A dark day.
Surfers near and far woke to the shock news that Mikala Jones, 44, of the very famous Jones family, had died hours ago after suffering a gruesome injury while on a surf trip to the Mentawi Islands. Stab reported that he severed his femoral artery leading to massive blood loss.
Alongside brothers Daniel and Keoni and sister Malia, Mikala made an indelible mark on surf history with an effortless style and unconstrained lifestyle, chasing perfect surf over titles and points. His video releases, pristine and glorious featuring some of the best barrels in the world, an absolute staple over the past two decades.
Matuse wetsuits, whom Jones rode for, described him thusly:
The son of a doctor, Mikala is intelligent and sophisticated. He’s street smart and savvy but never one to front. Magnanimous, yet, Mikala is also uber-mysto about the secret spots he guards. He is a private family man with residences in Haleiwa and Bali. However, because of Mikala’s personality, professionalism and smooth hand-jiving style he’s a jet-setter who handpicks each year’s photo excursions.
Everyone knows that Mikala has the skills to pay the bills. But his greatest asset is his steel worker mentality. Surfing is his passion as well as his pension. So he hustles and grinds. Call it luck or hard work but he and has an uncanny knack for landing the air, making the tube, getting the shot and being on the cover.
Tributes are flooding his Instagram account with many sharing memories of trips to Indonesia with Jones or simple days at Rocky Point.
A dark day.
If you’re going to improvise a tourniquet with a leash you’re going to have much better success if you use a stick as a windlass to tighten it down.
So heavy! Love to his family
What a bummer. Condolences to his family.
RIP to a charger. Any word on which break he was surfing?
He was staying at Awera Resort which is in the Telescopes area, There are a couple of really heavy semi-secret waves in the area, N flo surfed a psycho one last year. More likely he got unlucky with a board if he had a femoral artery injury though.
Not many people spent as much time surfing dangerous waves in Indo than Mikala. Vale and condolences to the Jones clan.
I sincerely hope his family and children didn’t have to see him go like that. Heavy
Lived the life that many dream of
My goodness, so sad. Mikala was the nicest, most genuine and down to earth person you’d ever meet. RIP.
Ah man, this is terrible. A class act, full stop.
RIP brother