SXA Backyard BBQ with Nick

Nothing like a Backyard BBQ after a day of skating and hanging out on the North Shore. Check out http://hawaiixdestroy.blogspot.com for more!

SXA Backyard BBQ at Farm Lot 59

Mahalo to Sasha Kanno and her family Nelson and Nalu for letting us participate in her BBQ at her farm in Long Beach. Most of our friends who live in LB who are from Hawaii as well as a few of us who were in town got together to do a Potluck Style BBQ and talk story. The bbq was amazing with all kine dishes from Sasha's farm as well as everything that everyone us brought. Sasha grows organic fruits and veggies as well as raises chickens. She also has a store on the farm you can purchase the produce grown there. Pay her a visit and support local farmers!

Farm Lot 59
2714 California Ave.
Long Beach, CA. 90807

Where's Marsh?

We had a BBQ for Marsh at the Mililani Skatepark but he didn't show up. Go figure?

Busy around the SXA Studio

July has been a pretty busy month here at the SXA Studio in Mililani, Hawaii. I got to spend time with my dad who was visiting from Alabama. Pops got in on the print action! Braddah Dyson also stopped by and helped out and even managed to screen a few onesies for his soon to be born son Brixton! I'm stoked to be able to share the process of making goods with people I care about and sharing it with people that appreciate it! If you've visited this blog or purchased some of the tees we print here at the SXA Studio in Mililani, Hawaii, I thank you very much and appreciate all your support!

SXA Backyard BBQ at White Plains

It's been a long time since SXA has had a BBQ at the beach. All that changed this past weekend because my pops was in town and he wanted to celebrate my nephew, niece, and my 2 kids birthday. That was a more than good enough reason for more to fire up the grill at the beach!

BBQ at Brawny Built Shop

     I blew this one as far as capturing how rad this BBQ was. The day after BF5 Brawny had a BBQ at his shop in Long Beach for all his friends that supported him throughout his BF5 build. Marco from Mach Modified brought some make shark that he caught all the way from New York! You would've figured it would've been tough but it was really tender and oh so good! Dave Park brought some korean marinated short rib up from San Diego. Again that was also amazing. A lot more meat on the short rib than I'm use to seeing in Hawaii. Jose was frying up some tripas (intestines) for some tacos and I gotta tell you that was also really good! Who would've thought! Aside from the BBQ I got to meat some pretty rad friends of Brawny's who I only see whenever I'm browsing on the interweb. This was definitely one of the raddest BBQ's I've been to and I really wish I would've took the time out to snap some pics but the beer was flowin', the grill was hot, and there was a lot of good stories being shared with the good people that were there!

                                                       Brawny grillin' some mako shark!

                                                              BBQ's and motorsickles!

                             
                                Our crew keeping cool in the shade of the Brawny Built Garage!

                                      Brawny's Born Free 5 Sportster is so rad it's ridiculous!

Born Free 5 BBQ with Brawny Built / The Speed Merchant / Onimotorworks

Bev was so excited to be on vacation riding a bike in Long Beach! 

 

 On the Friday before we were set to BBQ for Brawny at the Born Free 5 show we spent the day exploring the beach front area of Long Beach via bicycles. My girlfriend Bev flew out from Hawaii with me so I wanted to take her on a little sightseeing tour with the help of my childhood friend Mike Mc Donald from El Paso, Texas. Instead of shopping for all the meats and ingredients needed for the BBQ we spent most of the day dilly dallying which pretty much led to a long late night of preparation for the next day. I had all the troops hard at work each doing something different in order to speed up the process. I felt like a dictator barking out orders with beer in hand! Bev, Mike and Alex were great and I definitely couldn't have done this myself. We ended up wrapping up marinating the meats and prepping the rest of the food around 3am.

No more room in the fridge so we had to ice all the meat up in the cooler!

 

Up early on Saturday with very little sleep, got ready and hit the road to the show. Hot, hot, hot! That's probably the single best word to describe this years Born Free 5 show at Canyon Creek. Regardless of the heat I was very appreciative to have been able to attend the show thanks to one of the raddest local braddahs in Long Beach, Brandon Holstein aka Brawny. He pretty much arranged and set the trip up for me to come out and BBQ at the Brawny Built / The Speed Merchant booth. Regardless of the heat I was stoked to see the people hanging out and stopping by the booth to talk story and grab a bite. Brawny has definitely left a great impression within the custom built motorcycle scene here in So Cal. Along with Brawny, Len Higa of Onimotorworks also a fellow local boy from Hawaii was also invited to this years show. Both of them spent Friday night before the show wrapping up their builds while also prepping to get ready for the show. Click HERE to see more on the Born Free 5 show.

Good braddahs right here! Ryan Kingman and Brawny made the BBQ possible for this years BF5 show. Hopefully everyone was stoked! I can't even begin to thank Brawny enough for all he did for us, all while working on his build for this years show. Hands down winner in my book! Also congrats on 1st place for "Best in Competition"!

Oh yeah and Steve Olson stopped by to sample some SXA BBQ. He wanted to know why the ribs were so pink in color (charsiu)! According to Steve he was stoked on the BBQ! Mahalo Mr. Olson!

Len Higa of Onimotorworks was one of the invitees this year. Jensen Oda flew in from Hawaii with Buda Suda to show some support and help Len wrap up his build. Great job guys the bike looked mean!

If it weren't for these two brothers right here the BBQ definitely wouldn't have been possible. Mike and his brother Alex are childhood friends of mine from El Paso, Texas. Mike put Bev and I up in his house for the week and drove us around. Alex kept us entertained and lent a helping hand during the prep for the BBQ. Stoked to have been able to spend quality time with these guys!

Overall this was an great trip and we really enjoyed ourselves. Much mahalo to all of my friends making all of this possible! Click HERE for more on the BF5 Show.