Matt training with the kids, a few days ago.

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Hookipa, this morning. Let's talk about powerful turns, with Matt Kinoshita and Mike Crowe.

Matt was riding his 6.1 x 18.375 x 2.25 Milkman Hank Gaskell model with FCS MK fins.

Mike was riding his personal model 6.6 x 20.5 x 2.75 squash tail Crowe model with FCS Gam fins.

Kazuma tow team getting ready for tomorrows giant swell

Chaz Kinoshita 13 yrs old (left) Joao Marco Maffini 13 yrs old(center) have been training all last week with Alfredo Villanova, getting ready for tomorrow's giant swell. Alfredo is the Kazuma tow team trainer and is working wonders with the two Maui super groms.

Earlier in the week, Matt Kinoshita and Ian Walsh fine tuned Ian's Jaws boards and redesigned his Future tow fins for "Big Monday" Matt and Ian will be on it tomorrow with the Magic new boards. Joao and Chaz will probably watch but if it is less than 30 feet, they will sneak in for a few.

Matt Kinoshita and his son Chaz surf perfect Maui

My son Chaz and I surfed some of the best waves Maui has seen in years. One of the local spots was absolutely firing and we were trading off barrel after barrel. Check out the 2nd picture with Chaz in the lip claiming my barrel, I can't think of anything better than taking turns watching each other ride waves like this.

I was riding a 7'6" x 18.5" x 2.5" baby squash classic gun and Chaz was riding his 6'0" x 16.75" x 1.95" classic gun. 6'0" sounds small but is relative in size to my board since chaz is only 95 lbs and 13 years old.

Matt

My beautiful new 6'0" "Shibi"

This is my beautiful, new, 6'0" x 20" x 2.375" Shibi. This will be my board for 1 to 4 foot waves. I am 174 lbs. and normally ride a 6'1.5" x 18.5" x 2.31" Milkman model. I don't ride my fish as small as most people do because I really want it to be a wave catching machine. The performance is equivalent to my normal shortboard minus some response and snap but every bit as good.

I have tested the smaller fish boards but the slight performance gains you get are not worth the loss of paddling power. Catch waves = have fun. The volume of the Shibi allows me to get into the wave easier which sets up the wave for less mistakes. (read the coaching blog to understand why)

I will set this up as a quad as there doesn't seem to be any benefit to riding it as thruster. Yes I know, I have always been anti-quad but it really does ride like a thruster but much faster and tighter turning. Jumping back and forth between my Milkman and the Shibi is easy. It took me about 50 versions to get it right but now that it is dialed, I will endorse the quad.

My new 6'1" EPS/PU Parabolic

Here is my new EPS/PU parabolic milkman. 6'1" x 18.5" x 2.31" it will get fcs fins and probably weigh in at 5.1lbs finished. My next project is a 6'0" x 20" x 2.31" Shibi EPS/PU parabolic.

Matt Kinoshita caught on film riding a "FISH" 4-13-09

We now have undeniable photographic proof of Matt Kinoshita riding a fish type board at Hookipa 4-13-09. This is the "Shibi" model. Tanner Hendrickson said "Matt was Killing it." Word is that the Shibi model is the next Magic board.

Pics from David Baker

Matt Kazuma Kinoshita, wave killer !


Sic move from Tanner Hendrickson

Outside !

Matt Kinoshita was waiting for the perfect wave, outside

Another beautiful floater