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Who is Kenu?



Happy as a bug doin' my thing
 

Here's me back in the good 'ole days (1986) when color and graphic design was very important for sales.
 



Ken and son Shaun in 2005 at the "Wall" in Waikiki. Shaun has since graduated to ripping it up on his own bodyboard and rarely wants to ride with me anymore on this board. Boohoo. NEW! This board has been stripped, thinned, and totally changed- and now he wants to ride with me at the big waves at outside Sandy Beach in front of the Lifeguard tower. Waikiki "Walls" just doesn't cut it anymore with him- he wants big powerful Sandy Beach tandem thrills! See this newly changed board here.


Backdoor Pipeline 1979 10 am- made the tube- but because I have a family now, I don't take chances like this too often now. Note the "arrow" of foam following behind the board- follow that trajectory for maximum tube time- also note the lip just starting to pitch on the upper left. Right here the water is very shallow- do not make a mistake!
 


Off the Walls around 1979- made the turn.  Note fake wood airbrushed board by Al Dove.
 


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One of my favorite pictures. This is me looking at Backdoor Pipeline the morning the above Backdoor big wave picture was shot. 

Who is Kenu?

Kenu Hawaii LLC  is Ken Brown.  Ken has been making bodyboards for over 23 years and has made or has had a hand in making over 20,000 bodyboards. Many thousands of these he made all by himself. He was the production manager at Turbo Surf Designs Hawaii--if you have an old Turbo board--Ken probably made it.
He has also made over 400 rescue sleds for a Hawaii company- all by himself.  He is well known to Hawaii bodyboarders and to the Hawaii Lifeguards and others that have used his products.

Ken comes from a family of craftsmen/artists that started with his World War2 P-51 fighter pilot dad and his well known artist / innovator brother Russ "Captain Turbo" Brown-- the original owner of Turbo Surf Designs Hawaii.  Ken has many interests such as flight, writing songs, computers, watercraft, woodwork, etc.

He has invented quite a few things and most of them have been because of necessity- no one was making what he needed.  His family bodyboard (not shown at this time- because certain people will try to steal it and say they invented it) was made over 25 years ago and was way ahead of its time- and still turns heads when he uses it at Waikiki beach with his kids.

His rescue sleds are super strong and uses a special sealing technique to seal the seams.  Hawaii lifeguards and others have used these boards for years and are still using them- they last that long.  His tandem riding boards and bodyboards are way different then anything you have ever seen- with materials that no one else uses because it takes too much time and skill.

His new foam gliders were a result of being fed up with trying to find something cool he could play safely with his young son and friends- so he had to make it himself.

Ken's quality of work is very good and he makes his products to last- no scrimping on cheap materials or cutting corners.  When he makes something he doesn't want to see it again-unless he sees it at the beach with a happy customer!!