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Kelis Kaleopaa and a Dreamy Little Waikiki Session

The 14-year-old has so much style!

Fourteen-year-old Kelis Kaleopaa is among a group of rising Waikiki longboarders bridging the history and tradition of the place with the future. The warm slopey waves of Waikiki have long held a special place in surf history lore as the Mesopotamia of modern surfing. But what Kelis and her cohort of groms go to show is that Waikiki ain’t dead when it comes to producing talent.