23 January 2009

Kiron Jabour 5 Questions

  1. What’s it like living in Hawaii as a younger guy when the tour invades with the big name WCT competitors, do you still pull rank?

I think it’s sick that all-my favorite surfer’s come here every year so I get to see them surfing in person at my home breaks and observe and learn from their surfing. But getting close to the end of the triple crown I’m already over all that crowd and get really stoked knowing that allot of the crowd is going to leave and the crowd is going to mellow back down. As for pulling rank I just watch out so that I don’t burn or get in the way of any of the local guys other then that I cant be paying much attention to the 1,000,000 foreigner’s that are out there or else I would never catch any waves!!!

  1. It looked like you almost lost it on the bottom turn, and then recovered to stand up in the tube. What was this wave like?

I was paddling back out from one wave and this set wave came in and it had this bending double-up (horseshoe) thing going on with it. It looked pretty sick I was kinda late and ended airdropping down the face of the wave so when my board hit the water on the bottom of the wave I was holding on waiting for the fins to catch so I could project my bottom turn and go forward. As I did my bottom turn and was letting go of my rails I barley made it under the lip into the barrel without getting decapitated by the lip!!! That was for sure a fun one.

  1. What was your reaction to this photo? And you know I went over the falls and hit the reef for this! Haha…

I remember seeing the Decamp red camera box when I was in the barrel but I realized that when I was paddling back out from that wave I didn’t see Decamp in the area where I saw him shooting me in the barrel that’s when I looked in side and realized he went over the Falls on the wave…AHAHAHAHAHa…. When I first seen the photo I was at the Quik-house and Strider [Marketing Director] showed me the shot on his phone… I was stoked on the shot that came out sick!!!

  1. Bikepath or Kam HWY?

I have to say Kam HWY if I’m coming from my house cause there is no bike-path at Laniakea. But once I’m on the other side of Waimea and somewhere like the Quik house I would for sure have to say bike-path.

  1. What’s been your best tourist-girl scam so far?

I haven’t really scammed tourist girls I mostly just enjoy being around the hot ones and enjoying some nice views of them on the beach. I don’t know if that’s a good answer..ahahhaha