Coco Ho is a Hawaiian surfer who grew up surfing the North Shore—and she’s also one of the top up-and-coming competitors in women’s surfing.

Coc Ho: Image courtesy of Volcom

The daughter of renowned surfing champion Michael Ho and the niece of Derek Ho, Coco was raised among surfing royalty—and both she and her brother, Mason, have followed in their footsteps.

Recently, Coco won the ASP Dream Tour competition in Portugal. She’s currently competing for the ASP Women’s World title—and at nineteen years of age, she’ll be the youngest champion in surfing history, male or female, if she wins. In addition, she’d be the first female winner from Hawaii since 1981, when Margo Oberg won the title. She’d also be the first competitor, male or female, to snag both the ASP World Qualifying Series and the Dream Tour world titles in the same year.

At seventeen, Coco qualified for the Dream Tour—barely making it in as the last qualifier. But that hasn’t slowed her down, and her recent wins have been proof of that. And the prospect of a win isn’t a long shot—with a father and uncle who share six Vans Triple Crown wins, including four World Cup of Surfing and three Pipeline Masters titles between them, it’s easy to see that Coco has surfing in her blood.

Coco is only 5’2”—but she has a powerful and confident surfing style more dynamic than that of many male pro surfers. She’s also known for her progressiveness—she’s known for performing challenging aerials and inventing new tricks that have gained the attention of fans and the professional surfing community.

Appropriately Coco is sponsored by the cutting edge surf fashion brand Volcom which also sponsors Australian surfer Ozzie Wright.

In addition to making an impression at surfing competitions, Coco has also had a debut in film. In 2002, at about eleven years old, she played the younger version of the main character, Anne Marie, played by Kate Bosworth.

Coco is lucky to be part of a high-profile surfing family—and she has the support of her family everywhere she goes. With that advantage as well as her natural, inborn skill in surfing, there’s no question she will go far!

Coco Ho Resources:

• Coco Ho on Twitter – http://twitter.com/coco_ho
• Coco Ho’s blog – http://cocoho.blogspot.com
• Coco Ho on Facebook
• ASP Surfing Profile Page
• Coco Ho Fan Page on MySpace
• Photos of Coco Ho on Flickr
• Coco Ho images on Google
• A day in the life of Coco Ho from Surfermag

Videos online

• Coco Wins WQS / Rookie of the Year – Nike 6.0 on Vimeo
• Hurley USA 2010 – Coco Ho video profile
• Coco Surfing for Lost Tv
• The Coco Ho Song
• Laid back video interview with Coco Ho from Novusswell.com

Movies/ DVDs featuring Coco Ho

• Blue Crush (2002) as young Anne Marie
• Six Days in Paradise (2010) as Alicia McShane
• Heart of a Soul Surfer (2007)  – Documentary story of Bethany Hamilton – Watch Trailer
• Dear Yonder – Daring stories of ladies united by the sea (Surf movie) – Watch Trailer

Photo gallery number 2 of surfers at South Fistral beach, Newquay when a fairly chunky swell came one Wednesday afternoon in July.  It seemed like the the weather changed every half an hour with plenty of rain and grey skies on the one hand, then sunshine and a rainbow on another…Simpy click on the images for a larger version.

Couple of surfers up and riding on a wave

A Rainbow after the rain. Almost resembles an old painting?

A surfer notices another, already up on this wave

Water hit the rocks just as I took this pic of the line up

One surfer on a wave

A view of Fistral beach from the dunes

On a Wednesday in July some decent sized surf rolled into Fistral beach out of the blue. When the wind started blowing a moderate cross/offshore the waves really started holding up and taking a nice shape – especially at the South end of Fistral.  In spite of a lot of rain and getting soaked 2-3 times over it was possible to grab a few half decent snaps of the surfers from the rocks. I think my fave is the one of Jed Stone taken looking down/ over the breaking wave.

View of breaking wave from South Fistral

Jed Stone on a wave at South Fistral

Surfers dropping onto a wave

Two guys on a wave at South Fistral

Surfer girls jump off the rocks at South Fistral

Surfer boosts an air - view from back

Some fun surfing tonight in TR7 inspite of the grey skies and rainy weather. Good timing to combine decent surf with a number of local pro surfers being in town and going for it – inlcuding Alan Stokes, Russell Winter, Johnny Fryer and others! I guess we have the ESF inter company surf comp yesterday to thank for that   Anyway appreciate all the guys for going for it. You can WATCH VIDEO BELOW – Keep an eye out for an insane Rodeo flip attempt by Johnny Fryer!

NewquaSurfer.org coverage of the Gul sponsored Night Surf competition at Fistral Beach, Newquay, Cornwall. This is one of the only night time surf competitions. The video footage was filmed on Saturday the 19th June 2010 and contains clips of a number of UK professional surfers including: Reubyn Ash, Russell Winter, Ben Skinner, Johnny Fryer, Oli Adams & more. This video also includes footage of some street skateboarding at Fistral car park, the Stand Up Paddle Board (SUP) final, Longboard final and womens event and awards ceremonies.

The winner of the mens final was Gordon Fontaine (1st) Reubyn Ash (2nd) Luis Eyre (3rd) & Johnny Fryer (4th)

Ben Skinner won the longboard competition

Tom Earl surfing some small waves on his Quiver surfboard at Fistral Beach, Newquay, Cornwall on the morning of 15/6/2010. Footage was taken at high tide at Fistral at around 8 a.m using a Panasonic DVX100b camera.

Video of local Newquay Surfer Tom Earl surfing some small waves in an onshore wind at Fistral Beach on the 5/5/2010.  Footage shot from the North end of Fistral Beach in Newquay, Cornwall.

Jayce Robinson from St Ives took the mens title this afternoon after beating off stiff competition from Tom Earl, Stu Campbell and Lyndon Wake to win the mens final in the Protest English National Surfing Championships held at Watergate Bay, Cornwall. Low tide combined with heavy onshore wind made surfing (and filming) pretty tricky but feel free to check out some clips of the final and awards ceremony in the video above!

In the womens surf final Sarah Beardsmore was 1st, Hannah Harding 2nd, Karma Worthington 3rd and Lucy Campbell was 4th.

Video Surf Forecast for Fistral for Sunday 25th April featuring Gemma Illsley

Sat 24th of April. The Newquay Surfer surf video forecast for Fistral Beach Newquay featuring Gemma Illsley.