Aikau, Clyde

Graceful regularfoot surfer from Haleiwa, Hawaii; winner of the 1986 Quiksilver in Memory of Eddie Aikau contest at Waimea Bay. Aikau was born (1949) on Maui, the youngest of six children, and moved with his family to Oahu at age 10. He began surfing in 1964, at age 15, in Waikiki, and before the year was out had become the Hawaii's juniors division champion. For years, Clyde was somewhat overshad...