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i wanna live like this forever...

About Me

California, don't call it "Cali", born & bred but been on the North Shore of Oah'u since '84. I'm a skateboarder that surfs. Moved to the North Shore to fulfill every surfers dream. Missed all the "street skating" days raising a family. Got rolling again when they started building bowls in Hawaii. I'm a single father of 3. My sons surf & skate. Stoked that my daughter made it through high school out here in the country...not an easy task considering all the distractions. Family, Friends, surfing & skateboarding. I'm DFL.

My Interests

In the last 20-something years I've been surfing more that anything else but Jay Boy said it best "I'm a skateboarder that surfs". I'm not a grom so I like bowls more than street but I'll still skate a curb. Oh yeah, I like shoes alot. Really. Skate shoes have always been a favorite but I like 'em all. Funny thing is I wear rubber slippers more than anything else.

I'd like to meet:

Duke Kahanamoku, Dale Velzy

Music:

just about everything but not much rap. for some strange reason i know alot of '60's song lyrics...my mom & dad must have listened to the radio ALOT

Movies:

Blue Horizon, Free Ride, Sprout, Chlorine, Rising Son, Beer Helmet, Dogtown Z Boys, Cool Hand Luke

Television:

Just about everything on the Food Network except Emeril. Giada de Laurentis, Nigella Lawson & Sandra Lee are my favorites. Anything about design & construction of anything.

Books:

Books? There's only one book for a skateboarder, Independent's "Built to Grind". I read magazines. Alot of magazines, cover to cover. My favorites are JUICE, THRASHER, TRACKS, WAVES,SURFER & WATER. At one point I had every issue of SURFER & SURFING magazine(s) from '79 to '98. Just about every issue of THRASHER & various Australian surf mags including TRACKS in periodical form. On a rainy day I could easily sit at Barnes & Noble magazine rack for hours. Seriously.

Heroes:

Falconer, my zaf ripper...tams, the man that has made me the best surfboards ever... Eric Arakawa, Da Uncles... for still throw'in down, Perkins, Dahlin, Cornish, Amos, Lopez, Shogo, Wade, Bo, Ellis, Tippy...for keeping skateboarding Gutted, Trujillo, Hewitt, Partanen, Childress, Harada, Ueda, heids arch d, for the style only you possess & alexandra, for taking the drop

My Blog

ok, i just don't get it...

so, yeah, i'm kinda confused right now.  nuth'in skating & some time in the ocean won't help fix.  sure wish there was some surf out here at hale'iwa.  surfing town would just make ...
Posted by rick on Fri, 15 Jun 2007 12:01:00 PST