Above the bridge
Above the bridge
Episode 157 HANALEI AHN (Rager Wear, So Stoked Boogie Series, EastSide Live)
Remember those days when bodyboarding was king? When names like Mike Stewart, Jeff Hubbard, and Kainoa McGee dominated our conversations and magazine covers? Hana Ahn certainly does – and he's bringing it all back through the So Stoked Boogie Series and Triple Crown of Bodyboarding.
What started as a pandemic pivot has blossomed into a full-fledged movement. When COVID-19 shut down the football programs Ahn coached, his focus shifted to the ocean. "We turned to the water and while doing the water, the boys started to get good at bodyboarding," Ahn explains. This organic return to the waves sparked something bigger – a mission to revitalize a beloved water sport that had faded from prominence.
Today, the Triple Crown of Bodyboarding encompasses competitions at legendary spots including Sandy Beach and Pipeline, featuring six divisions from keiki (10-13 years) to professionals. Beyond traditional divisions, Ahn has introduced creative categories like synchronized bodyboarding, where two riders perform identical tricks on the same wave. This comprehensive approach isn't just about competition – it's about rebuilding an entire ecosystem that once supported professional bodyboarding, complete with sponsors, events, and pathways to professional careers.
The vision extends internationally too. Ahn has taken groups of young Hawaiian riders to Portugal for the IBC World Tour, where several reached quarterfinals and beyond. "We're trying to build the sport for the youngins," Ahn shares, "so if this is their dream and their passion, they can actually make money off of it." It's a mission to ensure this generation of bodyboarders has the same opportunities – and more – than previous ones.
Beyond the waves, Ahn is reviving the cultural scene that once surrounded bodyboarding. Through concert events featuring local artists, he's reconnecting the sport with the vibrant community atmosphere that made bodyboarding not just a sport, but a lifestyle in Hawaii.
Ready to catch this wave of bodyboarding revival? Follow @SoStokedBoogieSeries to stay updated on upcoming events, competitions, and how you can support this remarkable resurgence of Hawaii's water culture. Join us at Jolene's Bar and Grill at Kaneohe Bayview Golf Course on Friday, August 11th, for live music featuring Bengali from Innavision, Brotherhood, One Session, and Poi Bo. Tickets available on Eventbrite for $20, or $30 at the door.
Aloha, welcome to another edition of the above the bridge podcast. I'm your host, thaddeus park. If this is your first time tuning into the show, thank you very much. You can pretty much find us on whatever podcast platforms you get your podcast our, our YouTube channel and also atbpodcom, our website. Please like, subscribe, leave a comment. It matters and I appreciate you guys for tuning in. Aloha, okay, this week my guest I've known for like multiple decades and I've done some events with him. He owns Rage Aware and he's bringing back bodyboarding with the so Stoked Boogie Series. I said it right, huh?
Speaker 2:Yeah, you said it right.
Speaker 1:Yup Hanalei Ahn, what's up, brother? How?
Speaker 2:you doing, brother Thad, it's been a while.
Speaker 1:I've been so stoked. I remember maybe last year you was posting a couple highlight reels from Aloha Stadium in the purple and gold. Bro, I always forget you as a monarch.
Speaker 2:That's right. I remember we were saying that you went to Damien too. What year did you graduate?
Speaker 1:Oh, 92, bro, 92. Coach.
Speaker 2:I know is my coach and dean.
Speaker 1:I play with Eddie and Puno.
Speaker 2:Oh, so I just missed you. I was 96, so when I was coming in you was already. You just graduated.
Speaker 1:Yeah, what, chris Brown, was your year.
Speaker 2:No, chris Brown was two years after me, so he was like it must have been 90, 98, something like that. Yeah, we're getting old. Him, kekona Eboliko, all of our brothers, some of the boys that used to play football with.
Speaker 1:Coach Aina was your coach.
Speaker 2:Coach Aina yep, coach Aina was our coach. He was the dean. He was the last year of the last year that he was coach was with us my senior year, okay so you know, then I know I know no step on a purple line professional interrogator oh brah, he could get you to sing on anybody oh man so much people rap me out because of his interrogation skills he's good at it too. Nobody knows, how good he was.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's good you know that. But well, brah, I was watching your videos and it brought me back. I remember those big-ass shoulder pads with the horse collar that brah kids know where that use that kind of stuff no more, huh.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they don't. It's everything no more. Huh. Yeah, they don't. Everything is like like they're trying to skim it down now and everything. Now they got these little pads, huh. Just trying to show buffness and so on. Huh.
Speaker 1:I know Before it was like the bigger the pads with the big horse collar make you. I don't know.
Speaker 2:I don't know how we caught any passes. You look at all those old, old horse collars up to the neck up here.
Speaker 1:Yeah yeah, we never had as much injuries, to be honest but yeah, those are the days.
Speaker 1:I miss those football days, man bruh, you bringing back something that I did when I was a little kid and, honestly, it went away. I don't even think at body body magazines anymore. But how did you start this whole thing up? And it's taking off and you're giving these kids an opportunity and the sport is growing and I feel like you're you're guys, putting it back on the map yeah, it's actually a like a bunch of us, um, there's only a few of us.
Speaker 2:That's that kind of puts on contest. But in reality, um, kovid kicked in. So when kovid kicked in, we're we're like doing full-time football with my boys and I had the pylon team and we we went and we did all of that pylon from took two national champs and we were, but my boys were going into high school. Then kovid kicked in and then it kind of eliminated all sports. So we kind of turned to the water and while doing the water the boys started to get good at bodyboarding. So then we found out there's a competition in the Garden Isle in Kauai and I guess that mayor was allowing it to run and that was the only sport that was able to run. So we were able to compete in that. So he kind of saved it.
