✦Co-founded the Kokua Hawaii Foundation, which is a non-profit organization that supports environmental education in the schools and communities of Hawaii in 2004.
✦Appreciates bootlegs, saying a big part of his success is because of his friends recorded the bootlegs of his tracks and distributed them at surf competitions.
✦His first son Moe was born in 2004.
✦Met wife Kim, a student of Math and Fine Art, while studying at University of California.
✦Lost his front teeth at age 17 when he knocked on the reef during Pipeline competition.