• Support
  • Advertise
  • Locations
  • Contact
Thursday, February 2, 2023
No Result
View All Result
NEWSLETTERS
Dana Point Times
  • Calendar
    • Event Calendar
    • Submit an Event
  • Sections
    • Eye On DP
    • Soapbox
      • Submit A Letter
    • Getting Out
    • DP Living
    • Sports & Outdoors
    • DP Surf
    • San Clemente Times
    • Capistrano Dispatch
  • Digital Edition
  • Best of DP
  • Legals & Classifieds
    • Locals Only Business Directory
    • Classified
    • Submit a Classified
    • Obituaries
    • Announcements
    • Legal & Public Notice Advertising
    • Legal Notices
  • Special Publications
    • A New You
    • Aging Well
    • Best of Dana Point
    • Crib to College
    • Dana Point Trolley Information & Route Map
    • Dolphin Football Preview
    • Festival of Whales Event Guide
    • Go See Do
    • Holiday Happenings & Gift Guide
    • Home Improvement Guide
    • Money Matters
    • Summer Camp Guide
    • The Green Issue
    • Turkey Trot Event Guide
  • DP Guide
  • Real Estate
    • South County Real Estate Guide
    • Real Estate – Who’s Who
  • Calendar
    • Event Calendar
    • Submit an Event
  • Sections
    • Eye On DP
    • Soapbox
      • Submit A Letter
    • Getting Out
    • DP Living
    • Sports & Outdoors
    • DP Surf
    • San Clemente Times
    • Capistrano Dispatch
  • Digital Edition
  • Best of DP
  • Legals & Classifieds
    • Locals Only Business Directory
    • Classified
    • Submit a Classified
    • Obituaries
    • Announcements
    • Legal & Public Notice Advertising
    • Legal Notices
  • Special Publications
    • A New You
    • Aging Well
    • Best of Dana Point
    • Crib to College
    • Dana Point Trolley Information & Route Map
    • Dolphin Football Preview
    • Festival of Whales Event Guide
    • Go See Do
    • Holiday Happenings & Gift Guide
    • Home Improvement Guide
    • Money Matters
    • Summer Camp Guide
    • The Green Issue
    • Turkey Trot Event Guide
  • DP Guide
  • Real Estate
    • South County Real Estate Guide
    • Real Estate – Who’s Who
No Result
View All Result
Dana Point Times
No Result
View All Result

Start Your Engines: As the 2017 World Surf League Championship Tour season dawns, Kolohe Andino is more than ready to rise and shine

by Dana Point Times
March 3, 2017 6:30AM
in DP SURF, Surf Headlines
Start Your Engines: As the 2017 World Surf League Championship Tour season dawns, Kolohe Andino is more than ready to rise and shine

San Clemente’s Kolohe Andino will look to improve upon his No. 4 ranking from last year in this World Surf League season. Photo: Masurel/WSL

0
SHARES
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
San Clemente’s Kolohe Andino will look to improve upon his No. 4 ranking from last year in this World Surf League season. Photo: Masurel/WSL

By Jake Howard

In less than two weeks, Kolohe Andino will once again steady himself and set his sights on winning a world title. He has had the better part of two months to cruise with friends, go fishing, take in a couple hockey games and even get properly barreled at the local beach breaks. But it’s game time now.

Last year Andino finished fourth in the world, the best result of his highly visible career. Could vying for a title be that far off? Given his matured headspace, abundant talent and dedication, he appears to be on the right path.

“Before last year, I never really put in the actual true work—like eating all the right food, spending a lot of time at the gym, and all of the above,” said Andino. “Before that, I never really knew how to handle those sort of (high pressure) moments.”

When it comes to putting in the “actual true work,” Andino’s learned to block out a lot of the distractions and focus on what he needs to do to improve.

“I get up at 4 a.m., spend an hour on the Pilates reformer. I got a little mental meditation thing that takes about 20 minutes,” said Andino. “Then I usually go for a surf. I’ve been training up in Huntington. Then I go surf again. After that, I try and keep my eyes open until 7:30, maybe eat some steak… some brisket.”

But it’s more than just the physicality of being a top-flight athlete that’s resonating with Andino lately. He’s long had the talent to win heats, but the mental component has been where he’s admittedly struggled to put the pieces together in the past.

“I’m an absolute student of the sport,” he said. “I watched this Mick Fanning interview and he said he had one event in Tahiti where … in the last second he needed a nine, and boom, he got a 9.5. And he said that during that he was trying to remember all the hard work he’d done, so I thought I’d try and do that—because I like Mick a lot.

