Causes: Children & Youth, Youth Development Programs

Mission: To perpetuate the development of inspirational watermen & women through positive water sport opportunities for the children of hawaii. Our goal is to provide a pathway for children to develop physically and mentally as champion athletes and people through water sports. With these goals in mind we offer holistic training programs for children to strive for personal excellence, through to world and olympic competition. To provide elite equipment, training and competition opportunities for our youth, locally & internationally to perpetuated the hawaiian waterman culture and positively develop our youth as leaders in our community. (1) to provide opportunities to hawaii youth to be exposed to world class sporting experiences, coaching, and mentoring. (2) to provide information and knowledge of opportunities available to our youth through sport and give guidance and skills to facilitate positive life choices. (3) to develop the aspire philosophy throughout our youth in our community. (attit

Programs: Ikaika hawaii has the following programs: program 1 - ikaika gold (elite training); preparing selective kids for travel to trials and nationals in kayaking, number of watermen: 10-15 program 2 - gold squad; for the focused athlete to take it to the next level for hawaii representation, college and world level competitions. Number of watermen: 20 program 3 - waterman's academy; weekly sessions to learn to paddle or improve skills in surf ski, kayak, paddle boards, standup paddle, and outrigger canoes. Number of watermen: 200+