Winter "Boot" Camp - 2008

I'm honored to have spent the first week of 2008 - with a group of intelligent, courageous & adventurous, spontaneous dance party surfer girls! Gaby Barsotti, Fanny Poliquin-Bureau, Ashley Russell, and Michaela Steinbeck - you are all amazing young women!

Each day we piled into "Falcor" and hit the northshore waves. Blaring Gaby's ipod from Hanumanu to Lahaina Breakwall - we were rockin it hard - 2 sessions per day! I was so impressed with the girls stamina and eagerness to charge the north shore waves. Granted we had our down time chillin' at our Paia crash pad - playing Crainium & cracking open coconuts with a pick axe. Then there was our afternoon adventure to the new flow master wave pool in Kihei, Da Rush, where we all suffered whiplash from our dramatic wipe outs! Video highlights from our camp will be shortly uploaded -- keep posted!

"...Without self-discovery, a person may still have self confidence, but it is a self confidence built on ignorance and it melts in the face of heavy burdens. Self discovery is the end product of a great challenge mastered, when the mind commands the body to do the seemingly impossible, when courage and strength are summoned to extraordinary limits for the sake of something outside the self--a principle, an onerous task, another human life." --Kurt Hahn