SXA Backyard BBQ at The Speed Merchant Workshop

This was pretty much the day I'd been anticipating for weeks leading up to it. Today the SXA Ohana was going to be doing a BBQ at The Speed Merchant Workshop with local Braddahs Brandon "Brawny" Holstein and Nelson Kanno. These are two of the coolest local braddahs in my book. Both from Mililani where I live now doing big things out in Long Beach. Along with these two braddahs was a bunch of friends who were also from Hawaii as well as their families. It was a really good vibe and place to have a BBQ. I'd seen a similar event that Nelson did maybe 10 years back at Chica's shop where he used to work. I thought that was the shit to be able to BBQ and drink beers around some sick bikes and cars. This BBQ was a lot more intimate with a smaller group of really good people. My crew and I had prepared 20 pounds of ribs and 20 pounds of chicken along with some veggie skewers enough to feed an army. Brawny and Len guys made some fresh poke and Nelson and Sasha brought da rice and some fresh veggies grown from their garden right around the way. I can't express how much of a good time I had meeting the braddahs crew and eating, drinking, and talking story well into the night. Big mahalos to Braddah Dave Park for riding his bike all the way from San Diego to sample some local style BBQ, as well as to Brawny and Nelson for helping to organize this goodtime BBQ! (Get more pics on Hawaii x Destory)!

Nick holding down the veggies portion of the BBQ!

Like fada like son!!! Spock da mout!!!

Braddah Nos and Braddah Moblow!

Braddah Stance Socks Ryan Kingman!

Hangin' Loose with Braddah Len!

SXA Chopping and Prep

What would I do with out a little help from my friends? Thanks to Jesse, Jen, and Nick we were able to prep for our big BBQ over at The Speed Merchant shop. Jesse is the man! Dude was slicing and dicing and really helped to make prep so much easier. Not to mention braddah made some ono fried rice! With a little heads up for where to go shopping from Braddah Nelson we were on our way. We started off by going to Gonzalez Northgate Supermarket to pick up some meats and veggies. The best supermarket I've ever been to. Nothing but espaniol being spoken here, but the service and selection was "No Ka Oi"! From there we headed over to Ken's Island Market for some portugese sausage, lup chong, and Aloha Shoyu. Go figure get one local market in Long Beach! Once we got done with Ken's we headed over to the visit with Nelson and Dustin at their jiu jitsu class before heading to the Long Beach Farmers Market for some fresh veggies for the skewers. We seriously were on the go here and there but it was all good fun. Big mahalos to Jen for assembling the beautiful skewers. Took long time but trust me it was worth it!

Braddah Jesus is the man!!! Kens Island Food

Gonzalez Northgate Supermarket

Charsiu pork ribs marinating!

Chamorro style BBQ Chicken marinating!

Long Beach Farmers Market. So cheap!

Look who we bumped into former local skateboarder Kaile from Mililani!

Jen working hard! Putting together the ono SXA leis on a stick that you can grind!

Lots of Aloha went into the prep for the SXA / Speed Merchant / Hawaii BBQ!

Yong Ki Chang and Jeff Hartsel on fecalface.com

Came across this article morning of Yong Ki Chang of Solitary Arts and Jeff Hartsel on fecalface.com. Mahalo for the love Yong Ki and Jeff!

Happy Birthday Kai and Malia!

Man am I getting old! My oldest son Kai just turned 20 and my youngest daughter Malia just turned 13. Growning up my son Kai played soccer, baseball, raced BMX, rode dirtbike, and skateboarded. I tried to get him into surfing when he was young but he just didn't like the water at all. It seemed at the time that he was going to pursue baseball because that's what he stuck to the longest. I think about 19 year old Bryce Harper (Washington Nationals) and 20 year old Mike Trout (Anaheim Angels) 2 rookie All Stars when I think about Kai being 20. Kai was playing ball at the same time as them but decided to take a different route. Being that he's a local kid, Kai is doing exactly what I was doing at his age and spending the majority of his time in the water surfing. Dawn patrol, lunch patrol, and evening sesh. Surf, surf, and more surf. I must say though on this particular day of his and Malia's birthday bbq that I watched him surf and he's getting pretty good. Not as good as I was back in the day (hahaha) but almost! I haven't seen him get barelled yet! As for my daughter Malia she's growing up faster than fast. Her passion right now is in dancing. She's all into the hip hop dance thing. Something I was into when I was 13 way back in the early 80's. It's pretty funny to think that I use to pop and lock and shock and do the worm and the wave at Wahiawa Intermediate! However judging by Malia's performance a week ago she's going to be better than I ever was. Being that she's pretty shy for the most part it seems like that all goes away when she's dancing. It's crazy to see both my kids interested in the things I was at their age. If this keeps up both of them will be doing the same thing I'm doing now and that's bbq-ing with their kids and their friends at Magic Island in 20 years!

Naz Kawakami

First off I'd like to start by saying congratulations to Naz Kawakami! Naz just graduated from Kalani High School and will now be pursuing his professional skateboarding career! Hahaha just kidding...maybe!!! Naz is the son of the world famous Mark Kawakami. For those of you who don't know, Mark is a man of many talents. Former Northshore Lifeguard, musician , master craftsman in cabinetry and wood working, skateboarder, story teller, and he has a great sense of humor. As you can see with a father like Mark, Naz should have know worries in figuring out what it is he's gonna do for the rest of his life. Mark has laid down a good solid foundation for him to build upon and has exposed him to everything anything that is cool. Congrats again Naz and Mark!!! Sorry we were late for the BBQ!!!

Sweet Home Waimanalo!

More random pics of the Kaps Backyard BBQ

SXA Kapolei Backyard BBQ

This past Saturday SXA brought the BBQ setup from our backyard of the beach to the backyard of the Kapolei Skatepark. Along with Vans, Blue Hawaii Surf, and Eighty Four Skate Co. we sparked up the grill and rolled in the coolers for all the skateboarders and Kapolei Ohana. 18 pounds of chicken, 80 hamburgers, 100 hotdogs, and coolers fool of drinks pretty much took care of everyone who came out. Ben and Geoff from Vans did an excellent job of making the Kapolei BBQ BBQ a success. Also props to Kyle (Death Machine), Jeff (Medium Fits), Holo and Louie (Ciren Skateboards), and all who showed up to help us in making this a good time!