Coco Ho on Family, The World Tour, Her Twin-fin Fascination, and Getting Waves at Backdoor

From one of surfing’s most accomplished and recognizable families, Coco Ho was raised in the thick of the surf universe on the North Shore of Oahu. As a kid, she quickly gained notoriety as a high-performance surfer in her own right, winning multiple junior titles before eventually joining the Championship Tour while still a teenager, where she posted solid results and year-end rankings for over a decade. Since letting go of competition, she’s gone on to design women's wear collections, put on twin-fin clinics, and started her female-centric board brand, while continuing to chase waves. In this episode, Ho and show host Jamie Brisick sit down to talk about her serendipitous thrust into competitive surfing, competing against her brother, friendship, winter on the North Shore, the inevitable overlap between passion and selfishness, functionality, confidence, and her biggest inspirations.
Become a TSJ member at surfersjournal.com
Produced by Jonathan Shifflett.
Music by PazKa (Aska Matsumiya & Paz Lenchantin).
Feature image by Jimmy Wilson.

[@Windds]

Such an awesome family and surfers

[@davidgough3512]

that was excellent.. good interviewer with a good "interviewee".. Coco is not at a loss for words but not formulaic in her responses. She came along in the right place at the right time and is living up to it! It's so great that "free surfing" came in our time and now women are (imo) the final missing element to bring a more rounded, meaningful yet light-hearted zeitgeist that the world at large so desperately needs. A Hawaiian/Coco take on what life is about is the balance for our fraught, arrogant, often misdirected times.