Speaker 2:It was the Hub Brothers, the Hub Brothers and Kaikea Garden Isle. So now we team up with them too. We do events with them too. They helped us at this pipeline and, yeah, there's a few, there's us, us, them. And then, um, my other friend, pohaku, he has his kawaii bodyboarding uh association. So all three of us kind of teamed up and um, that's how we became having the triple kano bodyboarding this year. It was kind of a process, but I ended up at where that's at now.
Speaker 1:So we had the sandy beach.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we had the sandy beach. Then we had two kawaiis back to back and in that last kawaii was uh was the third one for the crown oh, wow so yeah, so we just finished.
Speaker 2:We just just finished that um. So now we're doing like a rap party, so for the, for the event, and that's what we're trying to bring back and trying to bring back the, the party scene, how we, when we used to go to parties, remember when the HCO parties and and um the soldier parties, all of those um surf parties, um vertical junkies, right.
Speaker 2:And then you guys put it on the agn was putting on and then us rager productions was putting on, bro we'll get into that, because I got some stuff I gotta talk to you about that, bro.
Speaker 1:So I've, I've, I opened a can of worms with that whole thing. But to get back to bodyboarding, like you run a triple crown, so that's three what they? They get one winner Like you. Can you get someone crowned Like the triple crown champion?
Speaker 2:Yeah, so basically we kind of opened it up. So we had like five divisions, which was the 10 to 13 Minihunis, then we had the juniors, it was 13 to 17, and then we had the women's, we had the open men's and then masters and pro, pro division, open pro. So we actually had six divisions, so six crowns went out.
Speaker 1:So what do they win? Like trophies.
Speaker 2:Yeah, trophies, yeah, the state champ Basically. Yeah, they became the state champ For archer pro-chrono bodyboarding.
Speaker 1:Oh, wow, so again, still get pros, then Doing it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so there's pro Amateurs to pros, so, and then we also have Other divisions that we Install to, but those are called like Novelty divisions, like the stand-up division, the mini-bug, mini-bug division we had, and then we had also had this um last one at sandy beach called the um synchronized bogey division, so two riders, two riders on the same wave doing the same tricks at the same time. Oh, wow, it was, it was really interesting. And um, they, they actually put it out there, they put on a show, this last one at sandy's wow, that's crazy.
Speaker 1:Oh, these young kids too, they're doing stuff like I remember when rolos and uh spinners was like the cool thing when we was young, right, that's like, yeah, they just warming up doing those stuff.
Speaker 2:But they just warming up. I mean, yeah, I mean, even those moves is hard, I can do. I can do spinners and reverses, but I cannot rolo for nothing so you get in the water.
Speaker 1:You still get in the water. Yeah, so you get in the water.
Speaker 2:You still get in the water. Yeah, I still get in the water, oh nice, I guess so. I actually almost freaking drowned at pipe this year After the event that we had at pipe. I went back out after on a rising tide and it took me under. I was held down for a while.
Speaker 1:I was like oh man, I got to get more in shape, but you gotta get those, the kind for your arm, the, the oxygen tanks yeah, or to soothe that puppy right back up oh, yeah, yeah, I've seen that too.
Speaker 1:Oh, but um, the the sport is growing, in your opinion, like I feel, like I'm hearing it, seeing it more, way more, like there's been a low, like the past years and maybe like the last, maybe two or three years. Me personally, I noticed that the sport is getting bigger and and and more fun to watch it was back in the 80s and 90s.
Speaker 2:It was really good and really thriving um the original guys like Mike Stewart, the Jeff Hubbards, the two Hubbard brothers. Jack the Ripper, Kainoa McGee, all of those big time guys.
Speaker 1:Even Kaui Kaui was ripping that thing.
Speaker 2:Kaui Kaui was back there yeah, and he even brought a Corey Corey Carrera. He's the one that helped us sponsor our last event, aloha Free Company.
Speaker 2:oh, nice brother Corey he kind of, he kind of helped out a lot with that. So, yeah, just and what a coincidence like ex-bodyboarder helping out the sport. You know, yeah, it's hard to get. It's hard to get corporate sponsors now to to come in. So we're building, trying to build back, trying to build so get those sponsors again and get these guys some pay. So because back when you could live on bodyboarding but now it's like it kind of went down.
Speaker 1:So we're trying to build back up again. Yeah, it seems to be working. Do they even still have bodyboarding mag? Because I remember when we was young, without be the first thing, we run straight to the rack find bodyboarding I know I mean we put it.
Speaker 2:Going going into somebody's room, you see all the pictures of the magazines hanging and everything and all your folder.
Speaker 1:You don't have that anymore yeah, yeah, yeah, your folders.
Speaker 2:You know you, they even had cards before that, bodyboarding cards, yeah, so they had a stuff that as a sport grows, can bring back and and all get those things going again and hopefully it can thrive yeah, well, how did you start?
Speaker 1:start it up, like what was your first event and like how did you like put it all together? Okay, let's take a short break. I want to shout out our sponsors. Um, defend hawaii been my sponsor from the very beginning. They got some new stuff coming out for back to school, some, uh, football collaborations. Give them a look. They they're at no One in Widron Mall. You can find them on defendhawaiicom. If you use promo code ATBPOTUPON check out, you'll get 15% off your entire purchase order. Let them know. Above the Bridge Podcast sent you. Go, give them a look, aloha.
Speaker 2:Actually they just had a competition it's called the Bug Fam Challenge at Sandy's and there was a lot of hype going into it and they do it when it's kind of big. But just so happens the waves wasn't what it should be and they kind of like to do the bomb challenge at short breaks. But more half point was kind of breaking, so they didn't run it and everybody was there. So we're like, hey, let's just run it, let's just run at a half point and just make it all, since everybody's here, everybody's showing $20, you know, make the pot, give the winner the pot. So that was really our first one that we did. And then after that we went in for, like, we went in and got the professionally done where you can allow to do a contest and get the permits and go through the whole process of doing it and and I I kind of knew how to do that already, so I just kind of it kind of fell into place.
