For the very first time! Laughs, many thrills…
How can you not love the Ho family? A surf stoked family of rippers. Friendly times, good vibes.
Short, for sure. Very short, but how much better is that for surfing? Not many six-foot-plus dudes out ripping.
I’ve seen uncle Derek roll into a second reef Pipe bomb, fading and slamming on the breaks right as it hit the inside reef and turned into one of the craziest barrels I’ve ever witnessed first-hand.
Coco made eye contact with me at Laniakea one time. My heart melted.
I was at the Mililani Walmart with my pops, Bill, and Mike Ho was cruising around, shopping for whatever you buy at Walmart. Cleaning supplies and toilet paper probably.
My dad wanted to go say, “Hi” and fan out. Don’t embarrass me, Dad!
But my fave Ho has gotta be Mason. Such a pocket-sized, always amped, ripper imp. Oodles of style, one of the most creative approaches in the business, and he rides proper-sized boards in waves of consequence. I’m a big fan of that, keeps me from feeling like a pussy ‘cuz I don’t have the balls to try the John John two-stroke air drop in on a 6’2″ in throating hell beasts.
Mason makes surfing look fun, even when I know I want no part of the dry reef right belching shoreward from Rockpiles. He’s got that je ne sais quois, where every clip makes me want to paddle out and try throwing airs I have no hope of landing, or pull into barrels I know I ain’t coming out of.
It’s a small group.
Ozzy Wright’s in there. Mitch Coleborn too. Sometimes Chippa Wilson, though not lately.
“We shall not stand for this discrimination, Rory!” -Me, on behalf of Jordy, Dane, Owen, John John, Julian and Chas Smith of the Association of Surfers At Least Six Feet Tall.
I’m 6’2, so don’t go telling me that the muscled out fire hydrant body flipping twirling midget freaks don’t have it easier. And all that gangle ain’t easy on the joints, something both JJ and Jordy can attest to.
At 6’1″ and happily grounded in reality, I profess a desire only to surf like Bede Durbidge for a few turns each week and I certainly only expect JJF like reflexes when trying to finish painting my mother-in-law’s house before the surf blows out and melanomas bear down from above.
Everyone is over 6′ from behind a keyboard.
whatever the fuck 186cm is
N.S. boyz gunna pound you back to the size of a fetus stuck up ya mums cunt. 😂
Chippa blew up the waves he had in NT’s clip. Wish that dude would put more stuff out. What’s the deal? Demons, drugs, a modern MP? Or just ‘improductive’ in terms of corpo expectations of freesurfers? And yeah, Mason Ho’s whole vibe makes you wanna surf (and rip a cone). Truth.