David Nuuhiwa

David Kealohalani Nuuhiwa III, commonly known as David Nuuhiwa, is an American Hawaiian surfer born in 1948 in Honolulu, Hawaii. The son of a Waikiki beachboy and martial arts instructor, he began surfing at age five and moved to Southern California in 1961 with his father. He is known for soulful noseriding, often perched at the tip of his board for twenty seconds or more. He won the international championship in San Diego on May 10, 1966, and kept winning contests after the shortboard era began, including the 1971 U.S. Surfing Championships, by which time he had moved from longboards to shortboards and favored twin-fin fishes. He surfed in the 1971 film Rainbow Bridge, which starred Jimi Hendrix, and starred in Five Summer Stories in 1972.