Rush Randle is a rising star, a brown-eyed fireball blasting upward through the brightness of any boy's dream. But this boy doesn't live to dream. At 16, Rush Randle is 170 pounds of solid muscle-5'10" of pure wavesailing skill and knowledge. A responsible construction supervisor and builder, he has grown up with the giant waves of Oahu's North Shore. And, like so many kids on the North Shore, his father is a surfer who taught his son a love and respect for the ocean at an early age.

Today, Rush's ability to rip the lip and fly heels over head off of ten foot waves testifies to his last ten years of surfing and four years of surfsailing. As Steve Villager of Hawaii Surf and Sail says, "He's always out hooting and having a good time and the really cool thing is he has absolutely no ego hangups." But Rush doesn't want to just have fun, he has goals; he'd like to be as good or better than Mark Angulo, his best friend.

At twelve, Rush had been friends with the Angulo brothers for several years. One day, Rush followed Mark and Andy out to Kawela Bay on the North Shore, where they all played on sailboards, and for the first time he felt the sail moving him over the water. He's been hooked ever since. "I've always idolized Mark,"Rush says, "he's an inspiration to me. He and Andy taught me about sailboarding."

After Rush started sailing, Mark would ask him to come along, but sometimes wished he hadn't. "He's the kind of guy you have to beg to go sailing with you," Mark says about Rush, "but when you get in the water and see the moves he pulls off, you almost wish he hadn't come."------this article goes on for several pages with photos by Erik Aeder. Today, (December,2004) Rush is one of my best friends and is featured in a ten page feature in Mens Journal.