Donald Takayama started surfing at age five in Waikiki, Hawaii. A few years later, Dale Velzy happened upon Donald at Makaha Beach and learning that he had shaped his own board, told Takayama that, “if he ever got to the mainland, there would be a job waiting for him”. At twelve years of age with money saved from a newspaper delivery route, Donald bought a plane ticket to Los Angeles and showed up on Velzy’s doorstep.
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