The Stuff of Legend

[Bud]

In June of this year, Pat Holzman took 2 of his new F2Ks with him to Indo. He was on his Honey Moon. He managed to get a week in Bobby's G-Land Camp after his wife had to leave to get home and back to work.

After that trip, Pat mentioned to me that he'd gotten one of the best waves of his life, but didn't go into detail.
Pat was riding his new gun version F2K.

His riding so impressed another surfer, an Aussie stand up surfer, that he wrote me to tell me about it and that one wave, Pat mentioned, in particular.

Below is the message................Enjoy!

----- Original Message -----
From: "mick obrien" <mickob2002@hotmail.com>
To: <bud@blasthawaii.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 11:24 AM
Subject: looking for pat holzman in hawaii

G'day Bud
I am trying to reach Pat Holzman from Hawaii.
I was in G-land Indonesia this summer surfing with six other mates and we met Pat. I remembered he was riding Blast Hawaii boards, but I never got his contact info before he left camp.

Must say his new boards looked liked they worked quite good, and he was surfing like a possessed little Tassie Devil!
We saw him take off deep and fly through heaps of beautiful barrels
and turn on a pin that whole week with us.

One afternoon in particular, the swell had gootten big maybe 3-5 metres, and it was just -perfect-.
About 15 of us were sitting at Speedys all scratching for a giant outside set coming in. Could tell it was big because my mates and I saw all the boys at Moneys get cleaned out, except kneelo Pat had gotten far enough out.

We watched him spin around late and freefall into
this massive 2 storey wave outside of Moneys, and recover just in time to
crank a bottom turn up under the lip. He looked quite small sitting inside
this beast of a wave, travelling the whole length of Moneys in the barrel,
and then he completely dissappeared and we all figured he was set in too far
back and was swallowed up in the piss.

I just flipped though when he actually reappeared, trying to get some air from in the barrel!
From there I watched him drive through and backdoor into the Speedys section. He passed me still just stuffed in a massive groaning Speedys pit that I barely punched through.

My friend Garrick said he saw him get toobed way past me in that concave pit before he kicked out...

We all gave him his dues as we saw him paddle back out grinning.

I reckon that wave was the longest left barrel I've ever seen anyone ever get!

Snappers rights all the way through kirra is the longest right I've seen and has been absolutely perfect beyond belief this year.

He had asked me about getting photos or video of that day for you but
unfortunately I only know my mate Mark had a vid camera and he was in the water surfing with us not shooting.
Saw his shot on your website and wanted to ask if you have his email or a
contact # for his flat or mobile? My wife and I are planning to visit the
North Shore of Hawaii in Februrary, and I would like to reach Pat for a surf
while there.
thnx.
cheers, Mick Obrien
Queenstown, Tasmania

ps.nice website and do you shape fish surfboards too?

[james devlin]