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About Michael Ho (surfer)
- Michael Ho (born July 13, 1957) is a professional surfer who has won the Hawaiian Triple Crown, the Duke Classic, the World Cup, and the 1982 Pipe Masters.
- He is the brother of Derek Ho, another champion surfer.
- Michael is also the father of Women's World Tour surfer Coco Ho and son Mason Ho - "The World’s Most Entertaining Surfer".
- The Ho brothers have Chinese, native Hawaiian, and American European roots.
- Their father Edmund "Chico" Ho is half Chinese and half Native Hawaiian while their mother Joeine Ho is of American European descent.
- Their paternal grandfather moved to Hawaii in 1892 from China. Ho was born in San Mateo, California.
- He became one of Hawaii's first full-time professional surfers, and in 1975 finished runner-up in the Duke Kahanamoku Classic and the Pro Class Trials.
- Ho was already being called the world's finest "position" surfer, meaning he invariably placed himself in the most critical section of the wave using the simplest and cleanest line.
- He often rode with a ramrod straight back, knees apart, his right arm distinctively held out from his body, hand dangling at the wrist.
- (Younger brother Derek Ho, the 1993 world champion, surfed in much the same way.) At 5'5", 135 pounds, Ho was never able to explode through a turn the way his heavier peers could, but nobody was quicker on their feet, and few were as innately stylish.
- He was one of the world's best tuberiders in the mid- and late '70s (he helped invent the "pigdog" tuberiding technique), and his skills only improved throughout the '80s.
- Gregarious around friends and family, the mustachioed Ho kept a wary distance from the rest of the surf world, and was a somewhat shadowy figure during his 13 years (1976–88) on the pro tour. Ho performed well at world tour venues around the world, but never won a pro circuit event outside of Hawaii.
- On the North Shore, however, he was a competitive force for more than 25 years: a five-time Pipeline Masters finalist (winning in 1982, even though hobbled by a cast on his right wrist); an eight-time Duke finalist (winning in 1978 and 1981); a four-time winner of the Xcel Pro (1988, 1990, 1991, and 1996); a two-time Triple Crown winner (1983 and 1985); and a four-time competitor in the Quiksilver in Memory of Eddie Aikau big-wave event at Waimea (finishing fourth in 1990). In one of pro surfing's most remarkable competitive achievements, the 40-year-old Ho finished runner-up in the 1997 Pipeline Masters.
- A mainstay in the World Masters Championships, an annual event for ex-pros over the age of 36, Ho won the event in 2000, and made the quarterfinals of the 2011 event in Brazil.
- In 2012, Ho was inducted to the Surfing Walk of Fame at Huntington Beach.
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