SURF REPORT 2008 SPONSORS

ALOHA and welcome to the HASA's 2008 HARD ROCK CAFE SURF SERIES. Our HAWAII Junior World Team will be heading off to southwest France this May to do battle against the world's other best junior division amateurs in the QUIKSILVER ISA WORLD JUNIOR SURFING CHAMPIONSHIPS. Sponsorship for our world junior team comes from HARD ROCK CAFE and we are honored by their support. HARD ROCK CAFE has provided the funding to see that our team was able to travel half-way around the world for this major event. MAHALO for your backing, for your support to the sport of surfing in Hawaii that also includes their annual late winter junior pro meet at Sunset Beach, our HSA awards banquet immediately following the Burger King sponsored H.S.A. State Surfing Championships (scheduled June 4/5/6) and numerous other fund raisers in connection with surfing in the islands. And, of course, a BIG Mahalo goes out to our many local and individual business sponsors who support our HSA competitions program throughout the year. XCEL Wetsuits has been with us from the beginning, supplying us with our lycra compettion shirts each season and we are indebted to everyone's continued support and backing of our members, officials, our many events and H.S.A. team needs.
And yes, we have a 'new' name, though 99% of your will always call us HASA! We've been able to return back to our original title of HAWAII SURFING ASSOCIATION (H.S.A), a project we've been working on for the last two years. The HSA acronym was the association's original name from the early 60's (our beginning era), directed by the Husic family back then. You'll see our new logo (membership t-shirts will be ready next season) already on this website, above. New banners should be up and displayed in time for the State Championships at Ala Moana Bowls this June. Master graphics designer and Aina Haina surf regular John Thomas - John Thomas Design put together the new fin-and Hawaiian flag design into an easily recognizable logo. We wanted something that would be recognizable from a distance, but MOST importantly reflect our islands' history, our roots and who we are today. You'll see the new HSA logo more and more as the new '08-'09 progresses on, after Augusts's new season starts up again. So, coming up we have the '07-'08 season's final Hard Rock Cafe Surf Series event and our junior world team who will be home from the French world competition, just in time for the Burger King State Championships at the Ala Moana Bowl, with the qualifiers being invited to the 2008 SIMA Surfing America USA CHAMPIONSHIPS in mid-August. See you in the water....

Formed in the early 60's as the "Hawaii Surfing Association", the original grouping of amateur and professional surfers from throughout the island state was organized under this HSA banner for competition and recognition by the other worldwide associations. The structure of the HSA was to promote sportand surfing contests at different locales. The creation of community and regional surfing teams helped to elevate the HSA's recognized stature on an international level that found only Australia as a true rival in organized surfing sport. Surfing as a sport, in the eyes of HASA, represents a commitment on the part of its directors and officials to help its members focus on their athletic skills, their physical training and short and long term surfing goals. Of equal importance is the commitment on behalf of HASA's leadership to help its members maintain good guidance, educational direction and responsibility to their families and others within their community.

