This video of Andy Irons Memorial (Paddle Out and Scattering of Ashes on The Ocean) will give you “chicken skin”. For those of you who didn’t get what I meant by chicken skin, it means “goose bumps”. That’s what the locals call it here. Now, let’s watch this memorial video, a testimony of aloha spirit not only in Kauai, but in all the Hawaiian state and the surfing community worldwide as well.

( Note: As of this evening 11/15/10, the Memorial Paddle Out video had been removed on YouTube so I took down the HTML embed code. I shall replace it with a new video as soon as it is available. In the meantime, I decided to embed another video – the Andy Irons’ Surf Short Film ….)