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Jamie O'Brien wins Da Shootout!

It was just another day in the office for the North Shore's own, Jamie O'Brien who came back from second place to win the title of CHAMP of Da Hui's Backdoor Shootout taking home $50,000! Jamie was pulling off some insane moves in Pipeline barrels that could fit a City Bus in easily. Coming in second is Bruce Irons winning $25,000; Ola Eleogram $15,000; Marcus Hickman $10,000; and Mark Healey & Myles Padaca tie-ing for 5th and BOTH surfers were awarded $5000 each. The only thing the 5th place winners could not share was the beautiful Christian Riese Lassen painting that each surfer was awarded along with their winnings. So in true local Hawaiian style - Mark & Myles had to face each other, in front of the entire award ceremony crowd, for one round of "jun-ken-po" (rock, paper, scissors for you mainlanders). No executive decisions, no special judges meeting - just a down-home school yard battle, and winning the "jun-ken-po" was Da Hui's Myles Padaca! To add to the award giving $2500 was given to Quiksilver's Reef McIntosh & Tyler Newton and Oakley's Nathan Fletcher for their "Outstanding Performances" throughout the Shootout.

The Backdoor Shootout is one of the richest events in the State of Hawai'i. Winning competitors & Outstanding Performance recipients were awarded with cash prizes combined at $117,500 and additional custom framed paintings from famed ocean artist, Christian Riese Lassen, worth $20,000! Simply awesome.

This is just true Da Hui style, we have top knotch surf contests with a touch of local flavor. From family members to good friends - everyone pitches in to make this event successful. This contest is not only for the surfers - but for the local people as well as it's the ONLY professional surfing contest that has the most local, native Hawaiian surfers. Look at the boys who placed in the event - all Hawai'i surfers who are either part-Hawaiian or Hawaiian-at-heart...and that's all good with us.

We ask for your support of Da Hui's Backdoor Shootout. Every year, we battle with the City & County of Honolulu for a spot for the Shootout in the Winter Surf Schedule. The more support we have for this awesome event..da better. Should you feel the Shootout should continue season after season, send your letters of support to Dahui808@gmail.com or to P.O. Box 429 Haleiwa HI 96712.

Mahalo Nui to everyone who supported the Shootout! We appreciate you all and hope to see you at the 2009 7th Annual Da Hui Backdoor Shootout!

See You In The Surf!

Aloha & Malama Pono,

DA HUI

Day 3 Photos

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Rounds 3 & 4 of Da Shootout!

With another day of classic contest-worthy surf...Da Shootout was in full speed with 8-10ft sick surf with surfer's flying out of spit-firing barrels and more. With rounds 3 & 4 in da bag, we now have a new Sheriff In Town of the Da Hui Shootout....within the middle of round #4 , Kaua'i's own and Volcom team member, Bruce Irons, surfed past Red Bull's, Jamie O'Brien, to take the lead with 127.2 pts. Jamie's in 2nd with a total of 120.4. Ola Eleogram is in 3rd with 109.1. Marcus Hickman is in 4th with 107.9 pts and Da Hui's, Myles Padaca - who put on a show for crowds & judges by shooting through barrels of big Pipe and da Backdoor during both rounds. His scoring then placed Myles in a tie for 5th with Quiksilver's, Mark Healy with a total for each surfer at 106.9. However, with the 2 highest wave tie-breaker, Mark leads with 75.2 and Myles 75.1.

So for tomorrow, Saturday, 1/12 - contest is on stand-by as we'll need to see what kind of waves Mother Surf will bring us once again. She's been very kind to us and hope for one more day of choice surf. First thing in the morning, competitors will take a vote on what they'd like to do. Surf or No Surf. If YES, then we'll go for a few more rounds. If the vote is "NO"....then the 2008 Da Hui Backdoor Shootout will officially come to a close with an awards ceremony taking place between 9am-10am as our last day to run the event is on Sunday, 1/13. And Sunday, the check is in da mail with supposedly the biggest swell of the Winter surf season. 20-25 w/occ 30 feet waves (Hawaiian scale) is on it's way.

Stay tuned........

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Da Contest is ON !

With surf predicted in the 8-12ft range with an occasional 15ft set rolling in. The contest is on! Heats start at 8am! see you there!
Check out the surf report on Surfline.com

Shootout Video : Day 1

Da Contest - Postponed 4 Today

With Da Hui Backdoor Shootout Contest on-hold for most of the morning, the final call/vote call came in at 11:30am to postpone the contest until tomorrow. Surf was out of control today in the 15-20 with 25ft sets at 3rd reef. Surf is expected to drop to more 'surf-able' conditions tomorrow....so it's looking good for more rounds of Da Shootout.

Day 1: Da Shootout Goes Off!

Finally, after years of City permit denials - the 2008 6th Annual Da Hui Backdoor Shootout is back on track, and today started Day 1 in style!

With EPIC 6-8ft occ.10ft from the WNW - all surfers/teams from Da Hui, Quiksilver, Hurley, Volcom, No Fear, Oakley, Red Bull & Billabong were ready to seize the surf. Jamie O'Brien took an early lead riding some of the best Pipe waves many have seen all Winter! However, by mid-afternoon, surf began to build up to 12-15ft breaking at 3rd reef. With surf like this, surfers had a challenge paddling out to the line up. Many were jumping in at Backdoor ending up at Ehukai in seconds. Surfers had to come back out from the water and hurry up to their starting positions and try again.

Rounds 1 & 2 were completed today with Jamie O'Brien in the lead with Nathan Fletcher, Kalani Chapman and Mark Healy not to far behind. Although, this is the Shootout - so it's any surfer's game....stay tuned.

Contest pending for Thursday 1/10 as surf is expected to be pretty big in the 10-15ft range with possibly bigger sets pounding through.

Check out the photos for day 1

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