from
1996 to 1999 and in 2001, he did not report another $255,635 in prizes.
Garcia was convicted of tax evasion on Oct. 18, for failing to pay
taxes on $471,000 on unreported overseas winnings from 1996 to 2001. At
the sentencing, Garcia apologized for his misdeed, admitting: “I didn’t
surf because I thought I was going to make money at it,” Garcia said.
“But coming from a poor family, you want to buy everything you never
had. I spent my money foolishly.”
US District Court Judge Thomas J.
Whelan set Jan. 12, 2007 as the date by which Garcia needs to report to
the Bureau of Prisons, allowing Garcia to compete in the Hawaiian
Triple Crown this winter, and possibly win some of the money he is
going to need to pay back taxes and fines on the $417,000 in prize
money he failed to report.
Judge Whelan also ordered Garcia to
spend seven months in home confinement after he gets out of prison and
to perform 80 hours of community service, preferably with troubled
youths.–Ben Marcus
First is the worst, Second is the best, third is the one with the hairy chest
The professional longboard community was amping that a world champion
would be crowned at the 13th Annual Rabbit Kekai International
Longboard Surfing Classic in Costa Rica held in late June. Half of the
world championship event was run at Boca Barranca, a long left-hand
point break. But the left fizzled out and the contest was moved to
Playa Hermosa, a beach break similar to Pu-pu-kea. The Big Island’s Ned
Snow found Playa Hermosa to his liking and floated his way to the
final. Snow went up against Australian Josh Constable in the man-on-man
final. It was a close exchange, but Constable paddled in as the 2006
World Longboard Champion.
Rest In Peace
Peter Miller
David Aluli
Shaun Tomson
“Big Bill” Baker
Warren Bolster
Buzzy Trent
Smokin' Joe Engel
Steve “The Crocodile Hunter” Irwin
A Hui Hou
Kammie’s Market and
Sunset Pizza at Sunset Beach
Clyde Aikau’s long-time
Waiki-ki- Beach Boy stand
Close Calls
Timmy
Turner, Feral founder and creator of the 2004 Surfer Magazine Video of
the Year Second Thoughts overcame a life threatening staph infection,
undergoing emergency brain surgery on the left side of his head to
alleviate the sinus pressure caused by the staph.
Jack O’Neill,
Inventor of the wetsuit and founder of the surf brand O’Neill suffered
a stroke on Sept. 17 and was rushed to the hospital where he was
treated quickly. O’Neill retains full mental awareness, despite some
numbness in his leg, which is being treated with rehabilitative
physical therapy.
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