Omfgs I remember this (fake wrestler) guy coming to the Makaha Christmas time surfing meet held by the Waikiki Surf Club as an MC/announcer. I was in the the 1966 competition but did not win my first heat. The surf club got tired of ABC WWofSports calling the shots and kicked them out so soon after the competition was cancelled later to be replaced by Buffalo's Big Board contest. I used to surf every day after school with Buffalo, Rella and Coola Sun and a bunch of others at Makaha include one winter with James Arnez. Got any vid/audio of KGMB's J. Aku Head Pupule who's radio program I listened to every morning before going to grade school?
@kawika96797
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That announcer was Lord TallyHo Blears. Wrestling may have been a choreographed act, but Blears was a genuine WW2 POW survivor. === Blears was a 21-year-old radio officer on a Dutch merchant ship that had been sunk by a Japanese submarine near the end of World War II. The Japanese brought aboard the survivors and were shooting or decapitating many on the foredeck. Blears said he escaped by kicking a Japanese officer and pulling his hand out of a rope, then jumping overboard.
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@@kawika96797 Thank you for that Gr8 piece of info. Things were so informal and fun back then though it was tough growing up haole in Makaha but the surfing was Gr8!
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