Speaker 2:You know, it's basically just a lot of litigation and paperwork.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, so you got to get permit, oh, I guess. So yeah, because you're shutting down the whole beach pretty much.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you got to get water, you got to get permit. You got to get insurances. You got to get your water patrols you got to. Depends on where you're doing it at, too, like pipeline is a lot more than Than the regular beaches like that, because it's one of the main spots.
Speaker 1:So yeah, you guys did one at Makapu too.
Speaker 2:We did a few at Makapu. I think we did like three or four, three or four, and that was another one that we did. That was we usually do that around Christmas time. Okay, the weekend before the Thanksgiving, I mean before Christmas, we'll do it that weekend before.
Speaker 1:And what you guys get. Holding period like the Eddie, or it's just whatever. However it is, that's the day we're going.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's how you set it up. If you want a holding period, so like this one, I think we're going in For the permits for December 16th To the 21st. That's our, you set it up. If you want a holding period, so like this one we got, I think we're going in for the permits for December 16th to the 21st, for at Makapu that's our next contest coming up Okay, so yeah, but then we're also taking um, taking some um, some of the writers to um Salt Creek in Cali and we're going to do a um over there.
Speaker 1:So it's kind of helping the guy out there and bringing the writers from hawaii over there uh, setting it up and so, and then bringing some of the groms up there to experience that. So yeah, it'd be fun, that's cool man.
Speaker 2:So all these kids getting opportunity to travel and and do this yeah, yeah, we actually took um a group of uh, was it like 15 to 20 to Portugal. Oh wow, and we did, and we did the IBC world tour and we did that like two years in a row. The first year we went we took was like half of us, and then the next year was a big one, so that plenty of those guys could do like two divisions, three divisions they had the job need that the pro and then and then the junior division, so the younger guys could do all three if they could do all three. So how the Hawaii boys did.
Speaker 2:They did pretty good. I think a lot of them made it to the quarterfinals my son and the boy Logan, my son Shaden and the boy Logan kind of went far in the divisions. And then always the always the top guys like Sammy. Sammy won his uh, five-time world championship. He's a world champ that he won the drop knee in Portugal when we were up there, yeah. And then, uh, kavika Kamai. He got pretty far in all of the divisions also, like he's a, he's a. So Sammy and Kavika is the next, like the next guys that's like gonna be the top tier guys Because they're still young. They're young adults 24.
Speaker 2:And what's the?
Speaker 1:prize money for these bigger competitions.
Speaker 2:So around the world I guess they get the government help. So a lot of governments help and that's why they're able to get big pots. Maybe say they'll do the division, they'll have $50,000 for that. So if you get to certain rounds you get money. You make round six, you're in the money already. So that's why a lot of these guys like to go and travel and try to make their mark and hopefully get paid.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, oh, that's super cool. And you what? You kind of like their coach or like kind of wrangler uh, the traveling partners.
Speaker 2:Uh, you know, you know me, I like to still have fun, so oh, yeah out there water, we have fun, you know what.
Speaker 1:They must party too at ease surface. Oh yeah, we, yeah portugal.
Speaker 2:I don't think they start. We went to a club up there. They don't start until like 12 o'clock at night, you know, and you're coming out of there Like 6 in the morning. That's how they do it over there, I guess.
Speaker 1:No, ag, that's how you used to do them.
Speaker 2:But they don't do that over here anymore. You know everything's closed early now, yeah, and plus they don't know how to do it Like how we used to do it at that no way, bro, it's weird.
Speaker 1:It's weird. Hey, are you bringing it back, though? Like you said, you're bringing some, some uh stuff back to the east side. I've been seeing your banners up and that's what prompted me to hit you up. I'm like, oh bro, hana's doing stuff again. I gotta get him on. He's doing this new event in the east side at what do they even call Bayview now Jolene's.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so it's a Bayview golf course and they call it basically Jolene's Bar and Grill, but then they also rent out areas of it, so we basically got the whole area that we're going to do for this concert. Yeah, so it should be fun. It's on this Friday. It's coming up Friday, august 15th at Jolene's Bar and Grill. Oh, yep, and we're going to start at like five and we're going to go to maybe 11, 12 o'clock. Okay, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:I might have to check that out. Who's performing?
Speaker 2:So we got Bengali from Innovision and we have Stone Bregens backing him up. We got the. We represented the East Side. We got the Brada Hoods.
Speaker 1:They're coming big huh.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they're coming big. I just I introduced him to my boy up in Vegas Ipono Cafe. Oh, Gene, yeah, Gene, yeah.
Speaker 1:He just was texting me today bro.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, gene, yeah, he just was texting me today, bro, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, his birthday was yesterday, so yeah. So he's a busy guy, so yeah yeah, yeah, so every once in a while, like google, um, so like I introduced it to them and then he kind of got them in some venues up there. Even kanaka fire was another one that got up there with them.
Speaker 1:They're from Big Island, huh.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they're from Big Island, so both of them are on tour now. They've been kind of like one of those bands that's finally getting on those tours, you know those mainland tours.
Speaker 1:They're more rootsy, huh.
Speaker 2:Yeah, really good. They started off at Aamele. I don't know if you remember them.
Speaker 1:Or.
Speaker 2:Roots Remedy yeah, I remember them. Or um roots remedy yeah, I remember yeah, yeah, yeah, holy.
Speaker 1:I remember boys in a vision, but there was always your band.
Speaker 2:They always did your events yeah, I did a lot of a lot of stuff with them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, in a vision was another one back back in the sea life park days yeah, brah, I was kind of looking through some old stuff and, to be honest, like one of my all-time favorite events that we were a part of was with you at kotelau. Golf course, you used to call it the mecca oh, yeah, that was bro. That was my favorite events, bro.
Speaker 2:They don't make them like that anymore.
