BUCHER FESTIKI UPDATE! Festiki fever hits the Miami Valley
Surf Ohio Festiki moves to Old River Park for 2nd annual event – Thursday, August 12, 2010 4:39 PM
Fire dancing, live surf music, tiki carving, classic car shows, and a Polynesian feast are just a few of the activities planned for Festiki 2010, which is scheduled for August 14th at Old River Park in Dayton. And although a celebration of surfing and island culture…

FESTIKI 2010 IS HERE! Dayton Daily News
Surf Ohio Festiki moves to Old River Park for 2nd annual event – Tuesday, August 10, 2010 2:36 PM
The tiki gods will be smiling Saturday, Aug. 14, as thousands of locals decked in hula skirts, Hawaiian prints and other tropical summer-wear show up to revel in tiki culture at the second Surf Ohio Festiki 2010…

FESTIKI 2010!
Party Polynesian at Old River Park – August 5, 2010 – Dayton, OH
While attending Whetstone High School in Columbus, Ohio during the mid-1970s, Ron Kaplan started a joke. His first creation was a bootleg T-shirt he designed for an upcoming Beach Boys concert that had the cryptic message “Surf the Olentangy” incorporated into its monochromatic design…

FESTIKI 2010 NEWS! THERE’S NO SURF IN OHIO!
Not Quite, But Festiki 2010 Is Out To Solve That Problem – August 2, 2010 – Dayton, OH
Imagine that you’ve just spent the entire summer solidly landlocked in the heart of Middle America. There’s nothing in the world you’d like more than a trip to the tropics and some time out in the surf, but thanks to a crappy economy, you can’t afford the plane ticket. So you’re screwed right?…

(614) Magazine
Local t-shirt line finds home off the beaten path in Short North – August 1, 2010 – Dayton, OH
In 1977, a graphic design major named Ron Kaplan, from Northwest Columbus, walked into a t-shirt shop in Athens, Ohio, and told the owner that he had some ideas for some shirts he’d like to make. The shop’s owner, Jerry “Ski” Szubski, told him to “get out of here, kid.”…

FESTIKI 2010 NEWS! Eastern Surf Magazine
Surf Ohio Signs Beverage Brand Titans Of Action Sports To Festiki 2010 Sponsorship – June 8, 2010 – Dayton, OH
Land Shark Lager, Monster Energy on board for “Ultimate Staycation Alternative”. Two action sports titans of the beverage world have signed on among the early sponsors of this year’s Surf Ohio Festiki…

Necessary Cool Blog
Ron Comes Clean About Big Air at Kitty Hawk – Monday, April 5, 2010
Well we’ve received a lot of questions regarding Big Air at Kitty Hawk, and quite a few social networking shares! You may have noticed we announced Big Air on April 1st… Thanks to everyone for their enthusiastic if not also colorful responses to my…

Dayton Daily News
Surf Ohio names its lineup – Monday, April 5, 2010 7:02 AM
The second annual Surf Ohio FesTiki has been scheduled for Saturday, Aug. 14, and will feature a legendary surf-rock band, reunited for the first time in 10 years…

BIG AIR Press Release
BIG AIR AT KITTY HAWK - Wednesday, April 1, 2010 12:01 AM
BIG AIR AT KITTY HAWK: The untold story of two brothers from Ohio who conquered sky and surf at turn of the century America is scheduled for release on August 19th – Orville’s birthday – with a book tour Kaplan will start in Dayton that same day…

Rediscovering Mansfield
Surf Ohio? - Wednesday, April 1, 2010 12:01 AM
Surfing in Ohio may sound like a crazy idea in a state dotted with corn fields and industrial sprawl but hanging ten on the north coast has been happening since the 1950′s. Spawned from the California surf culture of the post war years through the early 1960′s (think Annette Funicello, Frankie Avalon…

San Diego Fashion News Examiner
Surf Ohio - Friday, February 26, 2010 3:56 PM
I sometimes feel that San Diego residents take for granted living so close to the beach and having amazing surf waves right in their backyard. As a high school student, Ohio Native Ron Kaplan, founder of Surf Ohio, wished that he was surfing the waves of Southern California…

Homage
Homage: Start Your Own Lifestyle - Thursday,  August 20, 2009 6:11 PM
Hugo Lindgren has written a wonderful piece entitled T-Shirt By Darwin, which appears in New York Magazine’s Fall Fashion 2009 issue. Our Surf Ohio Gradient t-shirt is featured in the slideshow.

The Columbus Dispatch
‘Surf Ohio’ back for new wave – Saturday,  August 15, 2009 3:14 AM
By Liz Kersjes - Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys wears a Surf Ohio T-shirt on stage in 1982. The ocean is hundreds of miles away, but central Ohioansneedn’t travel beyond Dayton for a taste of it…

Dayton Daily News
Festiki: Dayton Becomes A Polynesian Paradise – Thursday,  August 13, 2009 6:16 PM
Fire twirlers, steel drummers, hula dancers and the exotic eats and drinks of tiki culture will transform Carillon Historical Park into a Polynesian paradise during Surf Ohio Festiki 2009 from 9:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 15…