KIMASURF BLOG

Best Pics of the Week

Posted by KIMA on April 30th, 2010 | Comments Off

Check out what happend last week in Bali at our Kima Surf Camps in Seminyak, Canggu and Balangan!!!

Everybody is Kung-Fu fighting!

Well, that was not what we meant when we said “Hang-Loose”…

Crash-time!

Crash-time again!

“Outch – my head!”

Bali Traffic

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- all pics by KIMA Surf Camp Bali –

Eyeball Report Canggu

Posted by KIMA on April 30th, 2010 | Comments Off

- pic by KIMA Surf Camp Bali -

Swell

6.5ft @ 14secs

Wind

5mph

Temperature

Sea

29°c

Air

28°c

Eyeball Report Canggu

Posted by KIMA on April 29th, 2010 | Comments Off

- pic by KIMA Surf Camp Bali -

Swell

7ft @ 16secs

Wind

4mph

Temperature

Sea

29°c

Air

27°c

“HISTORY of SURFING” Part 2

Posted by KIMA on April 28th, 2010 | Comments Off

Enjoy our brand-new

“HISTORY of SURFING” BLOG

and learn more about this amazing sport.

Part 2

Although the long and arduous legal battle between the California cities of Huntington Beach and Santa Cruz, over the rightful use of the moniker “Surf City,” has ended (with Huntington Beach the victor), there can be no denying Santa Cruz’s legitimate claim as the birthplace of non-native Hawaiian surfing.

In 1885, three brothers, all Hawaiian princes, Jonah Kuhio Kalaniana’ole, David Kawananakoa and Edward Keliiahonui, were attending a military academy in San Mateo, when they came to visit their aunt in Santa Cruz for their holiday vacation.

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During their stay, they had a local timber mill shape them 15-foot redwood surfboards according to their design and went surfing at the San Lorenzo river mouth. Although the waters off the coast of Santa Cruz can be quite frigid year-round (the O’Neil Coldwater Classic Surf Series was founded at the local break Steamer Lane), the Hawaiians gallantry strode into the bone-chilling waters and became the first surfers ever in the Americas.

The spectacle of their surf-riding was front-page news the next day in the Santa Cruz Surf :

“The breakers at the mouth of the river were very fine and here occurred the very primest of fun, at least, so said those who were ‘in the swim.’ Some 30 or 40 swimmers were dashing and tossing, and plunging through the breakers, going out only to be tossed back apparently at the will of the waves and making some nervous on-lookers feel sure that they were about to be dashed against the rocks. The young Hawaiian princes were in the water, enjoying it hugely and giving interesting exhibitions of surf-board swimming as practiced in their native islands.”

This is the first recorded account of surfing outside of Hawaii.

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Earlier this month, the citizens of Santa Cruz and descendants of the surfing princes came together at the Lighthouse Surfing Museum, on the bluff overlooking Steamer Lane in Santa Cruz, to dedicate a new monument in homage of this historic event and have a traditional luau.

Read more about the new monument and the commemoration ceremony at – www.santacruzsentinel.com/ci_14858028

Next week, we’ll take a look at the legendary Duke Kahanamoku, the world’s ambassador of surfing . . . aloha for now

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Trey Highton, KIMA SURFARIS, Bali