Sion Milosky. PHOTO: Ryan Foley
Name: Sion Milosky
Age: 35
Hometown: Kalaheo, Kauai, Hawaii
Home break: PK’s
Sponsors: Volcom, Oakley and Kona Red (a wellness drink)
Would you say you’re a professional surfer? No, but I keep the dream alive by running a small business welding and building driveway gates
Favorite surfer: There are so many good surfers out there, but I really like cheering on my friends
Shaper(s): Bret Surfboards and I’m going to add some Stretch boards to my quiver this year
Crew: The crew runs deep. We’ve got a lot guys covering a lot of places. Too many to name
Favorite wave on the North Shore: That’s easy, Pipeline
Jobs you’ve held: I’ll put them in order, ready? Dishwasher, cook, pizza delivery, bus boy, window screen repair, carpenter, commercial fisherman, boat repair, auto repair, waiter, bartender, welding & fabrication, gate builder
Jobs you hold now: I run a small business (Custom Gates Hawaii), do some property management, surf Pipeline and charge big waves
Define “underground”: Underground is the guy whose photos are run in magazines labeled “Unidentified”
Five best underground Hawaiian surfers, in your opinion: There are a bunch of them. They live on the Outer Islands
Three biggest accomplishments in surfing:
Third in the Oxbow World Longboard Championships
First in Quiksilver Makahiki Longboard Championships
I won the North Shore Big Wave Challenge last year (Biggest Paddle-In)
Three biggest goals in surfing:
Get into the Eddie and the Jay at Maverick’s contests
Surf the Big Wave World Tour
Win the XXL Ride of the Year
If surfing paid no money, what would you do? Work to surf and live my life exactly how I do now, no regrets
How far did you go in school? I made it through one year in college, and then I qualified for the longboard tour and started traveling and loved it
If you could travel to one place, where would you go? To the North Hawaiian Islands on a boat
If you could surf one contest, what would it be? The Quiksilver Eddie Aikau.
Describe a popular misconception about Hawaii: That if you live here for a year or get a Hawaiian driver’s license you become a local
Team North Shore Underground 2010
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My thoughts are with Sion’s friends and family.
Having braved the SURF you have challenged the WAVES in ways we mere mortals only dream of – may a crest peace embrace your journey!
RIP Sion. Now you can ride the waves you’ve dreamed about…<3
On days I’ve heard the lion’s roar
And smelled the breath of ocean’s floor.
Breathless down the vertical plane
And skipped across her shaggy mane.
Far beyond my mortal power rises
In death defying strength and sizes.
The dance we shared was like no other
She breathes within my soul forever.
R.I.P Brother
Clutch Callawy