Kelly Slater’s 2019 Oi Rio Pro jersey is currently orbiting around the Earth on the International Space Station (ISS). The 11-time world champion gifted American astronaut and scientist, Christina H. Koch, the signed singlet Slater competed with in Rio de Janeiro, in June 2019. Koch joined the crew at the ISS as a flight engineer […]

Chaminade University of Honolulu’s Summer Institutes 2020 will shine a spotlight on the emerging academic field of Surf Studies with two special events. The four-week Surf Studies in Hawaii Institute will provide the opportunity to participate in the building of a community of experience dedicated to the study of surfing and surf culture. The Institute […]

Awarding winning producers, arrangers, and musicians Gordon Minette and Chris Palmaro are founders of the music group The SurfinTynes. Surrounded by concrete and steel, one day, Minette and Palmaro – both from New York City – starred out the window of Gordon’s recording studio on 14th Street, tired and burnt out from the pressure and […]