October 12th, 2008 by evan

This video is from May 08. This was one of my earlier downwind runs. The crew was Kainoa B, Duane DeSoto and friends. Kainoa did a different type of tandem on this run. He had his friend Ann, who is his Access Surf partner on the front of his 12′ board and then surfed it [...]
September 22nd, 2008 by admin
Drew Brophy
Here are the results from Day 4 from the Mexican Pipeline!
Congratulations to Hawaii’s own Noah Shimabukuro!
Finalists
1 - Noah Shimabukuro $4000
2 - Garrett McNamara $2000
3 - Scott Chandler $1000
4 - Kealii Mamali $800
Other Semifinalists: Ikaika Kalama, Ekolu Kalama, TJ Saeman, Chuck Patterson
See you at home,
Duane DeSoto
Here’s a quote from Drew Brophy [...]
September 20th, 2008 by admin
Here are the results from Puerto Day 2!
Format
Day two, round 2 top wave scores added to round 1 scores. Yesterday, I listed the average today is the total scores from all judges which was used to round off top 16 quarterfinalist. Each heat was an hour long.
Conditions
Inconsistent and blown out by the [...]
September 20th, 2008 by admin
We got this email from Duane Desoto:
I’m down in Puerto at the sup invitational. My wife was telling me that there is absolutely no press on the event, she was searching online. The contest organizer said that he has been getting hundreds of emails from all over the world asking for results.
Format
4 man [...]
September 5th, 2008 by admin
Stand Up Men
July 28th, 2008 by evan

I’ve been doing a lot of downwind runs in the past 3 weeks. I just did the Hawaii Kai to Kaimana Beach (9 miles?) today. I finally did it under 2 hours and maybe that’s because I didn’t sit down as much as I normally do. Yes, I’m the lazy paddler and I realize that [...]
July 27th, 2008 by admin
QUIKSILVEREDITION MOLOKAI TO OAHU PADDLEBOARD RACE
SUP Division Presented by C4 Waterman
32 MILES
SUNDAY, JULY 27, 2008
MITCHELL STORMS TO 7TH MOLOKAI VICTORY
DESOTO WINS GRUELLING C4 WATERMAN STAND-UP RACE
Duncan Clinches 6th Women’s Title; Cote Claims Solo Stockboard
HONOLULU - (July 27, 2008) — Australian paddling sensation Jamie Mitchell, 31 (Queensland), stormed to his seventh consecutive victory in the QuiksilverEdition [...]