Did a little self piercing yesterday morning on the reef. Strangely not nearly as bad as it looks! Bled for a while but kept surfing and it just kinda ached, managed to pull out a couple of the big ones under my foot and still do the afternoon down-winder.





One of the guys here told me about a newbie surfer girl that got washed where I did it, she got rolled over and over on the little area which is basically a sea urchin garden. Ended up with hundreds and hundreds of spines all over her body, had to go to hospital because her body just went into an alergic shock reaction.

All because I was trying out a new 8'6 Quad Kazuma 'Shibi" and was silly enough to get one more bottom turn in......

Kazuma boards are so nice, the one I was trying was a little too wide at 30" but is probably going into HiTech as a big guy or first time short board. check out www.kazumasurf.com. If anyone wants more photos of the Shibi I could pop into HiTech and take some.

The Kazuma I got second hand is the Milkman 9'2 x 27 1/2 x 3 3/4 here is a photo of it.

Ask AA about Wana

Beautiful looking board great outline.

If its anything like PNG sea urchins then stick your foot in a bucket of hot water, hot as you can go without burning yourself

also what is the air/water temperature like on Maui at this time of year? Using a wetsuit or vest or anything?

we have same in new caledonia, the only remedy is to pee on the infected parts, very effective

Hey JC, looks like your having fun!

Can you PM me your home phone number as I want to go pick up some of our shaping
gear. Planning on getting started on the 8'8". I'll pop past tomorrow and see if anyone
is home.

The 8'4" is going really well now, made some fin adjustments and it's going great.

When you back?