Speaker 1:No, no, bro, and it was such a cool event because I remember, like when you went down the escalator or the stairs or whatever that was had um natural vibes. Then we had, uh, artist group had honeys like into a club and we had on dj outside, and for me it was super dope because we was in kaneoek, basically, and all the town people came and it was like you said, was the mecca like all east side was here and all of town came and it was just hold.
Speaker 2:I was one of my favorite if anybody doesn't know where koalao golf course, it's all the way in the boonies. You got to get to the boonies You're like, oh, where are we going? And then all of a sudden they pop up Big ball, big room, big everything and big regions.
Speaker 1:That was nuts. I used to do them on a weekly, but just that one when we collaborate with you guys, when Ronnie was still around. Yeah with Artist Group Network with you guys when Ronnie was still around. Yeah, yeah, artist group network. Yeah, yeah, with Agen and we just bruh. For me, that was one of my, I always wanted to uh recreate it and with, like me and Chris would always go over there and try to ask if they'd be down and they would, they never would, let us.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think it's the church now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there's a church, I mean you can do.
Speaker 2:You can do, yeah, you can do, you can do gigs over there, but it's hard, they're pricey too. So but I think that like, yeah, I guess you just got to negotiate with them money and they probably have a lot of different, different things and so on Going on. So you gotta just plan A lot of planning, pre-planning, but you could probably do something, but it's just, it's just pricey.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, it would be hard, but Like back then, that was when, like things were more Was a lot easier, people were more, yeah, a lot easier to do Like, yeah, they allowed that kind of stuff Just like now, before you could have big parties and stuff like that at Ulamau Village. Oh, that's right, I got maced at one of those things, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Remember I had the front hut, that was built and we used to show everything inside there.
Speaker 1:Oh, that was you guys yeah.
Speaker 2:But that's how we started. From my graduation party Turned into Okay, let's put some parties on. So, like, next thing we're doing, we're putting out Ulamau parties and the whole pier. The whole pier was packed With parking and tons of people Coming up and no cops coming and shutting it down Early, you know. But now.
Speaker 1:It came late, though, because I was there Trying for break up on beef and I got maced. I remember going Safeway and we were on gallon milk and just pouring it on my face. I think I was like 20 years old, kind of something like that.
Speaker 2:Probably you know, yeah, back in the day, young boy times, oh yeah, when you used to go to the the corners and go find places For go to go, tune in to your friend and convoy, and everybody go around and follow each other, oh, yeah, that's when Wikes was raging huh it used to be good fun yeah yeah, you go to Wikes. Yeah, wikes was raging. All car cruises, everybody was just chilling. I don't know.
Speaker 1:They'll never do that again. No, was always wakes on the weekends and then sundays in the daytime alamuana beach. Everybody would go there it was. Oh, it's good fun bro yeah, boza yeah nobody does that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't, I don't I I don't see um, I don't see um any't see Any like Bodyboarding At bowls. I was kind of looking into that Doing that. Oh, for real, that's down the line. You gotta like plan A lot of that stuff Way ahead of time.
Speaker 1:Plus too, it's kind of more tricky With the assault side. You gotta have waves Like gotta have swell yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, I mean Usually during the summer. You got pretty consistent. The summer has kind of Been kind of good right now, yeah, but but yeah. Try to go look at some of the clips From my other stuff. They did. There were some bombs that was coming in this last weekend.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I had King Tide too. The boat got hang up by the kind Kiwahalos. Yeah you seen that? Yeah, I was in Maui too, huh.
Speaker 2:The boat got hanged up by the kind Kiwahalos yeah you seen that?
Speaker 1:huh, I was in Maui bro. The only thing about that ruining the reef bro, oh yeah.
Speaker 2:That's the junk part about that. I mean, hopefully they got that boat out.
Speaker 1:Bro, I saw what everybody's saying. Remember the Superferry. They was so mad about that. It was killing the reef. But get atlantis dry dock on the freaking reef dry dock on the reef.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but they said never spill oil.
Speaker 1:So hopefully I hope not yeah, but when crushed reef, you know the kind that's right, you correct I don't know, but, bro, they there. I remember we used to surf Point Panic because I work right there, so I see Point. Panic, all the time I work at the Cancer Center and you can see Point Panic. But, yeah, if you ever like know where I get waves, just let me know. I just go to the fifth floor. I can see everything All the way to diamond head bro you still jump in the water I have a couple.
Speaker 1:Last week I went yep, I'm mocked, nice, but prior to that I haven't for a long time. But I was schooling back in uh oh brah, it's just like riding a bike. Yeah, I, I got. I got put in check because I was scolding my dad, telling him like, oh, you should go golf and he's kind of older, and then he's like making excuses. I was like you know what, dad, you ready to never do it again? Like you ready for stop and never play golf for the rest of your life?
Speaker 2:Is he still working doctor?
Speaker 1:No, no he's retired but he works out. So I was telling him that and then my wife told me she was yeah, why you no bodyboard? Then you ready for never do it again? I was like, oh all right, okay, I got this Right, fuck it. I had bodyboard, rash everything. It was good fun, yeah, oh it was like the first wave and you feel that dip and you go in. It was like, oh man, this is good fun.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah. You take your daughter out.
Speaker 1:I know I never. I used to when she was little.
Speaker 2:But she's not really into it.
Speaker 1:So yeah, same like my daughter Not really.
Speaker 2:She used to when she was little, but she's not really into it. Yeah, same, like my daughter, she used to be into it but not into it. Hopefully come around.
Speaker 1:But you nuts, bro, you're rushing pipe. How big was when you went?
Speaker 2:Like six to eight, I think.
Speaker 1:That's some bombs, bro.
Speaker 2:It was a rising tide and that's where I went wrong. I knew it was going to rise, but I figured I could get in there Before it rised.
Speaker 1:Catch carpool and out.
