Jim Foti

Jim Foti is one the most awarded and recognized paddlers. His BIO is too long to list. Check out his web site for the updated BIO of Jim Foti.
Jim will be helping with the steering and surfing sections of the camps. Jim Foti Bio

Ryan Pogue

Ryan Pogue has completed in outrigger races across North America and South America. Ryan has over 6 years of coaching and worked under mentor coaches for 3 years. Ryan is currently an active racer and has completed in both solo and six man placing in 9 top 3 finishes in 2009. In 2003 Ryan competed in Ironman Canada and developed the first Canadian adaptive paddling team. Ryan is the head coach and program director for Vancouver Ocean Sports.

Danny Ching

BIO COMING SOON.
Program Dates he will be coaching TBA

Kamanu Composites

Team Riders Listed Below. Kamanu Team Riders will help on surf runs and open water paddling.

Caleb Kapuni Keonimaka Freitas

Puni started paddling OC-1 when he was 13 in Kona on the Big Island.  He attended the Hawaiian language school Ke Kula Kaiapuni until 5th grade and is currently a member of the class of 2010 at Kealakehe High School.  When he was 14 he began paddling with the Tui Tonga men's crew, stroking their 9 man crews at the Queen Lili'uokalani Race, Catalina and, at fifteen years old, the Moloka'i Hoe.  In 2008, at age sixteen, he competed as one of Hawai'i's top juniors in the Pa'a Koa Nui Race, Pa'a Moloka'i Solo, the Moloka'I Relay, and the Kaua'i World Challenge.  He spent the summer of 2008 training in Tahiti and competed in the prestigious Te Aito, finishing among the top half out of more than 600 competitors.  He is now arguably one of the best rudderless paddlers in Hawai'i.

 

Kalei Kaho'okele

Kalei began paddling when he was seven years old for Keahiakahoe Canoe Club in Kahalu'u on O'ahu. He currently attends high school at Mid Pacific Institute as a member of the class of 2011. He has won several State Championships with Keahiakahoe, highlighted by steering their 18 boys crew to victory in 2008. At 14 years old, Kalei placed first overall in the Kanaka Ikaika Short Course Race Series for the 2008 season. In 2008 he also won every Junior Varsity race of the year, from the Na Opio OC-1 to the OIA OC-6 for Kapolei's boys and mixed crews. He also qualified first in the 16 boys division to represent Hawai'i at the World Sprints. He periodically travels to Tahiti to train on rudderless Tahitian Va'a and is one of Hawai'i's premier va'a paddlers.

Simion Ke-Paloma

Simion started paddling when he was nine years old with the Elks Club on O'ahu and currently paddles for Outrigger Canoe Club.  He graduated from Maryknoll high school in 2007 and is now attending the University of Hawai'i where he is deciding between pursuing either a degree in Sports Nutrition or Kinesiology.  He only began paddling OC-1 in 2007, but has quickly risen to become one of the top youth paddlers in the state.  During his first year paddling OC-1 he competed and finished respectably in the Pa'a Moloka'i World Championships, the Moloka'i relay, and the Kaua'i World Challenge.

Mael Carey

Mael is Kamanu Composites' representative on Maui. Mael moved to Maui when he was seven years old from Paris. He graduated from Seabury Hall in 1993 and went on to Connecticut College and Columbia University where he attained an architectural degree. He has been paddling for Hawaiian Canoe Club since 1996. While paddling with Hawaiian Canoe Club he has finished in the top five in the Moloka'i Hoe twice and finished first in the Queen Lili'uokalani Long Distance Canoe Race in Kona. Mael has also trained and competed extensively throughout Tahiti, doing some of Tahiti's most prestigious V-1 races such as the Te Aito and the Bora Bora Ironman.