Dave Kalama

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Dave Kalama is a big wave surfer windsurfer and celebrity watersports enthusiast Kalama and his family live in Hawaii Kalama is credited with the codevelopment of towin surfing along with Laird Hamilton Darrick Doerner and Buzzy Kerbox Recently Kalama together with close friend Laird Hamilton have been actively promoting and mastering an ancient Hawaiian mode of water transportation and watersport called standup paddling and he has begun a series of increasingly longer solo paddle events between various Hawaiian islands As a high school age athlete Kalama was a competitive ski racer and high school football player in the winter sports resort town of Mammoth Lakes California Kalama is a descendant from a long line of noteworthy Hawaiian watermen his grandfather brought outrigger canoe paddling to the mainland US and his father Ilima Kalama was the 1962 worldchampion surfer and a lifelong outrigger canoe paddler In July 2006 Kalama and BamMan Productions business partner Laird Hamilton were jointly awarded the Beacon Award at the Maui Film Festival for helping to revive the surf film genre Description above from the Wikipedia article Dave Kalama licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia