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Entry forms/waiver can be downloaded at www.dahui.com (Da Hui USA site). Mahalo Nui.

February 21, 2008

Aloha!

The Hui O He’e Nalu (aka: Da Hui) & Glaceau Vitamin Water are proud to present the “1^st Annual Da Hui Waimea Bay Shorebreak Shootout” happening on 15^th & 16^th, 2008 (weekends only and surf permitting). This amateur bodysurfing event is a first at Waimea Bay Shorebreak in over 20 years. While most North Shore bodysurfing contests are held at the challenging Pipeline, Waimea Shorebreak offers the less experienced & experienced bodysurfer to enjoy the sport with a nice sandbar and no-reef bottom. We also added a ‘fun-kine’ division called the “Kanaka Style Rubbah-Slippah Handboard Division” meaning that competitors must use a rubber slipper on their hand in order to compete. No traditional/company/man-made handboards will be allowed. This division will add some ‘local flavor’ to the event and make it hilarious to watch. Using slippers to catch a wave can be done as kids have done it when your typical handboard wasn’t affordable. So to bring this competition back will be a reminder for some how lucky we are and how far we’ve come.

Waimea Bay Shorebreak does pack-a-punch and is nothing to take for granted. So surf heights for this event will be held in surf less than four (4) feet, Hawaiian scale. This will allow competitors both young and old to obtain the ultimate wave riding experience and anticipate a good competitor turnout from those who’d like to test their wave-riding skills.

Bodysurfing is considered the purest form of wave riding. Using only a pair of fins, riders experience the most natural feeling than any other water sport, as it’s just the individual and the ocean. Bodysurfing (Kaha Nalu or He’e Umauma) is also an ancient Hawaiian sport. With all the Hawaiian history and legends of our ancestors from Waimea Bay to the depths of the beautiful Waimea Valley forms a fond remembrance and celebration of who we are and where we came from.

The Hui O He’e Nalu (a.k.a Da Hui) is a non-profit native Hawaiian surf group with over 30 years of existence and well known on the North Shore for its community service and credits to promoting ocean awareness. We aim to add this event to the list of our acknowledgments, as we are the first native Hawaiian organization to host a bodysurfing event on the North Shore of O’ahu. So this contest is long overdue. This contest will also be dedicated to Da Hui Member, Bobby Kaleikau, who passed on recently.

Should you need further information or have questions, please call Mahina Chillingworth at (808) 368-7749 or reply via email at mahinachillingworth@yahoo.com. Entry forms/waiver can be downloaded at www.dahui.com (Da Hui USA site). Mahalo Nui.