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Hawaiian Makua Rothman started off his new year as one of the featured celebrities at this years Sony Open Pro-Am at the famed Waialae Country Club in Honolulu. Representing Hawaii, Makua played along side professional golfer Hideto Tanihara. Makua played in between the waiting periods for several competitions including the Eddie Aikua Invitational, Backdoor Shootout, and the World Cup Tow-In Surfing championships.
Rothman, 24, will seek to defend his title in the televised Mormaii Pe’ahi World Cup Tow-In Surfing Championship with partner Ikaika Kalama this month; a championship they won last year with what is officially the final event of the 2008/2009 surfing season.
The two shared the first place purse and received the coveted championship belts. As with any surfing event, this year’s competition will begin when the waves are right. The field of entrants is on hold in the meantime.
With his popularity soaring with each championship, Makua (half Jewish, half Hawaiian), is developing a fan base among those who follow his sport, and among sponsors like Oakley.
Rothman is well known for the 66 foot wave he rode in 2002, a milestone event in his career which still has people talking. He travels the world today in search of the colossal waves, whether in competition of not.
Known to some as the Prince of Hawaiian surfing, Makua is the son of surfing legend Eddie Rothman, and as such, commanded attention at a very young age. Despite an ongoing battle with asthma, and the pressures associated with being Eddie Rothman’s “heir to the throne,” he was risen to be among the tops of his field.
Makua is also actively training with Mixed Martial artist star BJ Penn, a fellow Hawaiian and friend of Rothman’s. Later this month Makua will travel to California and Las Vegas to film an ESPN E-60 Special and to watch BJ Penn fight live at UFC 94.
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