Speaker 2:But it was too late. It was rising fast so I was like, oh no, I'm going to get stuck out here.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's nuts, bro. You got out of the kayak and you'd pull in.
Speaker 2:I had to just take some to the head and then get dragged in and gagging on the beach.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, bro, one time I went to Sandy's Maybe last year one time and I get slammed. I'm scorpion. I saw my fins Hit the front of my head. I was thinking like bro, I'm too old for this, I cannot get injured, I gotta go work, right, right. But it does make you feel you're like bro, I'm too old for this, I cannot get injured, I gotta go work. You know what I'm?
Speaker 2:saying Right, right.
Speaker 1:But it does make you feel young and, like I said, bro, it's like riding a bike Two paddles on kick and you're on. Bro, we used to get McDonald's trays before, and used to do that at Kalama's.
Speaker 2:But I did get an excuse to get an excuse, kalamas, but but at this you gotta so how we know when you go. If you wanna go out, no, if it's too. Too gnarly, then just maybe like. You know, yeah, to go out. Pick and choose when you go out. Oh yeah, if it's real big and it's rising, then just pass.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's not no shame in bowing out, at least you.
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Speaker 2:There still is. There's still a lot of older people or people that come back to the sport Because, like, you see people leave, then you see people come back. Sometimes I, we leave and we come back, you know.
Speaker 1:So it's.
Speaker 2:That's why it's always there. You can always come back and it's slowly and you know, get your mind out of the gutter If your mind. Getting too stressed, jump in the water, relieve yourself. You know, you know. Get your mind out of the gutter. If so, if your mind you're getting too stressed, jump in the water, relieve yourself.
Speaker 1:You know that's definitely the truth, bro. A couple of ways and everything's back to smooth.
Speaker 2:Yeah, everything, yup. And then you also work in your healthy breathing, everything you know, your exercise.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, um, what kind of board are you running now?
Speaker 2:I don't know, I use the Triad, the Gunderson model.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, I get you. I don't know if you remember Tony Gunderson. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's okay, so I kind of ride his board. Yeah, it kind of fit me good. I like his style of board so I've kind of been using his board when you was growing up, what you used to run? I used to run the kind of magee. Oh, yeah, I back in the day I could drop me. Yeah, back in the day I could drop me. But hey, ever since we got older I don't know if I can lift up the leg anymore.
Speaker 2:Like, like before hang up oh man, I, so I stick to proning right now, man oh yeah, I used to run the.
Speaker 1:I had a turbo. Remember turbo surf designs. I had one like that oh yeah yeah, and then I had I got.
Speaker 2:I got my first pair of fins from um chris, one he used to go, my cousin and a and um, I don't know what church remember on there yeah yeah so no, no, it was, that was. That was his uh vipers. He had custom-made vipers he used to wear oh he was a stand-up guy but he he had custom fins that he had and he gave them to me. So I was like, oh, that had that and my kind of um the uh, red, white and blue board oh, I remember that one, yeah, yeah yeah, we had.
Speaker 1:I had a BZ too back in the day, yeah yeah. Mach 7 was the shit what is that.
Speaker 2:Kaino Mugi does our commentating for our contest and so on oh, his brother yeah oh nice, how's O doing as good as he can be?
Speaker 1:he's, he's full of energy, brad, I guess, doing his thing nice, yeah, yeah, so his wife was going through some stuff, but it looks like they're coming out of it, but yeah so.
Speaker 2:So pray first for that.
Speaker 1:It's yeah good to hear yeah, um, I think yeah, kaino magi. He's too big for body where he's doing stand-up paddleboard for a little bit.
Speaker 2:He just entered the the last one that we had, the pipe contest, and he made it pretty far. I think he made it almost to the quarterfinals he, he was killing it. Yeah, just like he said he's riding a bike, but he didn't get up on the knee, but he was still pulling into some fat ones.
Speaker 1:That guy's on Waterman from Kiki time huh.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I think that's why I was just listening to his podcast and about the different types of riding and stuff and being a true Waterman you know. So you can take notes from those kind of guys that have those little things that you can learn from in the water.
Speaker 1:Even Mike.
Speaker 2:Stewart's another one, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Mike Stewart Ben Severson.
Speaker 2:Yeah oh, it's like old school yeah, andre bota, you know all of those guys gt very garami termina. Yeah, that's all the hammers right there wow, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Brad these young kids right. Hopefully they can revive the sport and then it comes back to how it used to be and they're gonna be talking like how we we is now, yeah yeah, definitely.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's that's what. That's what it's all about. That's kind of why we're doing it to try build the, the sport for the youngins and then, you know, and then if this is their dream and their passion, they can actually make money off of it. Yeah, so that's what we're trying to do right now. We're trying to build it so that there's more funds and more money can go into doing content and they can win money and so on, because right now, like the amateurs, we have a lot of prizes, we have a lot of sponsors that come and help out, and they're the ones that's kind of keeping this sport going. But for the pros, when you turn pro, it's all about the money. Now you know.
Speaker 1:So hopefully we can build it to where it's um. They can make a living out of it.
Speaker 2:That would be awesome, and there's possibility, the surfers do it, they, they. They got to a point where you know there's big, there's big money in it and it's worth it for them. Yeah shoot.
Speaker 1:When I was young, I was more into bodyboarding than surfing. I mean, I surf too, but I always liked bodyboarding more. It was always more fun for me.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I started off surfing too. I grew up surfing and it just so happens I did bodyboarding. But when my kids started going into it and I did bodyboarding with them, it kind of brought the passion back.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 2:So that's why I've been in the water a lot too now, and just it's fun, that's awesome, and not, and now, because it is you going back to doing events, yeah, so, yeah, well, they're older too now.
Speaker 1:So like my, oh, they can come now yeah, they can actually.
Speaker 2:I can actually use them to promote now.
