Hâwâwâ ka he'e nalu haki ka papa - When the surfer is unskilled, the board is broken. Used in reference to a person who is a bungler, more a hinder than a help. It also refers to one who is sexually inept, leaving their partners in want.
Hawai'i has a very rich tradition of proverbs and poetical sayings and 'Olelo No'eau is Hawai'i's compendium of pithy oral gems. Collected and translated by renowned linguist Mary Kawena Pukui, Olelo No'eau offers a glimpse at ancient Hawai'i's profound understanding and tawny sense of humor toward the human condition, it's love of literary techniques from allegories to analogies, irony, puns, metaphor, and the double entendre to a full line up of ephitets, jokes, adages, riddles, and aphorisms.
Honolulu has some amazing street art, this mural is on Dillingham Blvd. near Costco. Notice the broken board in the mural.
Kimo's Kalabash is a repository of some of the cultural gems and treasures that make Hawai'i such an unique and profound place to live and the importance of the Hawaiian Culture and the Hawaiian Sovereignty movement and it's continued role in preserving Hawai'i nei from the onslaught of exploitation and unchecked consumerism.
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