Friday, November 8, 2013

Blue Hawaii Surf Beijing

     Goodmorning smoggy Beijing! This was the view our first morning. If this were a sign of things to come it was gonna be a a shitty trip. I'd seen in the news back home in Hawaii how the smog levels in Beijing were at dangerous levels. It was so bad that they were closing down schools and businesses and telling people to stay home. Regardless of how bad the smog looked here it wasn't as bad as it had been.
Dyson's ride of the day! Chinese flatbed!
Chinese lunch truck! Lunch trucks in the U.S. are overly done. Over here all that matters is how good the food is and believe me it's good!
This is our Blue Hawaii Surf Beijing Shop. It's located in San Li Tun at the most exclusive shopping center in Beijing. This shop was the first ever U.S. owned and operated multi branded shop to ever open doors in mainland China. We're an authorized dealer for every brand we carry and there's not one knockoff item carried here. This shopping center host international brands and shops like Beams, CPU, Porter, Finger Cross, Double Park, Doc Martin, Nike, Converse, Adidas, Vans, and Apple. San Li Tun North which is their other property a block up houses I.T. which owns WTAPS, A.P.C. and A Bathing Ape. As you can see they laid these shopping centers out for the well to do. The world embassy's surround the shopping center so there's an international customer looking for the best and most exclusive product available. Happy to say that Blue Hawaii Surf represents the best of surf, skate, and street wear gear here in Beijing.
We can't even get SB's to open us up in Hawaii because we're not a cool guy shop. Obviously Nike feels differently about our sister shop in Beijing.

Vans til death! Gotta rep the world's #1 skateboard shoe company otherwise what kind of skate shop would we be?
Syndicates! Wade Speyer represented out here in Beijing!
Blue Hawaii Surf is the only legal HUF account in all of China. Terry told me that the HUF shoes cost twice the price of Nike SB because we receive them from HUF in L.A, directly. Nike SB and Vans have distributors in China that we deal with so the cost is cheaper for those brands since they don't have to be shipped from the U.S.! The HUF brand seems to be the choice of all hardcore skaters in China and they're also the most knocked off. Buy the real shit right here at Blue Hawaii Surf!

The Hundreds is Huge in China! Scotty and B Mo hit up the shop a couple months ago. According to them they were stoked on what they saw!

Koston and Malto were kind enough to pay our shop a visit on a recent trip to Beijing for the grandopening of the Nike SB skatepark.
NHS goods only for this shop.
Stereo cruisers
This is what the shop looked like from the outside. This is also were the skate demo and band would play later for the one year anniversary party.