Speaker 1:Oh nice, that's going to be the day if my daughter shows up to my event.
Speaker 2:That's when I know I'm done. That's pretty soon.
Speaker 1:I know Is she 9th grade 10th grade. Yep 10th grade bro 10th grade.
Speaker 2:yeah, Mine's in 9th grade, so it's right there.
Speaker 1:So this event is open to what All, ages or All ages, anybody, everybody.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's open to the public, so just whoever wants to come can come, yeah. And what your beer?
Speaker 1:garden and all that yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, just you know they're going to and and um, they have the wristband so you could. You know, just like the regular, you gotta be 21 to drink, but you can still be at the venue and enjoy auto dancing and and so on yeah, oh, that's super cool you know, my house is kicking contest.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, got it bro, I remember you did one at Bayview Golf Course years ago and we got to go to that. It was on the green, it was like one of the green. That's right, but then the bar was all the way back by the cemented. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Where they have the driving the parts. Yeah, it was kind of cool, bro. I should have actually when they have the driving parts.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was kind of cool, bro. I was like I should have actually from there.
Speaker 2:I should have just put everything up that one, instead of going into the greens because of the travel having to walk there and you couldn't bring your beer out over there. Yeah, yeah. So like that, that was kind of a learning experience, but we could have made it right there on the top part. But, yeah, a learning experience, but we could have made it right there on the top part but yeah, live and learn.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but it's still cool. It's something I always remember. I was like, oh yeah yeah, we had to build a stage right on the greens yeah oh, please don't wreck our greens, nobody did yeah, it was good yeah, but yeah you did one concert at koala golf course too at one time, like after mecca and all that stuff, like way after I did, I did it.
Speaker 2:I did it not actually on the ballroom side, you so you know, like how you go up and come down the escalators, yeah, and then that there's that area. That area was super cool because there's so many hidden rooms and so many different things that, yeah, that's that's why I kind of like that venue. But then they also have the top side, which we didn't even use, and then even the ballroom, which is the biggest. So on the next event, we did the ballroom and the top side and we didn't do the bottom side, like how we did.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah but imagine using the whole thing and utilizing that whole thing, you know.
Speaker 1:Maybe we should talk, brad. That would get me out of retirement. Well, actually I'm not retired.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you just have to make higher-end tickets because it's such a nice venue, you know, and you could actually do it, but because it's expensive, I think they're wanting like 10 grand down just for the venue.
Speaker 1:Oh wow, they don't even have a golf course there anymore. The golf course is closed. Huh, I don't even have a golf course there anymore.
Speaker 2:The golf course is closed. I don't know, is it?
Speaker 1:I think so. Yeah, I think they're not running them and I don't know if it's still the church. I don't know. I went to a wedding there and my daughter had one banquet there last year, so I know they're still using them.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because that venue is really nice. It's a high end like that's probably one of the nicest venue on the on the island but this bay view and they just renovated it and they made it nice too. And I heard they made the greens really nice. They're like that golf course is coming nice. A lot of, a lot of old players are coming back because they said the greens is um, greens has got a lot better over the years.
Speaker 1:Oh, wow, so they have that.
Speaker 2:They have the mini putt. Yeah, the mini putt and they have the driving range.
Speaker 1:And they have the regular golf.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it is.
Speaker 1:The. They go on night market there every Tuesday. You went and checked that out.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I've seen it. I passed by a few times. A lot of crowd.
Speaker 1:Right, it's pretty good. They get some good vendors, but no more parking, bro yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, for that kind of event, no more parking. But.
Speaker 1:For inside.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's good.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's good, bro.
Speaker 2:Olamana, I went and they have it's like Cosmic Golf and they do them every, every weekend, and that team was raging when we went I was thinking like this could be your venue, bro yeah, putting that bug in your ear bro, yeah yeah, I saw, I saw that. But it's kind of easy ass to me. It's a little bit small, a A little bit small.
Speaker 1:Smaller venues. You could do that.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:But I kind of like this venue. We'll see how it goes after this first event. It's going to be like pretty much the first event since they got new owners. Oh, wow. Yeah, they kind of just been doing graduation parties and whatever kind of events, but they never really did have concerts there yet. Oh, wow so this is the first one.
Speaker 1:And you're just doing this one by yourself.
Speaker 2:No, me and my partner. I don't know if you remember Jake Thompson. Oh yeah, oh, he's back in the game. Yeah, me and Jake, he's back in the game.
Speaker 1:He's doing construction. Construction is yeah, so me, and yeah me and Jake. Yeah, he's back in the game. He's doing construction, isn't it like? Yeah, fine work he was, he was doing roofing construction.
Speaker 2:Yeah, roofing construction. But now he's got, he just got with a wahine in Kailua, so they kind of got into doing a lot of she does really good in real estate and stuff so that. And then I think they got into doing like vending business and stuff.
Speaker 1:So oh wow, yeah, you know him.
Speaker 2:He likes to do all kinds of all kinds of stuff oh, thinking about doing a haunted house too.
Speaker 1:We're thinking about doing a haunted house in october too, so oh, in kaneoi we're looking we're looking where we're yeah, we're looking oh, that'd be kind of cool. Yeah k, Kanye O'Neal's one Bro. That's kind of nuts that he's back in the game. I never heard that guy's name in a while. I would see him randomly here and there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, he was the one I used to do the Sea Life Park concert to it back in the day. Oh, okay. Yeah, with those big ones that we had, yeah, those. Oh, I miss those events. If they didn't change the whole structure of the place, it would be a killer place to have events. But they kind of changed the format and stuff.
Speaker 1:We did a bingo fundraiser over there, a couple years ago. Oh, we did a small concert there for a fundraiser. It had Penny yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, we did one small concert there For a fundraiser had Penny yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah. I went when Penny then was playing too. They had the Hawaiian, they had all the Hawaiian vendors, they had all the Hawaiian vendors and I think it was for I want to say it was for the paddling clubs and stuff.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and we For volleyball Too. We had on boo, yeah it was kind of.
