Welcome to Hawaii Shun… Kore kara surfing umaku narimasu yo…

good morning. 6am and i’m pretty excited. why? because i’m going to pick up 12 year old shun murakami right now from the airport. shun is coming by himself and will be staying here for 24 days. training with tony moniz, surfing with the boys, and taking his surfing up another level. after i pick him up, i’m taking him straight to ala moana bowls. it’s overhead for him so i’m going to sit in the channel and video him. i can’t wait to watch him surf… well, better get going. have a great day!!!
oh, by the way, 3 guys are out at bowls and it’s chest high for me, and overhead for shun. the conditions are clean. there is the rip curl grom contest this weekend at kewalo’s so better start practicing. see ya….

it was our last day in north sumatra. we only had 2 hours before we were pulling up the anchor and going back to padang on a 15 hour voyage. there’s no way better to finish up a trip with a good last dinner. i suited up, headed toward the rocks sticking up in the middle of the ocean with waves breaking around it. tim and ishino-san were on the dingy as i jumped in. bang, bang, and bang. 30 minutes later, i had 3 fish on the table. 2 GT’s and one golden snapper. that’s all we needed……

that night, it was sashimi for every one. something like this would cost you an arm and a leg in tokyo. but that wasn’t tokyo. that was our refrigerator in the middle of the indian ocean. a refrigerator that fed us fresh sashimi for the whole trip. i cant’ wait to go back again….
**oh, on the way back to padang, another fishing tale. that’s coming soon….
**and last, satoshi kubota started diving. i asked him how the fish he catches taste. he said “soooo good” and then asked me “why?”. i told him “NO FISH TASTES BETTER THAN THE FISH YOU CATCH YOURSELF”….. AND THAT’S A FACT!!! I BETTER GO DIVING AGAIN SOON….

good evening. it’s been a long time since the weather has been bad like today. it was windy and cloudy[:??????????????$B!/(B:] kind of a dark day here. i surfed ala moana bowls in the morning and it was chest high and hardly anybody out. fun waves and mellow crowd. no new swells on the way so i’m pretty happy. i can finally catch up on some work and respond to emails. sorry for keeping you waiting. oh, wanted to say hello to hiroshi-san. thanks for checking out my blog everyday. i met hiroshi-san this morning out at bowls. he’s a stock trader in europe. when i was talking to him, i told hiroshi that i always wanted to work as a stock trader on wall street in new york. you know what he told me? “kirby, you didn’t miss anything. you got a much better life now.” that was pretty funny. thanks a lot hiroshi-san and see you around…. keep on surfing!!!

i remember a long time ago when Romi’s prawns and shrimp stand was the only one in kahuku. now days, there are shrimp stands lined up along kam highway on the north shore. i tried some of them but i still think romi’s is number 1…..

what’s the difference between shrimp and prawns? shrimp taste like shrimp. prawns taste like lobster. so i ordered the prawns. and yes, it did taste like lobster. it was so good… and it’s not bad at $12/plate. thanks romi’s for the awesome meal….

the 2nd annual surf film festival is coming up this weekend. it runs from july 10-24 and if i were you, i wouldn’t miss it….

this is hard working go-naminori web designer Naoka. and here is naoka working hard in chiba. yup, we’re all surfers so it’s surf 1st, work 2nd….

i still get so many emails and so many people asking about yoko furuichi. that’s why we did an interview on her. so if you want to know more about yoko, check out her interview on go-naminori.com…
**CLICK HERE FOR YOKO FURUICHI INTERVIEW ON GO-NAMINORI.COM…..
**and last, if you want to know more about a surfer/artist/or anybody else, let us know and we will try our best to get the interview. a lot of people have been asking for a kelia moniz interview but i’m waiting. waiting for her to do something BIG!!! ummm, who should we interview next????