RKTR ZINE IS BORN

Underground Surf, Skate, Create Zine.
-Manny Aloha

See one spread per day at:
RKTR.blogspot.com

Sightings

http://friendswelove.wordpress.com/2009/02/19/zines-we-love-rktr-skate-surf-art/
http://uxatoday.blogspot.com/2009/02/manny-pangilinan.html

This weeks cover

RKTR- a peep at a Surf/Skate/Create zine I've been working on these past days.

What started as a quick and dirty zine, is turning out to grow into something more involved.

Surf Warrior rides Ballzout.
Shallow reef claims skin and fins
ready for blood at any opportunity.
Surf warrior gambles a free ride.

Nug Poem

Crystal clear waters...
the biggest bathtub in the world
Duck dive
exhale under water
yeah!
See the Nugget
Ride the Nugget.
Stupid Stoked
Delirous focus carving up and down
Slash!
Fuck yeah.
And back for more.
don't forget to share the Nugz.
Or else you'll stink up the joint
Breathe, kick back
wait your turn
Give one to Unk
Give one to sis
Give one to little man
Then Yup, here comes your Nug again
Love dem Nuggets
-Manny Aloha

K Point NS

This week's cover of Honolulu Weekly

Wednesday Dawn Patrol Report

Woke up at 5:15 am
Out the door 5:45
Arrive at North shore at 6:30
To meet up with John Esquerra.
Ehukai Beach Park was windy and kind of all over the place...
So we dedided to go west a little.

There was an East Swell with East winds
which made for side shore at NS.

We decided to surf Jockos.
There was a heavy rip current taking you out to sea.
If you floated around too long, you found the houses got smaller.
I was stoked to catch a couple of waves with my 6'2" 20 1/2"W and 2 5/8" twin fin with brand new fins.
The board floated alot better that my 6'5" Tokoro thruster.

My twin felt like surfing on oil it was so slippery.
My board felt like a slut...
all loose and easy.
It did whatever I wanted it too and enjoyed it.

Soon John paddled in sick of fighting the current.

I was getting sucked out trying to catch one in.

As I was paddling in, I here, "Hey Dude! Hey Dude!" this one guy says.
Its just him, some knee boarder, and me out there.

"Whats up" I said.

"How do you paddle in here?" he asked.

"Straight in. There's just a heavy rip right now so you gotta catch a wave in" I say.
"
"I'm having bad asthma right now."

"Ok" I said, "Just relax. Don't freak out."

"I'm freaking out" he said.
"Can you do me a favor and just sit here with me for a minute?"

"I say ok" knowing if we sit too long, we'll just have to paddle further in.

So I coach him to keep paddling, and then eventually a wave comes my way and I say go for this one
Go, Go!"

He makes it far enough in to make it out of the rip.
Of course I get stuck in it for a whille longer.
See the small far away guy on shore see me then walk off the beach to his car.

I think to myself, "Hey, thanks huh?"

I manage to paddle in about 20-25 minutes after John who's gotta go to work by 10am like me and its probably well pass 9 by now. He was almost pissed, until I told him that I had to coach in some dude.

He laughed and shared a big jug of warm water for a shower.

Caught some fun ones in the mess.

Lesson Learned: When there is an East swell with east winds, Stay home with your chick, work on some art, or go to Makaha on the West Side.

Das all.
-Manny Aloha

Dawn Patrol Wednesday

The great usual dawn patrol Wednesday routine.
Hope the waves are clean.
This week was tough.
Gonna be on the cover of Honolulu Weekly this week...
A little trippy.
I'll post the cover later today.
wrote two short pieces in it as well.
Til then
Manny

Cover Preview 1st Drafts

Super Bowl Sunday Self Portrait

Honestly, I didn't do shit today except eat and sleep and I tell myself...
"Shit! You got shit to do homeboy if you plan on being a full time successful artist. You can't be sittin' around watchin' tv all day. Oh well. Thats the way it goes sometimes... especially when you drink a little too much the previous night, which is what I did with Marisa. Gotta focus more.
Every time I have free time, I'm surfing. But it feels so good thats why. Saturday we BBQd on the North Shore at my favorite break with our friends Amy and Sam and their two kids Makai, and Kainoa. We arrived at noon and John Esguerra was there to meet me to surf. We surfed another break down the line all to ourselves. John used to work at the Diesel store on 14th Street, NYC and run the art shows... sometimes surf art shows. He remembered me when we met a couple of months ago checkin' out waves doin' dawn patrol.
Yeah so we caught some fun ones on Saturday, ate good food then came back to town for a show, Ozomotli at Aloha Tower...
Good times which caused me to spend almost all day in bed with Marisa. Just ate and slept and ate and then road bikes to a place down the street called Magic Island for the sunset.
A shower and here I am.
Great weekend but I want to spend more time creating art and skateboards.
Life management strategies go on in my head.
Theres my weekend blog.
-Manny Aloha