Top Gun Japan: Clear Water Island

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the college girls are in town so took them out for a SUP session.

and it couldn’t have been a better day for SUP’ing! so beautiful!

can you believe this is a man-made island? yes, you can find it right in the middle of the Hilton Lagoon. all the beautiful photos from today coming soon…

but first, wanted to share with you how clean the water in Okinawa is. you don’t even need a mask!

super good time with Carter. just going with the flow of the sparerib soba, and Orion beers…

happy to have gotten to foil a little. it’s crazy the feeling you can get by the smallest wave…

borrowing somebody else’s foil is scary because you never know how it’s going to pop up on your first wave. this is where you have to be confident and keep freaking calm. that’s the same facial expression i have on a 15′ wave on the North Shore. haha.

watching the fighter jets one by one all day long land at Kadena Air Base in Okinawa. thinking about Top Gun the whole time. then i go to a bar the next night and a friend introduces me to a Private Jet pilot. i say “wow, that’s so cool! just like Top Gun.” then he says “yeah, after i saw Top Gun, i had to become a pilot.” omg, that’s crazy!

KIRBY FUKUNAGA
ハワイで生まれ育ち、プロサーファー、フォイラー、スキンダイバー、カメラマンの肩書きを持ち、ウォーターマンとして、海で多くの時間を過ごし、海から多くのモノをもらいながら生活しています。彼が伝えようとしていることは、海がある生活は僕らを豊かにしてくれるということ。そして、自分だけではなく、いろいろなことをみんなにシェアし、人生を楽しむということ。現在は、ハワイでプライベートサーフィンガイドを主催。
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