“Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship”

~Siddhattha Gotama / Buddha

14 years ago, MASTA’ SLICK & i got together as SHAO BROS. and started SHAOLIN WORLDWIDE, a clothing & skateboard company.  We actually met many years before that while i was still skating for ALVA, and SLICK was painting live in front of a camera crew for a TV show at da “OG. Pavilion” in VENICE beach California.  2 dudes from totally different worlds… just do’in their thing for da love & passion of it.  A “chance” meeting so it seemed at da time, we gave each other a quick “pound” and acknowledged da fact that we we’re both from Hawaii liv’in & pursuing our “dreams” in da city of “Lost Angeles”.  Several years after our original meeting in Venice, we met again at a silk screening & sticker company that made goods for all da major companies in da skate & surf industry.  i was working at da time in da art-department as art-director when SLICK & DEN1 walked in to launch and make their first stickers & T-shirts for their new brand FUCT.  And da rest is history… it feels good to be working together again after all of these years… there’s been major changes in our personal & professional lives and we have both grown & evolved a lot since… as people, close friends, artists, and graphic designers.  The world around us has CHANGED a lot since those early years, but da passion for what we do has only GROWN… i’m very STOKED to be working again with SLICK STA and for his company… DISSIZIT!  Life has a funny way of keeping us together with da right peoples, places, & time… it seem’s to work out this way when we just allow for our heart, passion, & love for what we do lead us.  SHAO BROS. 4 LIFE!!!