My Style with Koa Smith
When 14-year-old Koa Smith isn’t thrusting microphones in the face of nine-time world champions and six- foot-two saffas on the red carpet to major surf industry award nights (he’s red carpet host of the Surfer Poll awards), he hunts down tusked boar with a bow and arrow. “I got a couple of hundred pounders,” tells the Kauaian kid. The day he sat down for a chat with Stab, he had recently arrived home from one of his adventures. Though the only vital organs he had punctured were those of a duck. And, given the amount of adhesive used to affix the various plastic on the nose of his sled, we figure he can surf.
Style of nickname: Chompers, smithy, boar, little fella, little buddy, Koa Balboa.
Style of music: My older brother downloads all the music. I listen to what he listens to. Mainly techno remixes. I don’t even know the names of them.
Style of dental care: I got braces. I don’t like to talk about it.
Style of weapon shape: 5’4 x 2 x 2 & 16 1/2. But I ordered a bigger board recently.
Style of social networking site: I had a Facebook. But then people made fake ones of me, and would steal pictures off my Myspace. I have got a Myspace with like 500 friends or something.
Style of grooming: If it’s a dance party no shirt, maybe a hat, I got some sick Nikes. And maybe an unzipped jacket. I wore a chain for three years solid, but I lost it.
Style of Romance: In Kauai I know pretty much every single girl, so it’s like impossible. But when I travel I meet some. I get propositioned from chicks everyday on Myspace. I get messages saying we should get married and stuff.
Reply?
Yeah of course. I’ve met up with a couple, but they’re never the same.
Style of communication:
I text message a lot, I talk on my phone a lot, and I Myspace a lot.
Style of website: Yahoo
Style of Phone: Iphone
Style of hair care: I shaved my head.
Style of transport: I got a Honda Ruckus (vespa-dirtbike milkshake). It’s so sick. I’m not really allowed to ride it. You have to have a permit which you can’t get til you’re 16 and a half. I drive it on the side of the road and pretend I’m older.
Style of movie: Transformers.
Style of TV show: Hannah Montana. (An Emmy nominated, Disney program, starring the daughter of Billy-ray Cyrus, Miley. The plot centers around an ordinary teenage girl, who by night wows sprouting teens under the moniker Hannah Montana. Stab applauds Koa’s endorsement of such a sissy program)
Style of dealing with confrontation: Probably punch them. It’s never happened to me.
Style of Training: I take Jujitsu. I don’t really want to compete; I just do it for a workout. One of my best friends does it so we are always battling. I did karate for two years. It was super hard; I only got to an orange belt. It’s like the second belt. I did Tae Kwan do for a year.
Style of fun: Apart from pig hunting, I go skin diving. I’ve got a spear gun and I have caught some pretty good-sized fish. This one time when I was diving, I caught this fish and when I was in the channel this black tip (shark) came for it and tried to bite it out of my hand. But it couldn’t get it off the shaft cause it was a weird shot. I had to climb up onto dry reef.
Style of post-surf grinds:
I’d usually go to the mini-mart and get Subway. I’d get a steak and bacon melt or something with chicken. I’d get the weird flat bread, steak, bacon, cheese, sweet onion, chipotle sauce and lettuce.
Style of gaming system: We’re not allowed an XBOX 360 or a Playstation3. We got a (Nintendo) Wii, because we told my parents that it was more active. Call of Duty is the best, but I have to use the regular control.
Style of Binge Drinking: Steinlager. Steal beers from my parents. I’ve never shaved someone’s eyebrows off but when someone is really drunk I’ll get the shaving cream. I don’t really know if my parents know. But I am getting older.
Style of Payment: Cash. I get money whenever I need. Like if I need 10 bucks I will ask my mum and she will give it to me. I get money from my sponsors.
Style of computer: It’s a laptop, a Macbook, the black one.
Style of indulgence: Playing (Nintendo) Wii when no one is home for four hours straight.
Style of surfing: Joel (Parkinson). Slowin’ it down, big turns. He’s pretty well rounded I guess.
Style of Contraception: I haven’t done it yet, but I’m working on it.
Style of Holiday: Indo. South Sumatra to Padang, then up to the Mentawais.
Style of pet: I got six cats, one dog, seven sheep, two cows and laying-egg chickens. And I have three ducks and a rabbit. I like cats, because they cuddle with you and snuggle with you.
Style of surf-psych: The waves being good are the main thing. I don’t watch so many surf videos.
Style of grades: I’ve pretty much done home school my whole life. It’s like a regular school with teachers and stuff, but it’s only my two brothers and me. I don’t really know what grades I’m getting. I’m passing. School goes from 10 am til 2.30 pm. I like Spanish and workshop, ’cause the tools are cool. I know how to say ‘what I like to do’ and ‘hi’ and stuff. But I can’t swear yet.
Style of enemy: Hippies. They always camp on the beaches and take shits all over the beach. Then they try to go surfing, and just smell really bad.
Style of grommet abuse: When I’m in the north shore they make me clean up. When I was in Indo, they picked me up in the middle of the night and threw me off the boat with my clothes on. I was still asleep and I didn’t see who it was. I try to be as friendly as I can to everybody. All the Hawaiian guys you have to respect. And when I paddle out I say hi to everyone. Unless it’s someone that doesn’t belong. They get sent in.
Style of air travel: Economy class, preferably Singapore or Qantas. They don’t charge for boards.
Style of wave: Left barrels, but I don’t really mind which way I go. I started surfing Pipe this year.
Style of cigarette: I never tried one. Never. No.
Style of porn: I like websites like pornweb.com. I think my parents know.
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Reply #9 on : Sun February 28, 2010, 19:02:24