Na pono 'o i'a Hawai'i

NA PONO ‘O I’A HAWAI’I or  “Spearfishing Gear from Hawaii” is the true ethos of HammerHead Spearguns. In the Hawaiian language “Pono” is a powerful word translating to righteousness, excellence, or the proper procedure. Many recognize “Pono” in the state motto of Hawaii “Ua mau ke ea o ka aina i ka pono”; meaning “The Life of the Land is Perpetuated in Righteousness”. When applied to tangible items like spearguns “Pono” means completeness, entirety, and possessing all the correct gear and accessories.

i'a in Hawaiian is spear either one yielded by warriors or fishermen. During Hawaiian indigenous times mastery of the spear or i’a meant the fisher or Lawai’a could provide sustenance for the entire village.

Hawaii is home for HammerHead Spearguns. Isolated by deepopen-ocean and formed through volcanic activity our existence is of the sea. As a company HammerHead Spearguns draws strength from our unique Hawaiian heritage and dedicated spearfishing lifestyle  "Na Pono 'o i'a Hawaii" this is our “Pono” our gift to you.

HammerHead Spearguns

As an organization, HammerHead Spearguns strives to persevere against the norm in taking on new challenges in design, manufacturing, and materials. We embody a culture of sharing and expanding the sport of spearfishing and the freedive experience. We embrace and support spearfishing at the local community level by encouraging participation by youths, advocating sustainable resource management, and ensuring spearfishing access for generations to come.

HammerHead Spearguns has emerged as the premier developer of innovative equipment for spearfishing and freediving. HammerHead Spearguns remains on the cutting edge of product development as we strive to create products for our sport of spearfishing and freediving.

Since the inception of the HammerHead Muzzle™ in late 2003, HammerHead Spearguns has emerge as the premier developer of innovative spearfishing and freediving equipment for the world. Headquartered in sunny Aiea, Hawaii, HammerHead Spearguns was started by Kevin Sakuda, a passionate freediver and fisherman, who had a vision of improving the world of spearfishing one dive at a time. Teaming-up with a close friend and fellow fisherman, Chris Strong, the two embarked on their first project; developing an open muzzle speargun modification utilizing off-the shelf components, advanced manufacturing techniques, and fluid artistic designs. In short, the two wanted to build a bigger-better muzzle packed with more features at a lower-cost that looked great. After much anticipation and hard work it was time for Kevin and Chris to crack-open the speargun muzzle mold for the first time but what they saw was not what was envisioned. Functional and strong the first HammerHead Muzzle™ was bulky, inartistic, and difficult to manufacture. Undeterred Chris and Kevin the two company founders struggled, persevered, and finally succeeded in creating the very successful HHEAD and REEF speargun muzzles and during this formative early period they developed a company mantra of "perseverance against the norm and taking on new challenges in design, manufacturing, and materials."

Almost immediately after the introduction of their two models of HammerHead Muzzles™ HHEAD and REEF the company began to grow with muzzles were being sold across the globe. One of the key-drivers to this success was the addition of Jon Sherwood Chock to the team. A fisherman, wedding photographer, and advertising executive Jon lent his many talents and edgy-eye for web, print, and video media to share the HammerHead Speargun experience with the global community. Along with Jon came a new corporate culture that embodied "sharing and expanding the spearfishing and freediving experience to all".

Not complacent to just be an aftermarket accessory HammerHead Spearguns soon launched the EVOLUTION™ their first speargun line in mid-2006. With this grow HammerHead Spearguns soon introduced the SPEAR-APPAREL™ Clothing Line, POWER BLADE™ Fins, ADAPTATION™ Wetsuits, and All-in-On Measurement Tools. With this strong and sustainable growth in revenues HammerHead Spearguns would need to make a serious decision on how to balance business objectives with that of further advancing the sport of freediving and spearfishing thus a promise was made "to embrace and support spearfishing and fishing at the local community level by encouraging participation by youths, advocating sustainable resource management, and ensuring spearfishing access for generations to come."