Best Local Amateur Surfer Matt Meola Carving, spinning, jumping; Matt Meola creates the most impressive aerials with ease and fluidity. This 24-year-old Haiku native has been surfing his whole life, frequenting Ho‘okipa during the winter, then travelling to surf destinations around the world in the summer. His water acrobatics have caught the attention of sponsors … [Read more...] about MauiTime Best of Maui 2013: Best Local Amateur Surfer on Maui: Matt Meola
Matt Meola
By the Numbers: Big Island Eruptions and Surf Video Prizes
2006 Year in which Hawaii enacted a three-strikes law for violent offenders 1 Number of people who have been sentenced under the law, which is set to expire in July $100,000 Prize money earned by Haiku’s Matt Meola, 21, for submitting the winning clip in a surf-video contest 80 feet Maximum height of lava eruptions from a 1.4-mile fissure that opened last week in the Big … [Read more...] about By the Numbers: Big Island Eruptions and Surf Video Prizes
“Innersection: Blue” World Premier at MACC, Hosted by Maui’s Own Matt Meola and Clay Marzo, Nov 26
Friday (November 26), 7:30pm, MACC, $12 / $6 (keiki under 12) When brilliant filmmaker Taylor Steele (Castles in the Sky; Stranger Than Fiction) and senior editor of Surfing Magazine Nathan Myers team to host a surf video contest -- even in the most antipodal alternate universe -- neither the resulting film nor it's process is piddly. Through five rigorous rounds (four … [Read more...] about “Innersection: Blue” World Premier at MACC, Hosted by Maui’s Own Matt Meola and Clay Marzo, Nov 26