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The tsunami warning sirens went of this morning at 6am sharp, this was not a test. By 7am the entire neighbor hood was out in the streets. The fist wave of the tsunami coming from the Chile earthquake was expected to hit Hawai’i at 11.05am, so there was plenty time to watch the News to see how the State was handling the situation.

On of the first thing that came to my mind was, now that everybody in Lahaina was busy evacuating and the county possibly closing the roads near the the shore, that Honolua Bay must be super uncrowded to surf. I could not help it but take the drive up to the Bay and see for my self and yes indeed there were 5 crazy ones surfing perfect waves to themselves. The sets were over head and the conditions were nearly perfect. Around 10.30am coast guard boats were patrolling up and down the coast to get people out of the water. All people were advised to seek higher grounds, neighborhoods in the evacuation zone turned into gosttowns. The neighborhood we were visiting our friend at, up on the hill, was packed with cars and people. There were people everywhere camping out on the side of the highway the public live pretty much shut down for 3 hours.

H-Bay uncrowded like in the 60ties

Everybody was now waiting for 11.05am and the arrival of the first wave. We were watching the action on TV at our friends house. The live camera was pointing to Hilo Bay on the Big Island, where the tsunami was expected to hit first. At around 11.23am we could see how the water resided from the bay. Now everybody was in suspense on how forceful the water would come back. About 3 minutes later the bare reef was showing in the bay and the water started to rush back in to the bay, once the bay was filled up again the whole thing repeated it self for about 4 times. That was it, we saw a tsunami in action. Lucky for everybody the tsunami only materialized in a rapid change of the sea level and not in a crazy wave washing out the shorelines. There were no reports do damage and injury.

My condolences go out to the people in Chile who were not as lucky as us here on Hawai’i.

Cheers,

Mike

Local time: 9.23HST

Time to impact: 1.55hours

The public live pretty much came to a halt.

Local time: 17.00hours HST and the time to come

A new year brings some new styles, for the first time I had the chance to try out our new shorts and shirts. I like the way they feel and with the different design, I already had some people approaching me on the prints. People like the playful idea of the animals on the shorts and the shirt.

Get your shirt today and klick here for an order.

Local Time: 10.30am HST

It is nice to be back on island after a successful business trip to the ISPO in Germany. Even after a perfect day of snowboarding with my friends, to me nothing compares to the deep blue ocean and its vast possibilities to play in it.

Today the conditions could not have been better for some leisure Stand Up Paddling, the whales were swimming less than a 1000m off shore flapping their tails, while people like us enjoyed a paddle.

As you can see, SUP is also a great couple activity, depending who is doing the work.

Today was also a great opportunity to try out the new MikeJuckerHawaii boardshorts. I was very pleased with the comfort of the material, it is very light and dried surprisingly quickly. I am also looking forward when one of our new SUP-Board arrives here on Maui, so I don’t have to use this crappy board anymore.

If you are interested in SUPs and paddles you can click here for more information.

Diese schönen Bilder haben uns eben aus der Dominikanischen Republik erreicht. Thomas Naujokat von “Blue Juice” Camps inspizierte eine neue Destination, den Bildern nach zu urteilen würde ich sagen: Das sieht sehr gut aus.

Der „Peak“ gefällt mir besonders: Schön blau mit einer saftigen Barrel, da möchte ich auch mal surfen.

Wer sich für diese Destination interessiert kann einfach hier klicken für mehr Infos.

Vielen Dank für Die Bilder Thomas, keep ‘em coming!

ALOHA!

Thomas likes MATSOL Shirts and the MikeJuckerHawai’i Cap.

After 4 days of working at the Tradeshow, I was happy to have a day to enjoy the Swiss Alps and the fresh powder with my friends. The conditions could not have been better: Fresh powder, blue skies, minimal crowds and a mind blowing back country powder run.

The RUN

It took quite a bit of walking to get to the next peak near by and for a surfer who is used to sea level air like me the hike in 2000m was quite breath taking (literally). The pay off was breath taking as well even now that I found my breath again after the hike.

First line privilege

I was pretty stoked, being the guest from Hawaii I had the privilege of the first line. It was an insane feeling after 5 years to be back in the snow, back to my roots. Drawing a 200m bottom turn into the untouched powder between the cliffs was as good as it gets. (Besides getting barreled) We charged several different runs all day long until we were exhausted and our thighs were burning. The “Schümlipflümli” we had before the last run gave us the last kick before heading down to the car riding another 5 miles of powder.

Chris K.

Nils and the cliffs

Laax celebrity skier, Raini

I would like to thank the crew for making this day possible:

Andy V.: Great coordination
Nils F.:   Thanks for all the material.
Chris K.: Nice appearance
Raini B. aus W.: Swiss Legend Skier
Martin H.: Former Snowboard Pro

The crew

The last day at the ISPO was Homerider Circus day. Our new MikeJuckerHawaii Teamrider showed us his tricks on the Homerider. What a great potential this product has, we are happy to go into mass production in a few weeks.

We would like to say thank you to everybody who visited our booth, we appreciate your business.

Many Mahalos,

Team MikeJuckerHawaii

Day 3 was fantastic, we met many people from different fields of the paddle sport. The spark of SUP has been ignited, people show great interest in the giant boards and the paddles. We had no other choice than taking out 11″ for a “spin” in Hall B4 to demonstrate.

Another item of grate popularity remains our Homerider. The promo girl in Hall B4 could not get enough riding the Homerider at our booth.

We are looking forward to the last day and are ready for a great after party.

See you today.

Mike