Speaker 2:It was kind of it was kind of raging yeah, that one was. Winterfest, I forget what they called it, not Waimanalo, I forget what it was, but the only thing they made the, they made the structure On that end when the stage Was on the other end, and that was, yeah, the stage to the mountain, the stage to the mountain, ricochet off the mountain. Yeah, that was. That's the way it's gotta be done.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, well, maybe they'll let you do it again. Bro, that place was super good. I remember you used to have Fights over there Back in the day Like kickboxing kind.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I yeah. I think they did put on A few back there, was it. Was it Nico that fought, or was it Nico that?
Speaker 1:fought or was Kapo? I forget who it was, yeah was it Kaleo Kwon yeah?
Speaker 2:yeah back in the day, harris, all of those guys yeah, but I don't know.
Speaker 1:Everything changes now everybody like try to make too much money and then nobody like do events. But you bringing it back to the east side and that's super cool. I definitely feel like that venue was due. I remember going back in the day it was called canialas and it used to be.
Speaker 2:It used to be rage out and yeah yeah, I, I think, uh me, uh us raja, raja and then even sick dog was used to do over there too sick right, yeah, that's right, yeah, that's great. Yeah, that was back. Oh man, how long ago was that? 20 years, 15 years yeah.
Speaker 1:That was way before. And all the boys security, and they're just getting out of control.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but yeah, things have changed. That's why I'm trying to bring the new generation and teach them about the the old ways of how we did it, and you know and.
Speaker 1:Keep the good vibes.
Speaker 2:Keep the good vibes. That's why usually Regular concerts Usually they stay. They get away from fights and stuff like that yeah, everybody's happy.
Speaker 1:And smoking weed, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, exactly. Well, I never know and stuff like that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, everybody's happy and smoking weed yeah, exactly well, I never know, it's gonna be all ages. That's pretty nuts, bro. That's you get. You're gonna have your hands full, bro. That's a lot of people.
Speaker 2:Come in yeah, we'll see, we'll see. We've kind of been putting it out there so we'll see what the turnout is. It's the first venue, first, first time, so people gotta know, gotta get used to knowing the place and so on. So yeah but once it starts going, it's gonna be back again yeah, how often you planning for doom? Uh, maybe quarterly, four times a year, something like that, maybe maybe six, we'll see, yeah. But yeah, we just did one big one at Shakas in Kailua for the pipeline one that we had.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay and we had a huge lineup on that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we had a huge lineup on that one. That one, yeah, we brought in maybe like five, seven hundred people. That one, oh wow we used the outside parking lot and everything. Yeah, it was. It was a pretty big event.
Speaker 1:But Kaleo still owns that thing.
Speaker 2:He sold it. He sold it, and then, I think, the guys that we were doing it with. I think I heard they ended up selling it too. So I don't know really who the new owners are now. That's an odd one, I think it might have went back to the original owner.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the guy that was there, bob, I think that was his name, I think he's he got the master. He never gave him the master lease smart, I guess I don't know.
Speaker 1:Bro, that's kind of cool. Well, I'm glad you're back in the game. I'm kind of down to go. On friday my daughter get volleyball tournament. But if it's if it ends early, I'll be there, bro.
Speaker 2:It's right up the street. Come on down, come, yeah, come, enjoy, you know oh yeah you go until 12, about 11, 12. We'll see what they let us go to. But yeah, we got to, like I know, 11.
Speaker 1:We're gonna try see what we can push it to, but we'll see bro, we is good um me and chris and Hoppo was going to do an event there when Reno owned it. Was it Reno? No, not Reno From.
Speaker 2:When Ona owned it, the beach house Ona.
Speaker 1:We had some cool line up going and we was going to do something pretty cool, but then they didn't get their liquor license or something and we was like, ah cannot.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, but then I think he did after and he had it, and then then, yeah, I guess changed hands a couple times, huh, so yeah, he still owns Beach House. Whoever did? Whoever did it not? I told he he owns the beach house in vegas. I think he he uh, finally gave up the. So um, the new beach house is owned by uncle glenn's food, so that's um, the pocky parlors. They ended up buying the place, so they so, yeah, so that's, that's where we might have the after party after 11.
Speaker 1:Everybody go over there oh nice, but the last time, I think I was, there was. Uh, when I seen you guys with um ipono was me paleo teixeira. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I still get the picture from that night, yeah, I think he came back for for his birthday for that that that year.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so yeah, yeah, that's right, I forgot about that. I don't know.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:About a year, huh, Last year huh.
Speaker 1:Maybe a year. Yeah, it was about that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, last year, about a year ago.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I haven't been back since, bro. I thought it was closed, but I guess not.
Speaker 2:They just bought it, they just opened it again. Oh what about that 3-4 bar in Kailua. I think that's the old. I didn't even know where it was Until the other day. I passed by and I seen it it's the old shack. Yeah, yeah, I heard they're waiting for their liquor license.
Speaker 1:I was like you bring your own beer, how you guys making money? Then oh wow, might be cool. I was like you bring your own beer. I was like, how are you guys making money? Then oh wow, yeah, might be cool, I don't know we still go watch all the football games at the shack every Sunday.
Speaker 2:I'm interested to see how the inside is.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think they redid it. They embroidered up the outside. I heard it looks nice bro. Okay, Check him out.
Speaker 2:That's right Right across when Ali had His Armden Danger store Right over there, remember before oh?
Speaker 1:yeah.
Speaker 2:Right next to the yeah.
Speaker 1:Oh man, that's some Old school people.
Speaker 2:Speaking of that, like I was looking at Some videos that I had when, actually, he chewed one, and I think I want to say Fiji was there too. Fiji played at the Outside Shack maybe like 10 years ago, yeah, yeah. And then Tanero, and yeah, I had a video I put up and I was like, oh, this is so long ago.
