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Like I told one of my girl friends: "consider it Assault With a Friendly Weapon"!

Watching those guys (and girls) on the Maui North Shore or Mavericks 50 footers, their boards are the size of snow boards. They have to be towed in by jet skis to get started, just to get up enough speed. It's terrifying to watch, if you every rode some big surf. My biggest was 14 feet at Black's Beach. One ride and I was 1/2 a mile down the beach. Coronado Islands has some huge waves as well.

Ya mean this?

Peahi Maui

That's one place. My brother-in-law and sister-in-law have retired to Wailuku, so they live about 15 miles west of there. We talk-story every Saturday in a big ohana conference call with extended family members all over the place. My wife had seven siblings, and they all left for college and careers. It's funny when my wife talks about her first trip outside Hawaii: 18 year old flying to Cleveland to attend college at Case, totally unaware of life outside rural Maui.

You’re making me homesick. I never intended to stay in the mainland but education, economics and marriage kept me in the Northwest. I tried to go back after I graduated but it just didn’t work out economically and for other reasons. But to this day I still consider Hawaii my home. Even though Oahu is almost unrecognizable to me these days.

It was sort of funny though growing up there in that we didn’t have any relatives except for my aunt (fathers sister) and uncle. We were somewhat Canadian renegades. And I used to sometimes wonder about my relatives that I rarely if ever saw as all the “locals”,
as you are well aware, have relatives everywhere. Only on a few occasions did my Canadian relatives came to visit us, as mostly they could not afford it and back then Hawaii was a very very exotic place. But I ended up knowing how to surf and body surf, and free dive with snorkel and fins for that matter, although the biggest waves I have ever ridden were probably 15 feet. “Tow in” surfing was unheard of back then, you had to paddle in and then drop in, and I suppose the biggest waves that could be ridden in days of yore
were either at Waimea Bay or Makaha.

30 feet was way too much for me. I would watch it in awe. But I managed to survive getting pounded on the lava bottom at Pipeline. It was funny, the old surf movies used to say it was a Coral reef down below Pipeline. Pee’-pe Leen-neh
(Old local joke) Sort of like Like-Like Hwy. or drive-in for that matter. It wasn’t…it was almost flat lava rock. But I suppose that made for good theater.

The thing I miss most about Hawaii is being in the ocean. I considered myself to be a dolphin when I was young. I used to miss the food there but now all that sort of food is available all over the place these days in the Northwest and I suppose elsewhere.

I digress…

So I going reflek….

I think about these Trumpsters who are virtually all white and they were never raised as a minority nor around other ethnic groups. Growing up on Oahu it was about 18% haoles and on the “outer islands” was probably 8% haole. So they are terrified because they don’t realize that eventually it really doesn’t matter.

Although they never faced one “local guy” who was missing half his teeth and said “what chu lookin at haole? Nothing, nothing.,,Brah..,
acting wise? No I was just trying to go on my way. No waz lookin’ fo pain brah?

So yes.. I also learned how to fight. But mostly I could escape tough situations through diplomacy.

So also yes…I look at these phuggin haoles and or Trumpsters. I’m thinking they need a couple of Samoans or Tongans (throw in a few Hawaiian’s for good measure) to bang their heads into coconut trees and knock some sense into them.

Keh Den:

I am not sure if this will translate for all of you haoles out there, and also it was done in the 1980s so perhaps somewhat dated. But “Rap” Ripplinger was hilarious…along the lines of John Beluchi:

Room Service

From the point of view of Physics, that phenomenon could be characterized as 'barely controlled falling down a moving cliff of water while being chased by a mass of falling water. The gravity of the situation is compelling.

Frank would have understood...

https://images.app.goo.gl/vZbvY6UPTQfZN9SVA

I've had scary dreams (nightmares? ) where I have been in waves like that.

Sounds like the Trumpsters fit the phenomena called The Dunning-Kruger Effect with a little arrogant elitism thrown in.

Then there is the version where the unvaccinated idiots berate hospital workers for not obeying demands for 'special treatment(s)'.

Karing for Kovid Karens.