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2026 Da Hui Backdoor Shootout in Memory of the Duke — Day 2 (WARNING: REAL SETS THIS TIME!!!)

You showed up last time to watch some of the best surf teams in the world surf bathtub water, and today they're back, but this time with real waves!!!

ITS DAY TWO OF THE BACK DOOR SHOOTOUT!!

ABOUT THIS UNIQUE EVENT

The Da Hui Backdoor Shootout isn’t a traditional surf contest -- no person-versus-person heats. Instead, there are eight shortboard teams, each made up of five surfers, and each team gets the same amount of water time over the waiting period at Pipe and Backdoor. The goal: get as barreled as possible. Team scores are added together, and the team with the most points wins. There’s also an individual winner -- the surfer with the highest total score. Simple. There are also SUP and longboard divisions, plus a Wahine Expression Session. Traditional? Nah. Fun to watch? Undeniably.

SHORTBOARD TEAMS

A NEW EARTH PROJECT Jamie O’Brien | Koa Smith | Moana Jones Wong | Shayden Pacarro | Luke Tema (Alt)

VOLCOM Makana Pang | Noa Deane | Balaram Stack | Jake Maki | Maikai Burdine | Steve Roberson

NAVE Makai McNamara | Landon McNamara | Legend Chandler | Kona Olivera | Mananalu Chandler | Guile Johannpeters

SNAPT 5 Mason Ho | Benji Brand | Parker Coffin | Seth Moniz | Connor Coffin | Taro Watanabe (Alt)

DA BOYS Billy Kemper | Kala Grace | Sheldan Paishon | Kala DeSoto | Noah Beschen

PERU Alvaro Malpartida | Joaquin Del Castillo | Alonso Correa | Cristobal De Col | Gabriel Villaran | Bastian Pierce | Noah De Col

TEAM JAPAN Shinpei Horiguchi | Riaru Ito | Kenshin Matsunaga | Isamu Sumi | Riku Matsumoto | Shogo Harada

TEAM 96712 Koa Rothman | Eli Olson | John John Florence | Nathan Florence | Ivan Florence

LONGBOARD DIVISION

Noa Puu | Kaiwi Berry | Makamae DeSoto | Bonga Perkins | Noa Ginella | Dino Miranda | Freddy Huihui | Micah DeSoto | Pomai Hoopili | Keegan Edwards | Ha’a Foster-Blomfield | Zack Howard

SUP DIVISION

Jose Gomez | Anthony Maltese | Zane Saenz | Clayton Everline MD | Max Torres | Sebastian Gomez | Zane Schweitzer | Bernard Rodiger | Bobo Gallagher Anderson | Trevor Lakos

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Yoni shredding it opening up the day the jr division. Groms out there starting us out.

I'll be clipping and posting as much as I can, tried to get on a peer tube instance but couldn't get mod approval so I just got post plenty vid here.

This a very local heavy tournament here I'm Makaha Hawaii home of all kind surfing, this the Bruddah Mels championship, we out here on the wild west side Oahu where we surf all kinds of things not just boards.

We're having supsquatch which is five person inflatable paddle board surfing today.

Team canoe surfing, 4 crazys in a traditional Polynesian canoe.

Body board surfing.

Long board surfing.

SUP paddle board surfing.

This the last tournament of the year till the Buffalo in January.

You like what you see and I'll keep posting. But no live coverage other than me out here getting shots from the beach

Mahalo for engaging with this content and supporting community surfing. Keep it local keep it raj keep it 100

And that, is a drop knee cutback.

Tellement un problème d'aujourd'hui.

• surtourisme
• mode des sports "nature" et "ecolo"
• instagramable
• problème de riche (pas pour les locaux mais lié à (et subit par) une aisance financière donnée. Sinon on ferait un article sur les fermetures et privatisation des piscines dans les quartiers populaires. Ou autre équipement, mais en période d'été c'est la piscine municipale qui marche qu'il dit dans l'oreillette.
• un sport sommes toute ecologiquement crade, surtout pour les estivaux (combi qui ne son pas sans pétrole, surf en mousse jetables encore pire que que les surfs normaux) et les pros (voyages, jet-skis), et je parle pas des vagues artificielles qui fleurissent.

J'ai le sentiment que le surf de 2020 c'est le ski des années 1960/70.

I just moved house and the local spot is known to be super mushy even when OH. Well, i needed my surf, so went in earlyish this morning.

Was in pain in these mushy wave with my mid length only could take off a bit on the late side when the set was hip high or more. Suddenly, a surfer offered me to try his 10' log.

Now, I had been wanting to try longboarding for a long time so of course I said yes.

Guy says "go for this one", and to my total disbelief the board took off on a super early early very mushy hip high wave. Well I wasn't used to the board, too much on front and pearled like the kook I am.

Second wave was knee high, also early and super mushy but the board still went, angled take off towards the peak to pick up speed, bottom turned super easy, and I glided like I never thought possible on such shit waves.

I didn't want to impose and gave the board back, but I know what my next purchase will be! I thought walking the board wasn't for me, even though I indulge in the occasional fake five when it's clean and not too big, but I could really get used to the glide.

In the series of surf books I read, I'm just posting here the ones I find bring something to the subject, here surfing.

So let's get the obvious out first, this is severe gonzo. Surfing competition is the canevas, the north shore is the background, but the main subject is Chas Smith. His telling about his experience and his perception as they come, outrageous, unapologetic, raw.

If you like gonzo, this is a good one. If you want a glimpse into the background of surfing industry's relationship with Hawaii and what can be told of the localism that sprouted out of the north shore waves exploitation it's a gem. Bonus peek into a major surfing industry CEO being slapped around.

If you care only about surfing or prefer photoshoped posters to raw footage from a recovered phone, pass. I loved it, but really get that most won't.

More links:

• https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/chas-smith/welcome-to-paradise-now-go-to-hell/
• https://www.harpercollins.com/products/welcome-to-paradise-now-go-to-hell-chas-smith?variant=32207501393954
• https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17349166-welcome-to-paradise-now-go-to-hell

The ties / sleeper beams might look more like tracks with wooden sleepers.