We lost one of our Hawaiian surf legends a couple of days ago. Marvin Foster was one of the Happening Hawaiian crew back in the 80’s and 90’s. . Known as “Carvin Marvin” , he was reported to be the 1st surfer to go left at Waimea Bay and one of the earlier adopters of the Pig Dog stance in surfing. He appeared in classic surf films of the day including, The Performers, Hawaii 9-0 and a whole bunch of Larry Hayne’s classic flicks from the 90’s, just to mention a few.

These are couple of classic shots that I got of Marvin, the last time that I saw him surf which was at HUGE Puaena Point at the north Shore Tow In championships. It’s good to be able to share these classic images of Marvin with the world….

Aloha.

Hawaiian surfing legend and all round ambassador of Aloha; Buttons Kalauhikalani yesterday launched his new local brand of coffee, simply titled “Button’s Brew” A large media contingent was on hand, including the Discovery channel who were following Garrett around as he go’s about his business in chasing down monster waves. So next time your on the north shore and you want some coffee, pull into Ted’s and grab some of Button’s Brew.

I travelled with Mason Ho, Flynn Novak And Ezra Sitt all from Hawaii in Tasmania this year. Our visit coincided with some damn tasty waves, especially at Bluff Reef. Mason surfed the place like no one else, consistently placing himself behind the peak on Take-off. This led to a few pretty intense take-offs, one of which impressed the editors of The Surfers Path, to give it their ultimate stamp of approval; the Cover shot. Here I present you The Surfers Path cover No 73 along with the actual picture.

I was just randomly looking through some files for a picture to post, and came across these cool shots of Legend Hawaiian surfer and surfboard shaper; Ben Aipa. Ben’s a long time friend of my wife and I and a really nice guy. It is said that it was actually one of Ben’s shapes that Mark Richard crafted his first twin-fin from. For those of you who aren’t up on surf history, Mark went on to totally dominate the sport of surfing with 4 consecutive world titles. I would not have thought that his record of 4 titles would have been beat, but here we are some 20 something years on and Kelly Slater has 9 of them. Wow!
Everyone I know who’s had a board shaped by Ben has been totally stoked on them, so if you want one, just get in touch with Ben by calling him at (1) 808-391 3903, right here in Hawaii or fire an email at him to: aipahawaii@mac.com

Aloha

It was around 1993 and I was at my first Hawaiian pro surfing event at Haleiwa and I happened to see this trio of laughing Hawaii’an groms cruise past. I just had to get a photo of these guys. It’s still today one of my favourite “by chance” portraits. These guys have now all grown up now, but the picture lives on.

Aloha!

Sean

This was mid 2007. I was driving past Waimea Bay one morning and I saw a huge pod of Hawaii’an spinner dolphins heading in, so I went home and grabbed my water rig and swam out to try and get some photographs. There was at least 60 of them. It was amazing to hang out with them all. The dolphins didn’t seem to mind me being there. In fact, they came up several times for a closer look. This was a pair of them that cruised past on one of these pass-by’s. Nature is beautiful.