“In those same kind of moments [in 2016], I felt like I had worked as hard or harder than anyone else. I thought, ‘OK, this is going to work out, and if it doesn’t work out I’ll get back to the grindstone and figure it out.’ Thankfully the waves came,” continued Andino.

Dogged persistence is also a big part of Andino’s equation. He could very well be jaded and skip practice surfs at home when it’s rainy and the water looks like chocolate milk; instead he’s out there every day refining his act.

San Clemente’s Kolohe Andino will look to improve upon his No. 4 ranking from last year in this World Surf League season. Photo: Masurel/WSL

“There’s this turn that I can’t do for some reason. It’s like a backside/frontside turn. Basically, you just go off the bottom, off the top, but you throw spray, it looks powerful. You don’t slide or lose speed. And I can’t do that turn. I see kids can do it, that’s the weird thing,” joked Andino.

Understanding what a fickle mistress confidence can be, he has a wariness of analyzing too much video.

“I only like watching the good stuff because it creates confidence, and sometimes I don’t have much of that,” he laughed.

The 2017 World Surf League Championship Tour season kicks off in earnest in Australia with the Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast. Held at the warm-water pointbreak of Snapper Rocks, last year Andino finished third in the contest to get his season off on a good foot. The wave suits his explosive, lightning-fast approach. It offers up sections for airs, turns and tubes—a lethal combination for someone as spry as Andino.

“I think once you realize how lucky you are, you become grateful,” he said. “When you realize how lucky you are, you begin to work real hard at your goals or whatever you have planned for your life. Humble, grateful, hard-working… a man… that’s how I’d like to be remembered.”

Win, lose or draw on the world’s stage this year, Andino’s a hero and role model in his hometown and that’s a heck of an accomplishment.

Share this:

  • Share
  • Print
  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn
  • Reddit
  • Tumblr
Tags: Kolohe AndinoSouth Orange County surfingsurf
ShareTweetPin

Dana Point Times

Related Posts

Grom of the Week: Zaddock Hodgman

Grom of the Week: Zaddock Hodgman

January 27, 2023
Creativity Keeps Surfing Interesting

Creativity Keeps Surfing Interesting

January 27, 2023
Cortes Bank

Epic Score at Cortes Bank

January 20, 2023
Finn McCarty

Grom of the Week: Finn McCarty

January 20, 2023
Next Post
Sheriff’s Blotter: Caller Reports Hearing “Some Sort of Explosion”

Sheriff's Blotter: Man Exposes Himself after Women Refuse to Get into Vehicle

Discussion about this post

No Result
View All Result

DP Times Daily
Get important news and updates delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up here.

Subscriptions
Don’t get the DP Times delivered to your home? Subscribe today.

Advertising
Get new customers and drive traffic to your business. Advertise with us.

Support Local Journalism
For less than the cost of a couple of cups of coffee a month, become an “Insider” member and continue to get “Local News You Can Use” from the only independently owned, dedicated local news organization in South Orange County.

Contribute today.

Picket Fence Media is a proud member of the SoCal Media Network.

  • Contact Us
  • Terms of Use
  • Dana Point Times
  • San Clemente Times
  • The Capistrano Dispatch
  • DP Chamber Directory

© 2023 Picket Fence Media

No Result
View All Result
  • Calendar
    • Event Calendar
    • Submit an Event
  • Sections
    • Eye On DP
    • Soapbox
      • Submit A Letter
    • Getting Out
    • DP Living
    • Sports & Outdoors
    • DP Surf
    • San Clemente Times
    • Capistrano Dispatch
  • Digital Edition
  • Best of DP
  • Legals & Classifieds
    • Locals Only Business Directory
    • Classified
    • Submit a Classified
    • Obituaries
    • Announcements
    • Legal & Public Notice Advertising
    • Legal Notices
  • Special Publications
    • A New You
    • Aging Well
    • Best of Dana Point
    • Crib to College
    • Dana Point Trolley Information & Route Map
    • Dolphin Football Preview
    • Festival of Whales Event Guide
    • Go See Do
    • Holiday Happenings & Gift Guide
    • Home Improvement Guide
    • Money Matters
    • Summer Camp Guide
    • The Green Issue
    • Turkey Trot Event Guide
  • DP Guide
  • Real Estate
    • South County Real Estate Guide
    • Real Estate – Who’s Who

© 2023 Picket Fence Media

loading Cancel
Post was not sent - check your email addresses!
Email check failed, please try again
Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.