Speaker 1:They did one big one at Bob's too, in the parking lot.
Speaker 2:Yeah, bobs too in the parking lot yeah, that's. That's the one I'm talking about that was the one, the portage horseshoe tournament. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, ended up in into the concert. Yeah, yeah, and that's, I think, fiji tanio and there was a couple other people that was playing on that one oh, that's crazy.
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Speaker 2:Okay, guys, yeah, so it's going to be Friday. It's coming up Friday, August 11, at Kaneohe Bayview Golf Course. The concert hall is Jolene's Bar and Grill. It's going to start at 5 and probably go to like 11 or 12 o'clock. We can get your. We have Bengali from Intervision. We have the boys Brotherhood from the east side, Hakipuu. We got also from the east side One Session and we got Poi Bo, and Poi Bo is an all-Hawaiian rasta reggae group, all in Hawaiian.
Speaker 2:Oh wow, so yeah, and they're kind of on the rise too. And then DJ Osnizu he's going to be the DJ, yeah, so, and you can get your tickets at eventbritecom Right now you go, it's $20 tickets. If not, um, right now you go, it's $20 tickets. If not, it's gonna be 30 at the door and then 50 for the vip, and you can also upgrade upgrade to vip when you're there.
Speaker 1:If you want to upgrade, oh nice all ages for whoever everybody's going home. Yeah, sick, that's super cool yep, I'll be there bruh long as my daughter them, don't go super late. I'll be there brah Long as my daughter and don't go super late. I'll be there Cause, yeah, I've been waiting for something to pop up.
Speaker 2:Good fun, come in. I got you.
Speaker 1:I got you, dad, let's go you um, for people who don't know where can they find you on Instagram so that they can check out what you got going on, or if they want to get involved with your bodyboarding stuff.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah. So on the concert side, I have my regular Rage Aware page at Rage Aware, and for the bodyboarding it's Soul Stoke Boogie Series. We do all the contests, bodyboarding contests. We do about three to four a year, and then we also collab, we do different islands and so on, and next year we'll continue the triple crown of bodyboarding and we also might have a big hawaii tour with all the islands, um involved. So, yeah, and then, and then we have our separate event, the pipeline event 2026. Um, yeah, so that's that's where we at now for the bodyboarding guys, um, and come, come, enjoy the rap party trying to bring the bodyboard vibes back, you know, and bring, bring that that surf scene back and and um, introduce it to the the with along with the live music. You know, yeah, that was kind of dying off and now it's coming back strong. So yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Let's go. And for us, you can find us at above the bridge podcast on Instagram, youtube, our websites, a tb podcom, and my Instagram is daddy, daddy Hi. Well, I'll probably see you this weekend, bro. I don't usually drop episodes. I usually drop my episodes on Monday, but I wanted to do this one and try to get it out before this weekend. So give you some kind of um shine, get some people out there. I was like I kept seeing your signs and then it just hit. I was like that's, that's hana doing it.
Speaker 2:I gotta, I gotta hit him up you asked me a while ago and I was like he'll call me when he's ready.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, it'd be super cool. But yeah, I appreciate you taking time. I know this weekend must your week must be crazy, bro. What do you do? You work still yet, bro, you seem super busy. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Just doing a little of everything you know. Yeah, I still of everything you know. Yeah, I still, I still doing. Well, I was doing the permits, but now you know ai, everything goes to the fans and yeah, they kind of did that. So you gotta, you gotta, you gotta pivot and do other things you know so I kind of got it yeah, I kind of got into doing other things too, so I always appreciated what you did for me. That one time because yeah, yeah, I forgot about that.
Speaker 1:That's how I met your dad, you know yeah, that helped plenty bro nice guy, super nice guy yeah, yeah, that's all I remember giving him phone one text like hey, your dad actually actually because he's coming, yeah, friday.
Speaker 2:He called me up and he said oh, give me a table, so he's getting over there too. Oh nice, so he's getting a table over there too.
Speaker 1:Oh, nice yeah he's getting.
Speaker 2:Supposedly he's celebrating. I think he's getting into a match or something or some kind of job he's getting into.
Speaker 1:Oh, he is Steve Adore.
Speaker 2:Oh man, I think that's what he was saying so yeah, he's close.
Speaker 1:All right, Don Well, I appreciate you taking time out man Shaka's for the cameras.
Speaker 2:Yes, guys Coming in.
Speaker 1:Bro, that's what I missed. I forgot to tell you, bro, you just brought it back. The freaking running videos, the flaunting Fridays, bro.
Speaker 2:You gotta keep doing those, bro, you used to watch that at work and you'd die laughing, bro it to keep doing those, bro. I used to watch that at work and just die laughing, bro it's just doing every Fridays became such a. I was like, yeah, I did it for a while. It was fun, bro, you was. I have a lot of people asking me to do it again.
Speaker 1:Bro, it's so funny. I would watch that at work and just die, bro. I would laugh so hard. Just humor, humor, everybody. You know have fun. You know have fun with it, but it was good fun.
Speaker 2:He was like super cool and like just Sharing laughter or racing the guy as the dog Would come next to him.
Speaker 1:Race to him, bro. You gotta bring that back, dude. That was good.
Speaker 2:I seen you.
Speaker 1:You did another Jogging one Recently. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:But that's just Right down here. I've been kind of Getting back into it.
Speaker 1:But I get to that point, then maybe I can hit Waikiki again. Yup, you got to, bro, that was good stuff Waikiki and Alamoana. Yup, let me know Right on, bro, I'll see you this weekend. Yeah, thank you for coming on.
Speaker 2:And I guess we'll call it Sunflatting Friday this weekend.
Speaker 1:Yup, let's go we're out shout out to the artist group network aloha yes, I brought a tab, thank you.
