Johnny Kapahala: Back on Board Page #4

- Whoo-hoo!

Sure we're allowed to ride these?

Absolutely.

Sweet 16 present from my dad.

- And do you always get what you want?

- Well, pretty much.

My dad feels guilty

because he works all the time.

- And my mom lives in Chicago.

- That's gotta be hard.

When I get lonely,

I just hang out at Dirt Devils.

- That's a lot of boards.

- Everybody pick one.

All right.

- Hey. It's cool.

- Yeah?

I talked to my grandpa.

Dirt-board ban lifted.

- Thanks.

- All right?

[# Plain White T's: Our Time Now

Nice, Val.

Hey, uh, just so you know,

she's not my girlfriend.

- We're just friends.

- Whatever.

- Whoo!

- Yeah! Whoo-hoo! That was amazing!

- Yeah.

- Whoo! Yeah!

Yeah! Yeah!

Yeah! Yeah! There we go.

All right, watch him. Watch him!

- Oh!

- Oh, you're looking good!

Oh-ho, 180!

Come on. Don't fall over.

Good!

- Oh!

- Ooh!

- My bad!

- Yeah, all right.

OK, we've done OK so far,

but let's...

- Bend your knees. There you go!

- Yeah. Yeah.

- Almost.

- Yeah!

- Oh, you got it!

- Oh!

There you go!

Bend your knees. There you go!

Good, good, good.

All right, watch it, all right?

Bend your knees. Turn around.

There you go.

- Lean back!

- Whoo!

Whoa! That's sick, Johnny!

- Whoa!

- Yeah!

Yeah, man!

Well, he's 12 and, you know,

he's normally sort of, um...

- Well...

- Twelve.

Exactly. But you know what?

It's just... it's worse this week.

Well, I'm sure things will calm down

after the wedding.

- I hope so.

- Whoa. What an improvement.

- Whoo!

- We saved that window display for you.

Ooh. Hey.

- You sure you want to do it?

- Oh, yeah.

Wait till Chris gets a load of this.

- Oh!

- All right.

- There is no competition.

- Not what I heard.

This is a great deal

and I'd hate to see you miss out.

I'm not buying your shop. Deal's off.

- Jared.

- Yeah.

Are you sure that Chris's mom's place

is just a surf shop?

Yeah. Nothin' but surfboards

and wetsuits last time I looked.

All right, well, check it out again.

Something tells me

they might be diversifying.

- Uh, might be what?

- Just check it out.

OK.

How sick was that, man?

That was really...

- Hey. You don't need to clean up.

- You sure?

- I'll clean later.

- What about when I fishtailed?

Thank you so much, Val.

I had so much fun today.

That's not a problem.

I had a great time.

- It was sick.

- You were impressive.

- Really?

- Yeah.

- You totally rocked it.

- Daddy.

Either we're being robbed

or these are your dirt-boarding friends.

- Everybody, this is...

- Hi. Nice to meet you, Mr. Clark.

I'm... I'm Val's... I'm...

...Chris. I'm...

- And this is Johnny and Sam.

- How's it going?

- All right, then.

- I hope you kids are boarding safe.

- 'Course.

- Definitely.

- Sure.

Pumpkin, get cleaned up.

We've got dinner with the Nakamuras.

OK. Well, there's something

to look forward to.

- Um... Pumpkin?

- Get out of here right now.

- No. You sure we can take off?

- It's fine. I'll do it later.

- All right.

- Later.

- Thanks, Val.

- See you later, Val.

- I'm Val's Sam.

- And I'm Val's Johnny.

- What was that?

- I don't know if you guys heard,

- but Val said I was the greatest.

- Whatever.

Anyway, I got shotgun.

Remember how I told you my grandpa

was talking to some dude

- outside the bank?

- Yeah, yeah.

That was him.

- You sure?

- Yeah.

Why's my grandpa hangin'

with a guy like that?

- I call shotgun.

- No!

- Oh, hey.

- Hey.

Hi.

- I was, um...

- Looking for Chris, maybe?

Yes. Absolutely.

- Is he here?

- No, no.

- He's, um, hanging out with Johnny.

- Great. I'll go find him.

See you later.

I knew it. I knew it. Axel trucks,

aluminum wheels. Hey, Spidey.

Up, up, up, up, up, up, up.

Toe straps, bindings, tires and tubes...

Hey, guys, do you want me

to find you something to do?

- Go. Come on.

- Cool.

- This is all just like your stuff.

- You picked up on that, did you?

All right, come on.

It's time to go pay a visit.

Hey, I guess if you're too old

to ride 'em, you sell 'em, huh?

- Hello, Troy. How's it?

- It's all good on my side of the fence.

Now, uh, over here, I don't know.

- Is everything OK?

- Oh, yeah, yeah. There's no problem.

I am surprised that you'd

want to go toe to toe with me, John.

Eh, just a few dirt-boards.

Don't worry, brah.

Oh, I'm not worried.

Not even a little.

- Competition's good for community.

- Right.

Well, just remember, it was your idea.

Hey! Troy,

we were just at Val's. It was sick.

You shoulda been there! She had

dirt-boards, ATVs... It was so cool!

Oh, and now that we're competing,

you should probably keep

your little spy away from my store.

Spy?

- What did you say to 'em?

- Nothing, Chris.

- No, you obviously said something.

- Chris!

- I knew you'd ruin it for me.

- Don't talk to my grandpa like that.

God, whatever!

- What happened?

- No big thing.

Chris? Let's go.

Maybe he'll talk to me

if we're alone for a while.

When I was 16, Pono,

I decided I was ready

for Surf Pipeline, eh?

In my mind, I was

not just a good surfer,

- I was great. I...

- You still are a great surfer.

But when I was 16, I was immortal.

All my friends and I, we were working

at a shrimp shop down in Waimea.

Some pros that we knew came in one day

and they said the pipes was going off.

Huge.

- Triple head plus.

- Whoo!

Said it was too big.

That's all I needed.

Couldn't get down there fast enough.

- Man! You must've been scared.

- Yeah, I shoulda been.

So I took off on this huge wave. Oh.

Ate it big time.

Waves were breaking so fast,

I couldn't get out.

Took on too much, Johnny.

Promised myself I'd never do that again.

It's weird. Grandpa was gone

before I got up this morning.

He's just gone to pick up

last-minute things for the shop.

I'm just glad

it's finally ready for the opening.

I, for one, am relaxing today.

No, you're not. We've got a million

things to do before the rehearsal luau.

- Hey. Where's John?

- Is everything OK?

No. Chris is gone.

- Do you see him?

- Nope. Not yet.

When you do,

you tell that kid to run,

- because he's choked my vacation buzz.

- I don't believe you.

- Don't believe you.

- You can't stop me!

- We're the same crew.

- Not anymore.

Hang with the competition,

lose your ride.

All right, man, stay here.

- Let me by!

- Hey, let her go.

- It's cool, nephew. Just relax, OK?

- I already bought my ticket, Troy!

Well, that's, uh, great.

Now all you gotta do is find a ride.

- Where are they going?

- A pro dirt-boarding demo.

We all bought our tickets a month ago.

- Did Chris buy a ticket?

- I guess so.

Troy was gonna introduce us

to sponsors.

Akoni Kama's gonna be there.

He's like the god of all-terrain.

- How am I gonna get there?

- What? You can't ride in my whip?

All right, let's do it.

- Ladies and gentlemen...

- Give a big hand...

Yo. Check it out.

We need to go see that.

- No, Val. Chris.

- Sorry.

I'm sure we'll find him.

- Dude!

- That was crazy.

- OK!

- Guys!

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